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Great app before adds
Flipboard was one of my favorite apps. Until they put all the trash adds in it. Navigation is anoying because the adds keeps taking you out of Fliboard for opening they’re link in Safari.pnadeau
Auto launching ads
Trying to boost your ad number by automatically launching into another app while swiping through stories is shady and annoying.
Uninstalled.
Shame because it’s otherwise a decent news aggregator.ajgzmenak
Ads
Ads were recently added to the feed. Full page ads that, when the page is flipped, are always clicked.
This isn’t caused by miss handling the device or something: every time I flip through it quickly, is gets tapped 100% of the time and opens up a Safari page on iPhone XS or iPhone 7.
This is a discouragingly bad UI/UX decision for a quick money ads click scheme. I’ll look into other apps now after using Flipboard for years.Show lessgabo.b
Expect lots of fake news...
If you want ‘Outdoors’ news, expect lots of ‘Climate Change’ propaganda.
If you want ‘Political’ news, expect lots of Trump-bashing. If you get tired of all the negativity, you cannot put a thumbs down or ‘unlike.” You can click a heart for what you love, but the only way to get rid of the negativity is to ban that particular feed source.
I don’t know how they decide which articles to show, but it certainly isn’t according to the population of America, which is roughly 50% conservative, as proved by the last presidential election. I can’t help but wonder, are they are trying to give people the balanced news they want, or FLIP them toward what they want them to believe? Hope I’m wrong in doubting it.
I love the Flipboard concept, but would just LOVE to be able to add specific blogs, publishers, etc.
Also, when I first set it up I was able to give it a few categories of my special Interests, but I see no way now to go back in and modify that, without sharing tons of information about myself by signing in with my Facebook/Google/etc. accounts.
Strange! It should be easy to go back in and give it specific topics or URLs, or just specify ‘fewer negative articles.’
Hope they’re listening— it has a wonderful design, and lots of potential!
Also, sometimes, after you interact with it, when you go back in, it flips all the way back to the beginning.Show lessSkoobiedoit
Too many ads
I’m going to delete it because of too many ads.Ajitpal Gill
Greed ruins everything
Used to be great, but now when you swipe past an ad, it registers as a click on the ad every time. Gotta get those clicks I guess.Wasteland Soldier
New video ads
This has been one of my most used apps for awhile. However with the new auto play video ads it might need to go. Even if you watch the full ad you still have to tap the x at the top left and with the iPhone plus it’s kinda annoying. If it happen once every in awhile no problem, but it’s the same video ad after every 5-7 flips. PLEASE improve or remove this. I know the app is free and nothing in the world is truly free, but make it more user friendly with the ads
UPDATE :
Since posting this review this issue appears to be resolved or close to it. I still use this app every day and appreciate the hard work it must take to make such a great app. I don’t mind ads I know they pay the bills, just didn’t like the way it interfered. All is good now, thank you!Show lessTyson1818
Data Consuming
I want people to use this app because I think it’s extremely necessary in times like this where a range of POVs is hard to find, but Jesus Christ, use it with wifi only. 3 days I’ve been using my data with the app, checking maybe 2-3 times a day and I’ve already used 700MB of data specifically on this app. There must be SOMETHING better that can be done about that.Show lessChrishhi
Ads and Ads, Many Articles do Not Display Correctly
28 June 18 Update - 1. One of the remaining bastions for pop up ads. 2. Many articles display totally different than they do when one goes to the source article without using flipboard. Many articles I need to copy the name and then search the web, find the actual article to be able to read it. In flipboard many links, content simply does not display.
NOV 2016 UPDATE - still no developer response to any of the below. No ability to screen and refine, e.g. Screen to only US source articles in a specific category. No guidance for top most popular feed in a specific category. Some pages flip right, some scroll down, you try to go back and kicked out of the article entirely or back to the beginning of the entire section, many articles are just ads or riddled with ads, full of pop ups that your pop up blocker cannot stop, full of articles from other countries that you cannot filter out in settings (e.g. Only US sourced articles), full of articles that when you click them you get two or three sentences and then a link to subscribe and pay.Show less444tiger
Developer Response
Thanks for your updated input. We have a red bolt program for publishers who do not have pop ups. Also, we request that you report any sites with intrusive advertising. We are not aware of the contengt issue you are describing, but we would like to hear more about it. Please contact us inside the app's Settings, Help & Feedback.Aren’t Apps supposed to get better?
Flipboard used to be brilliant, I really liked the way you’d ‘flip’ through articles instead of finding yourself constantly scrolling slightly. But that rarely happens now.
The ads were inevitable once the App gained traction, and whilst they’re irritating, I do understand they’re essential.
But things like the way Mashable stories need constant left to right scrolling to read them, the never ending cookie control pop ups, the subscription requests when you’re halfway through reading an article, which you can’t clear unless you stop reading the article! Do they think irritating me is going to persuade me into subscribing?
I use it still, but far less than I used to.Show lessTile Tree
