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The problem is that unless you live in a major metropolitan area no one you know in real life uses Foursquare. So it's really only useful to track your own chec
by Touche 13y ago
The problem is that unless you live in a major metropolitan area no one you know in real life uses Foursquare. So it's really only useful to track your own check-ins and find places to go. I was always ok with ignoring the social aspect of Foursquare (Oh, hey, a guy I used to work with 7 years ago is checking in to some place, great to know).
But now the thing I use Foursquare for, checking in and finding places nearby are in 2 apps. Before it was ok if each part was good not great because having them both together was a win. But by splitting them the places nearby app is now directly competing against Yelp and Urbanspoon and others.
I'm not installing 2 apps for this, so the check-in part will likely not be done by me anymore. I might still use Foursquare proper, but only if it is better than other similar apps.
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- nmcfarl 13y agoInterestingly - I'll probably go the opposite way, installing Swarm for checkins, uninstalling Foursquare and just using Yelp. Yelp is horrific for discovery , but it's still orders of magnitudes better than foursquare for my uses.
- subpixel 13y agoBy way of comparison: I live 2hrs from the closest big city. Yelp is the only game in town for discovery, and its data is 95% complete in the food & drink category.
- rhizome 13y agoSo was CitySearch 10-15 years ago. Yelp has been stale and their recent "zoom-and-hide" changes to their map-search has made Yelp fairly useless for discovery to me. Yelp has long needed to hire new UI & UX leadership, like years overdue.