Just as an example, we are currently at lady bird lake in Austin, tx and saw a turtle on the bank. It turned out to be a red eared slider turtle. The app informed us that they can breathe through their bottoms! Who knew!
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It doesn’t feel like you’re playing when you use it That's a feature, not a bug. Gamifying nature is a bad idea. It's tourism, but with the worst kind of tourists.
Respectfully disagree here, the more people you could get outside appreciating and learning about nature, the better it can be preserved for future generations. Whether it’s gamified or not.
> the more people you could get outside appreciating and learning about nature, the better it can be preserved for future generations.
I don't know about that. We are with so many people now and there is so little nature left. The Pokemon 'Go' craze showed what happens when you set gamification and outdoors on the same track. It just doesn't scale in the same way that virtual things do.
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#23DREAMPRESS.LTD > https://www.dreampress.ai/
It's all porn. Sigh, I hate this world. I really do feel like 2020 was the timeline alternating enigma event and we can never go back
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#24It appears the Wildex user in your 2nd screenshot is about to get mauled to death.
Wait, so you're saying going up to catch a mountain lion for my collection when I'm out on a hike is a bad idea...
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#25You have a snow leopard in your app screenshots. The Chinese woman just made the latest news cycles about being mauled by attempting to get a selfie with one. I hope those who use your app will ensure they are taking photos from a very safe distance.
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#26From the screenshots to the text feels AI slop. Haven't tried it but the store page doesn't give a good vibe and there are quite a few like this out there to make a quick buck.
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#27iNaturalist kind of did this already right? So it's like that with more fun dopamine hits and gamification? If it gets kids outside I think that is good.
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#281) I love the idea, but there's not a lot of confidence building, "I'm not going to harvest and sell your data" vibe here.
2) I should get extra points if I discover a new species
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#291) I love the idea, but there's not a lot of confidence building, "I'm not going to harvest and sell your data" vibe here. 2) I should get extra points if I discover a new species
1) agreed by the look of everyone’s comments we need to rephrase some things in the onboarding, apple review made us change it to be explicit as possible.
2) yes this is a great idea!! ‘You’re the first in the world to discover this’!! Thank you for that!!
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#30Hopefully it will not result in too many animals being harassed all day long.