Thursday, May 15, 2014

The big thing Foursquare left out of Swarm: Check-in points. I’ll miss them

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It seems a little ridiculous to mourn the passing of a feature in an app but that’s exactly what I’m going to do here. Foursquare points are no more. Today saw the launch of Foursquare’s new check-in-focused app, Swarm, which breaks the real-time social features out of Foursquare and into a separate app. As our in-depth review explains, almost every feature has made the jump. You can see where your friends are, there’s a modified version of mayorships and while badges aren’t included, there are stickers that serve a similar(-ish) purpose. Points as a ‘reward’ for checking in, however, are completely…

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