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by I'm About Done With The N&O

I have been using the N&O digital app for some time. My wife reads the actual paper and I read the digital version. In the past the app worked fairly well. With the most recent updates however it has become totally useless. We pay for our full subscription and now every time I try to log on it tells me I need to log on because it freezes all the stories and will not let me proceed. I enter the proper information and it still gives me the same message. I am paying for something that is totally useless. When it was working what I didn’t care for is that in the past you could see what the actual printed paper looked like and read it digitally. Now that option does not exist plus I don’t see on the digital version where you can read the funnies. There is not much that I care to read in the N&O because they have become so slanted in their reporting and they have an obvious agenda but I could read the funnies without their interpretation of what’s funny.

by N&O Fan

The previous version of this Ap was much better. I like reading the print version which fits my home delivery version. The new Ap distorts the page making it less readable, and it continually closes when I am in the middle of the paper requiring me to waste time scrolling back through the whole paper again. As much as I love the N&O and like to keep up when I travel, I am about to give up.

Update: This Ap keeps going from bad worse. I am about to cancel my subscription altogether. I really regret feeling this way because I believe in the importance of being informed as an important responsibility of being a good citizen, and I believe the N&O has an important contribution to make. I just wish it were accessible without requiring so much wasted effort every time I try to open the Ap. (Other Aps, including ones requiring a subscription do not require a new sign in every time it they are opened).

by Umdev

Terrible app. First of all, this is the original, web based app rolled out years ago, prior to the Olive Software version. So, this is more a weblink iPad widget for a Safari bookmark than an actual app. It was obsolete then, and ancient now. Page view is so clunky, the page is blurry and sits there 10 minutes trying to load. There is no dedicated page view. Loads slowly, text is blurry, there is no function to share stories on social media any more. Flash ads intrude on readability and take over the page, and freeze the app. McClatchy, not content with ruining newspapers, has now made reading the e-edition impossible. What are they trying to do, destroy newspapers completely? “ Old Reliable “ has become unreliable and this is perhaps the most ill conceived app ever made.

Edit: Doesn’t load at all now. Needs ZERO stars. Will be cancelling my subscription.