Mix — Expand your mind Hack 3.1.5 + Redeem Codes

That’s how much they need to thank you for this app. And if they could think with it, they might be able to have a chance.

Why put a boutique company—that doesn’t use ads by ways of mysterious data profiteering—in this much light?

It’s fun, it cares and it’s true.

If you would work on the app not losing the track when we post a previous feed to Twitter and swipe back, it would help out so much—so so-so much. Thank you 3.1.2 or greater.

Thank you Mix app for years of intelligent browsing and entertainment, information and enlightenment.

Is there a way to integrate GPT in the mind of Mix? An essay that integrates multimedia sources and plays the words plus the media when it’s time would be astounding, especially if you would have an avatar animate verbal illustrations and its own movements and emotions to make astonishing impressions on an ever-growing number of living pupils of life.

At 16k saves, I’d have to say your app is the one I’d save—surely of the top six. I need room for margin of error because I’ve browsed like 16k websites in three years so, give my memory as a while a reasonable margin of erosion. I’m certainly saving this app.

StumbleUpon needed to be redone. It was designed to an older style of internet and honestly couldn’t keep up when websites started to flood in. Mix managed to make a more streamlined process for a wider variety and more organized system of websites but lacks any real usability. Isn’t an intuitive app. The explore/share/profile tabs are just strange choices. Share and profile aren’t pages, they’re options and settings. So nest “share” within each post as just a share button.. and profile should just be hidden in the top corner somewhere. Your explore page needs to be redone as well. Why do I have to view by specific interests? Why isn’t there just an endless way to scroll once I’ve set my interests? The way you introduce catagories was strange as well. “Science”?? And then if you select one of this vague topics and later check your subcategories, it breaks it out into tiny subcategories like nasa and psychology.. but those are vastly different. Maybe make the bottom tabs “explore” (to just scroll and have an algorithm slowly learn what people like and recommend new categories to like) and another tab called “topics” or “genre” “categories” whatever. Maybe a 3rd way to view too. Definitely keep the list/grid option in explore. Anyways still better than stumbleupon so I definitely plan on continuously using the app, I just wish it didn’t fight me

StumbleUpon was a great app that was simple and to the point. You pick categories, you press a button, you read an article that was it. Mix has somehow found a way to complicate this process. From the non descriptive category list to the multiple clicks needed to read an article it is a poor replacement for what was a great platform in StumbleUpon. From what I can see there is no way to view a list of all available categories which is frustrating because all they provide is what is suggested to you based on what your initial category selection was at the time of sign up. This means no discovering new topics or branching out into different interest from time to time. This app focuses to much on the social media aspect and in my opinion caters only to people who are avid social media users. For some like myself, the ease of use and privacy of StumbleUpon as well as its content driven nature were its biggest draws. All I want to do is find interesting things to read when using the app and Mix has taken that simple process away. Very disappointed to see StumbleUpon go and will be deleting Mix immediately. Shame on whoever thought this change would be a good idea, as this is a perfect example of when change is not for the better.

It seems like this app is all about social media- like everything else these days. I’m not reading articles with the intention of sharing them with anyone, my intention is to LEARN. I’m not trying to “get connected” with others when I’m trying to learn more about my interests. If I wanted to share an article, I’d simply text them the link. And so many of the categories are just pop culture/trends/unneeded things I’m trying to AVOID when trying to expand my knowledge with REAL things.

But what I miss MOST is StumbleUpon’s algorithm of voting up or down for each article, so they tailor what articles to send you even more (or less of). It was what I LOVED SO MUCH about StumbleUpon. The more you used it, the better articles you got catered towards you specifically. And now, if you want to save something, you have to put it in a “collection”... why do we need to go through all this trouble? I miss the simplicity of just hitting the save button. I don’t want to have to name my favorite articles, it takes way too much time and effort, and discouraged me from wanting to save anything. It makes me want to write to the founders of StumbleUpon to say “please come back! We miss you!” Because judging by the reviews, I’m not the only one who feels this way.

