theSkimm

I have been a Skimmr for many years and now I may be jumping ship. The app straight up does not work to read the daily Skimm which is the main point of the entire brand. You can read yesterday’s, only the next day. It’s been like this for some time with no mention of working on this or anything. It’s honestly bizarre. But the entire point of this brand was to keep you in the know every morning— so forcing me to read things a day later is completely bonkers. Sad, I really loved the Skimm when it worked.

Really disappointed in the app lately. I am unable to load the daily news no matter what I try. If I look at the previous news, it only shows August 3 as the most recent previous news. I will be unsubscribing.

I would love to be able to use this app, but I can’t. I wanted this to help clean up my email inbox from all of The Skimm newsletters I get and read them all in one place. But the app doesn’t work. The Daily Skimm doesn’t open, it’s just a blank screen, and the past issues link opens to mid-July issues (it’s now mid-August). I just signed up for a paid monthly subscription thinking maybe I needed to upgrade to get access (even though I know it’s worked before just fine) but maybe I missed something and I really do enjoy reading the Daily Skimm and the other newsletters so I figured why not. But no. Nothing works. The Top Stories link doesn’t load anything either. It just spins. Also, and this has been a gripe for a while, why do the Skimm stories link to a browser version? I understand linking to outside stories but ones written by The Skimm, why can’t they be integrated into the app so that you’re not loading a screen on top of another screen? Seems like it defeats the purpose of having an app if I could go straight to the website to see the same thing. Not as convenient but at least that site works. I’m sad. It seems like there’s no desire for developers to keep this app updated or make it a more seamless experience. Canceling the subscription I just paid for and I’ll just go back to reading the newsletters in my email.

This is not the first time the app has glitched so that nothing loads—just a blank screen. I absolutely LOVE theSkimm when it’s working.

I’ve been really frustrated with the app lately. The daily newsletters tend to load really slowly making you think there’s a glitch. But now, they aren’t loading at all. I resorted to reading the news a day late by clicking “past skimms” but now even the older ones aren’t loading. I am a subscriber. The app is up to date. Why can’t I read the daily news? So frustrating.

This app never works when I need it to. I always get a message that it is prior to 6:20am ET, even when it’s noon. Then unable to access newsletters, which is the only reason I use the app.