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100% agreement from the non-techie people in my family is that this update is terrible and make Timehop a worse product. I have to agree with them.

I loved this app but the new design isn't useful for those of us with large photo libraries. I have 40,000 photos over 15 years and tapping through isn't efficient, its painful and it's bad design. Did you do any usability studies to experiment with the new layout? What are you trying to achieve? I just had to remove this app from my main screen, it's useless now. What are alternative apps? Try Memoir (iOS for sure).

TL;DR - one of my favorite apps went to the crapper with a new version, and this is a long rant about that. Feel free to skip. I hate leaving extremely bad reviews generally, since the new version was released just in time for the holidays, and many people I assume had some tight deadlines to make it happen. So sorry in advance. Maybe some of this will even be productive feedback. However, with 1900+ 1 star reviews in the Appstore, it's safe to say that this update didn't charm the users, so it's not only me. It starts awesome, logo didn't change, and then, Abe the cute dinosaur, whom I love, is spinning the loading spinner, and it has a little bounce! How cute! Who came up with this? If the rest of the redesign will be in line with this, it's going to be GREAT! Then, the app shows me the newb (been using it since it came out) how to use it's new interface, ok, looks pretty much like snapchat stories, tap on the right goes forward, tap on the left goes back, on top I can see the progress. Seems easy enough. Then I see "hold" to zoom out. Zoom out? Why would I need to zoom out? I usually zoom in if I want, but since the app looks at almost 10 years of my history, only half of which was shot in portrait, how would they zoom in? I know there are algorithms to zoom in according to "interesting" parts in the image, so maybe the used them? We'll give them the benefit of the doubt. Then, I see "swipe up" to share, which I immediately try, and it doesn't work, the app swipes back. hmmm, let's try again, to back to the slide, and swipe up, the app swipes right... hmmm probably doesn't work on the sponsored slides (which btw, prepare me the user for a barrage of ads right there in the UI, I KNOW there's going to be ads there, IT SAYS SPONSORED) OK, finally, my 1 year ago! Ohhh full screen image, wait a second, where is the other 3 people I remember from that picture? oh, I need to HOLD the picture to see all of it? Well...that's... ok, breathe, it might be good. Maybe it's like Facebook, and I can tilt my phone, and I'll see the whole pic? Nope? Oh well they must have a patent on this. Next picture... is the same.... since I usually take about 5-10 pics in burst to make sure I got one right, this one is on me, tap right again, maybe the next one will be different. (if only they had a feature to combine burst pics to a gif like that memento app? how cool would that be?) BUT WAIT, what is this gray screen? Is this the LOADING screen? Why is loading screens that are that gray? Without any progress indication, without lower res. placeholder of that picture? Is this 2005? Next swipe/tab (you can do both btw which is nice) - and I see this weird "gif" that they made from 2 pics that look the same (h they did make that feature, yay!!). But...I can't even zoom in this! Every tap, moves forward 1 hop, when I HOLD to zoom out, because this animation is also cropped to infinity, IT MOVES FORWARD, why oh why is this UX pattern not consistent? Why did you arrive at a conclusion that SOMETIMES holding will zoom out, and SOME other times, the hold will do nothing, and only when I release, it will move forward one hop? Also, there's no immediate visual indicator that the next hop is going to be an animation and not a pic, since all pics from that event look the same, and timehop randomly chooses they pics that are standalone, and the ones that are animated, I can't know if it's going to zoom, or be shareable until I try, or until the little white "share" comes in my view. :/ Ok ok, keep it together Alex, it still can get better, it can't be all bad, it's Christmas. Let's maybe try to shar this weird GIF thing... hmmm what do you mean I can't? oh Timehop.... Next hop is 3 pictures, in frames, arranged in a very weird way, on a very light teal background, and honestly, they look just bad. The images are too small to see any details, there's 3 of them on my screen, the empty space between the frames is wasteful, and it's just looks meh... Can I share that? nope, can't... probably best though. Ok, I'm getting tired of this, let's see how long this day in history lasts, and how more hops I have to jump through (get it? heh) I start swiping right, and instead of loading the images, it's just a gray screen after grey screen, sometimes a bright white teal one shows up. The thing where it said SPONSORED before, now shows a progress bar, which is a cool feature, but that progress bar is limited to THAT hop, so there's no way of really knowing how much history timehop has for me that day :/ Timehop started annoying me this year anyway, because retention makes no sense, WHY do I need to keep a streak of daily visits in the app? Sometimes, when my day a year ago, was extra cool, or I shared extra many pics, a notification can come in handy, but EVERYDAY? even when that day was boring across all 10 years of my social history? WHO MADE THAT GAMIFICATION horrible? and now this unfortunate redesign, and a re-concept. This would be a hard bounce back :/ Timehope, please get your ducks in a row, I used to love this app! Please bring back the things me and everybody else loved. And while I'm not in favor of bashing people publicly and wishing them wrong, please fire the person in charge of this release, and give the person who came up with the Abe spinning the spinner animation to be in charge, he seems to know what we want!

