This app used to work
Not working now. This app constantly is crashing upon launch from my iPad Air.
Downhill slide
Started good and relevant. Now just shallow pap. Sad.
Not working
Doesn’t work on the iPad, just keeps going around in circles, doesn’t actually load.
Merry Christmas
Traffic doesn’t work. Log on
I want to search for articles
NO search capability anymore 2020.
Also ads today were for “naughty moms” disgusting... is this even a news app? Useless.
Also ads today were for “naughty moms” disgusting... is this even a news app? Useless.
Loads so slooooooooow
Takes forever to load
Font too small and not adjustable
Please make the investment in a normal functioning news app. I want to support my local news outlet by reading the news here but the font is still tiny by comparison. I scan news articles quickly but can’t do that when they’re too small to read...
Very difficult to cancel
I used this for about a week. Then tried to cancel. The Mercury News makes it very difficult to cancel. They have your credit card. Not worth.99 cents not certainly $10 per month
Worse than previous versions
Many articles won't display in landscape, only in portrait mode. Poor navigation, difficult to know where you are. Limited number of headlines, have to hit a button to request more. NO SEARCH!
Where are the comics?
Until recently I enjoyed this app, especially the presence daily of the comics in color. As of the end of June 2017, they disappeared, thus lowering the rating by 3 stars!
Subscriber
I have used the previous version of the app on an iPhone 6s for most of my sports news reading. The text on the latest version is grey and harder to read. The text also seems smaller but I can't tell since I don't have access to the previous version. Lastly, for some time the news of the Giants has been missing from my app. Any response?
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Disruptive Popups and Locking
I can understand banner ads in a free app but the constant and disruptive popups are unacceptable, as is the frequent locking of my system when using the app. It has been uninstalled.
Won't open
No longer opens. Wasn't good to began with, now is useless.
From bad to unusable
This app was never especially good, but over the last couple of months it has become virtually unusable. It frequently stalls for more than 30 seconds when displaying an article, and often completely hangs and needs to be restarted. The video ads are incredibly annoying; a button to skip the ad appears after five seconds, but pressing the button repeatedly works less than half the time. The rest of the time you're stuck watching for more than a minute. Abandoning because it's become intolerable...
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One of the worst apps
It is sad that a proud news organization has implemented such a poor app. Technically, be prepared for freezes, sudden disconnects, and a level of frustration. Content is poorly organized, poorly maintained and generally even more frustrating. Latest news focuses on yesterday's (or earlier) news, not what has happened since the newspaper was last published. While the sports department makes an effort to keep it fresh, old reports still dominate. The comics section is not updated completely every day. It is obvious there is no editor assigned to manage content accuracy and quality. Find another app if you want the latest news. CNN isn't too bad, and CBC and CTV very good for fresh international news.
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Updates
This app worked fine until the last 2 or 3 updates. Now I'm assuming you can't read the articles unless you pay for a subscription because now when I click on an article it pops up then quickly returns to the list of articles after asking you to log in. The merky news isn't worth all this trouble. The whole paper usually reads like an opinion column anyway instead of news.
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January 6 update fixes bug
The app works as expected, but this update fixes the bug where you didn't have to subscribe to read. It's like the website now in that you are prevented from viewing articles without paying. I won't be using the app anymore or reading The Mercury News. There are many MANY sites out there that publish the same exact stories without requiring fees. As if the Merc has Pulitzer quality reporters!
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Terrible times on the iPhone 4S
This update is almost unusable on my iPhone 4S.
Jerky and unstable at its worst. Even at its best, it is poorly conceived for an iPhone, as it requires a lot of scrolling just to assess the overall contents. This app seems designed more to allow imbedded ads than anything else.
Jerky and unstable at its worst. Even at its best, it is poorly conceived for an iPhone, as it requires a lot of scrolling just to assess the overall contents. This app seems designed more to allow imbedded ads than anything else.
Bad
Share something on Facebook, and look like an idiot... It'll post your comment, but then no link to the article you wanted to share, leaving you looking like a person standing there, talking to themselves. This app still isn't all that usable. Now they've taken a liking to forcing you to watch full screen ads with no way to cancel or dismiss them. <deletes app>
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App Will Grow Up Someday
I'll bet this is a wonderful app.… If it were legible. Ads are intrusive. Very intrusive.
