A good start, but notifications need work – Piazza Review

Overall I really like using the app. When just browsing around, it works great. I do like the little badges and icons, and it shows you how many unread comments there are for each thread. That’s really cool and very useful! There are a couple things that make it really frustrating though. Notifications: when you receive one, like a comment on a thread, you might expect it to take it to you to that thread, scroll to the appropriate comment and maybe even highlight it. But at best it takes you to the thread. Now if it’s a long thread with many comments, you have no idea where in the thread the new comment is. That makes it practically useless because I’m never going to find what was just said. That comment could be at the end (if you’re lucky) or a response somewhere in the middle ... who knows. Also, if you already have the app open and you get a new notification and open it, the app just opens. It doesn’t even take you to he thread ... so pretty useless :( Images: Whenever there is an image on the screen, it’s difficult to scroll past it. The screen “bounces” and won’t let you scroll if you try and swipe the screen up or down and you touch the image. I’ve found the work around is to touch the very edge of the screen so you can grab some part that’s not the image. But sometimes you just can’t figure out why it won’t scroll, not realizing there is an image in there. If they just fixed the notifications, I’d be really happy. I can deal with the image thing. The notifications are my main source of frustration and one of the things that could make this app really useful.
Review by Von1184 on Piazza.