Post and Courier e-Paper 12+

The app is great when it works well, however it frequently crashes and needs to be reinstalled. I THINK developers eliminated hyper annoying ads that would pop up without any clicks into a video interrupting your leisurely reading for a 30 second video ad. Given I pay for a subscription and already see the ads within the paper, this was especially frustrating—but I haven’t seen them in a few days, which is great. One way around it was to download issue and go into online mode—but that is where it would get buggy as the app wouldn’t recognize old editions being deleted and not allow you to reload new editions. Then today I opened app this morning and it caught itself in a loop of being in offline mode without loading into online mode, so it froze again. Please fix!!

It is clear they can remove the ad bar, as it went away for a few weeks, but alas it is back. Come folks, get your act together! End of the month I find my local news elsewhere if the ad bar is still there.

What the heck is with the advertising bar in the middle of the page. I am paying for this paper, and I don’t want to see an advertising bar on the page. This is not a free version of the paper. Please remove the advertising bar or at the very least to make it possible for the reader to close it out. It’s blocking much of the text, and is annoying. I know local newspapers are worried about subscribership, but I can tell you that this is not the way to treat your subscribers. I will unsubscribe from this paper if you continue an app that has advertising that is not removable.

We have been post and courier subscribers for almost 40 years. We gladly switched to the digital edition when it came out. The new app that came out in the past month or so is almost impossible to use. The top and bottom toolbars plus the ad bars take up almost a quarter of my iPad screen. Then just a few days ago, the app became completely useless. Downloading the paper results in a full page of minute print. The “next” button shows two pages of the paper, with minute print. Expanding the page makes the page wobbly, and the next button still takes us to two tiny pages of print. The E edition on the web is just as bad. I have called and been told that there is not a problem, as if I am making up this awful experience.