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Despite the marketing, this isn’t a community discussion forum or social platform, it’s just an aggregation site/app that pulls posts from boomer media outlets. Avoid the noise, or don’t, you can spend your time however you wish.

The whole experience starts with an amazingly myopic choice of "interests" of which you are forced to choose TEN and only gets more uninteresting from there. Topics you might actually be interested in, such as the performing arts, photography, even music are left out of the interest list entirely to make room for broad, bland topics like "Tech companies" and "Kitchen products" or my favorite, "Apps". And if the available topics leaves a bit to be desired, the lackluster sources on offer is even worse. Articles come exclusively from corporate news organizations. No local news. No special interest topics. Global Politics, Major Stories, Celebrity Gossip - that's pretty all you're going to get. Unless of course like overly broad coverage of sports or Buzzfeed listicles. This things supposed to compete with Google News? Hardly. Why can't anyone do what Zite accomplished 10 years ago - provide articles I'm interested in from a broad range of sources in a decent format? I'll stick to using InoReader for now. I may have to manually add my photography articles there, but at least I can see them.

Why is there a streak tracking feature? Is staying connected to the news something people have trouble with? I mean, beyond being too connected to it? I like the idea of comments for each news article a LOT but why do you need my phone number to create a profile? Or even just to up or down vote a comment? And what’s with up and downvoting anyway? Why are you mimicking Reddit? Why not just hearts or come up with something else or maybe don’t make it “about the likes” at all? But the request for my phone number is justified as a 2FA measure but why not allow my email address to be an option? I’m deleting this app because seeing the comments and not being able to partake is too FOMO for me and I’d probably give in and give you my phone number. Not going to do that. I was excited about this app until I discovered it required so much of me. If this is supposed to be an alternative to Google News then maybe don’t ask me to hand over my private info to you? Heading back to Google News now.