Nicely done light news reader if i do say so myself. Material design and everything awesome. As always your honest review(>5) & criticism all welcome :-). Get it in on playstore : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.firefly.buzz
One word: Spammy I know you're in it for the money, but there is no way I can be easy with having an ad take over the screen on first load. Also upon exit, first time you are faced with a "review us" pop-up that comes in the way of you exiting the app. Even the apps really needing to be reviewed give a user several times of opens and closes before it pops the question. Feels needy. Looks like your way of getting the feed is scraping content, works against content formatting in most cases. This should not even be on pay store yet but in Alpha with a closed group of friends testing. Needs so much work. And again, I shouldn't be reminded that I have bills to pay by way of review every time I exit the app. That's annoying. I have reviewed other apps you have posted here and given good reviews, this needs a lot of work on user experience. Regards, Martin Gicheru | Editor, Techweez Website:http://www.techweez.com | Skype ID: martingicheru | Twitter ID: @martingicheru <https://twitter.com/martingicheru> | Gplus: +MartinGicheru <http://google.com/+MartinGicheru> On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 12:13 PM, John Doe Smith Kamau KipNg'etich Jones via skunkworks <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> wrote:
Nicely done light news reader if i do say so myself.
Material design and everything awesome.
As always your honest review(>5) & criticism all welcome :-).
Get it in on playstore : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.firefly.buzz
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Haha you sound traumatized. We will be rolling out an update in a weeks time to include an option to purchase an ad free version for you and your friends who do not like to see ads in apps. The review hassleware does not exactly put you in a maze as you imply there's 3 clear options to rate "Later" , "Never" or "Now". Never mind how hard we had to fight with ourselves to include the never option. The decision to put it where it is is backed by data and learning accumulated over time with the premise that you pretty much know an apps fate/standing with you after the first use. However, your suggestion to have it after several runs is a good one especially in way of getting more positive reviews. On the content formating that's dependent on the source as this is a feed reader.. RSS feeds to be precise. You will note a clear difference in formating between the two preloaded feeds (BuzzMoja & NyumbaniTV). That said we appreciate your taking time to actually get the app & try it, the feedback on user experience and your 1 star review. On Dec 10, 2014 7:23 PM, "Martin Gicheru" <martin@techweez.com> wrote:
One word: Spammy
I know you're in it for the money, but there is no way I can be easy with having an ad take over the screen on first load. Also upon exit, first time you are faced with a "review us" pop-up that comes in the way of you exiting the app. Even the apps really needing to be reviewed give a user several times of opens and closes before it pops the question. Feels needy.
Looks like your way of getting the feed is scraping content, works against content formatting in most cases. This should not even be on pay store yet but in Alpha with a closed group of friends testing. Needs so much work. And again, I shouldn't be reminded that I have bills to pay by way of review every time I exit the app. That's annoying.
I have reviewed other apps you have posted here and given good reviews, this needs a lot of work on user experience.
Regards,
Martin Gicheru | Editor, Techweez
Website:http://www.techweez.com | Skype ID: martingicheru | Twitter ID: @martingicheru <https://twitter.com/martingicheru> | Gplus: +MartinGicheru <http://google.com/+MartinGicheru>
On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 12:13 PM, John Doe Smith Kamau KipNg'etich Jones via skunkworks <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> wrote:
Nicely done light news reader if i do say so myself.
Material design and everything awesome.
As always your honest review(>5) & criticism all welcome :-).
Get it in on playstore : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.firefly.buzz
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Good stuff John Doe ! Alvin Ochola IT Solution Expert 0722313923 On 11 Dec 2014 07:59, "John Doe Smith Kamau KipNg'etich Jones via skunkworks" <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> wrote:
Haha you sound traumatized.
We will be rolling out an update in a weeks time to include an option to purchase an ad free version for you and your friends who do not like to see ads in apps.
The review hassleware does not exactly put you in a maze as you imply there's 3 clear options to rate "Later" , "Never" or "Now". Never mind how hard we had to fight with ourselves to include the never option. The decision to put it where it is is backed by data and learning accumulated over time with the premise that you pretty much know an apps fate/standing with you after the first use. However, your suggestion to have it after several runs is a good one especially in way of getting more positive reviews.
On the content formating that's dependent on the source as this is a feed reader.. RSS feeds to be precise. You will note a clear difference in formating between the two preloaded feeds (BuzzMoja & NyumbaniTV).
That said we appreciate your taking time to actually get the app & try it, the feedback on user experience and your 1 star review. On Dec 10, 2014 7:23 PM, "Martin Gicheru" <martin@techweez.com> wrote:
One word: Spammy
I know you're in it for the money, but there is no way I can be easy with having an ad take over the screen on first load. Also upon exit, first time you are faced with a "review us" pop-up that comes in the way of you exiting the app. Even the apps really needing to be reviewed give a user several times of opens and closes before it pops the question. Feels needy.
Looks like your way of getting the feed is scraping content, works against content formatting in most cases. This should not even be on pay store yet but in Alpha with a closed group of friends testing. Needs so much work. And again, I shouldn't be reminded that I have bills to pay by way of review every time I exit the app. That's annoying.
I have reviewed other apps you have posted here and given good reviews, this needs a lot of work on user experience.
Regards,
Martin Gicheru | Editor, Techweez
Website:http://www.techweez.com | Skype ID: martingicheru | Twitter ID: @martingicheru <https://twitter.com/martingicheru> | Gplus: +MartinGicheru <http://google.com/+MartinGicheru>
On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 12:13 PM, John Doe Smith Kamau KipNg'etich Jones via skunkworks <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> wrote:
Nicely done light news reader if i do say so myself.
Material design and everything awesome.
As always your honest review(>5) & criticism all welcome :-).
Get it in on playstore : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.firefly.buzz
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