MLive.com Reviews

Update 2021: Reviewed MLivecom two years ago and loved it. Since then MLive has switched to paid subscription for some stories, and taken the commenting away. Two big missteps in my opinion, and I spend a lot less time on MLivecom now.

Grew up in Michigan, MSU grad and big fan. My wife and I plan to retire in Michigan in a couple of years. Like MLive for the variety of stories they cover, there’s something for everyone. Writing skill levels are inconsistent, but I understand how difficult it is to have editors read every single clip that is posted. Comment section is great, now that the mute feature is there. Would like to get feedback on why comments might get flagged, especially if I send an email requesting that feedback. Just because another flags a comment doesn’t mean there is anything wrong with that comment. Some moderators are trigger happy and need guidelines. Please link a screen name with an email address. Too many people stealing screen names and throwing out trashy comments acting as another. Needs to stop. Overall, a great idea, good product. Wish Illinois had ILive.

I’m officially deleting MLivecom and I’m kind of sad. Here’s why. The previous version, with the swiping articles across the top, was terrible. To be a statewide news source, there were hardly any articles and you couldn’t tell the difference between statewide and local. And it pretty much consisted of all sports stories. I really only opened it when I was utterly bored.

Fast forward to your new version. I got excited the first time I used it, just so much better look and feel and more content that had more variety, to just sports. And then it happened. I clicked NEWS in the menu along the left and began to scroll. 2, 3, 4 stories down and it rolls quickly back to the top. I guessing it’s refreshing, but seriously? I can’t get further than 5 stories down and normally a lot less. I’m done. Dee. Leet.

Like that there’s something news-related specific to Michigan in MLivecom Store, but MLivecom leaves me wanting something better. Inconsistent loading/refreshing within MLivecom . Search function is essentially useless. Aricles that I open from a notification freeze the window in MLivecom , and you can’t back out of it. And most recently, every article that is offered within a notification I receive is behind a pay wall. I understand the need for revenue, and would happily support local news sources, but not for a product that is poorly executed. At the very least, breaking news should be available to non-subscribers. Hope it improves someday.

I have been a subscriber for my entire life and I am 74 years old! Sometimes I get into the EReplica no problem. Sometimes I can read MLive articles no problem. Other times, it asks for uid and password. It references both Mlive signin and Jackson Citizen Patriot sign in at different times in the log in process. They are two different ids and passwords for me. I go look it up and sometimes one of them works and other times it doesn’t. One of them uses my thumbprint on my ipad and lets me in and then a couple seconds later pops up again with the darn login message. Makes me want to just give up and cancel the whole thing.

A generally good app; a nice collection of local stories that matter. There are two fairly glaring problems with MLivecom , though: (1) the search function is broken and yields zero hits no matter what topic or thing you search for. (2) Lacks the ability to turn off or filter topics you would rather not clutter your news feed with. I don’t really pay much attention to sports, but this time of year (mid-December), almost all of the news on the home page is sports related; it would be nice to be able to turn off news on subjects or topics that don’t matter to the reader.

If I access a story from a notification, read the story, and then exit the story without leaving MLivecom , the entire app freezes. This is the number 1 issue I’ve had since downloading MLivecom .

Sometimes when I open an article, it opens zoomed in and reverts to the zoomed in state when I attempt to zoom out to view the whole article without having to scroll side to side. I’ve had to close MLivecom and reopen it to resolve, which is also a problem because in some cases I haven’t been able to find the article once I do so.

While some of the other issues I’ve had have been fixed, MLivecom has always been buggy and inconsistent.

I used to utilize Mlive for local news almost every day. Over the last few months almost all of the news articles of interest are now behind a paywall and I rarely open MLivecom . Apparently ad revenue isn’t enough. What’s interesting though is how almost none of the sports articles are behind the paywall (which also aren’t news but are always on the news page), but almost all of the COVID articles are now behind a paywall. It’s almost like they’re trying to cash in on the pandemic or something hmmm.

Would be better if the location of a story was better defined. For example sometimes a township is named, and not the county the township is in. Some counties have townships with similar or identical names so only by reading article and recognizing, or not, nearby locations like roads, can I see if an article was near me.

The articles take a while to load when my phone isn’t connected to WiFi. Comments cannot be seen when using Internet Explorer.

West Michigan, and Grand Rapids in particular, is a great place to live, work, and raise a family. People here work together to find solutions to problems by honoring diversity and inviting everyone to the table. Reading the Grand Rapids is the best way to start the day by staying connected to a community that values communication, cooperation and collaboration between all residents!

I’ve been using MLivecom without any problems whatsoever for the last year but today’s update totally broke it. It crashes immediately after launching. This is the only reason for the one star. I tried rebooting my device (iPad) with no luck. Please provide feedback if this is a known problem. As far as the content, having lived in various locales “outstate” for many years growing up and while in college and grad school, its really nice to have a solid source for news like Mlive that covers areas outside Metro Detroit. Thanks!

MLivecom has gotten so bad. You can’t even open the obits to read them. Also when trying to read a post it says it is no longer available so you go back and click on the picture to get the story. Then the very next article you have to click on the story and not the picture. I contacted them and said they knew there was a problem with the obits and working on it…..that was nearly a month ago.

