Fishbowl: Professional Network

Well, I can verify my email and make an account, but the UI after that is completely and utterly broken. I can't change my profile name from the default generated one, it keeps changing my title to something I didn't select, the profile photo won't save, I'm asked to verify my birthday every time I log in, navigation isn't remotely intuitive when it does work, and the app somehow keeps getting stuck on the posts at the top of my feed... this app is unfortunately useless to me.

If Facebook is not evasive enough for you, then you should try Fishbowl! You will receive email notifications, because there is no way to turn them off. And, despite turning off all push notifications, you will still get the occasional one, reminding you of all the "fun" you are missing. Even before you sign up, you will get multiple emails, asking you to sign up. And, if you do end up signing up and want to quit, well, get ready to jump through many hoops! And thus, the name "Fishbowl" comes in, as you will never escape.

I want so badly for this app to be good. The website isn't very good and neither is the app-within-an-app inside of Glassdoor. NOPE. The app really, really wants to send you notifications. Every time you comment, there is a pop-up about notifications with vague text. There is nearly no customizing the kinds of notifications you get either. It's very buggy. Constant crashes, freezes, "you don't have permission" when clicking a notification. Reporting functionality is nearly zero.

Once you sign up, you will get emails about questions. That's fine, but if you click on the email, the link opens in the browser. Again that's fine. But if you want to look at hidden messages in the thread it insist that you should download the app and says that you are looking at a preview. However, I have the app my phone. So why didn't the email open the app. And I can't find the thread I wanted to read in the app. Fix this. Update - I got a canned response to contact support.

I accidentally clicked a fishbowl notification, it brought up the app, and I swiped it away immediately. Then I noticed some studio from a live event was streaming on my phone. I could figure out how to turn it off in the app, and couldn't find the live event player. Had to force stop the app. This was my first user experience with this app. It's super invasive and has a horrible user interface.

There are major differences in the performance of the Android and iOS apps. Grrrrr. On my Android, I keep getting a connection error. When I requested to join a bowl, I got an error. When I click on a link, it doesn't allow me to open in browser. The processing speed is slow to open comments on a post. When scrolling through the comments, the feed will jump to the top or bottom on it's own. I gave 3 stars because I can see the platform being very promising for networking. Please fix the bugs.

Strange verification methods. I signed up for Fishbowl years ago and I keep getting emails that say "acrion required to keep access." No matter what I did, it would have that on my messages and now that I have uninstalled the app, it takes me to the play store when I click on Keep Access, so I just deleted it today. It looked like it was going to be a good app, but hasn't been very user-friendly or accessible.

When I signed up, my phone autocorrected my last name to "Seesaw" lol. There was no option to go back after it auto advanced me to the next part of the sign up. Once signed in, I found that there was no way to edit my own name without the need to contact support and apparently provide them with WAY more personal information via email. Information that was not required during sign up. No thanks, I deactivated and may or may not try again in 30 days after the account is fully deleted.

Good, but not Great Good community, but the app has issues: 1. When I receive a notification and click on it, even though I view the post, the notification stays unread in the notification section. It should be marked as read now that I've viewed it 2. There should be ways to sort posts by "most commented" "recency" etc sort of like reddit or other communities. I do appreciate the variety of ways to customize notifications from specific bowls though. I also like the variety of ways to "like" a post as well. It's getting there just a few minor annoyances. Also, a personal gripe....the Media Agency PHD Media exists, but the posts pull in EVERY mention of a "PhD" into that area so it's pretty much useless.

Signed up, work for a large company, not listed. Then once in I am asked to join a bowl, but there are just a few like "San Francisco bay area" and stuff like motorcycle clubs. Doesn't really make a lot of sense since I joined to learn about salaries, where I place and where coworkers place (this was what the advertisement said) - none of that was available. It looks like it would just be easier to ask them. But the app is clunky and it seems like maybe another LinkedIn.

Intrusive app... I joined 2 years ago on the recommendation of a colleague. I spent little time using it, uninstalled shortly after and STILL 2 years later I get emails and texts to my phone telling me my account is about to be deactivated. I could care less if that happens. I block the number the texts come from every single time, but they keep using different numbers. Based on that, I will never use Fishbowl again.

Teaching is the kind of profession that you just can't explain to people who have never taught. I get plenty of encouragement and support from family and friends but at the end of the day they still struggle to understand what I really do as a teacher and how it can be so rewarding yet utterly exhausting. Reading other experiences and sharing my own with people who really get it is awesome. I've had the app a short time and I have already stolen, oops I mean borrowed, some great ideas! :)

It makes you use a work email but my workplace blocks this type of site. I keep getting spammed at work that I need to sign in or I'll lose access. When I try to sign in from another device using my work email I just get a screen telling me to wait. I did get on the site a long time ago but when I finally managed to get on recently there was nothing on there, no news feed, no groups to join. I clicked on one of the companies and got the wait screen again. it's pretty useless

I want to like this app but there are WAY too many notifications. I don't know if it was on purpose, but the notification image is a butt plug. I know it's a fish... but that shape is also a butt plug. To turn off all notifications, I have to select TWENTY-SEVEN toggle switches, half of which are in separated areas, so it's really 33 clicks to turn off push notifications. Uninstalling was one click.

If you are a Pilot or an Aircraft Mechanic, this isn't a great app at all. None of the info is not current for any of the airlines and the app, once you sign in and get it set up, just reminds me of social media. People are on there asking questions about what the appropriate body count is before marriage. If you're on to find out about a job, I wouldn't recommend it.

I downloaded this app in hopes to not only learn about a job but to give a review for others. It wanted a work email and they don't give us that at my job. It was quite frustrating as they seem to only focus on higher jobs in companies. I'm not sure if I was doing it wrong or what but it's not fun trying to navigate when it won't even let you confirm that you work for the company you say you work for.

Gmail links never open properly. Even if you copy and paste links from the email into alternate browsers to try and access them that way it does not work. It's a terrible user experience all around, clearly they are trying to drive traffic to their app by sharing posts with engagement in email newsletters, but they just end up frustrating the user because YOU CAN NEVER OPEN THE DANG POSTS. They must have a terrible android team or something.

The app keeps crashing when trying to check DM with the following message. "Fishbowl closed because the app has a bug. Try updating the app after its developer provides a fix for the error." Also, when I click on any of the bowls, none of the posts load only top header and "what's on your mind" text box. **Update: I applied the recent fix. I can now get to DMs. Hence, I am updating my rating to 3 stars from 1. I appreciate the active communication on the fix by the fishbowl product team.

The app stopped working after the latest update. whenever I open the app it's always a showing to add the current company name. Even though I'm adding it, it's not allowing me to go forward.. it's always showing the same screen.. fix this asap otherwise the app will be unusable.

i signed up as a student and I was completing my profile suddenly it asked for my company and I am unable to close that window even after selecting a valid/invalid option for that I tried re downloading the app too yet it takes me back to that window, I hope the team looks into the issue and get it fixed I want to use the app and connect