What is the point of this app if it doesn’t remember you?
This app requires you to log in almost every time you want to read an article. It is constantly hounding you to either disable your ad blocker or subscribe (even if you have just logged in), it forgets who you are and tells you that you have read all your free articles (once again, even if you have just logged in) and even if you are logged in as a Slate + member you get the same deal. Other apps manage to remember who you are over the course of a week and more.
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Doesn’t work since update.
The login function in the app is broken. I can still login just fine on the Internet using Safari on my phone, but I can’t login to the app. Just get a blank screen or an error message when I click login. Incompetent developers.
get ready to log in every time you use it
I decided to pay for Slate because I have read their articles for many years for free. Yet I have never had any website that wasn’t a financial one make me log in every time and also doesn’t have Face ID. Very poorly designed. For the past three weeks, I can’t even log in. The log in command goes to a blank screen. Doesn’t matter if you load a new version. Don’t waste your money
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Great articles, extremely frustrating app update
I have had and enjoyed the slate app for probably about a year now. It’s a far better mobile reading experience than browser, despite some bugs and the fact that the entire backlog of content is too large for the app. However, the most recent update has left me at the end of my rope. I have slate plus, and the app does not remember that I have logged in. Annoying, but I use a password manager. What pushes this from annoyance to unacceptable is that in order to log back in (after it auto logs me out every time the app closes), I have to uninstall and reinstall because the login page will not display correctly. To be clear, the slate plus login page will only load the first time I open it after a fresh installation. It will not load under any other circumstance. In practice, this means that I must uninstall and reinstall the app every single day to read new articles (I read far more articles than the monthly free limit allows, hence purchasing slate plus). I admittedly have a decently old iPhone (iphone 7) but my iOS is up to date and I have never had this issue with other apps. I have not been able to find a way to contact the app developers about this issue, but hopefully you will see this review and address this extraordinarily annoying problem.
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App won’t allow logins
App freezes on login screen. Occasionally can get logged in only to be logged out again a couple hours later, having to constantly delete and reinstall over the last 2 weeks. Content is great but the app is terrible and frustrating.
Disrespect
I see some people complaining that they’re upset that they can’t read the stories on the app without paying. I paid, and I STILL can’t read the stories. They updated their app, and now iOS subscribers can’t use their subscriptions. They’ve known about the issue and have still failed to correct it. So what exactly am I paying for?
Update: they said they fixed the problem. It lasted for one use. Now, every time I want to read a story, I have to delete the app, re-download it, and then sign in to Slate+. Next time I want to use the app, I have to go through the whole process again.
This app is utter garbage.
Update: they said they fixed the problem. It lasted for one use. Now, every time I want to read a story, I have to delete the app, re-download it, and then sign in to Slate+. Next time I want to use the app, I have to go through the whole process again.
This app is utter garbage.
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Forgets my sign-in, sign in screen is blank
Worked great until I updated in mid September. Now the app forgets I signed in the moment I close it; it nags me to sign up to Slate + and hides articles BUT the sign- in screen is white blank! This is the fourth time I’ve deleted and re-loaded it JUST TO SIGN IN. Likely to be the last.
App does not let me sign in
I’m a paying subscriber who loves Slate content, but the iOS app continually “forgets” my login and bars me from reading stories. Often I can’t even get to the sign in screen. When I do, I have to keep producing my password because it is not cached. This is an awful user experience that needs to be fixed.
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Terrible app
I love Slate, and am a Slate+ member, but this app is terrible. You can’t search all of the Slate content, and since I almost exclusively read it on my phone this means I’m unable to access all of the articles. With this latest update, it asks me to login every single time, which is annoying enough but the link to login is super tiny and difficult to activate, while there is an enormous trial subscription button. They seem more interested in new subscribers than facilitating access for current subscribers. I think Slate may have run it’s course for me, as I’m unlikely to renew due to the app’s accessibility issues.
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Love Slate, but the app is SO buggy!
I really value Slate, and I pay for Slate Plus. On the app, I am consistently logged out for unknown reasons, and then when I press the “sign in” link, it brings up an utterly blank pop up. So even though I’m paying premium, I pretty regularly cannot log in using the app to view what I pay for. I’ve checked multiple times to make sure the app is updated, so I guess I’m just dealing with the best that it can be?
One more weird thing: even when I am logged in, sometimes I open the app, and the same article from summer 2020 about age 35 being a fertility cliff is at the top of “recent” for like 2 seconds. It disappears, but seriously?? It’s not especially triggering for me, but as a woman of a certain age, I def know people it could be triggering for. And why is this even happening- an old article at the top like that that disappears? Has been happening for *months*.
Otherwise, the UI design is great. Idk why the functionality is so poor.
One more weird thing: even when I am logged in, sometimes I open the app, and the same article from summer 2020 about age 35 being a fertility cliff is at the top of “recent” for like 2 seconds. It disappears, but seriously?? It’s not especially triggering for me, but as a woman of a certain age, I def know people it could be triggering for. And why is this even happening- an old article at the top like that that disappears? Has been happening for *months*.
Otherwise, the UI design is great. Idk why the functionality is so poor.
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