StoryCorps Hack 6.0.5 + Redeem Codes

When I was about 16-17 I had an assignment in my english class to interview somebody from my family using StoryCorps. I interviewed my grandmother, because she was my best friend and I understood that because she had many health problems (kidney problems, epilepsy, even cancer during her youth.) She likely wouldn’t be around as long as I wanted. I interviewed her, uploaded it on the app, got an A on my assignment and forgot about it. April 8th 2022 my Grandma passed away from septic shock due to an infection that none of her doctors caught. The whole family was as devastated as you can imagine, matriarchs are very important in my culture! About a week later, I remembered the interview, and after finally being able to log into my account, I had access to nearly 30 minutes of my grandmas beautiful voice and laughter. It helped my family get through one of our roughest times. So thank you StoryCorps ❤️

Update: with the newest release 3.2.0 out, I had my students update their apps and run some peer to peer interviews in class - looks like the major bugs are gone! All our interviews uploaded and there were no mysterious disappearances or struggles. UI is much nicer now too! Phew.

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I recently used the app to run The Great Thanksgiving Listen project with my 10th grade history students. Each of them recorded a grandparent or adult in their lives using the app, and then we uploaded them all with a special classroom keyword.

The app functionality was fairly straight forward and the process of recording/uploading for all 45 of my students was 95% great with a few exceptions- some of the interviews disappeared, some of them wouldn't upload to the site, etc. I think they are in process of fixing the bugs soon!

Once we uploaded the interviews, my students did all of the photos, keywording and description writing through the website version of the app on the StoryCorps Archive. Much easier than typing on phones and the interface was more comprehensive.

This is a great curriculum for history and social studies classrooms and I'm so glad I found out about it!

I first used this app in the fall. I recorded two interviews and got the hang of it. I'm going to use it at my family reunion. It's definitely much improved. There are new questions added and it seems faster moving from one step to the next. I also found out I can listen to some Storycorps stories that are like what I hear on NPR. I find something new whenever I open up this app!

The app is great for doing oral histories. It provides suggested questions as well as allows you to propose your own. The app also let’s you order the questions and record the audio for the interview.

However the app does not backup your interviews - so if you do a factory reset without uploading your interviews to the archives. You will lose them. I found this out the hard way.

My wife and I have been using the app for the last two years to record annual reflections on our relationship. I had saved the interviews on my phone, but had trouble uploading them to the archive. Well this year I had to do a factory reset on my phone and lost all of our interviews. So upload your interviews!

So StoryCorps is like, inherently not a bad idea, but the app is just horrendous. It’s incredibly buggy and deleted my recording once it froze on my “Publish” page and then proceeded to crash and my entire recording was gone. It was a 10 minute interview and the said person I was talking to has a 12-hour time difference and it was incredibly irritating that the interview was deleted. Even if it didn't do that however, it in general was just a very buggy app. The Redo Recording button didn’t work unless I went off the app and reset it, but also the buttons just took years to register. Great idea, terrible app for doing so though. It can use many improvements.

I put off doing some homework, and I had to interview my dad. My teacher recommended this app, and I decided to try it out. The user face is super easy to use and it’s great for interviewing people. You have the questions with you as you are interviewing, and can pause the recording at any time! You can even upload a photo with the recording! If there were 6 stars instead of five, I would give it a 6/6

I have recorded just one interview, but the process was easy and fun. The only problem I had was that in order to upload the interview, I had to stay on the upload screen, and set my phone display where it didn’t time out - not a problem now that I know but it took me a few tries to figure it out. Highly recommend for saving your memories

UPDATE: Upping the rating to 4 stars. A customer service rep contacted us and solved our problem in the third day. They were extremely polite and helpful.

Got all the grandkids together from out of state and did a full interview with grandpa. Afterwards we got kicked out of the app and couldn’t log back in. Don’t even know if the interview was saved. Contacted customer service numerous times. 2 days later and still no response.

The app does the job and it’s cool to have the history of these conversations. However I had problems trying to upload it or share it. I needed to share this with my teacher, so when i saved the video i still had it private. Though I didn’t know we ACTUALLY had to publish it to share a link. I did not know we had to put the setting to share with community before publishing it to share it. And whenever I try to change it, it won’t save to the community sharing and only private.

This app makes preserving memories of and with loved ones possible. I am so grateful it exists. I used the app a few years back to interview my father-in-law who passed away 2 years ago. This weekend my whole family is gathering to listen to his voice and reminisce. Thank you story corps for giving us such a special moment to share.