As a longtime user, I couldn’t be more let down by the updated app. I spent hours searching through new articles. I loved the serendipity but I also loved the amount of real information I could stumble upon. In a world of Instagram and tiktok, it felt like a space to scroll but with integrity. Sometimes serendipitous scrolling in this dark world but I liked the ARTICLE driven platform. Mix shows you everything but articles for your “interests.” The algorithm is made for pictures and videos, resembling tiktok or tumblr. It feels like a wasted space, now. I put the filter option to only article and still my “FYP” (you do not need to be tiktok) is only filled with videos and photos. I WANT TO READ. The billions of articles on the internet are difficult to comb through, I want the fun of what will I learn next. I don’t want to watch another tiktok or see an Instagram feed. Please, bring back the purpose.

The update was not thought through properly imo. For example if you were reading an article no matter how far down into you got you could swipe left or right into the next article or the previous one. For some reasons you now scroll between articles north and south which means you have to swipe through the whole article back to the top to move to the next article or page. Just kind of a pointless waste of time. An unnecessary change seemed to be made just to change something rather than improve the app.

Radically fewer interests to choose from and more limited content. Doesn’t provide anything I can’t get from other social media platforms. Be more like the StumbleUpon original.

The app provides you with much less personalized content and potential for discovery than StumbleUpon. Why the transition from StumbleUpon to Mix would result in such a dramatic loss in interests to follow is unclear. The simplicity of StumbleUpon’s one click button for curated content that is both wide in breadth and effectively targeted based on interests is gone. Mix doesn’t offer anything most social media platforms already offer. I can get articles regarding specific topics easily from a host of social media platforms. What StumbleUpon offered was the ability to find a wide range of content with a single click of a button geared toward my interests. Nothing like that on Mix.

Most important is the surprisingly limited range of interests available for selection compared to what StumbleUpon offered. There’s no Philosophy interest page. In contrast, StumbleUpon had not only a Philosophy category, but specific areas of philosophy, like Philosophy of Mind, that could be followed.

A sad huge step back. I’ll be looking for websites and apps that can provide what StumbleUpon offered, but as of now it’s certainly not provided by Mix.

I hope the developers consider this feedback and at the very least expand the range of interests available.

I’m sure there was some reason or even several that this developer might have had for making the drastic changes to what was once an amazing app/plugin; however the changes that were made were so sweeping and excessive that it might as well be a completely separate app/project (instead of a total replacement/abandonment of the earlier (imo far superior)-Stumbleupon project/platform). Perhaps there still exists a remaining version or add-on of Stumbleupon in some form or another that I just haven’t come across yet (in which case I’d love to be pointed in that direction), but until then, I can only hope that the developers answer the calls of the many people who would like the option to use the older Stumbleupon design in one form or another, as for many of us, at least for me, this Mix app just does not cut it. 🫤

Really guys? Stumbleupon was great, simple and I could easily find myself getting lost discovering new sites and cool random info on it till the early hours of the morning. It was awesome!.... and then this?
I never really leave negative reviews.. just don’t feel the need too.. far too many people doing that.. but unfortunately I feel the need to make an exception. Cause this new MIX app really bummed me out... why all the social media BS? Give me a break.. not everyone wants to be linked in to sharing everything with everyone 24/7. This is such a huge disappointment.. I’d like to give it more of a chance.. but it’s really just not worth it...
It took all of 20 mins trying it out to realize, despite my efforts to try... this was in no way close to as enjoyable to use or as good as SU.. and I now feel that was 18 mins too long.
What a shame... Why did you have to change a good thing?

I’ve never reviewed an app before but I feel strongly enough about this one to write a review. The interface, navigation and user experience of SU are effective, simple and make you want to keep browsing for hours. Interests and categories were easy to find and made sense. On Mix for example why do my interests have US Congress and White House? I certainly didn’t select them on SU, maybe the category was politics? Why are history and in olden days two separate categories? This is quite frustrating. Also i haven’t found very interesting content on Mix plus I hate having to click to go to a different page to view content - SU had it on the same page and it didn’t require multiple clicks - maybe it’s the reason I haven’t stayed long enough to find interesting content on Mix that may actually be there.