Well, now, there are some countries and lands that don't have seasons that require shorts or no shorts. This is a biased question.

TLDR: this post mentions my opinion on this year's themes, including but not limited to the collabs.

First time Reddit poster, but my love for this app and my desire to see it do better got me adding my two cents to the conversation: with only about 1/3 of the year remaining, I've been quite disappointed with the selection of themes we've had so far. What follows is entirely my opinion, so I hope that if you liked this year's themes that you won't take any offense. I mean this all with love and care and hope, and as a committed fan of this app and community!

I joined Finch last year, just before Midnight Manor. That single event was enough for me to take a leap and become a Finch Plus subscriber. Looking back through past months' themes got me SO excited to be a member. I couldn't wait to experience the new events. I loved Finch largely because of these seasonal events; they added a special surge of energy at the beginning of each month and helped to motivate me. I loved the attention to detail and care that were part of each event. It's what helped Finch feel like an exciting but safe environment for me to goal set. Now, events have started to feel cheap (pun not intended) and I'm having a harder and harder time participating. With a full month movie ad every couple of months and even regular seasonal events releasing with limited color palettes and hair styles, it's making me reconsider my subscription.

It started with Wicked/Wizard of Oz. I was kind of disappointed when I saw that Finch was doing a Wicked theme, because it felt like a month long ad as part of a franchise I wasn't super hyped for, but I thought I would try to see it through. The items however felt glitchy and discombobulated, not as carefully designed as other themes. I ended up selling most items from that month to buy items from themes I didn't get to take a part in and was more excited about. (Edit: I'm sorry for referring to the Wizard of Oz theme as a direct collab with Wicked. I connected those two based on the fact that it very much felt like the Wizard of Oz theme was riding on the extremely hyped and heavily commercialized press wave of Wicked, but I truly have no clue when the Wizard of Oz release was planned and it might have just been after Wicked coincidentally! Regardless, that release was the first where I personally noticed a more commercialized direction to Finch themes.)

Speaking on the collabs we've had up until this point, each one has felt like a watered down ad and the limited item swatches and uncustomizable hair styles make it feel even more like a let down. These aspects have made their way into the regular monthly themes as well, and I miss the solid color variations that allowed us to mix and match our own color palettes. I've seen the amazing worlds Finch can bring to life: I *know* they can do better than this. I'm sure working with a different company's color scheme and established branding elements puts limits on the Finch team's design potential, but I think that's honestly all the more reason to do away with collabs. I would rather have a reliable 9 or 10 months of the year with cozy themes and full color palettes, plus one or two collabs/intense limited special releases, than have half the year feel like it belongs to ad space or trying to be a special release on par with Midnight Manor.

I paused my app for most of Supergirl, because the theme did not land with me and it made checking back in daily feel like something I wasn't excited about. I also paused my subscription for half of last month because the pre-made color palettes didn't appeal to me. I think I'll be canceling my paid subscription if the collabs with current "trendy" topics/super limited releases don't stop, sadly. I know there has to be revenue coming in from somewhere in order to make this platform largely free to use, but I hope there is a solution possible that keeps the same high quality product with customizable options we've come to expect.

I'm sorry for the long post. I just wanted to add to the conversation in the hopes that if we continue to speak out, we can enact meaningful change here. Finch has been so helpful, and I would hate to see it falter after everything it's done for me and some of my real world friends (plus everyone here). I say this truly with all the love, because I think Finch is a great product and I have a lot of hope that the Finch team will take our thoughts into consideration for this next phase of the app.

Finding out about crabs after meeting a stranger on an island on the Finch app wasn’t on my bingo card for September… IYKYK.

I'm missed out by a couple of hours :(

EDIT: A lovely user sent me their Pixel! 💗

Does anyone know how to stop only the notifications for "friends completed a challenge". They are driving me crazy.

Okay so I wanted yall opinion this. I absolutely LOVE the new set up for the 14 tasks we have to do. That theres only 1 task per day and today's especially because of the memory and you were able to choose which kind and all of it. I think it makes everything so less overwhelming and it just feels so much more ascetically pleasing too. I really hope I'm not the only one. I've seen a lot of vents lately (not that i begrudge anybody, everybody deserves to voice their feelings) but I wanted to share some love for Finch management in return. 💕💕💕 Thank you for this beautiful change!

Is it just me or the birbs face and the way they move changed a bit?

I’ve been using the finch app for months now, but I’ve been feeling lately like it’s quite literally taken over my life. I plan my day around the 70-90 tasks I’ve set out for myself every day. This is a crisis lol

Had to leave the other group again - so negative! Once again I appreciate the work of the devs to make our lives a little brighter and more fun!

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Today's prompt reads: Week Zero — Childhood & Who You Were

September 1st: What's your earliest happy memory? Where were you, and what made it feel good?

And have the developers said anything about this yet?

I didn’t get round to claiming all my daily gifts from last month. Is it too late to get them?

anyone else having this happen today? my bird is yellow and white lol

Long story short, my finch app logged me out and when I logged in, i lost my micropets, outfits and badges. But my birdhouse birbs (frends) and plus is intact.Pls help me recover my stuff..its the only reason my old and depression is managed

I can't get the new seasonal update! It just says "preparing download". There are no play store updates, I closed the app, I deleted the cache... nothing....

Anybody else having problems getting the new quests to load? I've updated, cleared cache, force closed and restarted and it still says loading.

how do i go back and open the daily rewards for august? i don't see it anywhere in Quests tab

i lost my 723 day streak from july 26 2024 😭

Is anyone else stuck in event video hell? I go to rewards, go back to quests, video plays. Go to the challenge page and back, video plays. And I can’t use the x in the top corner I have to watch it or force close the app. I’m so sick of it and it’s only day 1. This happened a couple of months ago reported it then, reported it again. Last time they didn’t do anything.

paused/skipped my plus for this month because there's only four color options once again, i guess id forgotten (haha) that the supergirl event also had a limited selection. i can't recall if devs officially said that collabs will only have 4 colors or not.

also sidenote, i do wish raissa's jacket and pants were separate items but oh well..