The Huntsville Times Reviews

[January 2025 Update] The new “improved” interface isn’t much of an improvement. It at least seems to remember better which page I was on when I close my iPad to get a cup of coffee. The downside is that I have to start TheHuntsvilleTimes again. That’s not true for most iOS apps.

One complaint (which another reviewer also noted) is that now it takes several clicks to open the next edition. Maybe you could provide some options for how we want TheHuntsvilleTimes to start up.

I miss the bar at the top that gave fast access to the different sections. Now it takes an additional click to get there. And when I select a section, that section isn’t first in the array of thumbnail pages, it’s last.

And why do the comics keep moving around? Every day it seems the pages get shuffled. And finally, what happened to the “Shoe” comic strip?

This newspaper seems to be going the same way lots of products have gone — I’m paying more and more for less and less.

The redesign of the user interface is e to the x worse that what you had before. To boot the paper doesn’t begin as it should until you go through several gyrations. My guess is you did not test this on users before you released it or if you did it clearly was not a broad selection of age groups. It is beyond me how anyone can say this is better than the coders probably the same ones that coded your payment site

I use USA Today and The Wall Street Journal ap daily. Needless to say their aps are awesome. Content is great. The Huntsville Times ap needs work to be more readable, and the content needs work to be a HUNTSVILLE newspaper, Not an Alabama newspaper. Where are the daily articles on UAH? Where are the articles on AL A&M? Where are the local high schools? We need more local content, or I think you will see a competing newspaper come to town soon, and make the Huntsville Times extinct.

I could deal with the poor ap,if the content was there, but it is not. I am doing more Bing and Google searching now to get the news I need. We are missing all they key local stories now. Too bad.

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what happened to my e-edition of the Huntsville Times? I do NOT this Huntsville Lede version. I want my e-edition back

This is new “thing” is horrible. I want my newspaper back!!!

We were promised an e-edition of our Huntsville Times for when we were on vacation. THIS IS NOT THAT! Light on content. Comics are better, obits are nice, but this is a toy newspaper.

TheHuntsvilleTimes is unstable and crashes all the time. You can finally get through the newspaper after two or three restarts.

Please bring back the e-edition exact replica of the print paper that as available until mid-October 2021 when it was replaced by “The Lede”. Thanks!

I canceled my subscription before due to TheHuntsvilleTimes. I thought it may have improved. Unfortunately it has not changed.

I would give a zero star rating but they don’t let you do that. Impossible to access site. Their help site folks are snooty and of no help. So I am paying for a site I cannot access.

New update does not allow viewing the print version of the Huntsville Times. You only get a magazine type publication. Bring back the old app!!

Hate the new format - especially the sports section & how you access it. It’s clunky, requires too many actions, and does not include next day or whole week. The whole paper’s content is skimpy. Are you trying to lose subscribers?

So if I took my paper, cut it up and scanned it trying to make the white parts as small as I could and inadvertently managed to get way too close to the margins that is how it looks. Then if I used Acrobat to add some hyperlinks to go between pages to follow an article, but the link just went to the page and I had to scroll around to find what I was reading that is how it feels. And if I was okay with the text being just a bit fuzzy because it isn't e-text I would be happy and ready to publish.

It seems that someone is working really hard on this product. Cutting, pasting, scanning, hyperlinking. And it's just not that great. Better than nothing, but it lacks the feel of a real "paper" and it lacks the function of an electronic news site.

Lots of room to improve and a great effort that falls short. Plus, The Times website has problems processing the data to accept my email address and it took two calls to get access. Keep trying Times! You have a long way to go.

I have been enjoying the desktop version of the Huntsville Times and was excited to see that there is now an iPad app. It's nice to be able to download the entire paper to enjoy anywhere.

Really am enjoying this new format. The content is good and the visual design is impressive. Thank you

love the local news stories and supporting my local paper

I enjoy the paper online everyday.

I did not give a very good review to begin with because I didn’t care for the new layout, but now that I have gotten used to the format I have found that I really like the Lede.

I think there’s more news in here than in the newspaper. I like the new format— easier to use. Took me a minute to get used to it, and now that I have, this is really good.

A decent viewer except for two problems - one big and one minor. Big - it crashes quite often, especially when downloading the daily news. Small - the comics have to be read one at a time rather than viewing all like you do in the paper edition.