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We have had more problems with the stability of this site than we have had with ALL of our other apps combined. Now, All past magazines that had been downloaded were lost. When attempting to download them again the entire site crashed...not once, but three times. It becomes necessary to delete the app and start over again. Repeatedly. Other issues are equally frustrating. In the past you could do a subject search and it would search through all selected resources. Now it only searches material that has been downloaded. (Such as the magazines that cause the site to crash). Furthermore, in the past you only had to click on a year or month to get the download. Now it opens the index and you have to click again to download content. Who thought this was an improvement? Well, doesn’t matter since the site crashes anyway trying to download them. I just don’t understand why our a church site works more poorly than any others.

In the last few months my app has been struggling to open. I have to close it and try opening it many times and pause for 10 seconds to see if the blank white screen eventually fills in and it opens OR it crashes and I have to try again. This is frustrating as I need to open it at the start of class as a Sunday school and seminary teacher. Also, the search feature should not just be for exact wording but KEY words, so that different talks and scriptures related to those words (not only including directs quotes of your search) show in the search results. Also, there should be a way to search a specific category (or categories) BEFORE hitting search so it doesn’t have to load all 100,000,000,000 results before you narrow it down. Sometime I just want to search “commandments” in the Book of Mormon and conference talks not in all the gospel library content known to man.

The thing I liked best about using this app to study over my hard copy of the scriptures was the experience I had when scrolling through the text. The last font, spacing and layout was very well done from an aesthetic point of view. It was pleasing to the eyes and made for not only a great tool but also a pleasing experience. Now the text is small and harsh and goes to the far extreme of both sides of the screen (where are the margins?). Yes it provides more content on one page but that content is too small and difficult to use. Yes you can manually change the size of the text in tools but that only works for that one chapter. You have to repeat the process every time you advance a chapter. The irony is when you pull up the footnotes they are in the old font and size while the main text is in the new aesthetically challenged font. It makes me want to read only the footnotes. Why can’t we have the best of all worlds, more info, pleasing aesthetics, pleasing font and for heavens sake some margins. All I know is that my study was more rewarding and spiritually focused in the last version. Isn’t that what we are striving for? I look forward to an improvement in the next version. That or let those who want revert back to the old way or at least have that option.