Dragon Con

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About this app

Dragon Con is the largest multimedia, popular culture convention focusing on science fiction and fantasy, gaming, comics, literature, art, music and film in the known universe! Held every Labor Day weekend in Atlanta, GA, Dragon Con boasts close to 40 fan-based tracks, a film festival, Atlanta's largest parade throughout downtown, an art show, comics, pop art exhibits and displays, nightly concerts and parties, bands and DJs, tons of costume contests, over a hundred dealers and exhibitors, and almost 5000 hours of panels, workshops, games and gaming of every flavor.

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Ratings and reviews

Unfortunately, you must have this to really get around the convention. Unfortunate because it's an annoying app. Ever single time you lock and unlock your phone even when you left the app open, it insists on waiting a second and then popping a stupid banner up to interrupt your view. Or just every single time you switch away and back again. Please, get rid of this. It is maddening. Also, when scrolling through the event list, it sometimes jumps like 5 hours up.

It's not an obvious and rather counterintuitive that friends aren't added at the friends panel, but the attendees tab on the main page. More importantly, events that cross midnight appear on the agenda, but not the schedule. The schedule is the default, which is frustrating. Links to exhibitor websites get an error page, although links to Facebook pages apoear to work correctly. On the plus side, the maps are great and easy to read and the event filters are super helpful.

The app has gotten much better over the past couple of years. One feature that would be nice is to add a filter for the main venues (hotels, America's mart) I know you can search hotel name, but it's different than the filters, the view is different and you lose the calendar part.