HuffPost - News & Politics

Great content, horrible app. Freezes my phone on the regular.

The app has always been buggy with pages loading sporadically and then reloading as the inline ads are inserted. The latest (July 2024) refresh has reached new depths on the usability scale. It’s probably time to make some room on my iPad for other apps.

One of the worst apps on my phone. Every single time I use it it’s glitchy and buggy. Regardless of how many times I updated. Up your game, HuffPost.

Reply to comment email link should open comments. It opens story only. Must doom scroll to reply. Frustrating. Malicious pop up ads appear to have been fixed as of June 2024. Ads are still everywhere though like most sites and slow down the app. Need remove ads option.

This app should come with a trigger warning. It randomly pays videos in articles even though the sound is muted and your ringer is off. HP still overrides your preferred settings and has scared me into paralytic cataplexy multiple times now. (Narcolepsy but paralytic) I had also picked up my phone to pursue an article quickly prior to a conference call and forgot to lock it when finished. Lo and behold, it’s blaring the ad again… Except I’m on the phone with some high dollar clients. Luckily, it was face to face zoom but really? That’s embarrassing and HP should be mortified they even allow such trash development. (Coming from development)

In the comment section I am continuing to get pop-up ads. They take up the whole page and I have to click off of the page and start again! This is the only app on my phone that I have this problem with and it is extremely annoying! I’ve never had this happen on my phone before but this has been going on for over a month! I have to assume that this is an HP app problem since it doesn’t happen anywhere else! Unacceptable.

I don’t read the opinion sections for obvious reasons. I prefer facts. I’ve only ever had to submit a request once to let the writer know they messed up a little bit. It was instantly corrected. I stick to politics and world news. On rare occasions I’ll read about crime. In any case, since y’all went online, I wake up to you. Then it’s NPR for the rest of the day. I share both often on Facebook. Keep up the great work! John

I’ve been using Huff for a decade and have some serious complaints about moderation and frequent sign-ins, but the latest issue is unacceptable. Hackers have taken control and now interrupt comments with full screen fraudulent offers disguised to look genuine from such merchants as McAffee and Verizon trying to get you to accept offers by clicking on their links. It is now so common I get it almost every time I go in to review comments.

I love having Huff post, but the app is terrible. It’s been buggy since day one. And just seems to get worse. The app no longer lets you see comments. If you have the app installed on your phone. You have to delete it because if you try to use the webpage, it keeps wanting to go back to the app.

I used to love reading the Huffington post in this app, but for the past year or so it’s gotten increasingly sluggish and my phone gets extremely hot when using it. One time my phone even crashed. My phone often freezes up when trying to scroll through the articles and navigate through the app. My phone often becomes unresponsive as I’m browsing around. It makes me wonder if they’re selling my data to other sites or how many other services are collecting data on me as I’m navigating around.