Flipboard is literal misery – Flipboard: The Social Magazine Review

Broken notifications, disappearing text, and people can't see your comments due to unregulated CENSORSHIP. Incredibly toxic and extremely hostile majority liberal community. Almost all threads involved with politics degenerate into very nasty fights. Tons of cussing and name calling with little maturity or honesty. Dominated by ruthless trolls. If you aren’t a liberal expect vicious reply after reply after reply to even moderate comments. It’s a totally relentless and very hateful community. There is a group of about 50-200 heavy users that will bully you and call you every name under the sky if you dare do something like praise a Republican. Dare to fight back and they will report you and your account privileges are taken away. I hate to say it but blocking people is your only option. Asking the Flipboard Team why they take away privileges, why they fail to inform you of it, or if they can change it back will result in no reply. Broken comments that have require multiple reloads to see. Any article above 100 comments just breaks and the whole thread becomes a mess of words on top of each other. Pop-ups that can’t be closed can totally screw the app up, making the article you’re reading impossible to get back to unless you launch it with the “open in browser function”, or in other words use another app. It doesn’t happen all the time but with certain popups it’s a nightmare. No edit function for comments. Comments riddled with grammatical and spelling errors are a dime a dozen. Giant “close” button on commenting that is very easy to accidentally hit when writing that nukes everything you just wrote out of existence. Very annoying. Doesn’t even prompt you, just deletes it all INSTANTLY. Unhelpful and poorly trained feedback team. They may as well use bots because these guys can't help you with anything. Don't let the "Developer Response" fool you. They still won't reply to my messages. They just censor you and hope you don't notice. Literally, they take away all account privileges such as getting notifications even if you happen to just fight people back for harassing you, and don’t even bother to tell you about it. They hide it. They pretend you don’t exist because they can get away with it. Just a faceless cold corporation. Beyond those issues it’s a neat/nice looking little News curator; just be aware of the nasty trolls. They totally ruin the experience.
Review by Thefirstspark on Flipboard: The Social Magazine.