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ISO flipboard without the ads
I’ve been a long-time user of this app and loved it, except... The ads have increased to a point where I can’t get articles to load — at all. Or, the font is so small, that I need to expand the view, and then an ad pops up on the same stinkin article and blocks the entire view panel, I have to reduce the size, close the NEWLY added ad to the page, readjust the page view so I can go back to read it. This happens on nearly EVERY article opened anymore. It’s such a PITA, I’m out here on the app store looking for an alternative to Flipboard and leaving this review. I bet I’ve been an almost daily Flipboard user for almost a decade.
IOS user here. I work in tech, work from home, this is not an issue with my home internet/ecosystem or my own hardware, but a Flipboard problem for the ads and page not loading for articles. I’d say this is around 25% of the time currently (article doesn’t load at all). The ads making it so frustrating to read a single article because they move around the text on the page, pop up in the middle of what you’re reading and then have to be closed to re-find where it was you were in the middle of a long article, or sometimes even shoving you back up to the top of the page after the new ad loads — occurs approximately 95% of the time anymore. Even for free, this platform isn’t worth my time anymore.Show lessIHateLeavingBadReviews
Great app, but declining quality of content
I really like the format of Flipboard, but the quality of content seems to be declining:
- too many puff piece articles with ‘latest hack taking the internet by storm’ or ‘ this celebrity’s whatever room is a masterclass in decorating….’ In the headline. Just banal junk.
- recycled articles from years ago from what I thought was a respectable feed.
- another feed that has heath and energy related articles whose headlines are often pure hyperbole and therefore somewhat misleading (offering false hope). I find myself inadvertently opening those articles, having been lured by the headline. Once I realise whose feed it is I just skip the article.
It would be good if you could ‘tune’ content with keywords. Eg, don’t display content with the word ‘hack’ or ‘masterclass’ in the headline…
There doesn’t seem to be an effective way to flag concerning content apart from writing reviews like this, which I really don’t like doing.
The content is ‘free’ and I guess Flipboard generates income though advertising revenue… so who am I really to complain.Show lessbdg-au
Developer Response
Hi there, please contact us at flip.it/help and attach screenshots of the unwanted content. We'll take a look at your account. Thank you.Pretty good, wish it was better
I used to use Flipboard then abandoned it because I got frustrated but now I have decided it’s better than other news apps out there. I use it for personal and I also use it for work and I contribute articles in several topic areas. I like that I can set the topic of interest, including when it comes to politics, getting a variety of viewpoints. I’m not a fan of the ads but I accept that this is free to me, and sometimes I worry I’m missing news content that should be included, but overall I feel like it provides as much news as I can possibly read any given day. There are definitely topics I wish had better coverage, but generally I feel like I get pretty good articles that interest me. and most important is that I am not aggregating news in a way that feeds me exclusively one perspective to the elimination of all other perspectives.Show lessRdfalco123