I REALLY want to love this app, but it is just so bad! Playback issues. Takes a ridiculously long time for replays to become available. Timeline and feed are jumbled and incredibly confusing. Overall, the app is difficult to navigate and glitchy to boot. I despise the idea of not being able to support the creators I want, but it's so awful at times, I might as well donate to them instead. 😔

I’ve been on Locals for over a year now, and while it was already great starting out, the upgrades and real improvements have been regular and measurable. I have been only pleased for making the decision to get in early and to be enjoying such a thriving community now on what has to be the best platform for an online community that exists. I will say that early on there was a small learning curve. It took a few weeks for me to fully understand the structure and design. Folks, this is true with anything. I went through the same period of having to figure out, and get familiar with, Facebook twelve years ago or however long ago it was, and so did you. If you are still hosting your work on Facebook groups, you’re on a sinking dinosaur ship. Now’s the time to get on the Locals platform, which is a million times superior in every way, because if you don’t, in the not-too-distant future, you’re going to realize you’ve been left way behind and you’ll never correct that mistake.

Almost all the events/groups have weird ai generated cover photos, which combined with the large amount of networking oriented events gives the whole platform a really inauthentic feel. The app layout is also really annoying for actually trying to find events.