NewsTap (Usenet Newsreader) App Reviews

Keeps giving failed authorization error.

This is an update to my old review - this app remains 5 stars - it works just fine & allows me to still enjoy the newsgroups Ive followed/participated in for decades(!), now. Its unfortunate that people are complaining about account issues and what must be general ignorance of Usenet and blaming the app, itself. It works fine, it works fine for multiple groups, it posts and updates just fine ... 5 stars. Ive been using newstap on the iphone for several years, now, and it worked fine, for me. But this ipad version is great - the extra screen real estate is used very nicely. Now, I dont care about binaries, I just care about reading my favorite few groups. rmgd lives!

I used to use and recommend this app; but can no longer do so. Starting a couple of updates ago, I started getting the authentication issues and even after contacting the developer could not resolve the issue ( he could not duplicate it). Im sure that Im ever ring the user name and password correctly, as I can manually enter them on my laptop and access my newsgroups.

All the features they list work well, except one, viz., "Filters (also known as "Killfile") can automatically mark articles as read or mark them with a certain color.” This is not quite right: every article filtered to be marked as read must also be color labeled. I would rather not have articles that I want to ignore stand out in the list of articles. I wish it weren’t necessary to have articles marked as read automatically color marked; but I also wish there were an option to have certain articles automatically deleted.

Its so great to have an iOS Usenet app. Thank you for your hard work on the latest update, it works great.