Locals: Community & Events App

Very easy and efficient process. Look forward to their events

Has potential, for now, it's wasted. There are some events, if you’re lucky enough to find them without an opportunity to filter and focus on your needs. Some “events” are nothing but a landing page for WhatsApp groups, I think this shows that the interface and the app, in general, are not working for their purpose. At the same time, you need to craft your profile page as if it is a dating app (and some random people will treat it as such, especially if you are organising events). - This app aggressively asks for updating: a pop-up message blocks everything, and it's seen way too often. Imagine Instagram or YouTube doing so. - There are too many “chat rooms” where happens nothing, especially offline. - Even when you are in London, if you are looking for a fun activity for this particular evening in your area, you will dedicate your evening to doom-scrolling through all these “Entrepreneurs connect!”, “27-29 speed-dating nights”, and “30-32 y.o. Desi women circle Notting Hill”. - If you create your event, you will accept dozens of requests to join but there is a non-zero chance that no one shows up. It's predictable and it's not about the app, but still. - No filtering, there’s no slightest possibility to focus on your neighbourhood or demographics. Many “communities” are extremely specific in their entry requirements, and there’s no chance not to have them in your feed if they basically don’t want to have you. At the same time, if you want to create something specific and local, there is no chance to target only those who are interested.

Suggestion: It would be nice to have a live chat feature to meet people nearby, similar to the Couchsurfing app. Someone suggested implementing a mandatory donation for every event, but I don't think that's fair. This could discourage many people from participating. I believe the decision to require a donation should be left to the host, as making it mandatory might reduce the number of participants.

Maybe I’m missing something… the app knows I live in Leeds yet promotes London & Manchester events to me. I’ve seen nothing for Leeds at all. So literally not “local”. So far pointless.

Guys, every time I open the app I see this blocking dialog. This is so ridiculous. Product and engineering team who designed and implemented it — you are absolute trash

All criticism has already been shared by others for this scam. But, the most egregious disrespect for their customers is in that the "developer" replies to all messages With AI responses. I get it, it's helpful to use AI write stuff but that shows even less respect and care. If any of those answers are human written that person needs a lesson in humanity. And succint writing.

You will have to pay otherwise you can’t join any community or groups, greedy App doing make the same mistake I made!

Great idea to meet people nearby with shared interests. However, joining groups that have multiple 100s of people in already can be difficult as there’s only 1 approver for so many requests and yours times out after 3 days if there’s no response… They also have a heart icon for you to presumably click to favourite groups but there doesn’t seem to be a way of retrieving this list which makes it redundant. Tried to reach out to customer services but got no response.

Was one of the early adopters back when the app was by invite and was really excited about it, and overall the people on there seemed genuine and interesting. This app is now mostly people selling you stuff you can find everywhere else with LinkedIn style pictures. They also keep notifying you every single morning of people you should meet which are the same founders every day with no way of disabling that notification so ended up blocking notifications for the app.

I felt frustrated by the experience as it seemed like a waste of my time. I invested a significant amount of effort in creating a profile, uploading a picture, and sharing personal information, only to discover that the app requires payment. Additionally, the suggested profiles appeared overly polished with professional photos, raising doubts about their authenticity and approachability.