"[Discussion] Since the event is over, Niantic really should take some time to refactor and optimize their code. This app is nowhere near production grade."

#PokemonGO: I hate it too when clients throw around phrases like "optimize your code" like it is some magic spell. I wanted to write this a long time ago, but didn't think the effort was worth the rant. Today however during multiple buggy gym battles, I really was concerned with the state of the game. I love this game and don't want so many people to get fed up and leave. This community is at a point where people write appreciation threads for the most basic QOL improvements. I feel more like a tester than a customer. Niantic, please get around to actually fixing all your TODOs. I love your app. I can't even begin to imagine how I would go about attempting to implement what you made. Your app is one of its kind. That however doesn't mean your technical burden exempts you from basic QA. Playing Pokemon GO feels like I am playing with a time bomb. At this point I expect the app to function incorrectly at any point. Whenever I use a charge move during a battle, I expect the bar to wrongly fill up again. Whenever I use potions on multiple pokemon, I expect the app to crash. I have now come to wait for the crash. That way I am not mad. Normally I would say Niantic needs to hire more people for QA, but this is above that. I don't even know how to describe the new "go to gym" screen. Did you run your app before shipping? You are Niantic. From Google. You are probably all 10Xers. I think the blame is more on management than the developers. Any dev can see what happened. It is all too familiar. The initial launch of July 2016 was waaaay rushed. So Niantic did not have much time to incorporate extensibly thought-out and tested user experience into their app. And due to lack of content in the game, the number of users declined drastically. This created a vicious cycle where the devs could not take the time to tend to performance issues and bugs, but had to focus more on implementing new gameplay features (like gyms and raids). Thank you Niantic for this great double everything event. Please take some time to make the app itself more robust. I am at a point where I am scared to spend more cash on the game because I think the constant performance issues will kill the game.Edit: minor text fixes via /r/pokemongo http://ift.tt/2v75Bf6