Many of you are regular users of our Trade Rumors iOS app, and in fact you may be reading this post through it. We launched the Trade Rumors app more than five years ago as a mobile-friendly way to read our articles and set up custom notifications. While we’ve addressed bugs and added a few features along the way, the app is due for a refresh.
If you’re a current user of the Trade Rumors iOS app and you’ve identified a bug or something that doesn’t seem to work correctly, please go to the Settings icon in the upper right, scroll down to “Feature Requests or Help,” and let us know about the issue. Over the next few months I aim to address any outstanding bugs we can identify.
If you have a feature request or other feedback about the app, we’d love to hear it. Current app users can use that same “Feature Requests or Help” option. Plus any MLBTR reader, whether you currently use the app or not, is welcome to email us about it at traderumorsapp@gmail.com or leave feedback in the comments of this post. If certain feature requests come up repeatedly, we’ll look into adding those to the Trade Rumors app. For example, adding a Dark Mode option seems to make sense. Especially since the original MLBTR website color scheme was basically Dark Mode!
If you’re not using our free Trade Rumors app yet, download it today!
A quick link to get back “Home” would be nice on all your offerings. I have to go to my bookmark to refresh to top of page when I want to start at the beginning again.
Bookmark in the app? Sounds like you’re using a browser.
Just click the MLB trade rumors banner that spans the top of the page. Will take you home.
When scrolling on Chrome, all that remains at the top is the headlines banner.. Nowhere to click to go back home.
If you’re on Chrome you’re not using the iOS app.
I think a post around the hours of 10-11pm est with quick summaries of the days biggest/hottest/interesting articles with quick links to the full article. For some who’s working all day and just wants the more major news articles all in one place for that easy access
The comments section does not read like it does on the web site. There’s no upvote options, and chain threads don’t really show who is replying to who after the third comment down. Going along with this, it’s sometimes difficult to see if and who(m) has replied to you, as there is no notification of this on the app.
…so, how do you really feel?
The threaded comments are like that because of the limitations of screen size on mobile devices. Otherwise, you’d have comments that look like
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all the way to the right of your screen.
I have noticed, however, that there’s no way to report spam comments from the app.
I agree, just emailed that and about preferring a subscription over ads(The video based ads interrupt your podcast or music). For me, the simplest solution is to use @usernam to make it clear who you comment is directed towards.
theunknownbandit
The web site has the same chain thread issue: Often, only when some one inserts the handle of the person(?) they are responding to does a comment make sense.
(It is true, unfortunately, in some cases, not even then)
its perfect
I almost never visit the site anymore, so I’d agree it’s almost perfect.
Same
I turned on notifications and don’t get them
That’s happened to me many times over the years. I have to delete and restart the app and it has worked
Same here
Can you please drop me a line through the app? In doing so it sends some info about your device that should help us diagnose the issue.
I had notifications on and had to turn them off. It was a bit much
Keep in mind you can customize them, for example only get notifications for top stories.
Hello
I keep getting China
Comments sections like above, same thought
Your APP works much better than your website. If I read an article on the MLBTradeRumors.com website and use the back arrow to get back to the home page, about 50% of the time, it brings me back to a home page that is 2-3 weeks old for some reason. I then have to hit my saved bookmark link to refresh the home page for current articles. This is not a problem when I use the APP, but for some reason I seem to use your standard URL much more than your APP. Can’t tell you why I continue to do this; maybe it’s just a case of not teaching an old dog new tricks.
That sounds like a browser issue more than a website issue. Do you use the same computer every time, or is this on multiple computers?
I use my iPhone exclusively for this.
You need to clear your browser’s cashe. Even mobile browsers like safari have a cashe and when it hasn’t been cleared it can cause some of the problems you have described.
A quick link to your comments so you don’t have to scrolling
It freezes a lot.
The iPhone app freezes when you are clicking on a news item and at that very same moment the 4G signal disappears because of a bad signal (like being on the subway). It totally freezes down and only reappears if you either turn on plane mode or take the app out of the memory.
Comments often post twice when only hitting “Post Comment” once.
Yeah, but if you leave the article and get back it is only posted once. But it is confusing though.
Love the app. One thing I would add is a better search function as well as it being easier to use the “tools” section. Like your top 50 list and stuff
Definitely agree
The ability to edit your post is the obvious feature lacking on this app. A reply notification would be nice, too.
I edit all of the time using the app. You have 5 minutes to do so.
Although tough to see what you
post with all of the ads blocking the window.
