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Not working with iPhone 16 pro

I don’t see the reader view. Useless app.

No, Trump is neither God nor Jesus!

Another platform to learn but sick of the deification of Trump!
Really disgusting portraying Trump as God or Jesus! 😆😆😆

Worth a shot…

Completely unintuitive.

It’s an admin tool made by bean counters without much understanding of what the people who use it need to get from it.

Top Tier App

Next to sliced bread, this may be the greatest app ever greated.

Black screen

Love the app, but at the moment I cannot use it. When I open the app all I have is a black screen, even after refreshing the app it won’t work. Please help

Practically unusable

We use slate for reviewing student applications. It seems like there’s no “reader” for the mobile app? There also doesn’t seem to be usable help documentation etc. Pretty terrible all around

Useless

Utterly useless. Has anyone who made this app even tried to use it?

Pitiful

No updates in over a year?

Tedious

Application review is so tedious. Complete initial review rubric. Send to next reader bin for interview...ME again. Can’t auto send email to candidate advising them to schedule interview so I have to create individual emails. Complete interview/develop planned program and complete interview rubric and send to decision bin ...ME again. No way to upload completed planned program so I have to send that out to candidate and registrar through a separate email. Uggh! Go to decision bin and complete decision rubric...send to Dean’s Office.

Would be better for reviewers with applicants to see a name and check boxes beneath:File Review, Interview/Planned Program, Decision, Applicant Decision. Stop the “bin” madness.
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So glitchy

This app is so glitchy, making it very difficult to use for reviewing and scoring applications. Please fix!

Just let us use the website or make a functional app

Does not work

Slate is an amazing tool - the app? Not so much

Slate is a really powerful tool, and I love using it on my desktop. Unfortunately, the app is almost unusable. I am forced to re-login just about any time I click a link. It is great for checking guests in for events, but it’s impossible to do just about anything else. If anything, the app makes life as a recruiter even more difficult.
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Difficult to view certain items

Looking at the Rules Editor and other items it cut things off and hides items.

Pure torture

There should be negative stars to rate this app as well as Slate in general. It is a waste of bytes and electrons. I get more user friendliness and efficiency using a terminal, no wait actually using a rock and another rock is also less frustrating! To the creators please look up UX and UI on Wikipedia, maybe you learn something.
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Piece of crap, just like Slate

The phone app does not allow you to run a query and interact with applications. It just sends you in a circle or crashes. It is also more confusing and inept than the online Slate, which is quite an accomplishment. But it literally does not work. There is a way to make Slate work if you are a masochist, or have nothing but time to waste.
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Horrible

My university is making faculty use this garbage to read applications. Does not work at all, not functional, crashes. Basically does not do what it claims to do.

Horrible for reading apps

Can’t load pages properly and loses track of where the pages are in space. Also jumps to the beginning of a tab when reader sheets are being filled out. Should be improved asap for readers!

Just awful

Like everything else about slate. Stodgy, user-unfriedly, and ridiculous. Deadends everywhere.

Terrible App

The mobile app is slow; when used outside the country the security measures are extremely cumbersome. It is easy to enter into an endless loop between the website and the app itself. I have been using the app for more than a year; I keep hoping that it will be fixed, but no success. The interface itself has significant defects as well. In particular the user is given only a tiny box in which to put comments on an applicant, and there doesn’t seem to be any mechanism so that a given member of an admissions committee has access to the comments of other committee members. This works fine for “clear admits” and “clear declines” but not for the significant numbers who would benefit from committee discussion.

IF YOUR UNIVERSITY IS CONSIDERING ADOPTING SLATE I SUGGEST YOU DO ALL YOU CAN TO DISSUADE THEM! Any members of an active admissions committee who travel at all, particularly outside the US, will curse the application and the university officials who adopted it.
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Slate is excellent. The app is pathetic.

The worst part about the Slate system is that the website on my phone routes me to the app.... which is terrible. So in effect, Slate would prefer that I not use the tool at all on a mobile device.