The content is amazing. I love the service, but holy wow the news app sucks.
The App will regularly peg my CPU in order to do background tasks. The UI is absolutely terrible for a desktop app. Basic desktop commands don’t work, I’m surprised I can even use the spacebar to scroll (but don’t try holding down the spacebar, or that sucks too). Speaking of scrolling, if you’re not using an apple trackpad, it sucks. In fact, if you have a mouse, you’re basically SOL for some basic functionality. Want to remove a channel/topic? Swipe with two fingers on a trackpad, but the delete button? Right click? Side scrolling with shift with a mouse? None of it works. I haven’t found a way to unsubscribe from a channel using just the mouse.
More basic functionality that sucks? Use a mouse + scrollwheel to look at a magazine. Now try changing the page? One way I’ve found to do this is to hold shift, and absolutely MASH the scroll wheel. Often I’ll trigger Dashboard in slow-mo, but sometimes I can get to a new page. Often i’ll simultaneously adjust the scroll speed of my mouse. Side-arrows down’t work. Shift + side arrows don’t work. + side arrows don’t work. I’ve tried all sorts of combinations, but I don’t think there’s a keyboard shortcut that works.
Want to use + F to find something? Nope. You can zoom in/out with + + or + -, but it won’t fill up the screen, instead you have your center column that gets squeezed tiny.
Want to refresh the page/ There’s no button, b/c that would be a styling disaster. No, instead, scroll to the top and do the iphone style refresh. Using a scroll wheel that’s ridiculous. Want to use + R? Hah; you idiot. What century are you living in?
IEEE spectrum doesn’t load previews. There’s no shorctut to go back. Not the backspace key (“delete” key), nor + <--. Did I mention scrolling absolutely sucks b/c it is slow as balls and doesn’t coincide with the scrolling behavior across any other map? (also the scroll bar is so tiny, you pro cs:go players will struggle)... which seems pointless, because the app never fills the window in the first place... by like... a lot. (except for pictures, which is really nice).
The search functionality is a joke, which makes absolutely no sense to me. Anyone remember sherlock? It’s not like apple doesn’t have experience with powerful search. It could be an awesome resource that would make the News App on the mac stand out over the iOS version; The Mac can do more than iOS by definition. Sorry to burst your post-modernist bubble apple.
The App will regularly peg my CPU in order to do background tasks. The UI is absolutely terrible for a desktop app. Basic desktop commands don’t work, I’m surprised I can even use the spacebar to scroll (but don’t try holding down the spacebar, or that sucks too). Speaking of scrolling, if you’re not using an apple trackpad, it sucks. In fact, if you have a mouse, you’re basically SOL for some basic functionality. Want to remove a channel/topic? Swipe with two fingers on a trackpad, but the delete button? Right click? Side scrolling with shift with a mouse? None of it works. I haven’t found a way to unsubscribe from a channel using just the mouse.
More basic functionality that sucks? Use a mouse + scrollwheel to look at a magazine. Now try changing the page? One way I’ve found to do this is to hold shift, and absolutely MASH the scroll wheel. Often I’ll trigger Dashboard in slow-mo, but sometimes I can get to a new page. Often i’ll simultaneously adjust the scroll speed of my mouse. Side-arrows down’t work. Shift + side arrows don’t work. + side arrows don’t work. I’ve tried all sorts of combinations, but I don’t think there’s a keyboard shortcut that works.
Want to use + F to find something? Nope. You can zoom in/out with + + or + -, but it won’t fill up the screen, instead you have your center column that gets squeezed tiny.
Want to refresh the page/ There’s no button, b/c that would be a styling disaster. No, instead, scroll to the top and do the iphone style refresh. Using a scroll wheel that’s ridiculous. Want to use + R? Hah; you idiot. What century are you living in?
IEEE spectrum doesn’t load previews. There’s no shorctut to go back. Not the backspace key (“delete” key), nor + <--. Did I mention scrolling absolutely sucks b/c it is slow as balls and doesn’t coincide with the scrolling behavior across any other map? (also the scroll bar is so tiny, you pro cs:go players will struggle)... which seems pointless, because the app never fills the window in the first place... by like... a lot. (except for pictures, which is really nice).
The search functionality is a joke, which makes absolutely no sense to me. Anyone remember sherlock? It’s not like apple doesn’t have experience with powerful search. It could be an awesome resource that would make the News App on the mac stand out over the iOS version; The Mac can do more than iOS by definition. Sorry to burst your post-modernist bubble apple.