Terrible update
Trying to read the news is frustrating! There are ads at the top and bottom of my iPad screen. The ads take up half the screen now. Terrible!
Good newspaper, app is horrible
The Journal News app has been a skeleton of its former self for months, but we were told that it was intentional while they improved it, and they asked our patience and said that in the interim the Dayton Daily app would remain fully functional. Well today the update for both arrived and after I applied it to JN it still doesn't allow me to bookmark articles from the paper as it used to, and it also deleted all my previous article bookmarks. Gone! What's more, it was extremely difficult trying to login and it didn't keep me logged in even after I did finally get in. (Did not have any problems on the DDN app login which is still previous version!) The new digital newspaper format (now called eEdition) is a horrible version that judders and changes, and it's presented inside multiple frames, including bright blinking ads and huge menu bars that take up so much space the window for viewing the actual content on my iPhone is now only two and half inches! I just want the app to eDeliver the daily paper and allow me to read it with ease and bookmark articles for rereading later. I can barely read the content with the new update, and the ads, multiple logins, failed bookmarks, etc are a disservice to the journalists and others who provide the content. I want to support this newspaper, but what good is my subscription if I cannot access the content?
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Everything under a paywall now
No longer can read any articles at all without a pay subscription. Just another way to be nickel and dime d. Will be deleting as it’s now totally useless. I can understand it being that way for some of the content but not all. Goodbye 👋
Latest update broke bookmarks
UPDATE: It's August 2025, a year since I left a five star review congratulating DDN and JN for getting the apps functioning smoothly while simultaneously not fixing what isn't broken. It was wonderful while we had it, but they have recently changed the app, and not for the good. Since the latest update, all my previous bookmarked Articles have been moved to Pages instead of Articles in My Content, and they don't open, except as a blank white screen! In a likely related problem, the bookmark icon is now missing altogether on all current digital app Paper articles so I no longer can bookmark new articles either! Oddly, the bookmark icon does appear for whole pages while reading the Paper, and those bookmarks actually function, though that is of no use to me. Bookmark icons are still available when reading the Live News section, but those bookmarks do not function. I have written twice to each the Journal News and the Dayton Daily News about the issues, but they have not replied.
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Paywall
Version 18 added a paywall that made all stories unreadable without subscription, FYI.
Journal News Please don't change a thing 😊
Journal News and Dayton Daily are reliable newspapers with apps that function well. I think both content and quality are very good. The apps were bumpy going a few years back, but all has been working smoothly this past year, and I am grateful. Please, don't change a thing. I am so frustrated with a number of other apps that keep "improving" with updates that only succeed in cluttering the experience with advertising, bias, and fluff that ruin both content and experience. Keep up the good work!
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No longer functions since version 14 update
It used to be a reliable app that I used daily to read our local newspaper. Not one aspect of the app functions anymore, and I have corresponded with JN DDN many times and uninstalled, reinstalled, jumped through hoops providing screen shots etc, everything they asked, and now, not only can I not read the newspaper, but all my settings, bookmarks, personalization is lost too. They don't seem very concerned either, suggesting that I should "just go online and read it at their website". I am a paid subscriber. What's more, the app used to work fine. It's been weeks since this began, and I am really bummed that I may have to cancel my subscription as the app was my only real option.
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5 to 6 second swipe time on my iPad
There is a 5 to 6 second swipe time on my iPad. This has not always been the case. May be tied into the bottom ads loading but not sure if that is the whole story. This happened once before and was fixed, but the delay is back. This is a killer situation for me. I can view on a web browser version but that is not as smooth that this app used to be.
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Ads at bottom of digital page
The ads at the bottom of the screen on the digital version are maddening. They take too long to load. I like to be able to to scan through the pages and now I have to wait until the ads load in each page before I can do anything with the page. I don’t know how much longer I will put up with those before I cancel my subscription. It’s maddening.
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Bias
Obvious liberal bias. Not as bad as in the past but very little respect for the office of the United States president.
Remember half of our country is conservative.
Remember half of our country is conservative.
Good news
Llike having the app
Just like the print version
Pretty tedious creating an account and getting signed in, but once you figure that out, it's a good app. Looks just like the print version, easy to read section by section, page by page.
Current version does not appear to work
I downloaded this app to check out the features of the online paper, but it only loads one page correctly. Once an attempt is made to switch to page 2 of the current paper it will flip a SafeFrame container up which will not go away. This makes the app useless in its current form as you cannot progress to a second page or beyond. This behavior was exactly the same across 3 different IOS devices and no reinstall fixed the problem.
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