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Software Reviews and Criticism

• By ladybelated

  Major Bugs and no support (unless you pay)

  The feedly ‘app’ is just a clone of the website. Except it does not work as well as the website. In fact, if you ‘unpin’ the sidebar and allow it to be minimized, which is necessary if you want it to fit in a narrow window, it becomes impossible to re-open the sidebar. The sidebar ‘opens’, but within the now-minimized container of the closed toolbar, so you can just see the tiniest left-hand portion of the sidebar, and only the edges of a few symbols. The only link you can click is for ‘all’. Basically the bug is that when you minimize the sidebar, the ‘restore to normal size’ function is broken. This makes it completely unusable. In fact, even after deleting the app and reinstalling it, it’s still stuck like this. So I guess I am stuck using the web app. Also, there is no support at all for free users, not even a troubleshooting or knowledgebase page, or any kind of bug reporting/feedback available.

  
  
• By elijahrlb

  Untapped potential and unfulfilled mission

  Feedly is, naturally, supposed to “feed” you stories throughout the day. What I like about RSS is that it is more professional. When I enter my office every morning, I want to read the news. I open up Feedly, and on a good day, it will not crash. But the experience is nothing more than a dedicated we browser. Nothing about the App makes it feel like an app. A couple of things I hope the Yosemite update does: 1. Creates an App experience. Something dedicated to the user and unique. 2. Notifications and/or widgets. I feel confident to say that Notification Center will replace the widget center (does anyone really use the widgets, really?). Here is Feedly’s opportunity. I want to customize my news experience. I do not want the onslought of Twitter, but I want to choose SCOTUSBlog, and maybe local news to get pushed. The other news is ancilliary and can be viewed later. If I could customize what gets pushed, and even enter key words or names to notify me of. For example, on SCOTUS, if I wanted to know about a 4th Amendment decision that was made, I could get that pushed to my desktop. 3. Create a standard for RSS feeds, such as tags, or keyword standards. The current experience is a waste of hard drive space. Just tag it in Safari and use Safari. The app provides nothing more.

  
  
• By Severian126

  Great service, poor Windows App

  I use Feedly extensively on the browser or on my iPhone. The iPhone app is one of my most highly used app. It's slick, it's easy to use and it makes going through various articles a breeze by swiping through them. The browser based version - while serviceable - requires a little more click to navigate to said article that you want to read - beyond the preview that is. It essentially opens another browser tab, which is fine if you're on a browser, as closing it gets you back to the main screen again. However, it isn't fine on the Windows OS version of the app. It's essentially the same thing as the browser based version, excerpt now it opens up your default browser when you open an article. What was a mild nuisance becomes annoying as you need to remember to go back to your feedly app after opening up an article on your browser. Sure, it takes a few seconds more, but it adds up. And if it's essentially the same thing as the browser based version, there's really no point for the App version at all. It just takes up space. Unless it's improved upon (greatly), I see very little point to this application.

  
  
• By Josielynn

  Unstable and missing key features

  First and foremost, this app is incredibly unstable. It crashes everytime I use it for more than a minimal amount of time. I don’t mind that it’s a native app window to the web version, but it’s missing key features! If you open a page in a tab to read, you have no way of retrieving the link to the page you’re reading, and you’ve lost all the sharing features that you get through the Feedly homepage. You also have no way to selectively choose to open links in a browser or open links on a viewed page in a new tab. There’s no browser navigation when reading articles either. I was hoping this app would be like the iPhone and iPad apps, but it’s definitely not ready for prime time.

  
  
• By Pretty

  The desktop app does not work and it hasn't for years

  I don't really understand the mindset of the development and management team for Feedly. They ask you to pay quite a substantial amount to use their service, if you do choose to pay for it, but they offer no support what-so-ever. Why would anyone want to part with $120 annual for an app that absolutlely does not work? The desktop app is a mess. Attempt to do anything on it and it will error out with a message that "Feedly doesn't work on Safari"... uhhh ok? I'm using THE APP. I'm not on a browser. I've notified the dev team about this a few times and the response has just been... well - I mean it's been years and the desktop app still doesn't work if that tells you anything about the team behind Feedly. It's sad because Feedly is geniunely a great concept to read media but the dev / management team appear to have zero interest in maintaining it. Microsoft honestlt should remove it from the App Store. I honestly would not pay for this app. The customer service doesn't exist. It's actually worse than Samsung if you an believe it. Tragic but in my mind it's probably time to give up on Feedly the way it has given up on us and find a new way.

  
  

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