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Bring this back life please

The app itself works but you can tell it needs some updates. All the options in the article view do not work. The article preview is so tiny you can barely read it when you click on something in your feed. I’d love to see this updated. Nextcloud users don’t get much love on IOS ha! This is the only RSS app besides fiery feeds that works with Nextcloud news. FF is subscription based though.
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Doesn’t Sync Articles, Only Shows # of Unread Articles

Was really looking forward to using a Nextcloud/Owncloud ATOM/RSS reader on iOS. Unfortunately as a paid apps it leaves much to be desired.

GREAT APP, but I have some suggestions

Please allow the app to have the sepia theme even though my phone is on dark mode. The black background makes it hard to read on websites.

Works okay, but not great

Nice concept, but it just doesn’t perform as well as the webui or android app. Loads wrong article half the time. Crashes and freezes often. Themes are cool, but make some articles unreadable due to black text on black bg. And the ads, oh the ads...not in the app, but ones usually blocked when feed is loaded in safari. Will check back next year and see if any improvements are made.
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Regularly freezes when updating feeds

Every time the app updates the state of feeds it freezes for a significant period of time. It is then usually quite sluggish afterwards for a little while. The display for articles in a feed uses some weird unintuitive indentation and I’m not quite sure why, but something about the layout seems to make it harder than I would expect to just scan through articles.
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So many bugs, how can you charge for this?

I’ve been trying to use this app for a few months, and it has so many issues, from hanging after every sync, to presenting empty article lists when there should be articles, to showing lists full of “$Article$”.

If there was any other Nextcloud news reading app for iOS, I’d have dumped this one long ago, even if it had been free, it’s terrible. I’m really, really sorry I paid £2 for this. I think using the web app through Safari is less frustrating.

I hope an alternative app turns up soon. This demonstrates the problem with having no competition, there’s nothing driving improvement.
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Does what it’s supposed to do

I’ve been using it with a Nextcloud server and it’s worked flawless for me. Seems fairly basic but I don’t know what other features would improve it!
Does exactly what it says on the box, reliably.

Latest version has a critical bug when display articles

The articles are displayed about 1 word per line.

Good

Works good but some feeds duplicate articles thru this app (checked on server and the duplicates aren’t there). Other then that it’s a solid app

Update?

Lots of stability issues with iOS 11.

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