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Still my go to but sadly forcing video and other ads down my throat
Great news site and I’ve used it since it’s inception. Living remotely and on satellite internet so I pay for every megabit transmitted. Also the internet is slow so my readings are constantly interrupted by ads being interposed above my now very jerky stories, and forced video ads taking precious screen space and megs. The x to dismiss the video ads is often small or hard to see, and often take several clicks to make disappear. Plus lots more ads masquerading as news. I get they have to make money but this is overdoing it and very sad as well as annoying. I’d happily pay a subscription fee to eliminate them but to date, not an option.Show lessJeffe01
Developer Response
We are very sorry to hear about your disappointment due to the ads. We would be happy to share your feedback with our team. Have a good day and stay safe!Flipboard
An absolutely wonderful app I would not be without for a moment. Full of useful pithy articles. Freedom from woke/snowflake propaganda. Enables me to stay reasonably informed without relying too much on silo-based Public radio and TV and their penchant for “educating the masses” - brainwashing more likely!
BestShow lessMarchetti70
Great app, but almost unusable due to cookies
The way this app throws up cookie alerts ALL THE TIME drives me crazy. The interface is great, but I am moving to Apple News which does not have this cookie problem.
Edit - I do use the Reader View feature, as suggested by the developer feedback (thank you for that, very good to see a response), and to be fair it is good. But I do feel it is hiding the problem, and does still need an extra intervention for each page view, which itself is annoying, and also does sometimes mess up the ability to read the content. So, I’ve added a star to my original review, but my feedback remains essentially the same - Apple News does not suffer with this problem, so why does Flipboard?Show lessTonyNewton
Developer Response
We appreciate your feedback and we will make sure to share it with our team.Flipboard is indispensable to me
I first installed Flipboard on my iPad in 2011. It was one of the first apps installed on my first iPad, and I’ve used Flipboard more or less every day since August 2011, through the present (February 2021). I find Flipboard indispensable to using my iPad. Flipboard’s staff skillfully curates a very broad range of news about current events and also features a huge variety of special interest magazines and articles, and is markedly superior to all other news magazine apps I’ve seen. I am often surprised by how quickly Flipboard posts news about current events, usually incredibly rapidly after the reported events have occurred or first appeared in source media. My iPad would be much less useful, and much less fun to use, if Flipboard were ever unavailable to me. Thank you Flipboard staff for making and maintaining such a great app.Show lessSam G in Austin Texas
News aggregator app
Works like Apple News etc but with a curation element using ‘magazines’ where news articles can be collected. Users follow/are followed by other users and user comments are featured alongside articles and in this way it differs from Apple News.
Where the app is less slick is the social element. Only followers are shown and then not full lists. There is a vot up/vote down function for comments but this has no discernible effect. Horrible comments can be reported but feedback from the developers is limited.
Flipboard works really well; it looks lovely and the temptation to doom scroll is massiveShow less@moodybill
Developer Response
We appreciate your feedback. If you'd lke to share further feedback or any suggestions, feel free to reach us out through "Contact" at flip.it/help. Thanks!Tech industry leftism at its worst
Flipboard really want you to hate Donald Trump. Every Cover Story collection is riddled with hate articles about the American President, and pretty much everyone else who doesn’t agree with progressive left wing ideology.
Supposedly curated articles are often plagued with pop up ads, pop overs, floating video ads, and a lot of garbage content. There is a facility to mute various sites, but flipboard often disable the mute button if they really want you to get all those nasty ads.Show lessMichael Emery
Developer Response
Thanks for your feedback. Flipboard gives you the tools to personalize your content. Follow your favorite sources and mute ones that you would not like to see anymore. Additionally, we have sections for conservative and liberal viewpoints - for those who lean one way or the other. For help, select "Contact" at flip.it/help. Thanks!Informative turned Ads induced nightmare
Having this app over a few years, a trend has been developing any solidified. What was a quick convenient method to draw on several news sources, has turned into a popup advertisement nightmare. Frequently after reading an article within Flipboard, is a popup for products, subscriptions, other websites you name it. It wouldn’t be so much of an issue but when you close the unsolicited popup, you go back to the browsing screen in Flipboard and have to start all over by reloading the page you had almost finished reading but interrupted for a pop up.
The data usage is very high for an app supposedly providing simplistic pictures and text articles. The ads are proliferating beyond control. You are seeing more ad space than content. Not as content intensive as it used to be. Still a good app as far as convenience goes for multiple sources tailored to your interests. And by your choice I might add is something taken for granted. You have input here whereas similar applications don’t give that to the user.Show lessdaeipovmp'ev
Where did my zite go....
It must have been over a year ago I wrote this but never sent.
I would rather pay an annual fee ($10-20) and not have to deal with the invasive advertising.
I like flipboard. .. "But I loved zite".
Flipboard, It does a decent job of bringing many stories into a semi-cohesive binder.
Having said that.... It does not flow....
Almost every step of the way through my daily reading I have to wrestle with pages turning when I don't want them to, leading to places I do not want to go, just frustrating enough to add sour to the experience.
I see the same articles time after time being put as if they are new. No settings for when to retire stories after they have been read and in que for days. There seems no guidelines for how long a story can be front pages news after it has long been tired.
While writing this the keyboard starts to cover what I'm writing that I have to hit return 8 or 9 times just to have a big enough gap to see what I'm writing.
Please tighten up the quality of the reading details and software.
I understand the need for advertising but in some instances it is a complete “cluster truck” of false leads to your article trying so hard to take you against your will to a false lead which is some disgusting trap article ad...
Truly, I would rather pay a monthly fee and bypass this.
Best,
PmShow lessPaul n Sidney
Developer Response
We appreciate your feedback about the ads and usability. We value your feedback and we would be happy to share it with our team. For further feedback, please select "Contact" at flip.it/help.Great App
Great app. I have one complaint tho. Clicking on a post notification should send you directly to that post. It's annoying to have to scroll through sometime hundreds of posts to get to the one in the notification. That's especially annoying when someone is responding to your post. It should go directly to the post, not just to the article.
Update:
Updated Flipboard on 9/20. It now crashes when I'm adding comments. Flipboard has never crashed before this update, now it crashes every time I write a comment on my iPad. So far the iPhone version is fine. I'm using This year's iPad Pro 12.9 inch 512 GB, cellular.
Update 2: I received an email from Flipboard maybe because they removed of my comments. The email was awkwardly worded, but I’m guessing that was the case because it linked me to their policy on acceptable comments. I have no problem with that. The issue is that they never actually said what comment to what what article was removed. So now I really have no idea what the infraction was. I don’t know was it something that Flipboard randomly found and removed or was I reported by another user? Flipboard should in the future refer to the article and comment in question and give an opportunity for an appeal or something.Show lessitsmrdizz
Good app
I like this app as I can always find an interesting article to read but I’m not sure if I know how to use it properly because there is also quite a lot of articles on there that are not relevant to my interests and a lot of the time I’m seeing a lot of different articles on exactly the same thing, namely “Saturday Night Live” which I have never seen and have no intention of ever watching.
Also, the whole Ellen Degeneres saga was overplayed and every other article I flipped was about her and her bloody controversy.
I also don’t care for articles, mainly seen in The Sun”, about the most random things that have happened to “everyday folk” like a woman who found a secret compartment in her washing machine. I know there’s close to 8 billion people on the planet, all with different interests but COME ON!
Suffice to say I have tried to find ways to filter out the pointless articles I keep coming across but I’m not sure how to or if there is even a way.
Maybe I’m just spending too much time on my phone and not enough time in the real world but I gotta get my news from somewhere!Show lesscustomer0891
