The Patriot-News Reviews

by Edenridge

The Harrisburg Patriot News app opens to the home page of the Omaha World Herald on Apple iPad. The Patriot News has difficulty delivering the physical paper on a regular basis and ThePatriotNews was always a backup. Now they can't even deliver the digital version.

by App Terrible

This should make someone ashamed. It is slow, sometimes will not load, is very, very, very slow to resolve.

ThePatriotNews is so bad it will not even take my review about how bad it is.

by Papernomo

Trying to contact the circulation department is difficult...called 4 different numbers...all disconnected....who do you call for missed delivery? If I don’t find a number soon I’ll have to call my credit card company to stop payment, then watch how fast they contact me!!!

by Used To Like The PN

Wanted to see demo of ThePatriotNews , it simply wouldn't load. Tried it 3 times. We just cancelled our subscription to the print version, we won't be paying for this electronic one.

by ETFWiphone

After recent iOS update ThePatriotNews would not load any version of the Harrisburg Patriot-News. It did load the Omaha edition which does nothing for me here in Harrisburg, PA. I. Did get a message 'No feed found'.

by Moose L

I downloaded ThePatriotNews since the actual daily paper edition is being curtailed. But it leaves much to be desired. I did not buy the subscription but did view the sample edition. The electronic edition seems to be no more than a scanned edition of the actual paper. It is not sized to the ipad, so in order to view the whole page you have to drag your finger around the whole screen. This causes the page to constantly reload and it does so slowly. Often times this reloading caused ThePatriotNews to crash. Tapping on the next page should bring you to the top of that page. Most people who read down to the bottom of a page and tap the next page do not want to start that next page on the bottom of it. The thumbnail setting displays pages too small to be of any use. Instead of trying to force the newspaper onto a tablet they should design a layout that is built for one. I'm sure it would increase subscription rates. For a clean easy to navigate layout I think the NY Post nailed it. Until then I think I'll wait on this one.
Update: At the beginning of the year this paper went from a daily publication to just 3 days (tu,th,su). But the subscription price remains the same for just 12 editions per month. Not worth $1.33 an issue. All other problems with ThePatriotNews are still the same too. Nothing changing with this paper.

by AGuitarMusicFan

While ThePatriotNews 's performance is sluggish for all the reasons noted by other reviewers, my complaint is with PN's "bait and switch". I still subscribe to the hard copy weekend edition. That entitled me to receive the electronic print editions for the Tuesday and Thursday editions... until sometime within the past few weeks. Now they want me to subscribe to keep receiving these two weekly editions. Sorry, but the value proposition isn't sufficient to warrant me forking over additional money. I believe I'll also not be renewing my subscription for the weekend edition after that subscription nears the end of its term.

by Ed12334567

I subscribed for one month and almost immediately canceled. App does not open cleanly nor recognize your subscription until you go through various screens advising you to subscribe. After cancelling these out you get to the digital paper which many days only has a partial paper. Terrible app.

by Cw1352469

Bought subscription through app store, it worked for 1 day. Now every time I start ThePatriotNews I am prompted to buy a subscription. I cannot access the paper. I call cust. Support at the Patriot. They say it is not their problem. DO NOT BUY A SUBSCRIPTION THORUGH ThePatriotNews STORE.

by E3D3cuLater

App is fine as is. Whatever updates that have been applied recently (then apparently backed-off...?) are poorly applied and obviously not “user tested”. Can’t get in directly, font and page is reduced so you have to expand to be able to read; if you print a crossword puzzle, again, the font is way too small. I mostly use ThePatriotNews on iPad or phone, as I think most users do, so test on a tablet and phone, not a desktop or laptop computer. (Yes, the web version using my desktop computer does work better...; even the crossword print) Overall, on-line customer service is completely non-responsive. Hopefully some standard IT practices will be applied to your development efforts in the future.

by Bashful25

I would love it if they could add in the coupons and weekly store flyers, that is what my wife and I are interested in the most!!!
I can read the important news stories for free on many free apps!!!

by D15589

Consumes gigabytes of space if you don't monitor it carefully. I've selected the setting to store only three editions offline but, at last count, there were 29 editions in storage taking up about 1.5GB.

by Neilax

ThePatriotNews fails to save my favorite articles, but it is otherwise OK.

by Deliveredpapers

Overall pretty good with a little glitch once in awhile.

by Cvs118

I read the Patriot faithfully; have been doing so for a long time! PennLive is fine but I’ve been reading the paper for so long that I must have the e-paper. I could do without the obvious liberal bias; most of Central PA is conservative. We deserve at least a moderate tome. But what are we going to do?

by Ramer 4

Read and go deeper into,the type can be right. In your face knee it close to read ,only read interested articles.ramer

by Dbresh

Love the format. Especially love the Ravens coverage.

by Babsconj

A bargain at any price! Quality journalism at its finest!

by Willithek

Love it. Easy to navigate and get used to.

by El-reader

Great newspaper, I have been a reader since the 1960’s. I remember the four and five star final editions at the great cost of seven cents....be blessed in your craft. A constant reader. I am George C. Luckette