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Washington Post App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024
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✓ Possible ImprovementsAs an overseas subscriber I would like to see more international news content and in-depth long reads of all types. I sometimes feel that this is not taken into account when setting up your storyboard, as virtually the whole front scrolling page is America perhaps an international version of the post would be a suggestion to improve content I don’t want to sound to critical as that is not my intention because you guys do good work! Cheers Michael.Version: 4.3.1
✓ Still CrashingI love the Washington Post but it's crashing even worse for me now with the new update. It crashes almost every time I go to All Sections and then click on a news section. It's driving me nuts and I'm going to uninstall the app because it's just not useable. So disappointed, if the app worked I'd give it 5 stars but since it crashes almost every time it's getting a single star..Version: 1.5.3
✓ Great quality journalism, functionality leaves much to be desired for meDespite having had a subscription (through the Apple store) for a while now, in the app I can only read a couple of articles or so because after that, when I try to go to another article, be it through a link embedded in the article I’m currently reading, or by going back to the home screen of the app, I am sent to the subscribe screen. I tried to restore Apple store purchase, but I get a message saying that no subscription associated with my Apple ID was found, and to try to sing into the Wapo or make an account. I tried to delete the app and re-install it, I restarted the iPad several times, to no avail. I HAVE a subscription, and I DON’T want to sign up for more accounts, our information is out there enough as it is already. Please look into this and try to fix the issue. It is possible, for instance the Wall Street Journal app seems to have flawless functionality. I really don’t want to drop this subscription, but if I am unable to read the paper, I may end up giving it up..Version: 4.3.0
✓ Terrible to Read as a Traditional PaperThe WP App for iPad just keeps getting worse for those of us reading the traditional paper format. When it was a separate App, it used to be OK. If I accidentally flipped a page, I could flip back and see it EXACTLY as I was viewing it, zoomed in on the same area of the page. That feature has been gone since this app absorbed the paper view. But the App has never remembered where I was reading last time I opened the app - and still does not. But new is its ability to either crash or throw the reader out of the newspaper view if tapping on the article to view it in the reader. This does not happen most of the time, but apparently some of the printed articles are not available in the reader - and that causes it to crash. The WP will print a nice response asking me to contact them. I have. The problem is the App, not my iPad and we have proven that together. I love reading the WP. I just want to stop being aggravated from trying to use their app..Version: 6.52.0
✓ Slanted Washington PostWhen I was growing up in Washington DC, Northern Virginia my father was a great reporter who was well respected. He wanted me to read the Washington Post which I started to do at a young age. At this time the paper appeared to be a good place for learning the news. He stated that it was overall unbiased and had good information and reporters. I grew to enjoy reading the paper in the late 60’s and early 70’s. Trouble with the paper is it’s honestly a slanted paper. Constantly attacking Trump and not doing any substantive stories about Biden and his apparent incompetence and probable criminal if not treasonous activities with a possible pay to play enterprise. If Trump has done immoral or illegal things then yes the truth should be revealed. The same is true with the Biden’s and the Clinton’s. This was the newspaper who exposed Watergate but won’t look into the Clinton’s or Biden’s alleged involvement in probable criminal enterprises. My father was a hard nosed fair and honest reporter who went with the truth no matter who was involved. He taught me to look at things impartially. This helped me greatly in my professional careers. The only reason I still subscribe to the paper is to read about Washington area sports. The rest of the paper is only worthy of lining the bottom of a bird cage. Sad a once great paper is now pretty much a worthless shell of its former self..Version: 6.35.0
✓ Great newsGreat read in the antipodes.Version: 2.5.4
✓ Too busyThe old app was simpler and easier to use. I can see them going for a more newspaper type look here. Unfortunately it’s too blurred. The photo backgrounds of the last app made it easier to navigate and was better for an app. This new one is trying to do too much and it doesn’t do it very well. Feels closer to CNN now and that app is not good either. It has potential, if they do an update to bring the flow back to the older (slower) scroll, otherwise I’ll be going back to CNN..Version: 6.0.0
