Dialup: Reviving the Phone

This app's possibilities are endless: both good and bad, most people you bet are awesome but there are some nightmares just like irl. The worst thing is that there's no improvement as they have openly abandoned the app. I can no longer rate conversations (such as reporting a bad caller!!) this puts people in uncomfortable situations where they will feel less safe/able to use this app. Also about 50% of calls drop! Agh! Picking up is also a problem. If this were a phone service/app it'd be 0 but because it's free it's holding up on its last leg. Also as repeatedly mentioned, it's missing a ton of features! If you guys ever update or add features, even every year it would be a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️app.

I love talking to people through this app. It’s awesome and lifts my mood a great deal in ways that talking to family and friends does not for some reason. I have even made a couple of ongoing contacts where we swap phone numbers etc. Nearly every call has been either awesome, a few were just ok and there’s been a few who just didn’t seem interested in talking and hung up after a couple of minutes Drawbacks our connections to get Dropped sometimes for no apparent reason. Sometimes I can blame the other person’s divisor my device or Internet connection, but other times both of us are coming in crystal clear and suddenly there’s a hiccup and *poof* . The reconnect feature works works pretty well, but you have to figure it out. A lot of people I talk to don’t even realize it’s there. I’d say my biggest complaint is I signed up for the daily random line (“quarantine chat”) In the last three days I’ve received no calls at all! I spoke to one of my phone number swap friends, with whom I confirmed we always receive the calls at the same time, and she’s continued getting them. So I left the random line and re-joined it to try to reset it. I suppose it’s possible I’ve been shadow-banned, but considering my last chat with somebody before this went really well, I can’t imagine why. I continue to get calls on my other lines so I doubt I was banned.. So whether there’s some flakiness in the app, or people get banned too easily or by mistake, I have no idea.

I just had my first call and it was great! I’m in Georgia and the person I talked to lives in Italy. It was soooo cool because I’m alone and I was pretty sad because a relationship abruptly ended for no apparent reason so it was so wonderful and uplifting to get out of my mental funk and talk to someone. I felt so disconnected from the world but that call made my day and got me into the swing of my life. We talked for about 45 min regarding everything underneath the sun except the topic we both choose to connect on. I took off a star because the topics you must choose from to connect with others aren’t that great. I wish there were way more topics such as topics related to work, relationships, home schooling, single parenthood, entertainment, spirituality and religion (with specific sects of course) etc. I mean, if you gonna have topic such as professional Tarot card readers, Bob Ross Painting, the 2020 Election and woodworking, surely you can have more generalized topics as I’ve suggested. Nonetheless, I like it so far so good.