Posted on 11/09/2022 21:23
Well, I waited until it went live. Where do l start ? UTTER PANTS best describes my experience. The queuing system failed to direct me where I wanted to go, I ran out of battery trying to search CLs and to cap it my wife's smart phone "is not compatible with the CAMC app ". 
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Posted on 30/11/2022 08:38 by paulmold'Adequately ' isn't good enough, when the old system was 'well above adequate'. The old app is still available, so simple to use but only shows availability up to May so that will soon be gone. I've certainly no intention of switching to Apple products or investing in an all singing all dancing laptop regardless of size. For the cost of such items I could stay on top commercial sites for several years. I shall continue to use Search4sites to find sites whether they be club, commercial or CL/CS until this fiasco is sorted and use my phone to book.
Posted on 30/11/2022 10:22
I only used the word adequately because of course if I run it on our iMac it runs very quickly and very smoothly. Lots of folk, me included will do their planning at home on a desk top. Only perhaps checking or revising something on route. Both iPad and phone work perfectly well for that and indeed for primary planning if I can’t be bothered to go upstairs. OK the map scrolls and zooms a little slower than on the iMac but it is adequate. 😀
As to the App I totally agree. The new one is nothing but a front end to the web site, there is no off line capability. In fact it’s not as good as the web site as it only works in portrait, so doesn’t allow an even split of the screen on a pad.
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Posted on 30/11/2022 09:08 by young thomasAs I mentioned earlier somewhere, the advance of software design pulls the hardware requirements along and the advance in hardware capability pulls the software design along to take advantage of it.
It's a continual cycle with older apps falling by the wayside and older hardware becoming redundant for many applications.
you only have to look at TomTom and how quickly older devices can't cope with more and more detailed mapping and extra information 'we all want' like photos of campsites and other destinations...
how many old PCs get binned as they can't manages the next 'upgrade'?
tis life with technology, I'm afraid...we all want more...more speed, better resolution, more videos, more photos, more storage and so it goes on.
I do use a recent iPhone 13 so I have no prob...I might get my old SE or 4s out for a bit of fun😀
Posted on 30/11/2022 16:42
Unfortunately, we have to make do with i phone cast offs, when our children, who have plenty of money, get new phones, we inherit their old ones. So OH currently has a 4s and I have a slightly newer one. They work fine as phones. And are generally fine for browsing the internet.
Our iPads were birthday gifts from our children, so are about 3 years old, and usually work fine, just not so good with the CAMC new booking system.
However, as we will not be booking any CAMC sites, due to cost, that does not really matter. It is however annoying that the new App is so bad.
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Posted on 22/12/2022 20:19
Well that's it, I have tried to get my head around this absolute joke of a new booking system I thought at one point that it was me being a luddite but no it is a fact that the new web booking system is an absolute joke. Oh and I don't care much for the loss of the USP which was a no deposit booking.......on those two basis I can't see me renewing my membership........please MCC .....can we go back to how it was
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