I think this has been one of the toughest decisions foursquare has made till now albeit in the right direction. Alienating the check-in feature from core-foursq

I think this has been one of the toughest decisions foursquare has made till now albeit in the right direction. Alienating the check-in feature from core-foursquare app might piss off some power users but IMO there is not much value added by check-in for the user. With the amount of data FS has gathered from users up until now will be better utilized via place-discovery. Also I believe that there is a need for this kind of service which we can use to discover places globally rather than depend on something like Yelp which is mostly US centric. On improvement side, I think they should make check-ins using Swarm as easy as possible in one tap. Currently they ask to select/write lot of optional stuff while check-in which slows down the process.