BBCon app?

@Crystal Bruce , I wonder if there's any update you can give us about an app?

I've heard nothing and don't appear to have even received the “email last week.” If you're going to give us an app, we need it before the conference starts. By at least 2 days. A week would be better. Seeing as how we're past that point already, I'm doubting there will actually be an app. @Kristen Belanger

@Kristen Belanger It is Thursday any update on the app? And it is web based, not an actual application we need to download? I think most of us would prefer an actual APP.

Does anyone know how to print out the sessions and your personal agenda?

the app is web based and it is very clunky. most of the links do not even work on my phone, hopefully it is still being worked on, and willbe ready to go by saturday. I can't view my agenda on it yet. I loved the OLD app where we had literally had a map of where we were going for each session, like turn left here, turn right etc. Maybe the convention center has an app we can use for that.

@Lauren Fardella It does not seem like there will be a discussion board, or ways to message other attendees like before.

@Lauren Fardella Thats too bad. I was hoping maybe people would get together a group for dinner but I guess we can't do that now.

Well… this is disappointing. There is not actually a BBCon app. It's just a mobile version of the bbcon website, and it is not functioning well. When using the site on a mobile device, it is glitchy. I sometimes cannot get the menu to work, and it's as if the site freezes. I try to click on Agenda, but it will not open, after which, none of the other menu options work either.

When building your personal agenda, you can only add one session per time slot. If you try to add something for the same time, it will not allow it and tells you to remove the first item you added. This is problematic for two reasons. 1) For those of us who have been to the conference in-person before, you know that it's very useful to have a second breakout session in your schedule for each timeslot because sometimes you go to a session and it's too full to get into or you get into a session and find that it isn't really what you expected. 2) Some of the items on the agenda have overlapping timeslots. For example, if you add something to your agenda that is scheduled 9am-10am, you cannot add something else to your agenda that is scheduled for 9:45am-10:45am.

There's also no discussion board or newsfeed feature like there has been with the BBCon apps of the past. I always found that feature to be incredibly helpful at putting out a blast at the conference to locate people who might be interested in joining you a discussion about a specific topic. For example, I posted one year to anyone interested in discussing DAFs to meet me at a specific location and join me for lunch. It was great! Now you can only specifically schedule meetings with a specific person (so you have to know who they are already).

Hey everyone - In light of the less than stellar chat on the bbcon ‘app’ PSG whipped up a free slack channel that everyone attending bbcon is welcome to join!

@Marie Stark Thank you! That wasn't there before. So glad they added it!