You can like articles and comment on them, but it's commenting on the article in Flipboard's interface, so the comment is only available to other Flipboard users.

That's unfortunate if you like to get all of your news reading done without a lot of fluff, but it is an excellent way to support sites that produce content you want to see stick around.įlipboard has some social features, but they're not very fleshed out and honestly best ignored. Unlike other RSS feeds, Flipboard doesn't host full RSS content, so you'll have to click through to the actual site to read the full article. It's a quick way to browse through headlines if you're just wanting to get an overview of what's going on that day. Flipboard organizes all of your feeds by topics into what it calls magazines, which you can then flip through to see all of your relevant news for the day. (This is one of the best parts of the platform and app, as you might imagine.Overall Opinion: Flipboard is a mobile RSS reader that is designed to change the way we interact with RSS feeds.

Curate your perspective: collect stories around specific themes and add them to personal magazines.

(This serves as a daily newspaper, for the most part.)

Read The Daily Edition: keep up with the news in our daily roundup, hand-picked by our editorial team.

Personalize your home feed: put up to 9 of your favorite Smart Magazines here for quick access to the stuff you love.

Design your Smart Magazines: bundle together sources, people and even hashtags.

Discover stories: The New York Times, National Geographic, Vanity Fair, and thousands more top publications from around the world.

The Apple App Store gives me a good rundown that I think explains it pretty well: Often, on Facebook or Twitter, the share option brings the person into that platform, which I may or may not really want to inflict on my friends. The reason is because Flipboard sends my recipient directly to the publication.

Flipboard allows me to share it, just as I would in other social media outlets, but the beauty in this case is the recipient does not have to sign up for a social media account.

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