An app please!!
4yr
Daniel Haddock
Loving the new website Proko team! It’s fun, engaging and socially driven. What else could we need?
I think an app that would give us live notifications on comments, forum threads, new announcements and at mentions on the site would be great. It would make this experience that much more engaging and personal for each of us. And I think it would be a natural progression with the new more social dynamic of the website and overall proko community.
all in favor, say “I”.
Is this a good idea gang? Or am I a crazy man?
4yr
Good news is we just started working on an app version a few weeks ago! Bad news is it might take up to 12 months to develop and test..
I'm trying to brainstorm ways to speed up the process such as limiting the features of the first app version. It's a balance. If we remove some features, some people might be upset to have limited functionality. But, you get an app sooner. Are there any features that you'd definitely like to be included in the first version?
Leon Gäbelein
1yr
I’d love to see an app. Since this post is 2 years old now has the idea of an app been scrapped or is the development simply taking longer than planned as other projects came up?
id personally be willing to wait a longer time for the app to come out if that means it’ll have all the same features. I’d also love to see the courses be available for offline downloads so I can go to the app when I’m traveling or whatever and still watch the courses I chose to be available offline.
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4yr
I think holding off is begrudgingly the right idea. A lot of your audience is of course savvy to understand the way tech and apps are developed and how they take time, but, I would bet a lot of your audience would merely be frustrated at lacking features and give only middling reviews on various app stores.
Relasing another beta may work, but only to a small number of people. I would love the app sooner rather then later, but I think the best thing would be patience.
4yr
@Daniel Haddock we kind of have that right now. If you're interested in following a thread you can click on the three little bubbles in the corner of a post and then hit subscribe. You'll then get notifications every time someone adds something to that thread. You should also see those updates appear in your timeline on your profile page.
4yr
We do kinda have it now. I just feel that the more integrated an experience is to your phone, the more automatic and personal it becomes for the user. This new Proko website could be the twitter of the art world one day very soon.
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4yr
That’s good to know! Will there be a “how to use the website” tab, or tutorial somewhere for those of us who have become completely disenchanted with ordinary social media, and are thus not up to date?
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