Slate.com Reviews – Page 39
3/5 rating based on 417 reviews. Read all reviews for Slate.com for iPhone.
Slate.com is free iOS app published by The Slate Group, LLC
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bmwlinda
I especially love Political Gabfest, Cultural Gabfest and Double X. I only wish they were more than once a week!
Crash Happy
Hookkick
Every time I have loaded this app in the past three weeks it has crashed. It tries to reload but then crashes again and again and again. Definitely needs some TLC.
Interesting content, poor app
Paltum
App still manages to sometimes leave out content like embedded photos.
Nice app, great publication
Whatsmypoint
Slate is a daily read for me, multiple times a day. There is some content like video which occasionally won't display correctly but that's easily addressed by selecting the "open in browser" option.
Great!
TravPerk
Love the app, it works wonderfully for me on my 6s+!! I love the content, the articles are always good with no errors. The app never crashes, kudos on a good app!
Great content, frustrating app on iPhone 5s
ger3sf
Sometimes articles take forever to open on iPhone 5s. But no problem on tablet or desktop.
Buggy and slow
Umm No Thanks
It's a reasonable interface, although I've greatly missed the old double-tap for full screen mode feature lost many versions ago. But I'll give this 1 star for three big reasons: 1) No landscape view for videos. Seriously, how did you let this creep back in? Do you even do *any* testing before you release a new version? 2) Unbelievably slow - I think due to ads, although even with a Slate Plus membership it can be so slow. If you're in an area with marginal coverage it will take FOREVER to load an article, and it's due to waiting for the intrusive banner ad to be fetched. Try loading Slate in a mobile browser for comparison - with that you're not staring at a blank page for a minute before anything is rendered. 3) A *ton* of in-article content that shows up fine on the web version (including mobile Safari / Chrome), completely fails to display. This includes any embedded YouTube video, and often other content like tweets and Facebook links. I could complain about other things, like Slate's penchant for copying others' videos and embedding lousy lower resolution versions of them served from their own servers (didn't you have a critics article about Facebook encouraging the same behavior?!), and no option to just download all of the current articles for offline viewing (see MailOnline app for this done right), but that's minor compared to the above. Fix it Slate, you can and should do better.