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[-] Mportercls@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

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!!!

[-] Saltarello@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] guriinii@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

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

[-] DakRalter@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

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 1 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Tomato666 2 points 1 year ago

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

[-] denialofres@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

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

[-] freamon@endlesstalk.org 2 points 1 year ago

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 points 1 year ago

Nah I'm on Android - Samsung

[-] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] vext01 2 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Bazzatron@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Not a fan of any of the BBC tbh.

[-] projectd@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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

[-] youngerpants@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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

[-] UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

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!

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