EAA Events 4+

Unlike other reviewers I find logging in straightforward and the maps clear and easy to use. What is missing is a good search tool. Put in “Theater in the Woods” for example, and it comes up with four events for the entire week. A search by a presenter’s last name also comes up empty. Automated index tools exist to make this a snap. Adding one would make this a five-star app.

Unfortunately, the app still has the same crucial flaw that it had since the beginning. The same event, like a forum presentation, which repeats multiple times, does not list all the days and times it repeats. Instead, the event is simply duplicated at different times. This makes it impossible to plan what day works in your schedule, or even find out if you have a choice. You can only, once you find an event, do a search for its title and hope the search catches them. You then would have to add them all to your schedule, and at the end go through your schedule manually to figure out a scheme that works. That there is no way to view the schedule by event, only by time and date, is such a crucial flaw in a scheduling system.

Tried to use it for the first couple of days, but at first it was the inconvenience of the search tool that wouldn’t display results depending on how you type in your query. And the worst and dumbest part is that it downloads the map every time you open it. When you are on an event that the Wi-Fi does not work and the mobile carriers are overloaded, the least would be having an offline version of the map. But no, every time it has to load it again, putting unnecessary strain in the IT structure and making you wait just to see what direction you need to walk to. Their little guide magazine is indispensable while the app is this bad.