syracuse.com

Whatever the new update and look is supposed to do , it failed miserably. It boots up with the side menu, half of the menu options have no content, and it freezes constantly. Selecting such menu items as obituaries or weather only comes up with “you have no articles for now”, and there is a a continuous advertisement banner across the bottom of the screen. If this skeleton of a local news app requires a subscription to get information that used to be free, at a cost higher than national news apps, then shame on them.

Still very buggy. Share button only works sporadically, “done” button broken. They fixed the bug where clicking a link if a story was open wouldn’t get you there, but now once you’re there you have to force quit to get the page to close. It’s 2021 people, high school kids are coding apps more elegantly than this. Luckily the shoddy appsmanship matches the shoddy journalism perfectly so no unrealistic expectations. Icing on the cake you have to log in over and over and over. I guess they’re worried if someone steals and unlocks my phone they won’t have to pay for poorly conceived, poorly written, and poorly edited stories about local restaurants going out of business?

Great app, but could use a bit of a refresh, especially for iPad which is quite common for papers nowadays. Great content and curation, just needs an equally good interface for the essentials!