NJ.com Reviews

The new update constantly freezes. I do not have this problem with any other news app & I have six (6) of them. The new design & update if NJcom is lousy. Everything cluttered && no in depth reporting anymore. Who wants to subscribe for this! Bring back the old design. So surprised & disappointed that you select several articles to be exclusive to subscribers. Make it a pay app only it you are that desperate! During this pandemic, all news regarding COVID-19 should be free to all! It’s so unethical of you to suddenly not give access to read all news regarding COVID-19. I checked out the subscription & it is excessive & not worth it. The same topics on the Trentonian app are more in depth & thorough. Incidentally, you can still read the same article that is “subscriber exclusive” elsewhere on the web.

I like to check in once a week in case I miss something on the radio broadcast on my two hours of commuting each day. It takes too long to load, and there’s too many ads though, and I don’t always have the time on my lunch hour. The search is helpful, as is the sort by county.

I love the lunch time DJ’s and my ride home at 5:00 with D&D, but turn it off on my morning commute. It is too political, the DJ too angry and he does not give callers an opportunity to fully make their point or speak. He consistently talks over them, and I just change stations. Dennis and Judy, and D&D are a bit more courteous to listeners, and aren’t do blatantly one sided in politics.

Most of the time when using the iPad app, the photos either take forever to load and make the article jumpy, or don’t load at all. But you can be sure the ads, photo and video, have no trouble. Today is a perfect example. Can’t see any of the 9/11 memorial photos. App is up to date, as is the iPad. WiFi is full strength. And I have to login every few days lately, despite choosing the ‘remember me’ option. I have no problem paying for a news app, if it works well and has worthwhile content. Improve the experience before you lose a paying customer.

I have been a print and digital subscriber for years and want to support local journalism. One issue, I used to be able to save a story using the star icon at the top of the article. Recent updates took this ability away. I have digital subscriptions to other newspapers and can save articles. It is annoying that I can no longer save articles. Please bring this feature back. Subscribers and nonsubscribers should be able to save articles.

Your latest update seemed to have fixed the bug when I read an article and then go to a link within that story to read a second article, clicking done did not close the articles. Thanks for the fix.

I find the site reasonably easy to navigate.

I give a three-star rating because I can no longer save articles.

Some links display the last date a column was run and that date is several months old. Either remove the links or start up the columns again.
Also it seems more “second tier” stories about North Jersey are listed on the main page than others from Central and South Jersey; this is with News and Sports. Is there something that can be done to balance this out?

App is OK, although I don’t like links to web articles rather than articles in NJcom . But i’m really sick of alerts to boring, not-newsworthy listicle articles. I just turned off alerts on my iPhone because I really don’t care about which is the best _______ in each NJ county. Please save the alerts for real breaking news!

NJ more deserving of higher quality news with better functioning site and more regular updates

Please update your app. Its consistently crashes. Also it takes forever to load current news that your writing staff is not very good with details on reporting the news much less any updates to a posted story.

I am always interested in local news & find it on this site often.

The new layout for mobile is terrible! Not user friendly. Was faster to scroll before and layout was much better. Will be deleting NJcom also because I’m tired of not being able to read articles that are “exclusive” which means you have to pay to read it. So many free sites for news.

The obituary section of NJcom isn’t working. They aren’t loading and all you get is a blank white screen. I have an IPhone and my mom has an LG and it’s not working on her app either. I thought maybe the last update would fix the issue but it’s still not working. Please fix this. I even tried deleting NJcom and reinstalling it and that didn’t even work

After the most recent update for “bug fixes and improvements” suddenly a large percentage of articles are subscriber exclusive. I get the need to make money, but don’t lie about your update and be reasonable with the amount of articles you put behind the paywall. I’m going elsewhere for my news now. Deleted.

Our population is aging. We don’t see and hear as well as we once did. We need larger script and in bold black on white background. Thank you, your doing a great job otherwise.

I've been a subscriber for many years, and since Oct 28,2020 I haven't been able to receive or initiate the digital edition on my IPhone or iPad. Please resolve this issue, because I would like to continue my subscription.

I enjoy NJcom . I am able to keep up with NJ news and it sends me notifications on the latest news.

Although I paid for a one year subscription, I cannot log into NJcom using my Facebook account (as I do on the web with a browser). I contacted tech support, and their solution was to use my browser and not NJcom . That’s not much of a solution

I’m not sure who did any of the usage testing on this new “dark” theme but it is horrific. I understand you need to make revenue to pay content writers, but as of late it seems 70-80% of articles that aren’t fluff pieces or day old weather forecasts are moved to the pay side. Either change for it all or dump that practice.

The slant of any politically related articles always swings too far to the left, which may please a portion of your constituents, however is alienating other readers such as myself. Your legitimacy as a publication would increase dramatically it were more balanced. The absence of any substantive alternative viewpoint serves to identify this publication as politically biased therefore making it difficult to take seriously.

I used to enjoy being able to browse the sports section by team, but that option is no longer available with the newest update. Please, please, please bring the ability to do so back. Taking it away has made NJcom much less appealing.

When navigating through sports for example i’m always required to sign in.

Cant zoom in on photos like via web browser.

Links to other stories within NJcom seem to be hit or miss.

Just loaded latest edition. It was always slower than my other 2 news apps but now it just crashes when I open it.
Loaded IOS 13.3. App works good now.
Even sees to load stories faster.
Fingers crossed hoping it keeps working.

When I get done reading a story the site often brings me back to the first story. Very frustrating to have to continually scroll down to get past the last story I have read.

I never write reviews but I love NJcom and couldn’t figure out how to ask a question from the developer or give feedback about NJcom on the website. I’ve been having issues for awhile but most recently the following: sometimes a pop up is displayed asking me if I like NJcom or if I want to rate it. The only way to do anything including trying to rate it is to force close NJcom . I do this three times to get it to go away. Then when I try and read the news through the “news home” tab it spins for a long while and there is a considerable delay in getting to the most recent news stories. Many times I have to swipe down 2 or 3 times to get it to update. The same is true with “top stories “ and “local”.
Most recently in the last few days I either get a “no articles” message in “news home” or there is a picture with the dots to swipe through the stories right to left and nothing but blank space underneath. So I swipe through only about 6 or 7 stories and that is all I get for the news. I do not know why this is happening and I am unsure when it updated but my phone was on automatic app updates(which I’ve since turned off). I would love it if someone could either send me a message through NJcom or my email or release an update and explain the issue here. As much as I believe this particular issue deserves three stars, I love NJcom too much to give it a low rating. Please update. This is the best app to stay plugged into NJ news and local news. Love you guys but please get your tech guys on it !

able to find the local things I need when I need them. Keep up the good work.

Most accurate local news on the web!

NJcom is so much easier to use than it used to be. I’m a transplanted Jersey girl and really enjoy reading about what is happening there now.