✓ User-unfriendly and anti-privacy appToo few customization options in the app. What little there is is hidden behind a very invasive cookie curtain. Why does it take me 2 taps and a swipe to get to the World section? App should open on my selected topics, like the Guardian app does. Your international readers want quick access to your coverage of world events. Every 4 articles, there are these "thank you for choosing WP" blocks that you’re making me scroll through. Wait, will you be serving me ads, after I’ve paid for a subscription? It’s bad enough you’re selling my data without my permission, with no opt-out option. You are making it very hard for your readers to access your content. We are trying to support independent quality journalism..Version: 6.21.0
✓ Complete rip offThe WP deducts the sub from my account every month but I can’t read the articles. A window comes up asking me to sign in. I sign in. A window pops up thanking me for signing in. I tap on an article and the window comes up asking me to sign in again. And again. And again. The Help service proves impossible to negotiate..Version: 6.45.0
✓ Ads ads adsEven after being a paid subscriber, ads still exist.Version: 6.12.0
✓ Consistent news reporting with varied opinion pieces.I give WAPO a 1 star rating because of its failure to respect readers free speech. I was unexpectedly banned for life from commenting over a year ago. My ban notice told me to contact customer service if I felt the ban had been made in error. I have done so repeatedly but each time I do so I receive an auto reply that they are too busy to answer individual enquires. So, when my annual renewal notice I checked the box to not renew yet they took the payment anyway. <SIGH > Must be the Jeff Bezos effect on the company. By the way the apparent reason for my ban was this comment: “It appears that “Ray Joseph Cormier” posts under the name “Richard McCulloch” on the Occidental Observer. At present he has 20 posts on the blog. The Occidental Observer is an American far-right online publication that covers politics and society from a white nationalist and antisemitic perspective. Its posted mission statement is to "present original content touching on the themes of white identity, white interests, and the culture of the West." That is what WAPO thinks of free speech I guess..Version: 6.39.0
✓ Difficult to save article for later readingWhere ‘s gone the bookmark? Please put it back on the right top Thanks!.Version: 6.43.0
✓ Search is useless, lack of dissentA recent article I had seen while scrolling the app was no longer visible. I searched the subject’s name but only older articles appeared. I went on Google and found the WaPo article and that link brought me back to the app. A frustrating work around and I’ve had to do this many times. Also, sometimes certain stories linger on the home page for a few too many days. And the Crossword sub-section frequently forgets my progress and I must restart a puzzle if I dare step away for too many minutes. Those are tech issues which will likely continue to be disregarded (they’re a year old at least). Content-wise, I would like to see more dissenting voices — throw rocks at the establishment and think critically and not as all one team. When one of your own reporters is blatantly hypocritical I shouldn’t have to go on Google to find (the thousands of) dissenting voices calling her out, this time with no self-critical WaPo links BTW..Version: 6.4.1
✓ This app is a joke - a bad oneI subscribed to The Post over an hour ago and have spent most of my time since then trying to get signed in to this app. When I open the app and enter the email address on my WaPo account I get a pop-up telling me that I need to sign in on the website so that the site and the app can share my info. The Boston Globe and The New York Times don’t ask me to jump through hoops like this, but okay. When I sign in on washingtonpost dot com I receive an email telling me that a link has been sent to my email for one-click log in. Okay fine. I go to the email and click. It takes me back to the website and I’m all logged in. Then I go to the app and - lather, rinse, repeat. I was able to log in to the website using my email and password on my laptop, but when I want back to my phone to give it a try - same stupid loop all over again. I do not want to have to log in to a website on my phone. I want and need the convenience of an app. Apparently I’ll not get that here. I don’t currently have a personal laptop or desktop to use for this. I’m glad I got a good promo rate to subscribe. I won’t lose more than a few dollars for this month. I’ll be canceling once I hit “send” on this..Version: 4.3.2
✓ Used to be GoodMade up a complete farce of themselves obsessing over Russia, absolutely paranoid - just like Nixon in Watergate..Version: 3.8.2
✓ How many ads do I need to watch before I can do the daily crossword?Lately I’ve been subjected to multiple 15-second ad videos before the daily crossword crashes and I have to repeat the process! The same is true if you leave the crossword and then come back to it after a few minutes. I pay for a subscription already, how much is enough?.Version: 6.38.0
