Flipboard is a unique digital platform that transforms your favorite content into a personalized magazine. Available on both mobile and desktop, it allows users to curate articles, videos, and images from various sources, creating a visually appealing and engaging reading experience. The app stands out by combining social media elements with traditional magazine aesthetics, making it a popular choice for avid readers and content creators alike.
Decent layout and story delivery. But the algorithms heavily weight what you see based on the way the app determines your perceived biases. Also, performance is atrocious. Many news sites don't load properly, there's zero effort at ad blocking, and because the app is so poorly programmed, the ads from many sites open when you're trying to close them or just generally cause performance issues and crashes. Overall, the app is useless for its intended purpose. Google news is better, and that's sad.
This is a fun app for news. Two flaws drive me crazy. IF you don't close it you can flip nearly endlessly. Once it's closed, you cannot resume where you left off. A similar problem exists if you exit a story and accidentally back arrow once more, it displays a message to get you back where you were, but it disappears in a New York second, starting you over at the beginning. A nice to have would prevent it repeating a card you've just seen, but you can flip past duplicates fast.
Flipboard has become mostly unusable. Articles will not load unless you constantly refresh the app. If you inquire about help in app, they will just tell you to uninstall, reinstall. This does not fix it. It crashes all the time, freezes up. I'm a long time frequent user. I've enjoyed the app over the years, but after my experience this last year or so with lack of usability and lack of help, I'm on the hunt for something else. If anyone has any suggestions for a simiar app, I'm all ears.
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