The State News Reviews – Page 3
4/5 rating based on 50 reviews. Read all reviews for The State News for iPhone.
The State News is free iOS app published by McClatchy Interactive
AWFUL, AWFUL
68guy
I DON'T like this new version!!! What happened to the print version!! Also I don't see the obits anymore. Please bring back the print edition!!!
New app version
Ok ok ...
I've given the new app version two months. I prefer the previous version, by far. The new one is not even a close second, in my opinion.
Clingy
Tryagain1784
New app is awful,can't edit sections,can't find comics. Don't need a bunch of videos,a newspaper is something to READ! Old app with actual newspaper look was much better.
E-edition awful
Cudivermom
Not nearly as good as original version! Have to look for "e-edition" whereas on the original, that popped up first. Wish I could go back!
New app awful!
Johnmyoungsr
I used to be able to read the "replica" version without problems...the new edition has a replica version, but it is awful. Every time you sign in, you have to change to replica version...please change it back to the way it was,
New app is AWFUL! Do not subscribe!
PinetreeRR
Updating my review on 27-Jun-2017 - The State has now deployed an iPad app which supports reading of a print replica edition and can actually be read offline. However the user experience is still terrible. You are constantly bombarded with ads (over and above the huge number already filling the pages) if you read online. And if you read offline where the ads would be shown there are now large gray boxes that say offline mode. The fact is that as a paid subscriber, I should not have additional ads foisted on me unless I specifically ask for them. And certainly there is no excuse for the bad offline experience wrt to ads. Also if in the replica edition you choose to select an article and pull up the article to just read the article, more than 1/3 of your screen space for reading is wasted by showing a menu of other articles to read. If I had wanted to read other articles I would have selected them. At a minimum the list of articles should be OFF by default. In short THE STATE's iPad app experience remains really bad. I have already called the office to cancel my e-Subscription auto-renewal and am still debating whether to cancel altogether. It's absolutely amazing to me how newspapers are constantly lamenting that they are losing subscribers, and yet some of them deploy absolutely terrible apps for those who actually want to pay and read the newspaper. This is not rocket science! And some newspapers (e.g., The Washington Post) do a great job. Surely the programmers for THE STATE can find a good user experience from among their brethren to model. I predict that those newspapers that demonstrate that they care about their subscribers over and above their advertisers will survive in the long run. The rest will fail to get sufficient paid subscribers to continue. At least I know where I will be spending my money to read the latest news. Come on THE STATE -- you can do a lot better than this for your paid subscribers! (Even your old iPad app experience, which was not great, was better than this new one.) -- The new iPad app is (a) awful, (b) terrible, (c) missing sections, (d) not able to be read off line, (e) mixes in very old news, or (f) all of the above? ANSWER: (f) ALL OF THE ABOVE. I will be calling the office on Monday to cancel my subscription and obtain a refund for the remainder. THE STATE has apparently adopted a going out of business strategy - first much of the news in the print edition is 2-3 days old, and now they give tablet users a piece of garbage to access it. Spend your money on a real newspaper and working tablet access with another company. Strongly recommend you DO NOT SUBSCRIBE!
Older App Worked Better
USAPhoto
How do I get the old app back? It was so much better and did not use so much Memory.
Miserable ?
Gere Fulton
This is terrible. How do I get my "old" newspaper back? This might mean the end of my subscription. You did nothing to alert subscribers to this change.