✓ Leftist biasThe paper is unreadable No pretense of balance A shill for the most leftist impulses in America.Version: 6.49.1
✓ Clickbait HeadlinesWhile Bezos owning the Washington Post may have helped get them the right tech to modernize their website and apps, the biggest downside I see, and one that I think has contributed to our culture of polarization, is the exaggerated, hyperbolic clickbait headlines used to drive user engagement. I can’t go a week without seeing how so-and-so “brutally” “took down” so-and-so and similar. For someone who seems to pride himself on the quality of his reading repertoire and started his business in books (and who’s so wealthy you’d think he would set more limits on this), Bezos has optimized eyeballs at the cost of de-elevating the quality of the Post’s reading experience, and it’s uncomfortable—I want a Post subscription to balance against the New York Times, but I feel less elevated reading today’s Post headlines, to the point where it feels like less of a stretch to think that Bernstein and Woodward must have reported for the Times rather than for their “modern” Washington alternative..Version: 4.0.1
✓ BiasBias propaganda not journalism.Version: 6.30.0
✓ Liberals should be more self-criticalI am a liberal - a social and fiscal liberal - who should enjoy the WP; but one of the hallmarks of liberalism is a mind open to contra-evidence. My preconceptions are rarely challenged in the Post, I’m rarely encouraged to wonder if my instincts or received wisdoms are wrong. That surely can’t be healthy. Democracy thrives on understanding all sides of an argument, and the nuances in between..Version: 3.12
✓ App freezesCould be my iPhone 8+ but have had the app freeze on me numerous times. To get it working I have turn my phone off and on. Quite frustrating..Version: 3.33.0
✓ Great news source, lousy appNo question, WaPo is my go-to news source for All Things DC. It's profoundly satisfying to read well researched, trustworthy journalism in a day of claimed witch hunts and fake news. So why does such a fine media outlet have such a crappy app? The navigation is awkward at best. Ads are often intrusive, disrupting reading. We subscribers get only partial versions of the print or browser-ready WaPo with the apps. Whole sections are missing, to say nothing of less popular articles. And there are no comments. WaPo comments are worth reading if only because some DC insider anonymously posts a news nugget from time to time. Many are thought provoking or witty or both. WaPo's app developers have been aware of these issues with the app for a long time-I mean years. The app developers always promise fixes but seldom do apps change. It's jarring that journalism of WaPo's quality is delivered with the faulty, user hostile classic black or blue app. It's outrageous that the app is unleashed in an unsuspecting world by WaPo publisher Jeff Bezos, the guy who practically invented seamless digital usability with his little ecommerce venture. Fix the problems, man. Deliver apps as good as the WaPo news reporting..Version: 3.19.2
✓ John KingNews and opinion coverage is excellent, but unbalanced in favour of the left of centre. As a foreigner trying to understand developments in the USA, I view Fox TV as an equally unbalanced right of centre source of news and opinion, hoping to distill the centre..Version: 5.33.0
✓ Limited text size optionsThis is a great app but the text size range is not as large as some of the other reading apps..Version: 5.3.2
✓ No Options for Upgrading SubscriptionI am a basic digital subscriber that was interested in upgrading to a premium subscription so my wife could also access the WP app on a bonus subscription. Every time I went to settings the app told me I was already a subscriber with no options to upgrade from basic to premium. I sent a help request and the WP agent redirected me to the same spot on the app which obviously didn’t help. My only option was to let my free subscription expire and it looks like I have to start over. There is a $39 introductory offer for a premium subscription. That’s all I wanted to do. Appears that subscribing to the WP through Apple News did not provide any options to upgrade to the $39 into offer except if I wanted to sign up got the $149 annual offer. Overall experience was pretty frustrating as if anyone reading this will actually care about how difficult it is to upgrade this subscription. Also, why Apple News did not offer both a basic and premium subscription after a free trial is beyond me..Version: 5.11.0
✓ Review on Washington PostI’m very upset with the Washington Posts take on our current president. You should be ashamed of the way your journalists promote Mr Trump, you would think he was something special, instead of a big crook... start looking at what is good for America for a change and give our president Joe Biden some decent copy. He deserves it for all the major things he has accomplished while in office! I’m so disappointed in your usual copy as you are alway putting our president down. Try being honest for a change! Writerpat.Version: 6.54.0
