Hummingbird - stories for you 1.3.27186502

Reviews

2 ★, on 2019-01-13
It has usability problems. In order to get to the ... menu (context sensitive menu for each story) so I can say "I don't like this story" I end up clicking the story (several times) because the sensitive area is tiny. Also the ML part is terrible. It keeps showing me WWE stories and I keep saying I don't like them. Same thing with countless other topics. Microsoft: listen to the feedback you get via the app. There are some simple ways you can make the UI much more pleasant to use.

1 ★, on 2018-12-19
This news app lacks a built-in adblocker. It also doesn't care about your topics and will recommend the typical clickbait, outrage media, and sports. But there's a twist. On top of all that, it also recommends social media posts! It pulls from Facebook, Twitter, Reddit and others. There's no intelligence in this app to speak of, artificial or not.

3 ★, on 2020-03-01
This app looks nice and runs well, so maybe it's me, but the apps feed section doesn't seem to pay attention to the users picked topics very much. I don't have a single political option chosen at all, but a lot of what's in the feeds "Your mix" tab is political articles, it seems the things I've selected are least of what's in my feed.

2 ★, on 2020-07-14
Apps works well, but relentlessly shows useless topics I am not interested and non-news sources like social media.

5 ★, on 2019-09-14
I love this app! I actually much prefer it to the Microsoft News app. The algorithim (idk how you spell it) really picked up on my finnicky interests fast, and without even reloading my feed began populating on-target stories for me, which makes it hard to put down in a great way. I find this news SO much more enjoyable than just the #1 headline in any category like you'd see in other news apps. Fantastic Job! I would highly recommend to anyone as tbe best news reader I've yet used anywhere.

4 ★, on 2019-10-06
I'm not sure where I ran across this than just saw itsan MS product. It works pretty well but the AI tends to repeat news. I was following Aprilia SBK, now no feeds from them. Mostly camera and phone news which i have a passing interest. If you you an VPN to log into a server in another country you'll get "local" feeds from there.