myfab5 iPhone app: Stuck on "Loading..." after canceling out of Instagram login

Date: 11/24/2013

Myfab5 iPhone App: Version 1.4.5

My iPhone’s iOS: 6.1

Description:

This is a minor complaint, but cancelling out of the Instagram login page seems to strand the user on an indefinite “Loading….” Screen.

I’ve gotten this multiple times now, and I have noticed it enough to write it down.  I’ve gotten this from two different areas of account creation from within the iOS app.

This is easier to show than to describe, so please see the attached screenshots.

Steps to reproduce:

1.     On an iPhone running iOS 6.1 – download and launch the Myfab5 iPhone app

2.     Select “Sign up”

3.     From the “Welcome to myfab5” screen select “Signup”

4.     Select “Signup w/ Instagram”

5.     From the Instagram login page, select “Cancel”

6.     I keep getting stuck on “Loading…”

Result:  Canceling out of the Instagram account creation area keeps stranding me on a “Loading…” screen

Expected:  Canceling out of the Instagram account creation screen shouldn’t strand me on a “Loading…” screen

Please note:  I can continually tap on the screen, and it will occasionally take me to the email sign up screen – but as an end user it appears as if it is broken to me.

Download the app, launch it, then select this "Signup" option....

Select the "Signup w/ Instagram" option...

Cancel out of the Instagram login...

Stuck on "Loading..."

myfab5 iPhone app: Easy way to crash the app via the "Tips" screen

Date: 09/12/2013

Myfab5 iPhone app: Version 1.0

Description:

No user is likely to ever run into this, but I have found an easy way to crash the iPhone app.

This is much easier to show than to describe, so if you’re interested, please just skip down to the attached screenshots.

Here are the basics of the crash:

From the detail page of most places, you have the ability to “See more” of the tips left for that particular place.  On this “Tips” screen, there is a cross in the upper right hand corner of the screen.  If you press the cross button and the “Venue” button at the same time, the “Leave a comment” tip creation pop-up is drag onto the previous screen.  At this point (with the tip creation pop-up overlaid over the incorrect screen) the app will crash if you attempt to leave a tip or cancel out the pop-up.

That’s a mouthful, so please just see the attached screenshots.

Steps to reproduce:

1.     Already having an active account, launch the myfab5 iPhone app

2.     Go to the detail page of a popular place

3.     From the detail page of a popular place, scroll down and select “See More”

4.     From the “Tips” screen, press the add/cross icon (in upper right) and the “Venue” option in upper left at the same time

5.     Attempt to either “Submit” or cancel out of the “Leave a comment” pop-up

Result:  There’s an easy way to crash the myfab5 iPhone app if you drag a “Leave a comment” pop-up onto a venue screen

Expected:  App shouldn’t crash, no matter how odd and convoluted the steps are that cause the crash

Select any place...

Select the "See More" option...

Press the add and the "Venue" options at the same time...

The "Leave a comment" option is overlaid on the previous venue screen.  No matter what, the app will now crash.

myfab5 iPhone App: city name in search reverts to (null)

Date: 09/05/2013

myfab5 iPhone App: Version

Description.

I've recently been trying out myfab5 - it's a cool restaurant discovery service.

I've been playing around with both the website and the iPhone app.  I've found one minor bug with the iPhone app that i've decided to write down.

If you run a Seattle search, the name of Seattle will frequently be replaced by the term "(null)."  This seems to happen when you search for something that hasn't been ranked from inside of the app yet.

So, for example, I ran a search fro "Pad Thai" in "Seattle" - as soon as results were returned, Seattle changed to "(null)"

Please see the attached screenshots.

Steps to reproduce:

1.  Launch the myfab5 iPhone app
2.  Run a search for something obscure in Seattle
3.  Note that on the returned results screen, Seattle is replaced with the term "(null)"

Result:  Easy way to get the term "(null)" to display instead of the name of the city your are searching for

Expected:  You should never see "(null)" in an iPhone app

Run a search like "Pad Thai" in Seattle...

After the search runs....

Seattle will become replaced with "(null)".