✓ Impossible to like a commentThe app doesn’t allow me to like a comment, it only redirects me to “welcome back” page even though I have been already signed in. The same happens on the website..Version: 6.12.0
✓ DisgraceTrump on first page in White House photo cancelling long subscription now.Version: 6.51.0
✓ Stupid aiOnce again, search by typing in the author’s name and the article I want is NOT listed, even though the article is in today’s eblast “The Post Most.” Since the title is a long sentence, I type in the portion I think is somewhat unique. Zip. Zero. Nada. I’ll sure someone, will if there are Ny real people at WaPo, will say I don’t know how to type or use a search field… okay, copy and paste the “headline” into the search box results in absolutely nothing. Don’t be fooled, AI is stupid. Companies launch as WaPo buy a subscription, load it on to their server, and then don’t bother to check, test, nor try it. Well, I guess no human beings work at WaPo. So, it time to stop paying and cancel the “subscription.” Note: I reported this same problem about a year ago, and several months later, search seemed to work. Perhaps, subsequent updates broke broke the working search, and nobody bother to check. That’s common of many companies in that they announce a new feature or fix some feature but don’t teat everything and actual broke exist features. Stupidly stupid. If human beings would test the entire platform, there would be no need to constantly release updates that fix x, y, and z..Version: 6.42.0
✓ Great content, janky appI decided to switch my US news intake from New York Times to Washington Post. I’m impressed with the journalism but the polish on the app is not so good. Apart from layout spacing & font choices there is a major functional issue. If I’m reading a long article and switch away to another app for a while and then return to the article I’m presented with a pointless splash screen and while it loads to the article I was reading it is at the top, not where I left off reading. Frustrating! Similarly if I’m watching a video and switch away and back it will reset to the start, not where I was last watching..Version: 4.4.0
✓ Font Size SelectionOne would expect well designed apps to allow reader to select larger font size. Even the largest font size offered is so small that I am considering cancelling my subscription..Version: 6.38.0
✓ App not appearing on my iPhoneI have an iPhone and an active subscription but am unable to get the Post app on my phone.Version: 6.46.1
✓ Bug that WP Won’t FixI like the paper, and for the most part, I like the app, too, but there is one aspect of it I do not like. If I go to Print Edition, Archive, there is a bug that results in a mismatch between the date at the top of the page and the day of the paper selected below. For example, if I select the paper from the calendar for Monday, April 24, it will say “Sunday, April 23” at the top (the date of the paper I will get will match the one selected in the calendar). This anomaly usually isn’t a problem; I just ignore the date at the top of the page. But on Sundays, if I go to the Archive page and select a day prior, I can read tat day’s paper, but I CANNOT get back to Sunday until the next day, Monday. I know it’s not just me because I’ve tried it on my other devices, devices belonging to other people, and the same anomaly exists. I’ve tried submitting trouble tickets (twice) to the app developers, and they act like they don’t know what I’m talking about (despite the fact that I send screen shots) and that I’m the only person with this problem. They refuse to try to fix it..Version: 6.31.1
✓ Too much free advertising for the dictator wannabe, trump !Since 9/11, when many news outlets began the 24 hour news cycles, the news became sensationalized. In order to fill the time, and keep ratings up, every story, no matter how ridiculous, became Big News ! The Washington Post and the New York Times joined right in during the Obama Administration and started capitalizing on trump’s ignorant antics. The new sensationalized news helped that idiot get elected the first time and now you are helping him for his second bid, helping to throw Democracy right out the window. For what, ratings, money, power ?! Fools all for giving this moron free advertising. And, if this degenerate wins again, it won’t be just Fox News who aided and abetted his climb to dictatorship. You have completely lost my trust and respect. By the way, I intentionally do not use a capital letter when typing the dumpster’s name. That fool should never have been allowed anywhere near any form of Capitol, particularly the United States Capitol. Even a capital letter is too good for that weasel. No offense to weasels intended..Version: 6.52.0
✓ Stopped workingUsually very good but it starts and dies on my iPad when I touch a link in one of my Post emails so I cannot read the article..Version: 6.31.0
