We analyzed 48 negative reviews of Discourse Hub from the App Store. Here's what users are saying.
I have the app in dark mode. But when I to go back to my feed after trading a thread, I get a full white page that blinds me in the dark before it goes back. Also, in my home network, where I have tracking protection enabled , loading of threads is very slow. Lastly, I can no longer edit and writ...
Update: since the release today, 4Oct2025, it works again. Wasn’t working at all for about a week. This has been working reasonably well up until 26.0.1 & this release came out. It opens and then freezes. Does nothing, have to force quit.
I used this app with a podcasting community that I interact with often that runs a discourse instance. App ran perfect and functioned as expected on iPhone 13 Pro Max, Purchased iPhone 15 Pro Max installed the app, anytime I enter the site information it loads like 20% of the way and just sits there...
Notifications don’t work, and you can’t sort anything, but other then that it works just fine at its job, putting all of the discourse forums in in one place
Now I have to attempt to login every time I want to use the app. When I login with my credentials it either never logs me in or I get an “oops, something went wrong…” page. I have iOS 15.
Just put a shortcut to a discourse site on your phone’s Home Screen… way better than this nonsense.
As has been noted, the relaunch effect is a nuisance: if you do too much heavy stuff in the interim, the app loses your place and starts out from scratch. And, of course, unlike a browser, there is no kind of tabs option, which would be immensely helpful at times. For me, though, the biggest defect...
All it does is open a web browser for your discourse pages. Why does this even exist if that’s all it does? It doesn’t even keep you logged in.
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