anyone else not at all a fan of the new BBC app

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17 Comments

Mportercls@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y

Utterly awful. Text is less readable, navigation is a pain, and to cap it all, they removed the widget that was the only reason to use it.

Why oh, why oh, why bbc!!!

FelipeFelop@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 3y
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Saltarello@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y

Try using an RSS reader like Feeder & subscribe to your preferred BBC news feed

guriinii@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y (1 reply)

I don't like it. Full of trackers too so I deleted it

DakRalter@thelemmy.club · 1 pts · 3y

All apps are. After I installed the app tracker blocker on ddg I've been getting a regular 7,000+ tracking attempts per week.

(Edit: except the lemmy apps, no attempts from them after I disabled in-app browsing)

MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 3y (1 reply)

It looks and acts fine for me on Android. Perfectly legible. I'm always in light mode though, I find dark harder to read.

denialofres@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 3y

Ah thanks I've switched to light mode, is much better

freamon@endlesstalk.org · 2 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Looks quite a lot like the Voyager app's android-view for Lemmy, so I assume it's following the guidelines for what Android apps are supposed to look like nowadays (I dunno if you're on a iphone and that's why it looks weird).

denialofres@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 3y

Nah I'm on Android - Samsung

vext01@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 3y

Ditched the news app when it started asking me to log in

sanguinepar@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y

Oh god, have they launched that at last? I tried it in beta a while back and it was fucking awful.

Looks like I'm not updating the current version I have installed then.

Tomato666@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 3y (1 reply)

I only use the sounds app. Seems to perform its task suitably well.

denialofres@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 3y

Yeah I do love BBC sounds, it's probably the best designed BBC app imo

youngerpants@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y

I'm still bitter about them removing the alarm function from the BBC radio sounds app

Bazzatron@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y

Not a fan of any of the BBC tbh.

UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 3y

I am not keen on that font at all. It's a little too thin for my eyes. Are there any other better news apps with alerts? I did try Sky News for a while but the last time I tried that, the alerts were about things I considered not news worthy e.g. two YouTubers splitting up!

projectd@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y

Was definitely a huge change for the worst, any recommendations for a replacement widget, since that was the most useful part?