My wife's family does a lot of GroupMe for chatting... the implementation on Windows Phone seems really poor.
On Lumia 920 / Windows Phone 8, here are some of the issues I see:
(1) Doesn't seem to update very well. I'll see a number on the Live Tile indicating that there are new messages. Enter the app. Don't see the messages. Hit Refresh. Then they are there. Why did I have to hit refresh when it already knew about them?
(2) No counter on the small Live Tile? This is confusing to me... I could swear that I have seen a counter on the small version of the Live Tile, but it seems very rare and usually doesn't work. After switching to the medium tile, the counter seems to work fine.
(3) Often it seems to be in an infinite refresh loop... just keeps saying "refreshing" at the top of the screen and doing the animation, but it seems like all the activity is already there.
I am using a pin of the specific group... maybe if I just use a pin of the main GroupMe app some of these issues would be better? But it would be annoying to have to always hit twice to get into the group when I have only one group.
Does anyone know if there is an update in the pipeline to fix these issues (provided others see the same issues I do)? My wife and her family all use the Android version and it seems perfectly solid. I don't understand why these Microsoft products seem to have the worst implementation on Windows Phone... it's just bizarre.
On Lumia 920 / Windows Phone 8, here are some of the issues I see:
(1) Doesn't seem to update very well. I'll see a number on the Live Tile indicating that there are new messages. Enter the app. Don't see the messages. Hit Refresh. Then they are there. Why did I have to hit refresh when it already knew about them?
(2) No counter on the small Live Tile? This is confusing to me... I could swear that I have seen a counter on the small version of the Live Tile, but it seems very rare and usually doesn't work. After switching to the medium tile, the counter seems to work fine.
(3) Often it seems to be in an infinite refresh loop... just keeps saying "refreshing" at the top of the screen and doing the animation, but it seems like all the activity is already there.
I am using a pin of the specific group... maybe if I just use a pin of the main GroupMe app some of these issues would be better? But it would be annoying to have to always hit twice to get into the group when I have only one group.
Does anyone know if there is an update in the pipeline to fix these issues (provided others see the same issues I do)? My wife and her family all use the Android version and it seems perfectly solid. I don't understand why these Microsoft products seem to have the worst implementation on Windows Phone... it's just bizarre.
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