Going downhill – Flowdock Review

Update (4/19/18): To their credit, most of these original issues were fixed. But in their place there are new more serious bugs, so I'm actually lowering my score. - The app freezes literally every 5 minutes. - Chats will sometimes stick around after switching tabs. - The sidebar doesn't update automatically anymore, and must be manually refreshed. - Refreshing the side bar will show green dots for posts you've actually read, just on another device. - Notifications will also show up even if you've read them on another device. Including for messages *you wrote yourself to someone else*. - Switching to a new tab will often make it show up only in the top half of the app. Any attempts at scrolling when this happens just causes it to refresh and scroll back down. As before, I ran into all of these issues just while updating this review. Original post: The old iOS app (the one without avatars in the chat) was excellent. The new one, not so much. These are some of the problems you'll run into if you use the app for more than 5 minutes: - If you scroll up to see more of the history, it'll suddenly stop. To get past it, you need to pull down further to get it to load more history. While this is happening, the chat scrolls *all over the place*. - If you open up a thread, you can't see the entire discussion without first closing the thread and scrolling up in the main view to the point where the thread started. Have fun if that was a couple of days ago. - If you've scrolled up to catch up on things, it will randomly scroll to the bottom forcing you to scroll up again. - My avatar is currently showing in the sidebar as the default for a missing avatar, and my name is showing as @Nickname. - Sometimes when opening the app the chat turns completely empty. - Images often show up as gray squares, even though they show up fine when you tap it. - Sometimes when an image loads, the view will scroll so the last message is at the center of your screen, with nothing below it. There's probably more issues I'm not thinking of, but this is what I ran into for the 10 minutes I spent writing this review.
Review by _rhoot on Flowdock.