azcentral 12+

Great state and local content but app difficult to use

I love AZCentral as my go to source for local and state news. Having been a long time Arizona Republic subscriber I hope AZCentral can provide the financial support needed for the publishers to continue providing Arizona based news stories and articles. My only complaint is with the app is that too many links appear throughout articles so when when reading and scrolling through the article I inadvertently touch the links which immediately take me to another related story. Very annoying and not a problem with other app news feeds such as AP, NPR and Reuters. I would suggest fewer links in the stories and instead place them at the end of the article if the reader wants to delve further into background. Otherwise, keep up the good work AZCentral and let’s support local journalism.

I’m old school

I gave up my beloved “paper” Republic a few years back. This new iteration of the e-newspaper is an improvement in some ways but not all. The right panel display of stories is formatted better and easier to read. I do have a gray bar that appears across the USA Today pages (I’m on an iPad) and the crossword puzzles are slightly more difficult to print. Overall a better product. There’s pop-up ads now and I really don’t mind them because I know the journalists need the revenue. Support the Press!

Developer Response ,

Hello,

Thank you for using our app and providing your feedback. We are currently working on investigating the eNewspaper issue you have identified and hope to have a quick resolution that integrates the old experience for the eNewspaper.

We care about our readers, and we work very hard to build the best news experience for you. Please email us at USATODAYmobile@USATODAY.com if you want to provide additional feedback.

Thank you.

Pretty awful

I was forced onto this app and away from the AZ Central app that worked very well, about two weeks ago. This one is so bad, it’s awful. It consistently freezes up, if you barely touch an ad or a story or somewhere else, for who knows with this app, you get a pop up page. How fun, as then you must close out of that pop up and hope that you will be back to your article- but as an added feature, they make sure that doesn’t always happen. Also if you like to zoom in to make the text or photos bigger, the app again makes sure to mess with the screen and either not work properly so you can be in the page you were on, or it pops open a dreaded window again. Another advantage of this awful app is you aren’t sure it’s going to load properly as the pop up ad on first and sports pages slows everything down.
Give me back the working model dimwits. Otherwise I may unsubscribe

Developer Response ,

Hello,

Thank you for using our app and providing your feedback. We are currently working on investigating the issues you have identified and hope to have a quick resolution.

We care about our readers, and we work very hard to build the best news experience for you. Please email us at USATODAYmobile@USATODAY.com if you are still experiencing any issues.

Thank you.