Used to be my favorite
I used to use this app several times a day and paid for a Slate+ membership to do so. Recently, the app function has really degraded. It logs me out multiple times a day and won’t remember my password. Today it won’t let me log in at all, and just lingers on a white screen when I try to sign in.
I’ll try deleting and re-downloading the app. If that doesn’t work, I guess I’ll cancel my Slate+ subscription and find another source for writing like this.
I’ll try deleting and re-downloading the app. If that doesn’t work, I guess I’ll cancel my Slate+ subscription and find another source for writing like this.
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Login/crash fails for YEARS
I’m a longtime Slate reader and have been and on/off Slate+ subscriber. I really like the content. This app is awful, and has been for years. It has always crashed on me, through my use of a variety of iOS devices - so often that I deleted it long ago. I recently re-upped my Slate+ subscription when I got a new iPhone 12, so I decided to try the app again. I simply cannot login. All I get when I hit the login button it an “Error: redirect_url mismatch” notification. Not sure why Slate can’t find developers that can make the app work. But I’m going to delete it again. Not usable. I’d give it zero stars if I could.
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Doesn’t work
Blank screen, no content loads. It’s been like this for years, please fix the app!!
I miss the free articles
Slate has only gotten better over the years except that it’s become so paywalled. Is this the price of progress?
FIX YOUR APP JEEZ
The login problems are back in this version, and it’s reeeeeeallly annoying. Why won’t you fix the app? You are losing paying subscribers. Not only do I have to disable my VPN to log in on my phone, doing the same on my ipad is not allowing me to log in - the purple page that comes up with the ‘login’ or ‘restore purchases’ option just sits there, unclickable. This is AWFUL. Fix it.
—— previous review
Ugh. Every time there’s an update I am foolishly hopeful you will have fixed issues with this goldurn app. I still have issues with login not working (periodically getting logged out and not being able to logs back in) and with dark mode not allowing me to view the comments I’m typing as I’m typing them. Is this really all that hard? I do not have this issue with any other app. At all. Ever. Like, not even once. Sincerely, Slate Plus Subscriber Despite Crankiness
—— previous review
Ugh. Every time there’s an update I am foolishly hopeful you will have fixed issues with this goldurn app. I still have issues with login not working (periodically getting logged out and not being able to logs back in) and with dark mode not allowing me to view the comments I’m typing as I’m typing them. Is this really all that hard? I do not have this issue with any other app. At all. Ever. Like, not even once. Sincerely, Slate Plus Subscriber Despite Crankiness
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What are we paying for?
I have been reading Slate since it began and finally gave in and purchased Slate+ this year because they started metering and tightening the amount of free reads. Maybe that makes me cheap, but I’m a school teacher and try to save pennies where I can. IMO the writing is not what is was 10 years ago, but it is still pretty strong on the whole and still feels indispensable to me.
BUT, I don’t know how they can sleep at night charging us almost $60 and giving us an app that is so legendarily dreadful. And the thing is: the app has always been bad. They fix it for a while and then it breaks, again and again. When I wasn’t paying for it, I swallowed my complaints. But c’mon! I know they had a major loss of ad revenue since Covid, which lead to the tighter meter, but can you please allocate some resources to the tech side here? I have to sign in again, every time, for each new story, and the podcast play bar only appears halfway on my iPhone screen. And the podcast does not remember where you paused. And the podcast time codes are often completely unrelated to the actual concepts of time and space.
Ugh. I know I said it was indispensable, but after my subscription ends, I will learn to live without if improvements aren’t made.
BUT, I don’t know how they can sleep at night charging us almost $60 and giving us an app that is so legendarily dreadful. And the thing is: the app has always been bad. They fix it for a while and then it breaks, again and again. When I wasn’t paying for it, I swallowed my complaints. But c’mon! I know they had a major loss of ad revenue since Covid, which lead to the tighter meter, but can you please allocate some resources to the tech side here? I have to sign in again, every time, for each new story, and the podcast play bar only appears halfway on my iPhone screen. And the podcast does not remember where you paused. And the podcast time codes are often completely unrelated to the actual concepts of time and space.
Ugh. I know I said it was indispensable, but after my subscription ends, I will learn to live without if improvements aren’t made.
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Five stars for content/three stars for app
Login issues finally resolved but still find that the app is slow to load and a bit quirky (ie loads its own article links into a web browser). However, Slate content is abundant and high quality.
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Log-in simply does not work anymore. Constantly kicked out even right after I’ve logged in. app is also slow to load and glitchy. Not a great way to treat subscribers. Have given up on app and using mobile web for now.
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Log-in simply does not work anymore. Constantly kicked out even right after I’ve logged in. app is also slow to load and glitchy. Not a great way to treat subscribers. Have given up on app and using mobile web for now.
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Great Content, Horrible App
Slate has fantastic content. The app has to be one of the worst I have ever dealt with. There is no way to set your favorite shows to pop up when a new episode is dropped so I tend to listen to the shows I like on other apps despite there being adds on other apps. Finding the podcasts you want to listen to is very difficult because the navigation is so convoluted. Also, there is not option to speed up the podcasts. I know these journalists love the sound of their own voices but those of us with real jobs and lives sometimes don’t have time to listen to them at normal speed and need to speed it up.
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Frustrating notifications
This app is utterly broken in the way its notifications work. I’ll get a notification about a story that looks interesting so I’ll click on it fully expecting the app to open to the article I question. Instead, the just opens and then you are left to wade through any number of articles depending on when the one you are looking for was published. How is it every othe news organization doesn’t have this problem? Please fix it before I’m convinced to quit wasting my time and cancel my Slate+ subscription.
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Useless Now
When Slate announced they were extending the loving embrace of their paywall to iOS, I assumed we’d still be able to periodically read articles without the overpriced subscription. Seems not to be the case. May as well pull the app from the app store. You want $60 a year, maybe get some better writers.
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