Frequent crashes , slow loading
Used to be a great app until the recent rebrand and update. Now takes up to 30 seconds to load, links on image sliders don’t work, image sliders constantly jumping to previous images - just a really buggy product.
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3.67 out of 5
12 ratings in Ireland
Used to be a great app until the recent rebrand and update. Now takes up to 30 seconds to load, links on image sliders don’t work, image sliders constantly jumping to previous images - just a really buggy product.
I normally enjoy using this app, but it’s been crashing lately and won’t open at all on my device. The latest update didn’t fix the issue
This publication needs to take a serious look at its priorities with its web based articles on the Google news feed. Which is more important, the massive revenue generated by the overwhelming ads that are causing the page to glitch and become unreadable to complete the article or, actually reaching its reader base with digestible journalism? Has CNET forgotten about its roots in journalism in favor of ad revenue?
Love the content, but the headline/featured stories at the top have remained unchanged for three months now, and counting. Reinstalled, etc., but nothing can fix it.
Quickly becoming unusable. Last top stories are from late February.
The video news reels at the top of the screen doesn’t update to show new footage as it has in the past. I’ve had the same videos at the apps’ heading for months. I thought it may be a glitch, so I deleted the app, downloaded the app again with the same results. I have an iPhone 13, which isn’t very old. What gives?
Great
I used to love reading CNET top articles daily but the articles haven't been updated since February 2024. So I'd give .50 of 1 star rating if I could.
I think CNET started dieing when it started venturing into politics and when their great talent started to progressively leave. Every update makes this app worse and worse. Now every time I try to open it, it’s asks me to update to the new version. Do they test the app updates before releasing? It’s ironic they have such a poor “tech” app when nearly their entire platform (reason for being) is based on reviewing technology I’m also fed up with the constant political articles. I use to go to this to escape politics… but it smacks me in the face nearly every time I look at. Very disappointing!!! I just have to erase the app and get out of the habit of looking at it…
I’m a longtime CNET reader, but have been very disappointed with the declining quality of this app. Starting February stories have been getting stuck at the banner section up top, and the log in feature to save topics and preferences hasn’t worked. Reported this as feedback in the app, and not even a token response. Not sure what’s going on behind the scenes at CNET, but it’s starting to feel like they are in a downward spiral and unable to maintain their site and app effectively. Hope it’s just a bad coincidence, but if not I’ll be looking for a new source of tech news in the near future.
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