I tried using Artifact but I found the way they gamified the app to encourage users to come back and click on articles to be very unhealthy. News can often be stressful, it's good to take breaks. It's also healthy to sometimes reduce your news intake to things that specifically affect your life. These things are basically the opposite of how Artifact was designed to be used.
Agreed. The UX was pleasant, but the gamification felt slimy, and the surfeit of throw-every-topic-at-the-wall push notifications really turned me off.
(Actually, I turned _them_ off, and promptly forgot about the app over a year ago.)