Reply notification is also available if you
decide to choose it for each post you
make.
well i know for a fact as an Android user that its been a while since ive gotten notifications.
iOS
Something that sends you an email when someone replies to your comment. It’s already in the website but it would be nice in the app.
It already works for me using iPhone. Not sure what your complaint is.
Oops, it works using the browser on iPhone.
I don’t get these either. Is it just a setting or something? This doesn’t seem like something that would differentiate between an app and a browser. Seems more like an account/email thing. If someone replies to a post, send me an email, why would it matter how I posted it?
I agree with the other posts above. No way to up-vote on the APP. Also, please consider bringing back the down-vote….there are more than a handful of posts that ‘require’ a down-vote on a daily basis ;-)
some on here do things just to get down votes. The only way to eliminate trolling is to make this a paid site like the Athletic. Nothing like the fear of losing your subscription to keep things civil.
These problems are easily fixed
Buy an android
Barf
Can we get a tab that connects us to roster resources? Or a tab for basic fan graphs info explaining advanced stats. I see users on here asking all the time what some of these advanced stats mean and it only makes sense to post to the links explaining them since chats consistently use advance metrics.
Is the Android App in the pipeline?
That has been around equally as long and can be downloaded here:
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.traderum…
Separately, I will address its bugs and feature requests.
Your app works fine on my iPhone 7s. It’s easy to refresh, too, by simply swiping down on the page. I appreciate all of the hard work and excellent writing that you do here.
I agree with the ex-Tribesman of my youth.
One of the most useful apps on my I-phone.
2 things edit button and notifications on a comment would be nice.
Yes an edit button. Please.
I’d like a quick one touch option on the home screen to eat my hat.
Would be cool to have a like or dislike button
In the chats I can only see a few questions and that’s it
I push on more but nothing
Funny, I just went to the app store yesterday to see if I needed to download a fresh update and noticed it had been years since the last one.
Wishlist:
– a way to bookmark threads that you want to continue to follow.
-notification of a comment to your post
– a “go to newest comment” button. It’s a pain in the you know what to scroll through several hundred replies to get to the bottom.
– ability to edit a post, even if it’s only for just a few minutes after posting.
Summed up perfectly^^^^^
Fantastic app, only request would be for new notifications whenever existing articles are added to or updated.
Overall, I like the app. The boy thing I don’t like is that the icon on my phone shows a football when I’m only interested in the baseball part of it. It’d be nice if it showed a baseball instead for those of us only registered to see baseball news.
*one thing
Interesting. I’m only looking at the baseball part of it, but my icon is the football/baseball/basketball combo icon. Maybe you need to check for an update?
How does this help the Angels pitching staff and Houston’s cheating?
I love how this app is designed with the ability to swipe between sports/players feeds. One thing that would be very helpful would be a search box. Currently, if I want to search news for a certain player, I have to add him to my “current feeds”.
I use my Kindle to access this website much of the time. I am able to sign on and upvote, but it will not allow me to post a comment. I know this is about the app for Apple devices, but this seems like a problem you should still be made aware of.
Maybe I’m not aware of it, but it would be nice to have an option to receive notifications when people reply to comments made.
Absolutely LOVE this app…I check it at least 12x per day! I like that you can select multiple sports and teams to follow…great work keep it up!
It would be great to have a Search feature on the app like the website has.
My comment posts 2 for some reason and my reds stories date back 2 years
1) add the ability for us to edit or delete comments we post.
2) please hire some moderators to police the trolls. There are many excellent comments (funny, insightful, and interesting) but there are a few trolls that really make reading the comments a chore. They are ruining the comments for the rest of us
Perhaps not app related but I’d love to hace and option of an “chat” in podcast mode to listen to while on the road!
A search function would be great.
really love the fact that I can get all of the notifications on the Apple Watch as well
How do you get notifications set up? I don’t see them under settings. I’ll comment on a thread and then can’t find my comment several minutes later so there isn’t really a “conversation” happening. Real time messaging would be cool, similar to Microsoft Teams. Also, it would be cool if the biggest news of the day were docked at the top or something similar. I scroll through articles and might miss some big news because it’s down below the rest.
You have to go to the slider bar to the right of each feed you’ve set up. I may do a separate post explaining how to set them up.
It’s covered what advertisements 4 ads pop up everytime no matter got many times u try to x them out and say ad covered content
I would like to see links to the featured articles like you have on the PC. For example, links to the arbitration projections or free agency tracker. I use these for informational purposes a lot, and it would be nice to be able to get to them from the phone.