✓ I miss Fred HyattJennifer Rubin makes the whole subscription worthwhile. She cuts through the bothsideism that gave us trump. We’ve barely endured the most dishonest president in our history and almost lost our democracy, yet many editorial pieces waste time giving audience to the “other side”. There are no alternative facts. For example, Gov. Youngkin should have been revealed to be the incompetent religious right opportunist that he is. Teachers of Virginia know how inept he is, but the Post gives him oxygen every week with fluff pieces from writers who have zero experience in education. Ask the tough questions. Insist on followup answers to conspiracy theories or when politicians shrug off extreme comments with “ I was just kidding”. Manynheadlines act like click bait. You are capable of so much more, WaPo. Out democracy is on the line. Stop trying to be “balanced” and give the public the truth about the threat that trump and his supporters pose..Version: 6.49.0
✓ Issues with size of articlesWhen I click on a link to read a news article mentioned in a WP newsletter I see only a thin column of text on my iPad mini and must read the article in this narrow banner. There seems to be no way to make the article into full screen mode. Very annoying and super hard to read..Version: 5.14.1
✓ One BIG problemExcept for one huge issue, I love the WP app. It’s certainly better for the environment. But, for reasons I cannot fathom, articles in the app almost never have the option to increase the font size. In fact, most articles don’t even let you “pinch” the screen to zoom in. This latter feature is far from ideal in that you have to slide the article left and right to read each line, but it’s better than nothing. Many people read the news online because they have difficulty seeing the print edition. The NYT app includes the font size feature on most articles so it can’t be that difficult to do. Did some yahoo with perfect vision make a conscious decision to exclude this feature? Was it deemed too expensive? Is some editor so taken with the aesthetics of their layout that they feel the need to lock it in? I just cannot think of a single valid decision to dictate a single font size..Version: 6.49.0
✓ Doesn’t recognise my subscriptionThe app was used to be good, but it stopped recognising my subscription and kept saying I needed to subscribe to continue reading, despite having a subscription already. WP customer support was no help so have sadly cancelled my subscription..Version: 3.19.4
✓ No Comments, Poor Support for SubscribersThis app doesn’t show comments on the articles. So if you want to see the comments you click on the share to/open with button and click Chrome. But wait, that doesn’t allow you to open in Chrome. You can only bookmark or add it to a reading list. Why can’t you simply open it in Chrome, you ask? I was curious too! So I called their support phone number since there is no option for developer support or feedback and the “developer website” simply links to the newspaper homepage. At the 800 number I got a very nice lady overseas who did not understand my question. I asked for a supervisor who also didn’t understand and said I would have to “search for the article in a mobile browser.” So I called the 202 number and explained that I was a paying subscriber in Virginia and could I please speak to a DC/Virginia based person to ask a question and (now) make a complaint. I got a recording and left a voicemail. Instead of a call I got an email asking me to write what I wanted. I called the 202 back and explained to a nice lady in DC what happened and she said to email back requesting a call. I did so. As for writing what my problem is, I decided to go ahead and write that right here. Under a single star..Version: 3.16.0
✓ Good journalism bad appI am a very happy subscriber for the news, but the app has a silly problem. When I got the daily email, I would normally hit on a link and the webpage would open and all was good, though the comments section would often not load. So switched to the app. Comments now load, reading the news works very well, but why o why must the email link open the web browser (Safari in my case, though it does the same in Chrome) before opening the app?? I have other news subs that directly open the app without having to open the web browser first. Please fix as I know it can be done..Version: 6.41.1
✓ Biased and BoringPolitics and slanted at that. Most of these news stories are really opinion pieces in disguise. Quite sad really.Version: 3.9.1
✓ Stop with the passive fascism bias!NONE of your stories covering trump mention ANY of his criminality, instead using ridiculous anodyne terms like”baggage”. YET you subtly harp on about Biden’s age as a potential problem. Your country’s going to end up a fascist autocracy and the msm will have been a huge part of that. DO BETTER. And get rid of that Hugh Hewitt twatwaffle..Version: 6.32.0
