Image captionA man who built an app in his spare time that highlights independent pubs close to Wetherspoons venues, says he has been amazed by the response.
The Android app Neverspoons has been downloaded nearly 18,000 times in its first week - more than Shane Jones expected from the first six months.The name is a pun on the pub chain Wetherspoons but Mr Jones said he just wanted to give smaller pubs a boost. Mr Jones admitted that"a handful" of other chain pub venues had already crept on to the app and he said he planned to"weed out" those people had complained to him about - including one from the Slug and Lettuce chain and a few Greene King and Firkin franchises.Mr Jones has uploaded details of 2,500 pubs from around the UK so far and a further 971 have been submitted by drinkers and landlords.
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blEUfrenchbird Never been, Never going.
0.03% of the population downloading an app is news 😏
tobyjamez NEWS FLASH millions flock to weatherspoons despite this new app. G ok as I could help 👍👍👍
Great for the economy this 🙄🙄 snowflakes
matt_davies Let us know when it's 17.4m.
Excellent!
Pssst - this isn't 'news'.
I'm all for kicking Wetherspoon's twat of a CEO but please remember the thousands of INNOCENT staff who work for him, who worked and continue to work very hard to make Wetherspoons so popular in the first place. Choose wisely.
The irony is the photo is taken at WestRidingLRR in Dewsbury, Wetherspoons are closing their only pub there.
T4lkinape
Thanks for the reminder 👍
No iOS version? Any idea when it’ll be available?
johnsweeneyroar Won’t punters just use it to locate their nearest Spoons?
All those dumb people are people that would never visit a Wetherspoons Pub, so where's the story? FakeNews DefundtheBBC ScumMedia
🤣🤣🤣 That's so sad. But a marvellous tracking mechanism for wets. Once you know who has downloaded that app, you know exactly who they are and where they live!
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johnsweeneyroar As soon as it’s in apple store is going on my phone
What a crooked vessel of left wing shysters the BBC has become! 43,000 people are employed by Wetherspoons.....43,000!
More covert negative image setting of BREXIT by the BBC paid for by you and me.
Excellent work.
Always use proper old school pubs anyway.
Help this nhs worker get free beer.
Good job!
Fuck wetherspooms and Tim Martin
What is all this wizardry and pointlessness..
Ran past the one in Putney yesterday and was reminded just how miserable the people are who go there.
BBC using money demanded with menaces to promote anti Brexit propaganda. DefundTheBBC BorisJohnson
Is that the best woke PC news you can come up with. Stop being petty and start reporting like grownups.🤬 DefundTheBBC
Weatherspoons, the most depressing pubs in a town near you.
Drink where the fuck your want
Good idea (i have nowt against spoons but if youre in an unfamiliar town often spoons is the easy option) but a lot of suggested ones are big chain owned too though.
DefundTheBBC
I have. Spoons are shitholes, never getting my custom
Typical for BBC to promote this
NickDuGard1 Wankers
Great work 👏
Thousands but there are millions in the U.K. what percentage are you stating 0.00000002% 😂
This is all because he supports Brexit through his chain When the lie came out weatherspoons were not paying there staff through furlong the Beeb knew it to be a lie but ran with it anyway Time the licence fee was abolished
Cool. I might be able to get a table now
Drinking where you don't want to drink or probably never did drink there in the first place. ScumMedia DefundTheBBC
slugandlettuce don’t ever go in one, one of the worst experiences of my life (I saw my Dad killed when I was 17) that bad.....
I guarantee these people on the app have never been to a Wetherspoons anyway
Try reporting actual news eh? Pathetic.
Stupid vindictive BBC I just cancelled my TV licence over sh/t like this article we will hurt your finances
If possible and not breaching data laws is if people could log on the app a visit to a independent pub, just a ping so people can see how many people aren’t going to a Wetherspoons in that area. A window sticker aswell.
