Needs more polish… a lot more
It’s great to see an independent platform for creators, I even invested a bit in the public company .
But a year or so later the app leaves much to be desired. Buffering, crashes, a still-not-so-great recommendations algorithm, choppy animations and an interface that just doesn’t feel “fluid”.
I’ll continue to subscribe to support the creators but unless substantial changes are made to rebuild the app and provide a more coherent user experience , I just can’t see many people sticking around.
But a year or so later the app leaves much to be desired. Buffering, crashes, a still-not-so-great recommendations algorithm, choppy animations and an interface that just doesn’t feel “fluid”.
I’ll continue to subscribe to support the creators but unless substantial changes are made to rebuild the app and provide a more coherent user experience , I just can’t see many people sticking around.
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Unstable
App will randomly fail to open, going from picture-in-picture to fullscreen with cause the app to crash every time. A paid service should be better than this.
The new app won’t open
The new app is almost impossible to open on my ipad. On the rare occasions it does work, I cannot get the program I want because other programs I don’t want pop up. They have some good programs but I can’t tolerate all this trouble, and so will cancel.
Pure Garbage
How do you make an app, for smart people, charge people for it, and then it just doesn’t work. I spend a great deal of my life “offline” and this app just plain doesn’t work offline. Period. It barely works the limited time I’m online. I would love to watch the wealth of content in the order I so choose but their app will not let me watch episodes out of order, if at all. Save your money and watch Maurey or TMZ instead of wasting your precious brain cells on this forsaken app.
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Curiosity killed the cat… and my faith in this service.
More than two weeks, three separate support tickets = zero documentaries watched.
Asked for a refund… crickets.
Unacceptable
Asked for a refund… crickets.
Unacceptable
Just crashes
After the last two updates this app won’t open without crashing. Not much good to me.
I want to use this app but cannot get it to open further than the opening screen before it crashes. If anyone actually reads these I would like some help please.
I want to use this app but cannot get it to open further than the opening screen before it crashes. If anyone actually reads these I would like some help please.
Crashes on Launch
Can’t say much about it. Starts to launch and doesn’t even get past start up screen before crashing.
I hate the new version.
The latest version of the app is terrible. It stutters every few minutes replaying the last phrase 2-4 times. When watching a series (eg. Engineering the Future), it doesn’t remember which episode I’m on. It just starts with the beginning of the first episode. In the old version, I could simply go back to my watch list, click the program and scroll down to pick the episode, but the revised app doesn’t show the episodes. What good is a subscription to a streaming service that behaves like this.
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App crashes
The app shows the loading screen and then crashes every time I open it now. I am running a current iOS system, and have tried uninstalling and reinstalling the app with no success.
Excellent
There is a good mix of content, including documentaries on celebrities from entertainment and sports, as well as educational programming on history, science and medicine, and apparently new content is presented on a regular basis. The app is nicely organized on Roku, including being able to create a watchlist. The picture quality is very good, and at $20 a year it is a definite hit. I tried CS briefly when it was first released, and it has improved a lot. I did notice that several of the documentaries must have been produced for people with short attention spans because they are only a few minutes in length and can’t possibly go into much detail. It’s a jumping off point to do more research, but I prefer something more in depth.
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