Throw Questions & Answers

This app has to be in the early development stages. It has potential to make other forums run for their money. I’ve noticed after extensive use the app asks you to update when their isn’t one available. There are a couple annoying paywalls and ads. I’ve enjoyed answering questions, however there is so much trash content produced thankfully there is the report button.

This app could be “the next big thing,” but unfortunately there are those 30 second long video ads everyone hates, and if that wasn’t enough, you have to pay to actually see answers! Maybe if they made the ads more like Reddit, where you see one when scrolling and it doesn’t interrupt the user experience, then it might be better. But even then, locking the basic features of your app behind paywalls is just plane dumb. Nobody is going to pay $100 annually or $10 monthly for something they can do for free on better services like Reddit and Quara. If the developers of this app could guarantee you an answer to your question, then with all the other stuff I stated, this app could be very successful. But in order to do that you have to gain and maintain user interest in the service, and ads and subscriptions aren’t the way to do that. You can still make money by maybe having a premium subscription, that could push your question to the top and maybe keep it there for a couple days.

I’ve been using the app on and off for a while. I just updated and am experiencing a bad issue so I’m also using this review in place of emailing them. To skip to the error with the new update, scroll all the way down. Otherwise, here is my review: The idea is great. I really like it. UI is decent, some things could improve but overall not bad. The main issues are: 1. App is slow. When I press the button to post a question, it takes a solid minute for the app to respond and actually post it. Then when I’m answering questions, there usually aren’t more then 20. And that’s with about 5 “trash” aka “spammy” questions included. 2. I can’t scroll through other questions’ responses without paying for a membership, I can just see one or two responses. If the app was popular, okay fine, but let’s be real. There are few users of this app. Maybe focus on keeping the existing community growing and engaging rather then forcing them to pay? This also prevents me from clicking “like” on other people’s answers, resulting in just one or two answers getting all the credit because the rest are behind a paywall. This is extremely unbalanced and means the users’ aren’t getting rewarded for their efforts, even in meaningless points. 3. Not enough matches to my questions. I apply about 15 keywords and still don’t get matches. This app should have a set of 30 somewhat broad topics to choose from. The current system where users enter in whatever word they want results in no (or very few) users thinking of the exact same word. If 50 people choose from a preselected 30 broad topics, that would GREATLY increase the amount of people selecting the same word. We as people think of ourselves in hundreds of different words. We can’t possibly write them all down, and others will most certainly not write remotely the same words down for themselves. The error with the new update: I can’t “catch” questions. The app freezes for a second then crashes. Please fix this.