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Flipboard, Once-Hot News Reader App, Flounders Amid Competition
- rffn 11y agoI found Flipboard always be a nice app to show what a cool device it runs on. Other than that it had major flaws which were never fixed or only after a very long time of not listening to user complaints. - No easy way of using RSS/ATOM feeds. I know they can be added, but last time I checked the way to do this was counter-intuitive. - Read articles are not marked as such. Therefore they block the view on not yet read articles. - For a long time no web interface. There was probably more I did not like, but forgot. Finding the app as part of the undeletable junk on a Samsung device did not exactly create cosy feelings on my side either.
- jeremy7600 11y agoI had the same issue with rss. I had a bigger issue with the app not rotating. I emailed them and their response was rotation is dictated by the device. All apps on that device rotated just fine, but flipboard wouldn't. When I pointed this out it was ignored. That was 3 years ago and I've never used it since.
- jkmcf 11y agoFlipboard bought Zite a while back and has been pushing people to migrate their data. Personally, the Flipboard UI isn't as friendly as Zite's, so I'll continue using Zite until it is discontinued. After that, I'll just continue using Feedly with RSS because the above products were more for discoverability.