YB Races

The app works great and is an excellent way to follow the races. Like any app you have to learn its tricks, but it works like a charm. I don't understand the criticism about price. It's a relief to be able to pay a fair price for an online experience and have to worry about privacy issues. I wish my favorite online haunts even gave me that option. Kudos to the yb team! N.B. This rating interface is horrible- text disappears as I type and I keep having to manually insert "return." I don't recall rating an app before so I have no idea what it's going to look like.

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Really disappointing when you’re trying to follow a race, but since you’re using IOS device and you are not *allowed* to follow it in a browser instead of having to download this buggy, constantly crashing app that lacks something as simple as being able to search for a racer on the map page. Props for trying to support racing, but give us the option to use the browser app until you improve this app. Miserable experience, especially when there’s no option

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Compared to using the Yellowbrick tracking provided online for free by major race organizations, this Yellowbrick app is barely usable. The difference between their online tracking system and this app is striking. Online you can zoom easily, see a map in the background, group racers into a "favorites" group so just the boats you are interested in can be tracked and several other features. All of this is missing from the iOS app. The zoom function does not zoom in close enough to select individual boats racing in close proximity. Even trying a stylus to select individual boats doesn't seem to help. Yes you do see boats racing along a course and yes you can engage a leaderboard. But the ability to do anything else (as in Yellowbrick's online web system) is totally lacking. This app is free (big deal!). Individual race tracking must be purchased per race. I purchased the Newport-Bermuda Race because my son is aboard one of the boats. But I won't be purchasing any more races until this Yellowbrick app gets a thorough upgrade.

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I won’t complain about the lack of features relative to the “desktop” (web) version. But given the minimal feature set, those features should actually work. Any time the app loses focus, you lose your race tracking. “Error: Sorry there was a problem loading this race - please try again.” Funny because there wasn’t a problem 2 seconds ago when I last had the app open... Usability is also a bit wonky. It uses the universal symbol of “search” (magnifying glass) as the zoom button. Not sure how many times I’ve hit it hoping it’d search for a boat I’m tracking. Nope, that’s the “Teams” tab. Find your boat then figure out the concentric circle icon means to highlight the boat back on the map. Get the basics right then we can talk about the features it lacks relative to the website.

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I got this app only because of limited computer access during the race I'm following, and I could hardly be more dissatisfied. First, this app crashes often. But worse than that, it hangs up my iPad completely, forcing me to restart every time. To make matters worse, when it actually does run, it offers only the most basic of features. The online Flash-based tracking through Yellowbrick is really impressive and quite rich in features, while the app looks and performs like it was thrown together at the last second by the company's most incompetent programmer. Some of my particular frustrations are: - Boat photos don't show up - Wind speed/direction data constantly "unavailable" - Difficult to select one individual boat... Can't zoom in enough - No map on GUI (this thing is ugly!) making it harder to track progress against familiar coastal towns - Where are the rest of the features!? Yellowbrick has put as little effort into this app as possible, and it shows. Bottom line: DO NOT GET THIS APP!