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@rrhoover Yes video will play a much bigger role going forward. Everything we launched today will work with video, audio, photos and text. Many of our publishers are adding more video now and you'll see that accelerate in the coming months. Check out CNN on the new Flipboard to get a glimpse of that.
Curating or personalizing a "TV channel" or "video magazine" for a passion is very much on our radar.
My challenge with Flipboard was keeping my sources well-curated and efficiently catching up with news in my industry. I know the rest of the world has moved on, but I still find RSS readers (currently Feedly) to be the best at this. But this update intrigues me, as I've found a number of sources where I choose to be more indulgent and this might work well with them.
@bguenther Let us know what you think. I also wanted to let you know about a less prominent but very useful new feature in this release called custom smart magazines. They allow you to mash up Flipboard magazines and profiles, RSS feeds, and third-party social feeds (e.g., Twitter, 500px, etc.) into a single, totally custom smart magazine. To create one, go to your profile, select the "Magazines" tab, and then select "Make a New Magazine", or on Android tap the red button in the lower right of the Magazines tab. Then select "For reading specific sources" to get started.
@flipboardjack @bguenther is there a way to share these magazines we create with others?
@gollyjer It can assuming our search can find the RSS feeds. (If it can't, let me know and I may be able to help.) And, actually, one way that Flipboard is even better than @Feedly is that with the new Custom Smart Magazine feature you can incorporate RSS feeds with any publicly available social feed such as a Twitter handle or hashtag, a YouTube channel, a SoundCloud channel and more. How cool is that?! cc/ @mmccue @flipboardjack
@miaq How does one do that? I can't seem to find the twitter feed for a user when trying to add to magazine.
@filipmares To create one, go to your profile, select the "Magazines" tab, and then select "Make a New Magazine", or on Android tap the red button in the lower right of the Magazines tab. Then select "For reading specific sources" and try searching for the Twitter handle there. Search for it with or without the @ sign, then tap "Social" for social results. Lmk if you still have trouble!
@miaq @filipmares The Play Store only has Flipboard 3.4.15. I can't find any of the options you mention so I assume I'm not on 4.0 yet. I also don't see any way to add a Twitter account feed or RSS on the website. I must be missing something. :/
@orteipps iPad is coming. You can access your new Smart Magazines on iPad from your Magazines menu, but we will be working in the coming months on an iPad update that does justice to the new tech.
Absolutely love it! We use the same windows phone style typography menu in the new 4.0 Feeld
Flipboard is the best news app right now. Pulse could have made to the top but then they stopped innovating and ruined it all.
Love the Flipboard magazines but sometimes the machine learning overfits the news articles. Example I want a mix of articles and not just tech articles in my main news feed coz I have hearted a few tech articles.
@itsshashank Thanks for the feedback. In addition to likes, we take what you've added, shared, and followed into account when serving you what we think you'll like. If you haven't already, you might want to try to create some smart magazines on different passions/interests. That should bring more diversity into your Cover Stories. If you have any more questions, please ping me directly at jmiller @ flipboard. com
It's over a year since Zite was acquired by Flipboard, and it looks like they finally integrated some of the features into their app.
@phimema Thanks Philipp, you're correct. The stories you get are indeed powered by the Flipboard Topic Engine, a direct descendent of Zite’s technology.
@nicolaslloyd When you are flipping through any list of stories, just tap the three dots in the bottom corner of the screen. You will see a "Less Like This" option in that menu, and you can mute the source of that article directly from there. Let us know if you have any trouble finding it.
Hey, @mmccue congrats on the new launch! Looking forward to seeing it in the Appstore! Been a big fan of you guys for years already, nowadays from IOS it becomes easier to "flip" something in a magazine, but for me as a magazine curator, the analytics are still somewhat a bit basic and up until now not visible in the app (or I might be overlooking things here).
Is this something that will be addressed better in this update as well? And if not, is this something you're looking into for the future a bit to help the curators make better quality magazines?
@jcvangent @mmccue Yes, better analytics about content consumption and better tools in general for curators interested in cultivating their audience on the Flipboard platform will receive some product love in 2017. It was important to us to re-baseline the core product around people's passions first so we'd have the right go-forward framework for users to consume content in the app. Now we will be spending more time on enablement, of which analytics is a critical part.
@flipboardjack great! Got a substantial audience over the years, but it is still difficult to pinpoint right now what makes them tick actually ;-) When will this new version be live in the AppStore by the way? Just seen an update but it's version number states 3.3.33 ;-) /c @mmccue
@jcvangent @mmccue We gave the green light to the App Store at 6:01am this morning, and it looks like we're still waiting for the release to propagate out to all users. So the answer is "Only Apple really knows, but it should be happening shortly." :-)
Three minor annoyances... Not a fan of uppercase titles, unclear value of setting a username during onboarding, and auto-focus on search bar for "What's your passion?" screen, popping the keyboard. I'd search if I wanted to, when there's a list to be scrolled first. Otherwise, made me re-signup, looks good.
@ozgurtgultekin A little insight into our decision-making process on one of your annoyances :-) The goal for the What's Your Passion screen was to get people to the things they care about most. We found that when we didn't pop the keyboard, users rarely searched; they would just make do with one of the items in the list. We're working on making the value of username more obvious in 2017. Thanks for giving the app another spin!
Flipboard was my first love when I started to consume news on my iPhone. over the years Flipboard has not changed much and my source of getting news has changed also. I use Twitter as my main source. I was waiting for a makeover of Flipboard from a long time and that's why I still kept the app in my iPhone. Even though not much has changed in design I liked the way of getting a combination of feeds into one magazine to read everything at one place.
@vrashabh Sorry to hear that you're seeing these issues. Is there a particular place or screen on which you see this behavior?
Flipboard has always been my favorite news reader. If you wanted to try it out, this is the upgrade you have been waiting for. Here is why you will love it: you get a continuous beautiful flow of community curated content on the topics you care about. Flipboard contains content from professional news sources (no fake news) and awesome blogs that are automatically sourced for you. You can just sit back and read. Or create your own custom magazines that you can share or just use privately. At times, we all get tired of the politics filling our FB and Twitter feed. Flipboard is your chance to read about breakthroughs in science, the arts, tech or sports. Turn off the noise and enjoy!
I am looking forward to checking this out. I've been both a user and an advocate for quite a long time, but I must say, I've been liking Flipboard less and less. My girlfriend and I have the same problem: The more we use it, the less relevant the articles become. More often than not, my feed is polluted with click-bait and garbage articles. I now switch between Apple News and Medium, in addition to my email subscriptions of Quartz and The Hustle because the quality of content has consistently been higher. But yes, I will try again. Congrats on the re-launch.
@drwolanin Thanks, John. Please let us know how it goes and if you are still disappointed with the content mix, please feel free to email me and we'll take a close look: mia @ flipboard. com
@drwolanin We know what you mean. That was one of the reasons we focused so much of our research for this release on generating highly relevant feeds about the things you care about the most. Your smart magazines will automatically incorporate topically relevant stories from the sources you're already following on Flipboard, so you'll see the stuff you really want to see from the sources you prefer all in one place. As Mia mentioned, we'd love to hear whether we've hit the mark for you.
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