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Reply again to developers regarding tagging members: My iPad Pros are running the latest IOS and the most current version of Groupme. I have deleted and reinstalled the app as well. When I tag a member with the “@“ sign, I can see the drop down menu list of members and everything looks normal. When I select the member, the font name properly becomes bold, but when I push the send button, it appears in the chat feed as just someone’s name without the bold highlight. Reply to developers comment about what they can do better to receive a five star rating: 1. Fix iPad Pro issue for tagging people w/ the @ sign. All of my IPad Pro devices cannot properly tag anyone even though all of my iPads are running the latest updated IOS and the the newest version of GroupMe. 2. Fix the awkward location of the send button when sending photos on IPad. 3. Redesign the crop photo feature. Dragging each corner creates weird shapes. whose idea was this?? 4. Fix the freezing issue when reopening the app. To unfreeze it we have to repeatedly click on another chatroom to get the app working again. 5. Increase the character limit per post. It is ridiculously too low and there is a point when we are unable to even see what we are typing because the window does not show the last line of the text. 6. Increase the length of videos that we are able to send to each other. At the very least, we should be able to send and watch a 2–3 minute video. No matter how beautiful you make the fonts or colors, it doesn’t create a better user experience. I still cannot properly tag members by using the @ sign. also, we are not able to post videos of any meaningful length. This is my biggest beef. Absolutely useless if you want to post a video. we should be able to post a video that is at least a minute long if not longer. Please fix this. Also, what’s up with the Limited number of characters we can type for each post!? it’s way too short. Why don’t you consider improving the basic functions rather than aesthetics?! By this point, isn’t it obvious??

Reply to developers comment about what they can do better to receive a five star rating: 1. Fix iPad Pro issue for tagging people w/ the @ sign. All of my IPad Pro devices cannot properly tag anyone even though all of my iPads are running the latest updated IOS and the the newest version of GroupMe. 2. Fix the awkward location of the send button when sending photos on IPad. 3. Redesign the crop photo feature. Dragging each corner creates weird shapes. whose idea was this?? 4. Fix the freezing issue when reopening the app. To unfreeze it we have to repeatedly click on another chatroom to get the app working again. 5. Increase the character limit per post. It is ridiculously too low and there is a point when we are unable to even see what we are typing because the window does not show the last line of the text. 6. Increase the length of videos that we are able to send to each other. At the very least, we should be able to send and watch a 2–3 minute video. No matter how beautiful you make the fonts or colors, it doesn’t create a better user experience. I still cannot properly tag members by using the @ sign. also, we are not able to post videos of any meaningful length. This is my biggest beef. Absolutely useless if you want to post a video. we should be able to post a video that is at least a minute long if not longer. Please fix this. Also, what’s up with the Limited number of characters we can type for each post!? it’s way too short. Why don’t you consider improving the basic functions rather than aesthetics?! By this point, isn’t it obvious??

GroupMe has been one of my favorite apps for a very long time. As expected, it’s where my friends from around the country are able to consistently mingle, keep fantasy football leagues organized, & more. Now, there has been a plethora of unwanted UX updates made that have overly complicated the app’s use, & made it much less appealing generally. Beyond that, the app & desktop version now consistently crash. I often have trouble being able to send messages. I’m constantly badgered by a notification to pin my favorite chats to the top of my queue. I don’t need any of that! I want what used to be. I do not understand why these app providers feel the need to make unnecessary updates to apps that serve a certain purpose—& then ultimately denegarte the product’s primary use case.

Looks like all the bugs I encountered were fixed, so I added a star. GroupMe is still lacking features every other messaging app has such as deleting messages and groups. Worst of all, most group owners abandon their account, so we get stuck in a multitude of dead groups with no ability to end them. Either all members of groups should be able to end groups or abandoned groups should automatically end. Leaving groups does not do anything. All of our messages and likes remain within that group and groups you leave move to another list. Deleting our GroupMe accounts does not do anything either. All of your messages and likes remain after you delete your account.

No matter how beautiful you make the fonts or colors, it doesn’t create a better user experience. I still cannot properly tag members by using the @ sign. also, we are not able to post videos of any meaningful length. This is my biggest beef. Absolutely useless if you want to post a video. we should be able to post a video that is at least a minute long if not longer. Please fix this. Also, what’s up with the Limited number of characters we can type for each post!? it’s way too short. Why don’t you consider improving the basic functions rather than aesthetics?! By this point, isn’t it obvious??

Where to start. App is routinely slow to load, late to load, or doesn’t load messages for up to 24 hours. This is not service related, as I have experienced this both on and off wifi, and in various locations of a populated area where all other apps work perfectly fine. When creating large groups, you will have to enter names in multiple times to ensure all group members are added. Example, a group I created recently says I added 30+ people, yet only 17 appear in group description. Do anything you can to avoid using this app.