I was intrigued the moment I first caught wind of Eh!. A Canadian-made social network centred on local happenings, small business, and neighbourly ties? Yes please! It’s the kind of digital community we could actually use right now. So I jumped into the beta via Apple’s TestFlight back in July.
What I found was… underwhelming. The app was skeletal and barely functional. My keyboard covered half of my profile page when I tried to enter my bio. Uploads, whether photos or videos, routinely failed. I chalked it up to early beta turbulence and waited it out, hoping the official launch would bring more polish.
- Eh’s Discover feed
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- The local feed
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- The notification screen
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- Upload failed
Fast forward to last week: Eh! rolled out on Android and iOS. I gave it another go on both my iPhone 15 Pro Max and my Redmagic 10 Pro. Unfortunately, not much had changed. Videos wouldn’t upload at all. Photos succeeded maybe one in four times, and they weren’t always consistent. At one point, an upload flipped my maple syrup can onto its side, and then failed completely when I tried to reupload. The notification badge was frozen at “9” even with no new alerts, and the upload spinner overlapped the notification icon, creating a jumble of red.
To their credit, the developers pulled the app, patched it, and relaunched it. I deleted my account and started anew. But the core issues linger still. It seems nothing that had plagued me has been fixed.
Even so, I’m not giving up on it. Buried beneath the glitches is a genuinely great concept. Eh! shows you local content based on where you are. It doesn’t rely on some data-scraping algorithm. The interface is refreshingly minimal. The red-and-white design is proudly Canadian. And while the Discover feed isn’t quite alive yet, I can see the potential there.
If the team can iron out the basics like image handling, reliable notifications, and that damn keyboard issue, Eh! could turn into something amazing for Canada. It might actually become our social platform that nurtures real communities.
So I’ll stick around, keep posting, and keep hoping.
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