The BBC don't like the owner of Wetherspoons, That means we should all drink there more often
I’ve got it
Is this appropriate use of License Fee money? The BBC trying to sabotage Wetherspoons because their owner is Pro-Brexit. The BBC engaging in their own bit of cancel culture. DefundTheBBC
I bet old Tim is at home bawling his eyes out😏😏😏
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I bet his employees really appreciate this... you deluded virtue signalling tits!
DefundTheBBC
Love independent pubs 🍺 also love a Spoons curry now and then so what?
matilda_w_ Good I’m glad it’s doing well. Looks like the BBC have stuck a nerve with the small minded little Englanders. Cummings Bots and trolls immediately blocked !
Remember when you spent millions covering up your in-house paedophile ring?.... Good times
Thousands didnt too
The state of them two. Give me Tim Martin any day.
Yea you will do it for a week then go back in for cheap pints.
If you’re that desperate to go to a pub, you’re probably a whetherspoons regular anyway.
An app for people that need an app to find a pub. I didn't think 2020 could get any more stupid but there we go.
Steve_Lyons_ Should be millions
Well if I fancy a pint and Wetherspoons is there........
Blatant political bias from the BBC. DefundTheBBC
Corporates taking short term, answering to shareholder decisions, are they really for the good of the uk? I say, get bent British_Airways, BootsUK, jlandpartners, Airbus and many more, your people made you who you are today and your actions contribute to a longer recovery.
But what will they do for their cold food & filthy to the point on lethal toilets?
Europhile BBC engaging in a vendetta against Brexiteer Martin. These tens of thousands of Wetherspoons staff the BBC want to throw on the dole, I take it they will make an app that lists all these perfect jobs with perfect employers so they can walk right in to employment bliss?
Desperate for an iOS version
good luck getting drunk at triple the price ...looking like guys who have been brought a free pint
Another one just joined.
18,000 have downloaded an app set up for people to avoid giving money to Wetherspoons and you report it as 'news'. My question therefore is, why haven't you reported that 85,000+ have followed a Twitter account which has been set up for people to stop giving money to the BBC?
clf_chris what did I tell you? Don't give that twat anything.
Weirdossssss.
Excellent!
Just close all the pubs and allow us to make progress in the fight against the virus. The more people go to pubs the more lives are placed at risk.
wait till they find out the beer prices.. most independent pubs I know (but ok rip off SE of England, so most would expect it) have jacked up their prices.. increased distribution costs.. the reality is that most independent pubs aren't independent if fixed into stock contracts
BBC promoting people joining the neverspoons brigade, a brigade which has probably never stepped foot in one in the first place.
The BBC came to some use at last. Currently download NeverSpoons as we speak.
Who and why has this app been created to accommodate? First time pub drinkers What a load of bollocks!
Floyd_da_barber 👏👏👏
DefundTheBBC scumedia
Chain or franchise pubs are the work of the devil.
This is fantastic! Well done guys! 🍺
Angel41527796 Most popular app this week. Support small local business
Hardly surprising. I remember his tweet basically telling his staff to feck off and get a job in Tesco.
'never see me in wetherspoons' WTF you all remoaning about then
Wetherspoons is cheap £2:10 a pint loads to choose from but if you want to be cool pay £6 a pint in some avant garde micro brewery mixing chocolate with sage then crack on tossers🥴
Haha....Downloaded!
I am all for supporting independent pubs. But supporting independent brands from an Iphone wearing high street brands...
I am sorry if I sound snobbish but I have on a few occasions mostly on the the obligatory works outings be in whetherspoons, to be frank i found them to shit holes full off unpleasant little englanders , i now allways arrive late, for the last ten minutes be for move on to eat
It's a free country so jump on the bandwagon sheep can do what they like. Where's the Neverboots chemist app or the Neverryanair flights app? Don't exist? Yeah thought so.
