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You can checkin from the mobile website: http://m.playfoursquare.com
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the mobile web will automatically prompt you to add a new location if it doesn't know about it. if multiple places match your input, it'll give you a chooser.
I’m silly
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The idea is to "get out and do stuff" and with that in mind, we've only given you ways to check-in when you're mobile: over SMS, using mobile web or the iPhone app.
We want the website to be more of a backend 'admin' tool that you use to aggregate your to-dos and see activity and stats and ...
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Inappropriate?You can checkin from the mobile website: http://m.playfoursquare.com
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Inappropriate?I would like the regular website to support checkins too, though, since I'm not infrequently prowling around town with my laptop.
I’m happy about iPhone experience, wanting more of that on website.
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If I read this right, I agree with the original poster's intent and with MetaGrrrl. Though I'm not in sales, people in that line who travel a lot with laptops should be able to check in with computer or PDA. -
Inappropriate?The idea is to "get out and do stuff" and with that in mind, we've only given you ways to check-in when you're mobile: over SMS, using mobile web or the iPhone app.
We want the website to be more of a backend 'admin' tool that you use to aggregate your to-dos and see activity and stats and ...
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I think you underestimate the number of users who have portable computers that they can use atop their lap. "Lap Tops", I call them.
Some venues such as "Coffee Shoppes" offer "Wireless Fidelity" services that allow these "Lap Tops" to connect to "The Inter Nets". -
I'd agree that limiting the ability to checkin via the mobile site and SMS made sense with Dodgeball "back in the day", but as many more smart phones have full-fledged browsers and are the preferred way to consume the web (especially if you already paid for data but not SMS), you might consider the timeliness of this approach...
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I agree. I spend my days working in cafes with my laptop and would like to tell my friends where I am.... v annoying to have to go through the mobile web to check in.
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Inappropriate?Chris, is mobile_web not the best way to do this?
http://m.playfoursquare.com
... we've been holding off on re-directing all mobile traffic to this site, but it may make sense now (and then give people a link back to the "real foursquare site" etc?
thoughts?
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The mobile web site is less ideal for iPhone and Android users I think who have come to expect a bit more interactivity (though the mobile web site will work in a pinch).
I'd suggest that you consider looking at Gears support for geo-locating folks... it'd work on Android at least for now...
While the iPhone app is a decent experience overall, sometimes you want a simple but effective web version of the site that doesn't look like it came from 2005. Check out iphone.brightkite.com for ideas... ;) -
With regard to rodbegbie's comment - I am often at a coffee shop or coworking spot and want to check in on the web. While I understand the mobile website works, I don't understand the lack of functionality in the regular website. Why make people go to two different URLs?
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How about including a link to m.playfoursquare.com/checkin?venue=whatever in check-in emails? When I'm at a bar with friends, I'd like to be able to just click on a link from the email notification I get when they check in, rather than having to wait for a couple page-loads on android.
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Please don't automatically redirect traffic unless you add the mobile's features to the full web site and vice versa. Whether I'm using my laptop or my phone (Palm Pre) to check-in, I often go back and form between mobile & normal to see more about a venue, where my friends are, my recent history, etc.
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Inappropriate?>> While the iPhone app is a decent experience overall, sometimes you want a simple but effective web version of the site that doesn't look like it came from 2005.
Ha! It's an "hours in the day" type of thing... I do wish we had a fancy-ass mobile_web presence.
Also would love to do Google Gears etc for both normal web browsing (here's something nearby!) with added bonus of supporting Android under mobile_web.2 Comments Add a comment
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Oh I know — I'm not trying to give you a hard time — just putting things in perspective, since I remember the mobile site from days past (*wink wink*).
This is where, if you offered a decent API, the community might come through a develop such a mobile site to take care of this need. -
Hehe, it's coming, Chris. I guess we should've mentioned that as much as we'd love to build these other interfaces, the API is our highest priority right now. I'm in the process of cleaning it up and documenting it so we can release it.
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Inappropriate?> This is where, if you offered a decent API, the community might come through a develop such a mobile site to take care of this need.
yeah, totally. everything we got is build on API, we really should dedicate a weekend to making it solid and getting it out there. :)
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Cool, good to hear.
