Disappointed
I was looking forward to this deal. I had already noticed the tool some years ago and wanted to try out to create regular email of articles I find on internet.
However, trying out the tool I now feel disappointed. Here are my problems with it:
- tool is not intuitive. I ended up reading all their help articles and even writing to helpdesk to understand how it works and what I can (or can't) do with it. Even then I am not sure I get it.
- UI is bit dated and opaque; e.g. left column's contents font is too small.
- default resources are limited and mediocare at best; but you can't add RSS to topics so they are used for search or filtering and picking articles you want. You can add RSS sources to collection, but then there is no full control of what goes into RSS feed and then to distribution. So, to be sure only content I manually pick is sent for publishing I need to create another - "clean" or "final" - collection (but collection count we get is super limited).
- no possibility to add RSS sources in bulk. As I have hundreds of sources it will take
- Integrations are limited and mostly are based on RSS.
- you can't select and push articles to email (or I haven't found a simple way to do that) - only set regular email campaigns that read RSS.
- HTML emails is not part of the deal.
- Too few collections per code.
- Not sure what happens with published articles (e.g. when my Mailchimp email is sent) - are they automatically removed from collection? Or I have to clean up my aticles myself reguralry? How do I know article has been sent to Mailchimp or pushed to RSS?
And one more thing - it is not an alternative to Feedly. That statement is misleading (I hoped to leave Feedly for Upcontent but today I renewed my feedly subscription). Feedly is feed reader (with possibility to share and curate content) while UpContent is curation tool (with ability to reed the article).
Dylan_UpContent
May 14, 2024Hello!
I will definitely bring these different ideas to my team and see what we can do!
Thank you for your input.
Cheers,
Dylan from UpContent