Thank You NPR!
Finally got Dark Mode. Thank you at last… thought it would never happen… I’m crossing myself…
Still pretty bad
This app has improved to the point that it’s now usable. It’s possible to find the actual features everyone seems to want (morning news brief, news stories you can read, local news stations, etc.), although it’s nowhere near as convenient as it used to be. The flashing banner at the top promoting their nightmare of a setting where (I think?) The News just plays continuously according to whatever the algorithm selects for you is still there. (Who would ever want this feature? This is NPR not TikTok!)
I still miss when everything I wanted was one click away and it didn’t feel like I was constantly viewing ads for a service I already use. (Get rid of the stupid flashing banner for “NPR One” - whatever that is - PLEASE!) But I guess it’s marginally better?
It just feels like they did zero user testing on this redesign and I don’t understand how they came up with something so, so bad. I’m a younger millennial who is used to technology constantly changing and I absolutely hated it. I’m just so confused about who the target audience for this complete overhaul was, I can’t think what type of person would prefer using it over the old version. It almost feels like a prank or something? Maybe an act of intentional sabotage? Truly I can’t imagine how the developers could come up with something so bad when the original app was already fine!
I still miss when everything I wanted was one click away and it didn’t feel like I was constantly viewing ads for a service I already use. (Get rid of the stupid flashing banner for “NPR One” - whatever that is - PLEASE!) But I guess it’s marginally better?
It just feels like they did zero user testing on this redesign and I don’t understand how they came up with something so, so bad. I’m a younger millennial who is used to technology constantly changing and I absolutely hated it. I’m just so confused about who the target audience for this complete overhaul was, I can’t think what type of person would prefer using it over the old version. It almost feels like a prank or something? Maybe an act of intentional sabotage? Truly I can’t imagine how the developers could come up with something so bad when the original app was already fine!
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best place for feed back and feature requests?
please don’t limit playlist to just 100 items or please create another list of liked/saved stories that the user can search and sort. if we think of these individual news stories and podcasts as media there are plenty of media streaming apps to imitate and learn the best features that keep their users happy. if a user wants to prioritize certain shows/segments and skip/hide others they should be able to do that. npr can’t cultivate an experience that will please all unless you allow us to input our preferences
thanks for fixing the first story never playing bug. where is the best place to request features and report feedback/bugs? \n it would be great to be able to customize the UI and prioritize what podcasts show up as the default. maybe favoriting/starring certain podcasts would put them at the top of the daily news show list of podcasts or give them priority. the default ones that are shown there are one i don’t normally listen to. i am trying to reduce the number of actions to get to content. before with the old design it was much faster. \n also can you confirm that everything in the morning news brief of morning edition is a summary of content available in the remaining items in the podcast or is there ever content in the morning news brief that won’t be also aired later on in the programming? thank you
thanks for fixing the first story never playing bug. where is the best place to request features and report feedback/bugs? \n it would be great to be able to customize the UI and prioritize what podcasts show up as the default. maybe favoriting/starring certain podcasts would put them at the top of the daily news show list of podcasts or give them priority. the default ones that are shown there are one i don’t normally listen to. i am trying to reduce the number of actions to get to content. before with the old design it was much faster. \n also can you confirm that everything in the morning news brief of morning edition is a summary of content available in the remaining items in the podcast or is there ever content in the morning news brief that won’t be also aired later on in the programming? thank you
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Response from developer
Thanks for writing in - we unfortunately experienced an issue with upstream processing for the last few days that is causing some program segments to be unavailable. Teams are working on it and it may still sporadically occur. During this time you may need to tap Next/Forward to skip the first segment of some of our news programs. Rest assured we're working on a longer term fix - please hang in there with us!
Request
Great app. Please add night mode icon.
Update your icon for dark mode
Great app but please update the icon for darkmode.
Response from developer
Thanks for the feedback - we have to make some Apple-mandated software updates before we can add the dark icon (seems silly, we know...) - we should have this feature to you in January. Stay tuned!
