EchoLink

I truly love that EchoLink allows licensed amateur radio hobbyists to find new ways to communicate. The app is fun, but takes a bit of clicking around and experimenting to get the hang of it. Is there room for improvement? Sure, but for an app that cost me nothing, I am beyond satisfied!

The search or directory of stations is incomplete. Where is W9ANL-R and K9ONA-R ?

This makes the app literally unusable for most people. As you can see by the developer response, they don’t have any helpful answer to this. In an email they told me that this is to prevent incompatibilities between other versions of the app; which ignores the inherent incompatibility this actively creates: you can set a password >14 characters on desktop, which is apparently incompatible everywhere else. They told me that this is to avoid breaking compatibility of the app between legacy platforms, which implies this limit is actually arbitrary in the case of the modern iOS app. Here’s my question: Why not allow it, but warn users entering a password >14 characters that it will be incompatible elsewhere? And if it’s more complicated than that, why not just say that?