Salon.com Reviews

by Cftc

Saloncom should be discontinued. Glaring problems from years ago persist, update after update. Today's insult? This 2nd to last update no longer hides the giant SALON logo at the top when scrolling down an article. Yay! Less room for content, more branding! I guess since this new 'feature' survived through 2 releases we're stuck with it. Thanks!

by Priddyfishy

///Update to original review: cancelling my trial subscription. Really—there is enough design info and know-how out there to create a good user experience.///

Please get a visual designer to create more readable titles in Saloncom . White text on light photos make for about 50% readability when scrolling through articles. I probably won’t continue with a subscription. Other magazine apps are much easier to scan and read.

by Me2or3orhigh

Most iPad covers open so the iPad is in the landscape mode. Saloncom either doesn’t sense that or will not rotate to that. Makes reading difficult with a cover that opens like a book cover in portrait mode

by Chi---city

The "most read" section sticks on day's most read from installation or last update. Very annoying as dynamic most read would make for better experience. Rarely check Saloncom.

by Debowozoe

I really enjoy reading the articles. I've been reading Salon for years. I am more than a little tired of seeing Ann Coulters face everytime I open Saloncom , though. The most read stories have remained the same since June. Unfortunately the most read story at the time was a story about her defending Trump as not being a racist. That got old a long time ago. If you could correct this I would gladly give you 5 stars.

by JRMlaw

The content is often good, but some of the columnists are off the deep end. Saloncom is buggy -- new articles appear first, but after tapping "load more" you get a mix of second-level recent articles and stuff from two months ago.

by Damnitvan

I feel like they recycle a lot of their stories by just republishing them with a new title and image. They don't even bother trying to keep their most read articles up to date. Or maybe their read articles are the most read because that is all they have to read.

by NerfTractor

The latest makeover squeezes the list of articles into a small stripe down the center of the screen with about 2/3 of the available “red space” left entirely blank. No subtitle or summary of an article is given until you click on it. Browsing for content does not need to be this hard, guys.

by CJ Wolfe

Not a bad app, but for some reason the Front Page 'Most Read' section has been stuck on the same set of story links (and their accompanying images) for the last six months. Maybe more. I've reinstalled Saloncom and the problem remains uncorrected with the update. Not sure what's causing the problem on Salon's mobile site - it does not show up on the regular website.

by J Wade A-wade

I understand the election is near, but Salon's team of writers have found nothing interesting enough in the entire world that deserves attention besides Donald Trump. Talented as the staff may be, their utter disregard for all current events that don't surround Donald Trump is very disappointing.

by Mizzimbra

I mostly love the content but the big space taken up by Most Read is so annoying because it never refreshes. Please either fix or remove it.

by McCrae O' The Woods

Update: The “Recent” section doesn’t work. Any content accessed from there will be shortened to 1 paragraph

by Dlb4jp

Would be stars but some categories not updating on iPad as they should.

by Thedoctordave

I love Saloncom, giving 4 stars BUT I'd gladly give it 5 stars if they fixed ONE thing. I've just read a story so I scroll back up to top looking for arrow in top left corner that's basically the back button to get me back to section I got story from but sometimes it's not there and I've tried all kinds of things to make it appear on my iPhone 6 but most of time it doesn't appear so I close app, double click on what I have open and delete open apps then go back to Salon. Hope above makes sense but Cliffnotes version is make the back arrow automatically appear when scrolling back up to top of page.

by Crazed Golfer

Reliable news, fair opinion articles.

by Timujin1008

Great way to get a selection of the news of the day.

by E. Rankin Lindeman

Streamlined layout; very easy to navigate. I’ll be reading Salon on mobile from now on. Love being able to watch Salon Talks conversations and intriguing documentaries in Saloncom , too.

by Shepherd Luver

Yesterday I Download Saloncom and by far I was really pleased and Learn some new News, Different Things here very impressive App.I couldn’t be pleased with Salon App. I was reading about Trump be re-elected then America could be
Fascism, So I gotta go back and finished reading about Fascism. BIG THANKS FOR SALON,

by Joszmudka

I've read your articles for quite awhile, recently installed Saloncom . The writers put a good left handed swing on things.. keep up the good work.. we need the pot to be stirred=] Only drawback is that news isn't always fresh and some grammatical errors.. may make it seem not as believable at times : /

by I8amnm

Excellent writing. Enjoy the stories. Salon has been my raft in a sea of poor journalism. Only problem is with short pieces that end with a video. There's no link to click. iPhone 5

by RandyDFW

The latest makeover squeezes the list of articles into a small stripe down the center of the screen with about 2/3 of the available “red space” left entirely blank. No subtitle or summary of an article is given until you click on it. Browsing for content does not need to be this hard, guys.