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4.50
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spammy, or outdated. Pros
- Good news content and reporting
- Easy to use navigation for reading articles
- Notification alerts for breaking news
Cons
- Frequent navigation issues that lose users' reading positions
- Excessive ads, even for paid subscribers
- Poor layout and design compared to previous versions of the app
- Inability to access certain features like the Print Edition consistently
- Problems with story retrieval and app crashes
Most mentioned
- Navigation problems causing loss of reading positions
- Increased ad presence regardless of paid subscription
- Desire for a better layout and experience compared to the old app
- Unusability and crashing issues after updates
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User reviews
Recent rating average:
1.70
All time rating average:
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| Date | Author | Rating | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-09-11 |  | | When you swipe to a side, even slightly, the app will navigate to a different page. This is doubly frustrating because it will return to the start of whatever you were reading if you hit back, not where you left off. The games section needs an overhaul too. The side swipe issue mentioned above is a problem here. But so are the enormous banners and paragraphs of explanatory text on every game. You constantly have to scroll up and down to keep your crossword or whatever in view. |
| 2024-09-07 |  | | The latest update ruined what has until now been a stellar app. Now, unfortunately, whenever you hit the back button after reading an article, the app brings you back to the top of the feed, losing your place every time as you are perusing articles if interest. It's every bit as annoying as a constantly updating Facebook feed. Very disappointing! |
| 2024-07-24 |  | | The only way to read the Print Edition of the Washington Post is in the App on my cell phone. It is extremely difficult to do so given the small size of the text. From time to time, like today, the Print Edition is not available through the App because the button for it has disappeared from the menu bar. This is truly frustrating. OK after dev reply. Still need to develop a Windows and MAC OS app that will allow the Print Edition to be viewed on a laptop or desktop computer. |
| 2024-06-01 |  | | I had an online subscription to the Post for years - it's still active, but will expire in November. However, the content is interrupted by continuous ads that I must scroll past - despite the fact I'm personally paying for the content. I thought the case might be different if I got the app, but it's not. The app offers no advantage over the WP website - still bombarded by ads. A sad situation for one of the US's two newspapers of record. |
| 2024-04-18 |  | | Imagine paying for a newspaper subscription, but the app won't actually hold an article open for more than 10 seconds before going back to the homepage, eventually leading to the app crashing. It's updated and all. Don't feel like I'm getting my subscription's worth. Plus, with them consistently changing who does the Seven in the morning, and always changing the music is just annoying. I come to you for news. Not different personalities in a podcast or funky transition music. I want the news. |
| 2023-01-31 |  | | Great app but you have to stop sending it back to page one with every little news change. I can be 3/4 of the way through the news when I am shot back to the lead article and have to scroll all the way back to what I was reading. Happens many times a minute and really stinks! No other newspaper app does this. STOP IT! Allow updates to news to accumulate and allow the user to get any immediate updates at their will and not your will. STOP IT and let me read without you changing what I look at. |
| 2022-05-29 |  | | You really need to change this app or I will really need to change my subscription. I loved being able to navigate the previous app because it felt like a real newspaper and allowed me to read it as I read a newspaper. I could pick a section and quickly scan it for news that was relevant to me. With the "New" app it feels like you have regressed to Web 1 and are trying to lead me around with a ring in my nose. I am both frustrated and angry. I will not use it. Give your subscribers a choice!!! |
| 2022-05-18 |  | | What the heck happened?? I prefer the print edition. Everytime I try to scroll through the pages by section, something goes wrong: Can't get past page A4, or when I get to "World" it reverts to A1 or kicks totally out of the app. Sometimes comments don't load. This is becoming nonfunctional for me, and the subscription is becoming worthless. Tech support was able to resolve the problem of the app throwing an error when I tried to get past A4, but now it kicks me out when I get to "World". |
| 2022-05-05 |  | | So glad you forced me off the old app and your alternative to the card interface is the new discovery widget, which has shown the same stories for the past seven days. I've reinstalled the widget, rebooted the phone, even put it on another phone. Same 21 stories, now a week old. Some discovery. But thanks to you, I've rediscovered Flipboard. You're off my home screen, and they're on. I'll be reading a lot less WaPo thanks to that. Too bad. |
| 2022-04-24 |  | | This app is difficult to navigate and poorly laid out. This is NOT improvement, but an excuse to include ads in my paid subscription. Stories are repeated in different sections, and has the editor ever heard of spell checking? I have to search to access all the available stories. If I wanted people to choose what articles I read, I would read google news. I rarely post reviews, but this change sucks. |
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