Terrible. A huge disappointment. I want my Currents back.
Im using this on a first gen mini.
Occasionally it works properly. Most of the time it doesnt.
Heres whats happening when it doesnt work:
Sometimes the thing wont load at all, Ill just get the banner and a blank space where my editions should be. The orientation often wont change when I turn my tablet. It loads in portrait even when I load it in landscape. There is a huge black bar at the bottom in portrait view and down the right side in landscape. Sometimes the tiles are in landscape when I have it upright, but I cant scroll to get to them. Some times I cant scroll up and down either. Sometimes if I click on a photo in an article, there is no way to click back out to the article, and I have to close the app and restart it.
Syncing is terrible. There is no option to sync all, and sometimes I think Ive synced an edition only to enter an area with no wifi and be unable to access anything. The blue check mark that indicates an edition is downloaded is always there after syncing once, so unless you check you dont know if its actually up to date or if its from that time you synced last week. The only way to clear that check is to delete the entire download. There is also no auto-sync when connected to wifi, which seems like an oversight.
This is a huge step down from Google Currents. Its basically like they took all the content from Currents, slapped it into a new app, but didnt bother to include any of the features that made Currents useful. It worked well for the first little while, but now it is in this state and has been for several months. Im extremely disappointment that my favourite newsreader was replaced by this.
Ive pretty much given up. Ill check it once on the weekend in the hopes that itll work but I no longer take the time to sync (one by one...because apparently sync all isnt a thing anymore) before leaving for work so I have something to read on my break, because I know it probably wont work anyway.
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