I can’t turn off dark mode and I can’t read the words with dark mode on because I have vision issues. If I could turn the dark mode off that would be great. This is really frustrating because I read your paper every morning but if dark mode is going to stay on like this I can’t do it anymore.

The electronic version of the old newspapers is terrible. It is filled with out of date stories. Mix labeled items. Lack of any real reporting....pages of proms, old stories run for sometimes weeks at a time. Pop up ad clips. Here is a suggestion ...hire a person to check stories and perhaps delete articles after one day. There is a real lack of any news reporting. Sometimes I think the paper has reverted to a extensive rap sheet for criminals. There is becoming less and less reason to have mlive.

Wow what a bunch of crap. Charging readers a $100 a year now!! I guess it’s time to find a new app and delete this one. That’s way to much money for someone like me that hardly reads it anyway

Tends to hang when loading the over abundance of ads crammed into every article. Still serves up those annoying fake winner apps that require you to quit MLivecom to get away from the scam site. The way overused slideshows usually display blank pics; but high def ads - or they just hang the page.

Many times it just opens to a blank page and I have to go menu spelunking to get content to show.

Way too much sports fluff stories, and stories with (do not edit) or (insert caption here) still in the copy.

Better than an actual newspaper for reading, but far worse for wrapping fish.

I never write app reviews but MLivecom gone so far downhill I am considering deleting it.
This used to be a Michigan news app, now regardless of category it is predominantly sports - please put sports into it’s own category!!!
Loading & updating the story listing takes forever even on my high-speed wifi due to waiting for ads to load, complete with irritating video clips that auto-play even though I have turned this off in my settings. WTH?!?!?

No matter what category I attempt to look at, all the mlive app has is predominately sports. No actual news or anything. You would think between Detroit, flint and Saginaw, there would be more news. But no. Just whatever high school kid was able to throw a ball into a basket. Which I don’t mind, kids deserve all the recognition they can get, but it belongs in the sports section. Not in the crime section. Give it time and there will be football scores with the obituaries. 🙄

When you can not tell the difference between the “news” and the adds there’s a pretty good chance you’re looking at fake news. MLive is a good example. I understand the need to sell advertising but when it is imbedded in the report to look like it’s part of the story you have just been scammed, aka fake news

What story? Who, what, where and when? What next? That’s my reaction to your “stories”. There is such a profound lack of information mixed in with a good dose of misinformation that I keep deleting MLivecom . Then I add it back, hoping things will be better. I vote for more news, fewer ads and write valid stories instead of lists of teasers that link to more flashy ads. What a waste of time.

Does Mlive test "upgrades" or do you just let 17-year old app writers do what they think is best? I didn't think MLivecom could get worse, but I was wrong. For goodness sake, get readers (of text) to help with MLivecom - not someone who has to rely on pictures to pick out a story. Email me when you have something better... I won't be using this!

Weekdays there’s a good mix of regional news from a variety of regions. Weekends are always way to heavy on sports. Mark Torregrossa’s columns are always interesting, even though the photos and illustrations are not set within the text.

You guys have got to fix this last update. Very buggy. Noticeable delays when clicking on something. Comments seem to get attached to wrong stories. And for goodness sakes, there MUST be a way to allow people to opt out of (filter) topics. There are days where EVERY single story on the "front page" is about sports. It's way too much.

I was wondering why many of my comments where deleted. I posted nothing vulgar or verbally abusive. I noticed that my comments (about politics) previous comments posted by others where disrespectful, yet mine where deleted. It’s sounds to me this is violation of free speech. I can prove it. All I want to know is why ??? I would expect a response, since I emailed you and messaged you on Facebook, and no response.
Thank you

Although MLivecom works just fine, Mlive has too few reporters to cover the areas that they try to replace the local papers in. Need better reporting and people will read!

News is old and repetitive. I used to go to this website to get all my local news and happenings. I no longer received the physical newspaper, so I looked forward to getting all the same info from the website. Lately it has no content or it is repetitive and of no interest. Where is the news? What happened?

Don’t bother with MLivecom if you’re not into sports; that’s the dominant theme of the news items on the main page. 👎 And, several updates ago Detroit was removed as a news “locale” with no explanation. 🤔 But, I am very impressed with meteorologist Mark Torregrossa and his weather reports and videos! 👍🏻 He explains everything in an easy-to-understand way, and his forecasts are spot-on. Keep up the great work, Mark!

Lack of priority and organization. Comic con follows murder follows high school prom follows baseball. Far too heavy an emphasis on popular stories and sports; news topics are secondary or given lesser emphasis. Comes off as cheap and simple-minded. Restaurant reviews/topics are awful...or worse. Ryan Stanton’s Ann Arbor articles are well done and in contrast to the rest of the low common denominator emphasis of this poor excuse for a news outlet.

Given the development of Mlive as a company, MLivecom lacks in design. The interface is old and cluttered with adds scattered about making reading articles difficult. Many other news apps are able to utilize advertising without doing so.

I read MLive every morning. There’s always something interesting that hasn’t been covered by the Detroit papers!