Never forget what that Oaf did to his staff at the start of this pandemic. GetAJobAtTesco
The independent pubs are the worse with these safety rules, download a QR code, no cash, no standing, keep your noise down, photo id. They can fuck right off, give me a Wetherspoons any day with cheap good beer, cash payments accepted and relaxed rules.
miffythegamer best bit of news for a long while xxx
This is TRUE Free Market Capitalism. The right to supply alternatives to the consumer for real competition and to provide a better service to clients. ANYONE who criticises this is against True Capitalism.
Beeb, is still sore about Brexit
I dont normally drink in Weatherspoons, I will now.
😂😂😂 thousands?😂😂😂 lefty losers😂😂😂
The sort of people who care about this have never even considered going to Wetherspoons so I can’t see it doing that company much harm.
CabinetofClowns Great app. Helps you stay away from shit pubs. Use it.
And most wont be as cheap, you want more small type pubs you will go to them anyway
so putting Wetherspoons staff out of their jobs ?
Have been in a Wetherspoons once and that was enough.
AlwaysSpoons ! Great Brexiteer Tim Martin. How the BBC loathe the majority of the UK who voted to Leave the vile old EU. How is this news BBC? Anything to deflect from those grooming gangs eh?
This is very good. Always support the independent pubs and businesses in general.
northernBetrail Badly Drawn Boy seems to be enjoyin his beer
I am not a drinker, why has Weatherspoon got a terrible reputation ❓
Save the Spoons workers Then fuck Tim
This isn’t news, this is the BBC promoting an App because it suits their agenda. Where was their news report when DefundBBC attracted 40,000 followers in 20 hours?
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LewisIWhyte
Isn’t that just Untappd ?
Most of them most likely never went to Wetherspoons in the first place. So it doesn't mean much.
To me it’s not about the beer, it’s the atmosphere, sadly Wetherspoons have no atmosphere, there’s no buzz unlike a lot indepent pubs I visit
I would Neverspoons all day.
Stand up for the workers at Wetherspoons by trying to make them unemployed. CancelCulture
sarajcox This has nothing to do with giving business to other pubs, more taking away custom from Wetherspoons because it’s upset the unwashed, BBC can dress it up anyway they want.
Why is it weatherspoons staff can't praise the company enough but non customers hate it?
I assume Mr Jones is a remainer
Fantastic, remember the firm that wanted to compromise its customer and staff safety !
DeFundTheBBC
BBC giving free advertising to a competitor to the company with a Brexit-supprting owner. Who’d of thought! defundBBC
millions don't
This must cheer up the boys, a chance to have a go at Spoons because the owner is an avid leaver. What a sad bunch of no marks.
sarajcox Apple ones please
DefundTheBBC
Let’s be honest , the type of people on the app would never go into a spoons anyway 😴
Well if people need an app to find there local pubs ,then I imagine the pubs won’t be making much money out of it as the users can’t really be pub goers
What an utterly tragic endeavour. Middle class snobbery at its best 🙄
People download app. Slow news day?
Brilliant
Wethers is beige as owt.
Whilst hundreds of thousands go to spoons
Cheapest pint wins
BBC reporting this non-story is in no way suspicious.
I'm actually quite happy with a cheap pint, that's why wetherspoons is my first choice boozer.
can you get the location of Newton-Le-Willows correct please it’s part of St. Helens ! Get some journalists that actually know geography
Our local Spoons was the busiest pub in town this week
DefundBBC Is that really news Al Beebo. Don’t worry I expect that there will be more customers heading to weatherspoons whilst these unemployed free lancers discuss their beards and bike lanes
This is so good, hopefully soon there’ll be an iPhone app 😊
Could they make a track n trace app?
Space for everyone ..
People are free to spend their money where they like, I don’t go to spoons but a load of people who would never go now still not going is rather futile
Brilliant, top fella to put a wrong right!
They are probably using it to find the near-by Wetherspoons
Two scruffiest b******* as the thumbnail as well
18000 wokes. I bet Wetherspoon are shaking. defundBBC Conservatives it is using the tax paid to try and damage companies.
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