Great, but needs dev – HiNative - Language Learning Review

This is a great idea, a great execution, and a great community. I do think that the iPhone app itself could use some better development, though. Some things I wish… 1. I wish the “Quick!” animation were either unobtrusively fast (ironic that it’s sometimes slow) or not there at all. As is, I post an answer and then keep browsing for a few seconds, only to be surprised by this clock blocking me from learning xD 2. I wish the answer-count badges on questions would automatically update, at the very least when I return to the list of questions after answering one. Otherwise I click on a question expecting to be the first one to answer it and find that it’s already been answered 3 times while I was answering the last question. I do like, however, that the question list does not refresh automatically, so you don’t end up seeing a question you want to look at and then losing it when the list refreshes. 3. I also wish the questions themselves had a refresh button or pull-down refresh function or were more obviously checking periodically for updates. Clearly I’m trying to avoid looking the fool by posting a redundant answer :P 4. I wish that replies to answers showed up as such, instead of being treated in the notifications list and answer count as answers to the original question. 5. I wish there were a way to dismiss questions in the list. That way when you don’t know the answer to one, or aren’t interested, you can stop looking at it. 6. I wish there were a way to filter by “few” answers (maybe 2-3?) instead of only 0. Often the first 5 or so answers can all be useful, or the first answer(s) can be improved upon, so it’s still useful to look at questions with a few answers, but maybe not those with ~10 answers already. 7. I wish the “Questions about [my language of interest]” tab had the filter, “In my native language” instead of “About my language of interest.” The “About my language of interest” filter in the “Questions about [my language of interest]” tab just results in people who are native in my language of interest mistakenly writing that their question is ABOUT their native language. Really, I want to see the questions ABOUT my language of interest FROM people with my native language. >_> Did that make sense? As a side note, I learned about HiNative from Grace, YouTube’s TexanInTokyo. It is very much something I was looking for, and a great way to practice and learn without having to speak one-on-one with someone! Premium is expensive, but I will consider buying it if I find myself spending a lot more time on HiNative in the future.
Review by amdunn on HiNative - Language Learning.