Hot mess but slowly improving
This app is unfortunately a hot mess. I’m a two decade NPR listener. I appreciate going through the daily news stories and building a playlist to listen to throughout the day. Unbelievably they merged the old NPR app which did this fairly well with the NPR One app which is a complete mess of shows, podcasts and ads, without key features like being able to manually sort the playlist. Thankfully that feature has now returned and slow improvements are being made (however if you listen to NPR podcasts I would highly recommend you do it in a dedicated podcast app rather than here).
Suggestions for future updates: 1) a Playlist button in the interface, not hidden 3-4 clicks away. There’s plenty of space at the bottom for one extra button and it’s very annoying to have to click multiple times just to get to it 2) the ability to turn off the annoying ticker at the bottom which shows what you watched previously. Just an X at the end would suffice. It is very annoying. 3) The ability to pin the shows that I like at the top of the Podcasts page instead of having them constantly change because you think you know what I want at different times of the day (which you don’t!) 4)Why do I get audio ads in my playlist? I’m a member of NPR/ PBS
Suggestions for future updates: 1) a Playlist button in the interface, not hidden 3-4 clicks away. There’s plenty of space at the bottom for one extra button and it’s very annoying to have to click multiple times just to get to it 2) the ability to turn off the annoying ticker at the bottom which shows what you watched previously. Just an X at the end would suffice. It is very annoying. 3) The ability to pin the shows that I like at the top of the Podcasts page instead of having them constantly change because you think you know what I want at different times of the day (which you don’t!) 4)Why do I get audio ads in my playlist? I’m a member of NPR/ PBS
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NPR no longer appears to function correctly on my iPad Pro
Even after removing app and after that deleting and reinstalling the NPR App, it seems to not function correctly. The App either freezes or show “oops” errors.
Regrettably, I have removed it permanently. I didn’t use it as much as other news Apps but I did enjoy it when I did. Tis a shame.
Regrettably, I have removed it permanently. I didn’t use it as much as other news Apps but I did enjoy it when I did. Tis a shame.
I miss the old NPR
The old app was better, and I see no improvements in this one. I wish there were easier ways to see articles in the basic heading (US news, intl news, arts, music,…), then look at listings. There is too much use of pictures and not enough use of text. I hate search, and I want to be able to look through articles. In general, I wish I could have a text-only option. I dislike the space and waste of pictures.
And then there is the inexplicable decline in content. Covid seems to have killed the brain cells of all NPR employees. I had to stop listening then. I only go for the few remaining islands of sanity, like Science Friday. The bias in subject choice and tone has become sad, unintellectual propaganda. Overall, NPR is embarrassingly bad now. I am not a conservative. I am a registered Democrat. It is too krazy-leftist for me. Some stories sound like Saturday Night Live skits, or right-wing memes. It hurts because I was more invested in NPR than I realized. I hope someone sane can right the ship. If they are too blind to that, they should probably seek out openly conservative hires for a few years just to something, anything that does not sound like it is coming from a 1960’s hippy commune.
And then there is the inexplicable decline in content. Covid seems to have killed the brain cells of all NPR employees. I had to stop listening then. I only go for the few remaining islands of sanity, like Science Friday. The bias in subject choice and tone has become sad, unintellectual propaganda. Overall, NPR is embarrassingly bad now. I am not a conservative. I am a registered Democrat. It is too krazy-leftist for me. Some stories sound like Saturday Night Live skits, or right-wing memes. It hurts because I was more invested in NPR than I realized. I hope someone sane can right the ship. If they are too blind to that, they should probably seek out openly conservative hires for a few years just to something, anything that does not sound like it is coming from a 1960’s hippy commune.
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buggy, mostly ads
crashes and freezes constantly. in the rare instances it does work it’s 3-4 ads for every one news story, and often plays the same story on repeat. don’t want to listen to the same story again? 3-4 more ads. often the ads are for their own programs or for going “sponsor free” but it’s so buggy i can’t imagine giving them money.
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Has played "black lives black truth" ads for 3 months straight
*Every* show, every news segment now plays the exact same advert for both it's intro and outro for the last six months. Am getting SICK of hearing it over and over. Ironically I feel anger at the subject every time I hear the title now, which is the exact OPPOSITE of why that podcast exists
Stop with the program adverts! All of them!
Stop with the program adverts! All of them!
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