Slate.com Reviews

It Has Its Uses

Jonathan Appleseed

As a former-Republican (now Bleeding-Heart Feminist-libertarian), your app comes in handy when I want to stay up-to-date with what Progressives are up to.

Slate’s content is great, but the app has a critical bug. There’s a handful of five or six stories that remain “stuck” in the news feed. You know the ones — “Articles of Impeachment for Trump”, “President Calls Mexico to Complain About ‘Bad Hombres’”, etc. They show up over and over and OVER, and it isn’t until you scroll past them and then back that you see the articles that are supposed to be there. This has been going on for a while now, and it’s very annoying.

Short changed

Gamegurrl

I am a slate plus member yet I don’t get all the podcast content you offer. I especially like Dear Prudence but can NEVER get the podcasts. There are also numerous SLATE podcast icons that show up in my feed but never any episodes. This app is not worth the aggravation.

Disappointing

benitez958

I paid 1 year sub right off w/o every using or reviewing app. I paid up and signed up primarily because Slate has outstanding writers on legal decisions. I always look to Slate when i want to wade through the status of some pending legal event. However, the balance of everything else is confusing. What is this Double X, XXfactor, moneybox, atlas obscura etc. I can’t figure how to join the commentary feature. I hate trying to figure things with systems. I’m not going to do.

“Recent” stories order is not useful

D-n-w

I like to use the “recent stories” section to keep up with what they post. However it seems that they backfill the stories. Right now there is a story that has been at the top of the list all day but there are articles below it that I haven’t seen before. According to the date and time on the articles they are in the correct order. But for some reason they don’t post to the app correctly. Hours between the times. Makes it very hard to tell when there is something new to read. I’m sure I’ve missed things thinking I had gotten to the parts I’d already read through.

Pop-up ads ruin user experience

Kdbren

I used to love the Slate app, enjoying the many varied articles. However, recently the app has begun to pop up ads in my Safari browser, which completely ruins the user experience. And they won’t stop! Even when you close them out, even when you force-quit the app, the ads keep coming. I’m deleting this from my phone.

Content good, but

Puzzle Boogie

Too many times there is no link to videos, podcasts, etc on the app. I have to go to the web version and search for the article to get the links.

Keeps sending me to ads in the web

dd1881

I have not been able to read an article on the app. I keep getting sent to ads on the web

Needs an update badly!

Expatgrl

Love the site for the quality journalism and became a Plus member when the programme first started. BUT the app is really poor. Can’t ever load all the articles in the default “Recent”view—it usually loads the last dozen or so and then skips back seemingly randomly to a couple of weeks ago leaving out all the articles in between. Have written several times to tech support and app support through several channels and have never received a response or even an acknowledgement. I guess they just don’t care. User beware!

Vampire app

Jon H. Doh

Articles are good and I have enjoyed reading Slate in the morning with coffee. BUT, now this app starts playing video and sound ads without being clicked on. I live in a very rural area with limited internet data and this uses up my data, and forces me to have to keep turning the ads off. Not good, too invasive and cheeky. So - goodbye Slate, hello flip book and NPR. DELETED APP.

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