ESP - Loadshedding 4+

While your app is wonderfully accurate, these ever-changing notifications give us anxiety. At
10pm at night we get a notification that says we are down to stage 2. And then at 4am next day we get a notification that it’s back to stage 4. Why mess us around? Why not just leave it on stage 4 the whole weekend or the whole week because that’s what’s gonna happen anyway. Why do we keep getting notifications every 6 hours that things will change and they don’t? It gets our hopes up for nothing. And makes us change plans unnecessarily.

Other than this, this app really helps. A lot. Because to hell with this country and the thieves at Eskom who blame us for their incompetence. Electricity is a basic human need. Like water and whatever else. What we are being charged is ridiculous in a country that has no jobs for people.

Overall this app is excellent. There are reliable updates on loadshedding for the country and you can choose several areas to monitor. The insights are useful too.
There are two main drawbacks in my opinion:
1 - the app has a feature that allows users to talk to one another. This would be excellent if the chat was limited to topics that relate to municipal and other services and the outages thereof. Unfortunately most people seem to use it to chat about irrelevant topics such as games they play.
2 - the app doesn’t have a widget that can be added to a home-screen. This means to see the information, one has to open the app every time. Ideally a small widget that just has the current level of loadshedding and the next time the loadshedding is going to effect a particular area would be part of the app.
I recommend this app over all the other websites and app that claim to keep track of loadshedding.

Don’t like the new area specific updates, it not convenient, the previous version allowed me to see what’s happening in the areas around me once off, now we have to add each area to your list and go into each and every surrounding area one at a time to see important happenings, which is very time consuming…please revert back to old version. By having easy access on updates that’s happening in other places and areas surrounding us helps to keep citizens updated about what’s happening in communities around them… if that makes sense…no one has time to go tap on each every suburb when something major is happening….for instance Alberton recently has had a lot of substations exploding and atm bombings but we can’t see the updates because someone’s update only show in Mayberry Park….people in Brackenhurst or albertsdal areas they can’t see it unless the go into Mayberry park area. Please go back to old version this new update is not good…