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While you are trying to read an article, SA keeps refreshing making the screen jump back to the article’s beginning over and over. This is making the articles almost unreadable 

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wmhigh

I am having the same problem. It only began recently, just after I purchased an iphone SE (supposedly the equivalent of an iphone 8). I did not know if it was a device problem or a problem with an updated Seeking Alpha app. As you point out, it refreshes so often (sometimes every 10 seconds) that the articles become unreadable. It takes me the full 10 seconds to page down to where I was when it refreshed.

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Consideration

I was just about to make a similar feedback topic but here I am with people who’re experiencing the same as I. iPhone here as well though XR. Latest update on the phone and the app. I notice this mostly happens in the areas that have ads in them. Once I hit an ad or it stalls loading, back to the top! 

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wmhigh

I have found a workaround. Set up a Seeking Aloha account on your laptop or desktop and ask for notifications on your topics of interest, then delete the app from your phone. When you get a phone notification of an article, open it. Then because you don’t have the app, it will ask you to sign in which you can do using your Google or Facebook account. You can then read the article without the refreshing problem! It is clearly a bug in the app.

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Irwin R. Schyster

same bug here. Stop focusing on cramming ads and get the UI working for your users. 

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Veritas1010

I have posted this issue numerous times, It is relatively new. I have an older iPad without looking up IOS number, it is always updated properly on my end but not recently (no push downs from Apple) in other words.


so, nothing has changed. I cannot write blog commentaries because the articles are “updating” - does anyone at SA read this? I think not. The lights are on and no one is home. Years ago SA could be contacted and someone eventually would reply. Now zero.

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MrEric

yes. Get with the program.  

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omega

One more reader here who finds the SA iPhone app unusable due to the continual refreshing. I'm not going to bother trying further until this bug is fixed.

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Veritas1010

If SA wishes to squelch commentary on its readers commentary section all it needs to do is continue to do what it is doing: Nothing.



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omega

By the way, although I sure hope SA can fix this bug soon, I'm afraid this problem is a symptom of the typical corporate business cycle. 

1) Start off with an innovative idea and a dedicated group owners who are passionate about launching their new business.

2) Watch your business grow rapidly as word of mouth spreads about the great new product. 

3) Start focusing on monetizing the business to support the costs and generate income. 

4) Become obsessed with making money to the detriment of the original vision and let quality concerns take a backseat to cutting costs.

5) Watch customers start to drift away in search of a better option. This evolution happens over and over again in the corporate world.


I have discovered a good alternative to SA recently: StoryTrading is a website run cooperatively by several very experienced and highly successful investors, who have been whipping the indexes with their stock picks. Check it out and you won't have to put up with the preponderance of mediocre content that has become SA;

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Veritas1010

I will investigate. Your chronology of business growth and death was well done. Thank you.