The Courier 4+

Ballarat courier

Wonderful to be able to read it online especially when you are unwell

Update is not user friendly

My 86 year old mother has been reading the Ballarat Courier for several years now online and they have done an update which is really difficult to navigate. The format has changed which has a smaller typeface now which mother can’t read due to her vision loss.
She also has arthritis which means she is unable to use her fingers to zoom in closer as she has to use a stylus. Also the paper used to save what page you were up to automatically and it no longer does this.
She is very frustrated as she has been able to read the paper independently before and these changes have made it so she can no longer do this. If the format stays like this she will no longer be able to use the subscribe to your paper. Please change it back the way it was as I can see no benefit to the new changes for anyone, thank you.

Developer Response ,

Hi Subscriber,

Thank you for the feedback.

The new App is more refined and contact more content for our articles section.

As for the Todays Paper edition, you are still able to double tap to zoom into the section without using pinch and stretch motion.

A single tap will provide another cleaner looking layout of that article to read.

Please contact the support team on 1300 131 095, option 2 for further assistance

Better than the website, but still a poor experience

The scrolling isn’t quite as janky as the web version with all the ads loading in, but it’s still far from smooth.

The splash screen logo that appears every time I open or switch to the app is unecessary and very annoying.

Swiping back from an article will show one or sometimes two different articles before getting back to the main list. Not sure if this is intentional to increase page reads or if it’s a bug?