Good content, terribly written app, no fixes from Apple – Local News & Weather: Haystack Review

Review updated after a few months. The good: - News content is great. Each article usually covers the topic in just enough depth. - Filters are "good enough", letting me get mostly news that I want. The bad: - Videos hang more and more often. - When I click on another story in the bottom bar it usually gets highlighted but the old story keeps playing. I can force it by quickly clicking another story and then the one I want. - All of Haystack sometimes hangs. Totally unresponsive to anything. Only fix is to close and try to restart. - Months ago Haystack started asking for login. But it only allows login through social media sites, something I won't use for security reasons. - When I hit close on the login overlay, it opens the login popup instead. - The frequency of these problems keeps getting worse as the months pass. - The problems are avoidable. Other similar apps, like Plex news don't have these particular issues. Unfortunately they don't have as good content. The ugly: - I was contacted by Apple (apparently they own Haystack) months ago and they said they were fixing these issues. But nothing has improved. Instead things keep getting worse. I really hope they fix Haystack. It used to work great and has excellent content. I would hate to see it replaced by competitors that are more responsive at responding to problems.
Review by Bruno Genovese on Local News & Weather: Haystack.