WoW! Timehop experience has gone from being the simplest to worst UX ever! For its main theme, which is, relive your memories, I cant imagine how harder one could build the UX. For example: 1) For every memory I have to now hard press to see it's full content which makes no sense at all. 2) I have to now scroll through the full view content cards all the way to reach the end of the years. I don't even have a view of how many years back todays memory accounts to. All in all, this is making me move away from Timehop. Disappointing.

New in v4.0: We've got the ALL NEW TIMEHOP comin' at ya today! Y'all ready for this? - Relive the BEST of your memories in b-e-a-utiful FULL SCREEN - TAP and SWIPE to go forward and back through time - BIG Photos, FULL videos, and an easy press to ZOOM in and out - SWIPE UP to share your full memories, now without cropping! - Your tweets and posts are now even PRETTIER - We GIF'd your photos and framed your ALBUMS! - Keep track of your STREAK and replay your day over and over and over and over And get ready, we've got all your favorite features COMING SOON as well as some NEW SURPRISES, so get ready for a very TIMEHOP New Year!

Did they get rid of any tweet with a link in it?

I must say, I liked the previous version better but this is definitely better for advertising and making it more sustainable and since I like the product and want it to be around for long then awesome!

Why this? 😕

This is terrible. I want to see the context of the tweets. All I see now is "@username thanks for sharing that" but I have no idea what I was referring to. Please bring back the old one. This one is painful.

Poor UX decision ... completely ruined my best App. Its of no use now. Impossible to view photo in horizontal scroll. Stupid design mistake !

Darn, this really is less useful to me than the last version with Swarm checkin text, landscape shots, and photo grouping. Is this Snapchat now? Bummed.

Now there's version 4.0 and I'll have to install timehop again. I just wish I'll continue using it from now on.

Great pivot, I love the idea of matching Snapchat so I can swipe through. I would appreciate being able to see a list of all posts alternatively from the past.

I had sent a feature request mail some 2 weeks ago. Didn't get any response. :( When Abe is showing me things from my past, please provide a way of going to the source of that thing. For example, Abe shows me a 5 year old cringewothy post from facebook. I want to delete it from my fb timeline. But timehop doesn't give me any way of doing that. Please add a "go to source" menu option in each memory card, tapping which would open that entry in the related app.

I'm sorry, but to me the app is ruined. Instead of showing a feed of images and grids, I need to tap for every single image, which is insane when it's like 50 images in a day. Especially since you don't seem to buffer enough, so I need to wait for a second before each image appears.

I like the previous version better.

I hope the new COMING SOON features and the NEW SURPRISES have an option to revert to the old Timehop

Fine if you want to move this way, but there needs to be an option to revert back to previous layout. I have hundreds of images to go through some days. This makes it near impossible. The old way where I can see multiple images on the page an easily scroll down was simple.