acmqueue

I’m already an ACM member. Why does the app want me to subscribe again?

It is still impossible to use in a plane :(. On start the app checks subscription, so if you do not have internet you cannot read. The only way is to open app right before the flight and praise that iOS wont push it our of memory. Second - it cannot scale, all devices have HUGE margins

I installed this app again now that it supports 64-bit iOS. Even though I am signed in with my ACM account in the app, it still thinks I have exceeded the number of “free preview” pages I can see. I have a current ACM membership so I should not need any other in-app “subscription” should I? I tried sign out / sign in again but still not working. Maybe the developers would like to test that the most common usage scenario actually works before releasing the next new version?

Every time I open this app to continue reading an article I am placed back at downloading the list of issues and verifying my subscription. Then there are all the issues. Then I tap the most recent issue I was just reading 10 minutes before and wait for it to download again (really, we can't keep it long enough to read it?). Thankfully most of the time after all that drama I end up at the page where I left off, but occasionally the app decides that I must start over from the beginning. Do the developers actually use the app to read ACM Queue? Do you want to see how this should work? Try The Economist app. Download means it's downloaded. Open the app and your exactly where you last were. Bookmark pages. Save pages via the share page.

Why did ACM choose to deliver this magazine as an app, rather than (say) a PDF? And then the app provides only an overview and an chance to purchase(!) I already have a subscription. I am giving this one star only because i cannot give it zero.

This app does nothing that a web site could not do better. But at least I thought I'd be able to read magazine issues on the subway without an internet connection. Unfortunately the second time I launched the app I discovered that it had erased the issues I had previously downloaded. To add insult to injury, it has also forgotten my username and password! Useless. The other problem with it is more conceptual. The app formats everything like a print magazine, complete with huge margins, meaning you to have to zoom and scroll all over the place trying to read the tiny text on each page. There is a text only view, but that drops all the diagrams rendering it equally useless. The content should be presented optimized for mobile display.

The app lacks the padlock icon or other mechanism allowing ACM members to login with their member credentials. I'm not going to pay twice for something. Please repair so I can access full content and I'll reconsider and likely provide a better review. ALSO - for future iterations of your mag apps, please develop annotation, exportable bookmarking, and enhanced copy, paste and citation export capabilities.

Something in the Jan/Feb 2016 issue is causing the app to crash everytime I try to access that issue. Previous issues open and navigate fine. iPhone 5, iOS 9.2.1

It might be ok, but it kept trying to make me purchase the magazine. Supposedly ACM members have free access to acmqueue but the app doesn't seem to be able to log me in using my ACM credentials. So I just decided to forget it and uninstall it.

I am an ACM member without access yet, the launch email said it was free.