The New York Times: Live News
Stay updated with breaking national & world news. Live 2024 Election coverage.
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4.66
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spammy, or outdated. Pros
- Great news content
- The app helps in reading articles similar to the print version
- The recent dark theme update has improved user experience
Cons
- App has become slow and laggy after recent updates
- Issues with automatic content refreshing that loses user position
- Difficult to navigate due to unnecessary tabs and sections
- Persistent bugs including black screens and missing articles
- Inconsistent notifications, especially for content not related to user interests
Most mentioned
- Slow performance and long loading times
- User interface changes have negatively impacted usability
- Frequent refreshing of content leading to loss of user progress
- Frustration with ads and content accessibility for paying users
- Poor navigation due to increased tabs and lack of clarity in content prioritization
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| Date | Author | Rating | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-11-24 |  | | The New York Times app is getting worse. I subscribe to get news. NYT recently added a bunch of navigation tabs to different non-news sections, with "Today" (I e., News) somewhere in the middle. "Home" takes you to the first tab, which is NOT news. I have the separate cooking and games apps for which I also have subscriptions. When I open the news one, I want to read news. Please make the NEWS default when you open the app. Also remove the "You" recommenders to avoid reader-bubbles. |
| 2024-11-15 |  | | I'm really frustrated. I am a paying member and was told by the app that articles that I share can be viewed for free. But apparently it's not free, because The Times requires an email address to be viewed. Personal information is absolutely not worthless. I also pay $25 month and still have to watch a 15 second ad before playing a 50 second news clip. It feels like I'm a free user who still has to pay. A lot too. More than Netflix, or Hulu, or Wondrium, heck even more than Prime. |
| 2024-11-09 |  | | News content good but new version introduced in late 2024 is vastly worse user interface. Commonly used features like most popular articles which used to be one tap away now require scrolling and multiple taps. Updating which used to happen in the background now results in a spinning wheel each time you open the app, even when preferences are set to update in the background. Most read articles has not updated in almost a week. I've uninstalled and reinstalled on a Galaxy s22. Worse all around |
| 2024-11-05 |  | | UPDATE: If you're plagued by the slow loading issue, uninstall the app even if it's the current version. Then reinstall. That fixed it for me. The October 9 update didn't fix the app bug. The home page is still ridiculously slow to load. By comparison , the Washington Post is almost instantaneous. NYT screwed something up and has yet to fix it. |
| 2024-11-04 |  | | The recent update that restructured the layout of the app seems to have also completely ruined its functionality. Content tries to refresh on every open, and it takes 1-2 minutes to complete. There has always been a "download content" option in the app that should make constant data pulls unnecessary but I've never seen it actually work. I read the paper less since the recent update has made usability go into the tank. For a paper with this much revenue you'd think they could hire developers |
| 2024-11-02 |  | | 11/2/24 Now, there is another failure. The tab default tab is always Games, not Top Stories. Home always goes to Games, not the last destination, which is the one I want. There is no way to refresh or jump to the reliably to Top Stories. Terrible. I am missing the ability to navigate and am spending too much effort to access what I want find. |
| 2024-10-31 |  | | It's become incredibly slow recently, paticularly since the recent layout change, which I don't actually like. I am especially tired of all the videos that automatically play, which is probably a factor in the speed. I haven't figured out a setting to change to turn that feature off. |
| 2024-10-26 |  | | (rating the app, not the NYT or the other 2 NYT apps) the most annoying thing to me is how often this app updates. Worse, the cached version always pops up first, I see something I want to read, then 15 seconds later it updates the feed and the article I was interested in is nowhere to be found. Other than that it's a decent app, but that is a pretty huge bother. |
| 2024-10-25 |  | | This app has become a bloated mess. It takes forever to refresh, and I constantly get errors about loading. I always have to exit and clear cache to try and get it to work. Videos and media also have issues loading as well. It used to bee great before they had all of the new tabs at the top. (Pixel 9 Pro) |
| 2024-10-24 |  | | App worked great until the update with the top tabs. Swiping through photos and video clips is horrible because it moves to the other tabs once the last item has been swiped. App takes forever to load. I don't care about sports at all yet it's the closest tab. You know what I'm reading, just use AI to figure out what tabs I would like and only load those and put them next to the home tab, don't load every single tab and make me wait for content I don't want. C'mon UX, you're better than this. |
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