✓ Horrible up scrollingUPDATE Jan 2024: This is still annoying and they haven’t changed it or removed this “non-feature” feature. I would additionally point out that it may be that the developers are trying to match behavior of Apple apps which do somethings sort of similar, but the Apple apps never do the double scroll action as quickly as the Washington Post app does. So the Washington post behavior does not match good Apple app standards either, though they may argue that it does. It does not. The behavior is totally obnoxious on this app only. I recently manually updated The Washington Post app and discovered that they’ve added this really annoying “feature“, where when you scroll to the top of an article and go up once more it transports you back to wherever you clicked to get to that article. Frequently one may scroll to the top of the article to check out the author, the headline, the time of publication, etc. I am used to being able to scroll quickly to the top of anything on the phone. The top of an article is an important location. So you may scroll quickly to get to the top. So now when you do that you get sucked right out of the article, because obviously you are not going to scroll with exact precision to the top. Incredibly, incredibly annoying. Knocking down two stars because of this. Otherwise this app has always gotten praise from me..Version: 6.49.1
✓ Video adsFor the last week, I have been plagued with a video ad for a personnel service that begins talking shortly after I start reading an article. I can't find any way to turn it off and it is irritating and intrusive. Am getting to the point of cancelling my subscription if it doesn't stop. Update, it is now broadcasting this same talking ad every single time I try to read an article. I am regretfully canceling my subscription. I will check back in a couple months to see if this has been fixed, but for now, can't stand it. Another update. I did cancel, but like the post so much, I regretted it and renewed the next day. Now I am canceling again. Every single time I tap on an article to read it, a voice blares, “For the past 25 years, PNP personnel services...” I did write to the help desk, and got back an email that did not resolve the problem. Nobody else has complained about this, which leaves me wondering why I have been so blessed with the attentions of PNP personnel services. I’ve tried easy solutions, but no setting addresses it. If anybody has any ideas, I’d be happy to try them. I love the Post, but have come to hate PNP personnel services more..Version: 3.11.1
✓ Bias at the Washington PostI have subscribed to the Washington Post for about 45 years. Over the past year or so, I have come to notice that the Post’s hard-earned reputation for fairness and balance had been displaced by a clear intent to further certain “narratives” in what should have been its straight-ahead, unbiased, reportage of the news. While I don’t know why this is, I tend to think it has something to do with the Post’s current editor, whom I believe took over that position around the time the Post became just another biased source of journalism. Nowadays, there is no longer a single “address” one can find for unbiased coverage of the news. Walter Cronkite is long gone, both literally and figuratively. Now, if you want the news with a left-wing slant, head for the Post or the New York Times. If you want news with a right-wing slant, head for Fox News. I just want the truth, without an embedded point of view that is forever “contextualizing” any story that, on the surface, is inconsistent with the “narrative.” My source used to be the Washington Post. No longer..Version: 6.54.0
✓ Despicable National Review HiringsCancelled my subscription only a few weeks-in after hearing that The Post will be employing Jim Geraghty and Ramesh Ponnuru, two men that along with the National Review, have contributed to the destruction of civility in politics, and assured we are all doomed by innumerable crisis’s. Both promote the lowest ghouls for elected office, and it’s ghouls we get. Ben Bradlee wouldn’t have pi**ed on either if they were on fire. Shame SHAME SHAME..Version: 6.25.0
✓ Impossible to cancelI wouldn’t get this app because it is impossible to cancel. I can’t cancel it through ‘subscriptions’ on my iPhone and I can’t login to do it on the website (I assume because I bought it through the App Store)..Version: 6.25.0
✓ OkayI’m just a WaPo digital basic lady, so maybe I don’t have all the options that I’ll now complain about. I am a full access New York Times subscriber, so I’ll make a bit of a comparison. I like NYT so much better because it is less jumbled up and the articles refresh at least daily (with breaking news at the top) so I don’t have to sort through all those articles I already read. On WaPo, the same articles are featured for a week at a time. On NYT, I choose my own view of favorite sections and I get the crossword, so there’s value in a full subscription. I check the news like 10 times every day; I don’t want to see the old articles forever. It’s cool to have the WaPo print edition, but navigating it on a 5” screen isn’t easy. The writing is strong, and the WaPo is more gossipy on politics than the NYT (which I consider a good thing;). Plus I live in VA and it’s good to get that local flair. Still, I’m not looking at WaPo as much as I thought I would because of the article refresh problem, and because I can’t curate my view for my favorite sections. Last thing, I do hesitate on the WaPo because Jeff Besos owns it. One guy shouldn’t own the world and its news..Version: 5.4.0
✓ Can’t log in on phoneI’ve set password repeatedly. It still tells me to re enter Anna will not let me in. I can see it on laptop but not phone. Why have it off I can’t use it most of the time. I’ll delete subscription at the end if agreement. Not impressed with the WP techies. My 21 year old brand new software engineer is better than your team..Version: 5.7.0
