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The Scranton Times-Tribune app: don't waste your time! The ONLY good thing about this app is that it's free, but you get what you pay for-- nothing. The app USED to be much better about 9 months ago, but there's no point in mentioning its now-defunct good points. Suffice to say, I could barely read my paper today. The button option to choose text view" or traditional (formatted for mobile vs more like a hard -copy appearance) disappeared. The text was literally jumpy (I checked other websites ; they're all fine, just the newspaper is twitchy). Some articles would not enlarge to make for easier reading. Even in the iPad, some articles are blurred. This app is not well- made or well-maintained. If I could give it NO stars, I would, but the review forces me to give it at least one. Pretend you don't see that one star. This is a zero-star, totally thumbs- down review.

Downloaded the app to access archived reporting AFTER reading the provided information that included the assurance that there would be “no charge” for iPad users. The first article I tried to access resulted in me being flipped to the newpaper’s website, then a 15-second view was brought up of the article appeared before a subscription-required sales prompt popped up and disallowed my ability to READ the article I had searched for. Certainly I understand that newspapers need revenue streams and I would certainly have been willing, had I been honestly approached for a digital subscription. Instead I was promised access that was not provided and I have been jumping through hoops since trying to gain a readable version of what I have been unsuccessfully researching. Just horrible. Can’t use the app, can’t read the darn article, and can’t even get a subscription purchase to finalize so I’m just SOL.

I have never felt the need to review an app until now. This “new” app, which was forced upon readers, is a huge move backward. I can no longer read the paper! The app view is does not provide news in a sensible format and leaves too much out, so I don’t even try to use it. So, I’m left with the “e-edition” which is a web-based view. The “replica view” is too blurry to read when zoomed, and the “live article view” provides about 30 percent of the page content. I have contacted support numerous times and they tell me they are waiting on IT to fix it. I spent 32 years working in IT - someone in IT should be fired over this mess! Either fix it, or back out and give us the old app back!