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What the heck have you done, to ruin a perfectly good app? I want to read the newspaper, and sometimes, for the day before, and, perhaps, the day prior to that. After wasting 30 minutes, trying to find previous newspaper issue dates, I had to give up.
This is so NOT saving newspapers, in the Bay Area, or in our country, for that matter.
Leave it to the millennials, to read only what you are pushing. This OK Boomer, wants to read the newspaper, in a linear; full, and total offering.
Didn’t you do any subscriber testing of this dreadful, ruination, of our relied-upon newspaper, and app?
Total fail......
Unnecessary required updates. Ads are too intrusive for paid subscription
There is a spat of San Francisco papers (CC times, oak trib, San Jose mercury news) that are beyond frustrating. I see a news story on safari. I try to go to it and get directed to download EastBayTimes or go to story. I select go to story and I get the same message! I can't just read the story with my iPhone and safari. So I've downloaded this sorry app (same for most local papers) and guess what? The story I was interested in is not there!!!! So ditch EastBayTimes . Make a mobile optional web page. I have stopped looking at these papers because EastBayTimes doesn't have the stories I am interested in and the newspapers web site insists I get EastBayTimes . EastBayTimes doesn't have the stories. Instead of being an ad for these papers it has driven me away.
I saw a news item about a local hospital having multiple coronavirus cases in another news source. The only way this article showed up searching for it in EastBayTimes was to enter the hospital name. Under the search for coronavirus I got fluff stories about restaurants opening and sports stories but nothing about this hospital that is located nearby even though this story was just out yesterday.
Navigation of the newspaper with EastBayTimes is frustrating and confusing. An example of new and improved often isn’t. Deleting EastBayTimes and hope that a better on comes along soon so that I’ll be able to read my local paper when I am away from the area.
Whomever designed this new edition should be fired. I’m old school and resistant to change, but this new app is impossible to navigate and won’t even update on my new iPad Air. I can only hope there will be updates to fix the bugs! And given the comments on this review page I’m not alone. Time to go back to the Chronicle!!!
I have two basic complaints. One, there is no easy way to search for a particular article. Why can’t this site have a search box in a prominent display area like so many other newspapers. Secondly, the fonts are especially tiny on the first page. The fonts are fine, however, when reading the actual article.
Developers boast that in the new version (7.3) you can embed a “Scribble live post,” whatever that means, but God forbid you need to search for a headline that you saw in the print edition so that you can have a link to forward to a friend. There appears to be no search tool whatsoever. What kind of a text-based news app doesn’t have a search tool? A very lame one.
I like to look through the newspaper just like I did with the paper version. That experience is gone, or I can’t find it.
I’m curious, do you’re app developers just change things to change them. They sure didn’t make this new app a better experience.
This morning I clicked on the new app, which had appeared yesterday in place of the previous one, and yesterday’s edition appeared. Could not access today’s edition. So I tried my cell phone and it appeared there. Deleted EastBayTimes from this iPad and will now download EastBayTimes again. The new app is cumbersome. Before, I could swipe once to get to the next page; now I must click on the page and choose from a page below the page. There is nothing so far that is better than before and everyday reading is less convenient.
I love the content you have.
Sometimes when I tap on an alert from EastBayTimes to see the relevant article, EastBayTimes shows me a more recent and unrelated article. Sometimes the article in the alert just isn’t to be found.
There is no obvious way to search. The search on your website is indexed poorly, but at least there is one.
Previous days’ articles, political cartoons, etc. are only sometimes available through EastBayTimes .
Thinking of the web site: I have to reset my password every time I use it, despite always using the same password. I suppose using the same password keeps EastBayTimes from having trouble or a sign in when I launch it, but any password reset should require reauthentication of EastBayTimes (or any other way to get to my account), even if it is the same password.
App is decent, unfortunately it doesn't want update the news sometimes. Stories are all days old and when you make it refresh it says it's still up to date. I find myself switching to other news apps often to get current events. If it was consistent I'd use it more. Also if you lose your signal it has a hard time reconnecting unlike other news apps.
Can't rate too high as I just downloaded EastBayTimes but after having numerous problems re-subscribing to BANG, I'm super excited to see EastBayTimes available more specific to my location. My fingers are crossed that it delivers, based on my initial look though, it seems to be even better layout than BANG. Yay, thanks for providing this!
A good daily with timely local and national news plus good comics and daily puzzles…but the price is getting out of hand.
Great App for news in the Bay Area! I've had it since it first came out and I have never had a problem. I would definitely recommend it!
Im glad the cc times released EastBayTimes. Its so complete. Its like having the actual newspaper with you. Very informative! A must have
Simple, click on the section, lists the stories, read the stories. Finally got it right. Not sure what took so long.
Love getting local coverage with this. It works really well. Maybe Apple should clean out some of the reviews from the GW Bush era?
Great job on the new app! Love the radar and updated weather features! We get the paper delivered daily and now with the new updated app I feel even more connected with our new hometown! Thanks!
More news than what I am used to in CNN app plus local news.
East Bay Times for Mobile does not appear safe based on available data.
JustUseApp Safety Score for East Bay Times is 0/100.
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Combined with the app store average rating of 4.5/5.
East Bay Times for Mobile does not appear legitimate based on our analysis.
Our NLP models processed user feedback to estimate legitimacy. JustUseApp Legitimacy Score for East Bay Times is 0/100 .
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| Pricing Plans | Amount (USD) |
|---|---|
| East Bay Times Monthly Sub | $11.99 |
| East Bay Times Annual Sub | $139.99 |
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Instead of going back to the main section to find more articles, users have the option to simply swipe, immediately opening other articles in the Section.
Users will be allowed to customize the content they want to engage with by selecting the topics they are truly interested in.
The user can select what topics they want to be notified about which makes for a much less intrusive experience.
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