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NewsTap Lite (Usenet Reader) App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024
NewsTap Lite (Usenet Reader) app received 33 complaints, negative comments and reviews by users. Have you ever had a bad experience using NewsTap Lite (Usenet Reader)? Can you share your negative thoughts about newstap lite (usenet reader)?
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NewsTap Lite (Usenet Reader) for Negative User Reviews
✓ Cannot get it workingLoaded groups list for my newsgroup provider and entered settings. But after clicking Connect it disconnects almost at once..Version: 5.1.9
✓ Free version: very limitingI appreciate it's free, but I wasn't expecting to only be able to subscribe to ONE newsgroup. No amount of other features make up for this crippling of the functionality..Version: 2.1.7
✓ Too complicated to set up.The help section wasn't helpful. It tells you to enter info in the accounts section. But There isn't anything labelled accounts. There are just cryptic icons. It's probably a good app when you get it going but it needs to be a lot more user friendly at the set-up stage. You'd have thought it would be in the developers interest to make it more widely accessible..Version: 4.0.1
✓ Won't workIt keeps saying authentication failed but I entered the right username and password..Version: 0
✓ Switching apps causes all entered text to disappearMakes it hard to set up servers and connections. Not user-friendly, cannot recommend..Version: 5.3.1
✓ Useless for binariesWorks well as a text reader, but when it comes to binaries it is useless. It will return a page full of ASCII characters then "binary data skipped". To the developer... Why won't this work???.Version: 2.1.7
✓ Photo Album?Where is that? I can’t save any pics now, have to save via other app. Having brought back saving to photos this update has removed that function and even the view full screen. still have no idea how to view/save a picture that is too large to post as single file and is split in multiple parts eg …jpgA[1/2],…jpgA[2/2].Version: 5.3.5
✓ Useless for BinariesSkips all Binary data so what's the point. Unless all you wish to read are text messages it is useless. Skips all pictures (binary data)..Version: 0
✓ UnimpressedDoesn't support yenc (silly not to now a days concidering yencs been around for a long time). Also the app will eat up your space on your touch/iPhone as it downloads articals why not just the headers with an option to download the body?!) arbitrarily without any sort of useful filters to combat spam posters. Poor attempt at a usenet client..Version: 0
✓ Odd Modal UIOK, so I enter a newsserver in settings and the app launches and since it's the first time it downloads all groups, right. Well not quite. Instead I go to a screen called Connect with a bunch if settings and a download button. Pressing this starts downloading the groups... MODALY!! Other tabs on the tab control are DISABLED!! But wait, it's a tab control? Huh? Well maybe initial setup is a bit odd... let's add a group to My Groups and dive into some articles. Adding makes sense, a plus button in the NavBar takes you to a list of all groups, tap one, and there it is in the My Groups list. OK so now I tap it and it takes me to the articles, right? Wrong. It takes you to an empty list. Hmmmm. What to do?No Refresh button in the NavBar. Maybe that odd Connect tab will help? Ah. That's it. Back to Connect, hit button... articles start to download... and WE ARE LOCKED OUT OF THE OTHER TABS AGAIN!!! Hey developer! Downloading content like the articles in a newsgroup is an action in the context of the current view (of the newsgroup), NOT a navigation to another tab and definitely not a modal operation!!!! Read the UI guidelines, they are extensive and very well written..Version: 0
✓ Ne fonctionne plusDepuis la dernière mise a jour, impossible de récupérer les articles avec iPad sous iOs 7..Version: 5.1.8
✓ BrokenWon't connect to the popular paid newsgroup providers..Version: 0
✓ It doesn't support yEnc I dunno why make a reader that doesn't support yenc especially when 90% of the binary files are yenc encoded. It's like making a web browser that doesn't read jpeg. for a half-done reader..Version: 0
✓ Please add headers only downloadDon't need to read the body if the header isn't interesing..Version: 0
✓ Can’t see articlesThe app does a ton of work downloading groups and showing how many articles are in them, but it stops there. I’d like a simple way to see a list of those articles and then read some. Those areas do not populate..Version: 5.5
✓ I wanted this to work...but alas...And yes, the subject line is misleading. The app does work, it's just missing the one function USENET readers live by - sorting by date. Alpha sorting is pretty but really useless in the greater context of USENET. Newsgroups (and, if you really take the time to notice, blog comments) are primarily sorted by date, then by thread. This app does download content - that's great. But /finding/ that content in a relevant manner is frustatingly difficult. Ah well....Version: 0
✓ Not very "iPhone" but good otherwiseApplying the complicated, nested nature of Usenet to an iPhone app wasn't going to be easy - and it shows. Despite this, I like this app, and use it regularly - I will be upgrading to the full version..Version: 0
✓ Won't connectI guess if it won't connect to Individual after 20 minutes it's not going to connect. I guess that's one feature I'd like added. The ability to actually get to a server..Version: 2.1.7
✓ Latest Version is brokenI used NewsTap for several years and found it a solid nntp news client. Then a major update came out, and since then it has not worked at all for me.It would connect to servers, download group lists, and subscribe to groups, but it would never download any news. I deleted and reinstalled the latest version (updated within the past week) and now it won’t even download the group list. Just sits and spins trying to connect to the server, and finally gives up. I’ve tried multiple servers and ports that work fine with my Mac news client..Version: 5.1.3
✓ Poor functionalitySetup seemed simple, but it never would work w/ my Giganews account. Poor sorting, filtering, & no documentation made this hard to use & understand. Needs to be more like a std newsreader..Version: 0
✓ BrokenAfter upgrading to the new version, the app doesn't show any messages in the group I'm reading. Tried everything. No errors in the log. It's just broken..Version: 5.0
✓ Hangs, sort not workingUsed to work great. Now, hangs often when viewing messages, cannot multi-task properly: download and viewing articles cause hangs. Threads not sorted properly....Version: 5.1.7
✓ Maybe I'm missing something but...First of all, the setup and operation (which requires a strange manual send and receive step) reminds me of trumpet winsock or something. But is it just me or is the thread list not able to be sorted by date? I guess if I was looking for pr0n or warez it'd be useful to sort alphabetically but I can't really use it this way. I don't see an option to sort by date. Well other than that the idea of a nntp client on the iPhone is really useful. Hopefully I'm just overlooking something obvious..Version: 0
✓ Could use some freshening, but it works for casual nntp useDon't expect to keep up with large groups or binaries, but it works fine for casual use..Version: 0
✓ RubbishRefuses to connect to my paid for news account..Version: 0
✓ Considerably improvedVer 5 appears to have fixed the IOS9 problems, & is much nicer to use too. I can't find the rot13 coder though..Version: 5.0
✓ Limited to one newsgroupLite is very lite indeed - limited to subscribing to a single newsgroup..Version: 3.5.5
✓ Newstap liteMy initial impression is "eh". Very clunky. It works, but a long road before success. Then again, the price is exactly right..Version: 0
✓ Alphabetical sorting? Makes this uselessSetup and connection was not difficult. However, a group sorted alphabetically is useless to those who use newsgroups as they were intended - for reading and posting discussions. We need a sort by date!.Version: 0
✓ MediocreDoesn't support SSL, lite version only supports 1 group, can't view binaries..Version: 4.0.1
✓ Does not work at allTried with multiple servers..Version: 4.0.1
✓ Refuses to connectThe debug console says "501: Bad command usage." Any chance of fixing this so it can talk to my ISP?.Version: 0
✓ Proper binary (pictures) would be niceAtm it just skips all binaries..Version: 0
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