✓ Opinion articlesI like the opinion articles as I find them interesting and well written..Version: 5.17.0
✓ DisappointedWon’t renew. Same old articles and news. Nothing new from day to day. And news app is behind print version. Only print is current..Version: 6.16.0
✓ Great content, I only wish it worked wellFirst kudos to the WaPo the content is mostly excellent top to bottom. But neither the app, nor the browser version (I mostly use Safari) are smooth experiences. Dynamic page resizing when ads refreshing, distracting ads is probably the biggest issue, but sometimes small text or photos that won't allow zoom are super annoying especially if it happens mid article. Two particular nits, crosswords - you'd better finish it in one go, the save function works randomly, and usually not at all. And the absolute worst is the comics, slightly better in the app, but many faves are missing. In the browser it almost seems like a different selection altogether, but so many issues, it feels like an editor had never been there - dead links, each comic has it's own form of date navigation. But like i started off - it is a great selection..Version: 5.33.0
✓ A Forgetful AppI subscribe to both The NY Times and the Washington Post. It’s interesting to compare how the two papers use mobile apps to present their content. Each has its advantages, but I find that the Washington Post Classic app has a couple of significant deficiencies. On the plus side, the Washington Post is a more visually appealing and less cluttered presentation compared to the NY Times. But there are two behaviors that I find limit the usefulness of the Washington Post Classic app. First is the fact that it does not give any indication of stories that have already been read. The NY Times app, for example, dims to a fainter gray the headline text of stories that have been opened. Second, and most infuriating, is that the Washington Post Classic app seems incapable of remembering the reader’s position within the app. Leave the app to read a text message? When you return to the Washington Post app you’ll be returned to the story you were reading, but once leaving that you’re back at the top of the story list and forced to scroll and scroll to re-find where you were. This often happens even when you haven’t left the app at all and simply close a story. (Note that I’m using a current generation iPad Pro.).Version: 3.15.1
✓ Latest updateThe latest update to the WAPO mobile app has resulted in issues connecting and using the application with constant freezing. With a paid subscription you’d think the WAPO could do better..Version: 6.36.0
✓ Serious accessibility issueI have been using the old app for years. It is the only news app which is comfortable for me to use because of my binocular vision disorder. In the old app, articles are displayed in large, clear fonts without clutter, and each section of the newspaper can be Directly accessed by a link. I export article text to my text-to-speech engine to actually read the articles. The only part of the new app I can use is the “discover” section, but it isn’t indexed, so it’s nearly useless for me. (I can’t do a lot of scrolling without triggering a migraine and nausea ) I’m a very happy and grateful reader of your excellent app. I would be really sad to unsubscribe. This would seem like an easy fix— just index the Discover section, or have a global “simple display option” of some kind. I know the Post is by far the most tech savvy news organization. Please keep it accessible for readers with vision disabilities!.Version: 6.0.0
✓ More Left Leaning than Centrist. Disappointing.The other day I noticed on a couple media bias graphs that the WP was dead center with the highest amount of original content. As someone who doesn’t fit in either political party I have been longing for a news source that works hard to see both sides, like I do. So, when I saw the graphs I decided to order a subscription at a promo price that seemed generous. The first two days I read as much as I could and seemed to be getting what I had hoped for. Then yesterday I opened the app and was dismayed at what I saw yesterday. Four out of the six featured pieces were obviously left leaning on the issues of state rights, abortion, and the use of presidential power (9/5/21). Were the other two right leaning to at least attempt to give a little balance? No, they were not. They were about items that didn’t have a political impact. I’m going to give the Post a couple more weeks to try to prove me wrong on this, but I’m not all that hopeful. Has the news media swung so far left in general that the Post just looks centrist by comparison? I love the way the app is arranged. But I do have a complaint about the search feature. I searched for articles on Indonesia and got several hits from a couple of weeks ago. When I attempted to click on the links the only place they sent me was back to the front page of the current day..Version: 5.24.0
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