Spyke
What's your biggest issue with this app?
alex avatar
#Spykeby@alex

What's your biggest issue with this app?

For me it's the lack of a web app.

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kw83 avatar
@kw83

The ability to make our own clans is very important.

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bhakt avatar
@bhakt

You should let users sign up using only email and password

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sunhood avatar
@sunhood

I think the biggest issue is not enough users but hoping that will be sorted in time. The other issue is not creating your own Clans, I think if this function was working from the get go we would see more activity.

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uplusion23 avatar
@uplusion23

Probably the App UI, things are too large/convoluted. There is a lot of information not making it on screen at a given time due to large buttons/padding.

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crazy_kat_lady avatar
@crazy_kat_lady

Reply level limits.

Sometimes, a conversation needs to go on more than 5 replies deep.

I feel like it's probably a resource management issue that might be solved later when Spyke has more server resources, but in the mean time, it does get a bit frustrating sometimes. :/

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yd avatar
@ydreply

Actually, we set the limit because the comment text goes out of viewport on the front-end after 5 levels (making comments deeper than level 5 harder to read)

For some technical reason, we aren't able to get the same font size across all devices (smaller screens are more susceptible to shallower comment depths) and we also don't have a comment pagination system yet.

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crazy_kat_lady avatar
@crazy_kat_ladyreply

But I assume it's an issue you're working on that is planned to be solved in the future, right?

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yd avatar
@ydreply

It's in our list of issues, but unfortunately it's at a lower priority. Email auth, feed sorting and create your clan are high priority

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crazy_kat_lady avatar
@crazy_kat_ladyreply

Yis those are all great high priorities.

I was just mentioning one that I didn't see others mentioning.

I think y'all are doing a great job, so far, and I'm looking forward to all the improvements that are yet to come. ^v^

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woke avatar
@woke

P O R N O R N

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doraemon avatar
@doraemonreply

Why? There are already so many alternatives for that.

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crazy_kat_lady avatar
@crazy_kat_ladyreply

that's really the biggest thing imo

Other things I can deal with but without a bigger userbase, there's just not much to do

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vaswh avatar
@vaswh

Too few people. While it's hard getting used to Spyke, Reddit chose the bed it's sleeping in.

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vaswh avatar
@vaswhreply

Not hard for me. Did I create this post? Read the other comments and other Reddit refugees talking about detachment.

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sohamburgers avatar
@sohamburgers

No notifications when someone replies on your post.

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kiseidou avatar
@kiseidoureply

I see that as a plus. But unfortunately it does work for me.

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salimshady avatar
@salimshadyreply

Someone mentioned that clearing the app data and re loggin in on Android helped. Should also work for testflight. I am getting notifications no problem.

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salimshady avatar
@salimshadyreply

Would you rather have a Twitter styled carousel or a reddit/Instagram style one

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crazy_kat_lady avatar
@crazy_kat_ladyreply

I liked the way Reddit handled multiple photos in a post.

but maybe a slightly more prominent indicator saying how many images there are so you don't scroll by without noticing there's more than one.

Also, my biggest issue with images is that you can't open an image to zoom in. I have poor vision, and sometimes I can't see what's going on in images.

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mrmiyamoto avatar
@mrmiyamoto

Over 90% of my Reddit activity was through Apollo so I’m not missing a web interface terribly for Spyke.

Most of my gripes so far are fairly minor and not a lot to do with the app itself: too few people, too few clans, and I’m missing a few QoL features that Reddit/Apollo had that haven’t made it here yet.

There is a lot of fine tuning that could be done but I don’t have any major complaints.

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