Flipboard: The Social Magazine 12+

If you have not tried this app, you must try it out!

It's very graphical and pretty on my retina iPad and my 12.9” iPad Pro. Generally works very smoothly. Could cache the data a little better / faster, I've got fast internet at home, but sometimes it's slow updating and if I just spent a while reading the last entry, seems like it could read ahead a little bit, it could make the experiences so much better...

BUT be careful if you have a cellular connection! FlipBoard (being so graphical and beautiful) is a HUGE a data hog (assuming you're viewing something graphical and not text) so if you're on a low data plan be careful. I used over 10% of my 250MB data plan in less than 5 minutes (I tested this again at the end of this month, just a few minutes and 50MB of data was gone!). This is NOT a flaw, it's just the way super graphical apps are, but it goes SO fast I wanted to point it out.

Because of the retina display it "shrinks" some graphics too small (like animated GIFs in Tumblr pages) and it's too hard to read. Needs some user adjustment on that (what size to shrink to retina proportions) and to size text. It shrinks things WAY too far on the iPad Pro.

It’s got a great search option that searches a variety of sources all at once.

I don't think it's as useful on the iPhone for browsing, maybe if you went to a specific section, but I'm still not sold on that yet...

I see articles from days ago, from months or even years ago cycle through as if they’re new. I used to see comments on all articles but now I only see it sometimes and they’re always political fighting and people saying racist/hateful/awful stuff. I “unfollow”/“show less” things often and repeatedly. I’m absolutely sick to death of seeing things about Marge T Green, Elon Musk, and Florida politics, and I’ve pressed “show less” on all of them at least 5-6 times each, and I still cannot escape articles about them. That’s just an example, as there are many disgusting things I’ve tried to stop seeing but this app for some reason demands I see. If I tap-hold to yet again attempt to stop seeing Marge or Elon, it will have less options available, it will not have either of their names to tap for less, and it’ll have a basic tag #News, #Technology, whatever, which just says to me that your app knows I’ve done the maximum “show less”es and still won’t just remove these articles from my sight. Why??? It just makes absolutely no logical sense. I don’t want to see it, you advertise this app like it’s “news tailor made for your tastes” but you’re smashing this garbage in my face that I’ve asked multiple times to stop.
This app used to be so great but your algorithm can’t figure it out anymore. When I say show less, I mean show it less, and if I hit that button several times I’m telling you to stop showing it to me. But you show it anyway. Just asinine is what it is.