User Reviews: The Providence Journal, R.I.

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  • Ads wont let it open

    Please fix the app! The ads are trying to load but never do so the app never opens anymore.
  • Selfish

    This should be free and available to the people during this health crisis. The navigation is bad unless you are looking for ads. Whoever designed this online debacle should be fired.
    It seemed to have articles for about 2 weeks on the crisis, but now I’ve reached my limit and can’t catch up with the RI news.
  • So much missed potential..

    This app is disappointing. I believe in supporting local journalism, and I think having a clean, functional app is important. I’ve lived in RI my whole life and I’d hate to see the Projo go out of printing. As someone who would pay for a good app, here are some suggestions:

    1. The navigation is confusing and the sidebar menu is a little overwhelming. It would be cool to have some sort of quick navigation tools or just an overall more fluid and intuitive interface.

    2. Should have a login capability. There aren’t (from what I can find) any options for logging in, linking a subscription, or even any personalization options.

    3. Not sure if I’m missing this one too, but I didn’t see any options for paying to turn off ads.

    I understand this is a hard time so maybe app development isn’t in the budget. But just wanted to give some feedback because I think it could be a great app for all my local news.
  • Worst ever!

    We are literally in a health crisis/pandemic and every article related to it is blocked because I’ve read too many free articles for the month. Seriously? How about you let people read news related to the governor’s guidelines for keeping us safe without eliciting a subscription. And don’t bother reaching out to ask them to relax the settings to allow for open information during this time-they don’t fix it-rather say it must be a glitch. Shameful.
  • Terrible

    I have to keep deleting the app, reinstall, etc. Then it is locked. Wish they would get their technology straight. I am so close to cancelling my subscription to this newspaper.
  • Awful

    It’s an App. All of a sudden it says I have to pay to read articles. Advertisers beware. They are chasing away app users. Deleted.
  • Limit for the month

    According to the ProJo I have reached my limit for the month. No, correction: I have reached my limit with this app.
  • This app is terrible

    Advertisements make reading content difficult. I get notifications from ProJo. But, when I click on the notification, the http page launches asking me to log in. The app launches too, but it’s not evident. When I switch to the app, the news article I got notified about is not there and there is no search function. So frustrating.
  • Can't Log In

    This app has had issues with logging in for quite a while, and the latest update hasn't resolved them. Constantly crashes. When the paper gets taken over by Big Newspaper, you'd think that at least the tech would work. Not so much.
  • App hasn't worked in over a week

    I used the app daily for months without too much of an issue. Now it won't scroll at all and I can't select any articles. Hopefully they revamp this app.

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