Buggy and slow

Its a reasonable interface, although Ive greatly missed the old double-tap for full screen mode feature lost many versions ago. But Ill give this 1 star for three big reasons:

1) No landscape view for videos. Seriously, how did you let this creep back in? Do you even do *any* testing before you release a new version?

2) Unbelievably slow - I think due to ads, although even with a Slate Plus membership it can be so slow. If youre in an area with marginal coverage it will take FOREVER to load an article, and its due to waiting for the intrusive banner ad to be fetched. Try loading Slate in a mobile browser for comparison - with that youre not staring at a blank page for a minute before anything is rendered.

3) A *ton* of in-article content that shows up fine on the web version (including mobile Safari / Chrome), completely fails to display. This includes any embedded YouTube video, and often other content like tweets and Facebook links.

I could complain about other things, like Slates penchant for copying others videos and embedding lousy lower resolution versions of them served from their own servers (didnt you have a critics article about Facebook encouraging the same behavior?!), and no option to just download all of the current articles for offline viewing (see MailOnline app for this done right), but thats minor compared to the above. Fix it Slate, you can and should do better.

Umm No Thanks about Slate.com, v4.4.0