User Experience Critique of Path 2

The glaring usability issue for me was deleting a post.<p>Swiping doesn't work, nor are clues provided in detail view. The answer is that the delete button is hidden inside the Smiley Face/Like button, which was not intuitive to me. After all, if I want to delete a post I obviously don't like it and won't think to look there. As a caveat to what this article says, it would be better for swipe to be reappropriated to the expected behavior. This is going to be more of an issue if more apps adopt under-tableview navigation.

I've never heard of Path before today - why use Path instead of Facebook/Google Plus?<p>It seems like an instance of "Yet Another Photosharing app", which is getting tiresome. Sometimes reading mobile development news makes it seem like photo/status sharing, and todo lists are the only things people do on mobile phones.

I've never used Path, but recently I've clicked a few links on Twitter to path.com URLs from my phone. The salient features were:<p>- A photo of the user confusingly filled up the top third of the screen and was momentarily distracting until I realized what I was supposed to be looking at.<p>- Scrolling the page felt weirdly jerky.<p>Not auspicious for the app itself.

One thing I expected to be able to do in Path was share a link. It seems that posting a URL as part of a post doesn't render that URL clickable ... so either it's an oversight, or a feature they don't support right now.

Here's a UX critique, I don't always want to be on my phone. Especially since the "Blah wants to be your friend" opens in the Android browser rather than the Path app. I'm not logged in in my mobile browser, and I don't want to because my password is a huge random set of characters. I'd login from my desktop since I have LastPass, and I can't accept the friend request from the Path app natively. Thus, I have friend requests piling up and I've yet to return to the app.