I hope you guys will be supporting OAuth — and it'd be even better if your API were compatible with APIs from Brightkite, Fire Eagle and others — at least in using the same naming conventions? (perhaps a subject for a different topic!) -
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Inappropriate?just had this same issue. sitting at a new starbucks on 19th and park, trying to figure out how to add that location and check in from the website on my laptop
love you guys anyway :-)
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have a look at http://m.playfoursquare.com instead to check-in when mobile
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Inappropriate?oh yeah, heres a screenshot of a bug i got trying to add the starbucks location
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Inappropriate?oops, just saw the suggestion to go to the mobile site, dont know why i didnt think of that :-) ill just add the new location from the full website, and then check in from the mobile.
sometimes im just too lazy to reach into my bag to pull out my phone :-)
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Inappropriate?the mobile web will automatically prompt you to add a new location if it doesn't know about it. if multiple places match your input, it'll give you a chooser.
I’m silly
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Inappropriate?Hmm.... I get that you are trying to encourage a certain type of use and interaction with foursquare, but at a certain point you really need to take a look at what your 'customers' are asking for with Usability. This doesn't just refer to this problem, but multiple questions in this forum that seem to have been persisting for the past several months and still haven't been addressed (Lots of, 'we're working on it' s but no follow through or visible progress since then).
Instead of taking the 'This is what foursquare is supposed to be for' approach it seems to me like it'd be beneficial if you folks would let foursquare bend a bit and be more adaptable. I'm not saying do everything every random user asks for, but there are some resounding issues that make foursquare really frustrating.
I think foursquare could be a lot of fun, and I'm enjoying using it for what little I'm able to now. But until it becomes more flexible I can't really encourage my friends to join in the fun. (For one I can't view their histories so what would be the point)
Now if it was a matter of resources that might make more sense to me...
But back to topic, it just seems on a basic level that not being able to check-in via the normal web interface is just plain silly.
I’m like I want to kick foursquare into working properly.
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Completely agree; the only other points I would add is that 1) With an iPhone, there are definitely times I'm trying to save my battery and 2) Invariably I find myself adding new places which is *much* easier to do on my laptop's keyboard, as opposed to the tiny touch screen.
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Inappropriate?how do i delete a check-in (which I thought was new - but was on database - but not the one I am in)... how do i delete/correct?
I’m frustrated
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you can delete checkins on the history page: http://playfoursquare.com/history
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thanks... got it - i see the x's now - do you have to 'add' venue to check in to them on the iphone?
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not necessarily -- you can checkin to any place without adding it as a proper place (ie, with an address).
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Inappropriate?You can checkin by going to
http://m.foursquare.com/checkin
But as Naveen mentioned it before this action beats the purpose of foursquare , that is going out and finding places.
This feedback is coming to u from Toronto, Canada..we just got foursquare and it is cool idea.
I’m thankful
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Inappropriate?What I would LOVE to have on the main website: an option to "checkin in the past" ...
My iPhone died at 10pm, while I was still out and about, but when I got back to my PC at 11:40, I could only "checkin" at the current time, as opposed to checking in from the past.
And I had a tweetable moment: "You know you're addicted when ..." your battery dies and the only reason you're upset is because you can't check-in on foursquare. ;-)
I’m hopeful and tired
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Inappropriate?if that is to prevent 'cheating' (checkins without being present) - you shouldn’t make sure the m site isnt accessible for immobiles ?!
I’m indifferent
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Inappropriate?While we do allow these checkins, we also flag them as "not close enough".
I really don't like the idea of preventing users from checking in just because you're not on top of the place, but I *do* like the idea of NOT awarding points / badges for those checkins... and you'll see this from us shortly.
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Inappropriate?Why allow check-ins when you're not there anyway. If the whole point is to get out and visit the community, then why not require that you're actually there in order to check in? Gowalla.com enforces this, for example.
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Inappropriate?What about those of us that use VPN?
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Inappropriate?I understand the idea of encouraging people to get out and about. But it is infuriating when people tell me *how* I should use the service. As if there is one, Right way.
My suggestion: listen to your customers.3 Comments Add a comment
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Wait, what? What are you upset about? Oh, the "no checkin from website"... we just haven't built it yet (and we'd like to do it w/ some geo filters). Soon soon!
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I personally am sick of people fake-checking in. For example, I know for sure that half the checkins at my *very*tiny* neighborhood bar are fake.
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I'm absolutely patient for new functionality – this is understandable, particularly for evolving tools – and I know you're working on it. That's cool. My beef is with the some of the attitude expressed above that there should be only one way to check in.
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