Just bad.
Awful UI. Bad ad placement. Asks for you to login.
Why put up with all this only to read news stories that are barely edited. Full of typos and wrong information.
They don't call it the Santa Cruz "Senile" for nothing.
Why put up with all this only to read news stories that are barely edited. Full of typos and wrong information.
They don't call it the Santa Cruz "Senile" for nothing.
Good news source- intolerable ads
I live in the Cruz and appreciate the local news available online. The first problem is that there are full-screen ads that interfere with scrolling through the news. If you land on an ad, you can't scroll past it unless you go to a story above or below the ad.
In addition, the news doesn't update on a regular basis. It's also a combo of national press service stories and some local stories.
All in all, this is a lousy app. Don't bother downloading it.
In addition, the news doesn't update on a regular basis. It's also a combo of national press service stories and some local stories.
All in all, this is a lousy app. Don't bother downloading it.
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Inconsistently updated
Crashes a lot. Difficult to tab down to read. Most "top news" is Sports related. Day four of seeing the same articles on this app. A newspaper should be updated regularly, daily- at least. Disappointing
Beyond horrible
Really just blasts ads at you. Hardly any local news at all; what is there is horribly organized (if at all) and interspersed with filler. Just awful.
Add or story?
The new format seems to be designed to make the user confuse a news story with an add by making them the same tile and mixing them in with the news. Super lame.
getting worse
updated for vers 6.0: this was supposed to be a performance enhancing release, but in practice it's the opposite. it's slower and less fluid in scrolling. it also needs more scrolling since the huge pictures mean fewer headlines can fit in one screenful. these changes make the app less pleasant to use. i also had to disable cellular data on this app to prevent it from chewing up my quota.
had written: an easy way to avoid the annoying paywall on the web version of the sentinel. the quality of the journalism is uneven at best but if you're gonna read the sentinel the app is a reasonable way to do it.
had written: an easy way to avoid the annoying paywall on the web version of the sentinel. the quality of the journalism is uneven at best but if you're gonna read the sentinel the app is a reasonable way to do it.
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Not Happy
The app now has a lot more pop up advertisement. The sliding navigation is inconsistent. And the overall loading time of each article is much slower. You fill the online version with negative news that happened in the Bay Area regarding violence and gossip which we didnt used to get. It makes you guys come off like TMZ. Although I do like the consistent tech updates. Also on the main menu, most of your headlines are cutoff so you can only partially see it. Please change the format so I can go back to using it. Thanks.
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Great source for local news
Content is excellent, good way to keep up on local happenings. Ads? Yes, but how else does this content and app continue to exist?
Out of date
The news stories are always 3-4 days old even when the app says all content is current and up to date. A daily newspaper should have daily updates. Not enough access to local news. The top 10 and "breaking news" sections are repetitive. Each should have unique content. The new ads are annoying and random. The app is useless when the website had current and better content
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This app needs major upgrades!
Beyond what has already been mentioned, the iPhone sentinel app needs a link to contact someone who can update the site with the day's articles. Too many times I have expected to read the day's articles only to find them oddly absent from the app. Irritating! And, there is no link on the app to give this feedback. Also, as a subscriber, I feel that I should not have to endure all the ads. Poorly designed app.
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