$ 50Mcompany couldn’t care less about their app
For a company worth over $50M they could figure out how to make a better app, or at least update their app from 2012. Standard Media Group owns how many news stations across the country, and couldn’t pay a developer enough money to make an app that is more updated than something from 2012? It seriously makes me question about your reporting quality or the quality of anything you produce for that matter. The app is riddled with bugs, voting in yes/no polls either crashes the app or gives you a screen full of html text. The ads placed within articles are downright spam and phishing websites that look like legitimate companies but really steal your information and credit card details. But Standard Media Group gets paid for those ads, and at the end of the day they don’t care what happens to you or your data online. It’s just a super bad look when a supposed news organization hosts ads for literal sham and spam companies. Sometimes even scrolling through reading an article, there will be a pop up that you didn’t click that takes you to even worse websites, the ones that try to automatically start downloads or have those “timers” and spinners that claim you have 60 seconds to claim your millions. It would be one thing if this was like 2012 when this app was released or something, but I’ve had the app for years and it hasn’t changed one bit. Also you will get double notifications for every single article and story they post no matter how you manipulate the settings, so you have to turn them completely off.
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Portrait mode video
I will not use this because it encourages portrait mode video. Humans see in landscape mode. Portrait mode is for portraits. Cringeworthy at best , a pox on humanity regularly. Nothing makes me want to tune away faster. Portrait mode video for news reports should be banned!
Finally!
I’ve had another local news app for years, deleting it at least 3 times, dealing with countless crashes, numerous ad pop-ups, difficulty loading and navigating, etc. I finally deleted it for good and decided to try KLKN News 8, (which is the TV news we watch). So glad I did! Right away, no stupid passwords, easy to navigate, concise, well-written stories w/o a lot of opinions!!! They even know how to spell! Videos load easily and has news, weather, sports and news from my county. Love it! Highly recommended. Thank you for this great app!
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Ipad
Needs iPad app.
Not thinking like a user
I had to delete the app. I’m not waiting through a 30 second ad to read something that takes 20 seconds. And I hate that it constantly goes back to an old story before going to the story list after reading a story from notifications, sometimes before even going to the story I clicked in notifications! And the news is often written by someone who apparently knows less about it than I do, like they are just trying to come up with things they think people will click. Apparently the app is so bad that it won’t let you create a nickname, so you can’t post, if you’ve written a bad review.
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It was fine before, but now…
I liked the app fine before, but now almost every story is a video. I don’t want a video, I want to read the story! If I wanted to watch a video, I would turn on the news.
New App is a Huge Improvement
This new Lincoln News App is a huge improvement over previous versions.
Got worse
Why did you take the live stream out of the app? Now it opens the web site and you can have it full screen on your phone. This was marginally useful app before, now it’s useless.
It’s broken, plain and simple
I get one current news story, and the next one is from January. I tried reloading the app, but got the same result. It’s worthless.
The worst app for News
So it was never good to start off. Recently it has got worse they have only 1 story in the whole app. They have no point in having a app.
App is not helpful
All the other news apps I have contain most up to date information along with a long list of stories to choose from. This one shows 3 stories. That’s it! All the time! Tried to uninstall and reinstall assuming I had to update my app but that does nothing.
Don’t waste your time!
Don’t waste your time!
No news
The app currently has no news stories at all. And the news team stinks now. I like rod and the main lady but everything els has gone down hill.
Live Stream is very poor.
Unusable for live stream.
Husker spam
I have this app because I want local news alerts. I mean, what else am I supposed to do? Buy a paper that comes out tomorrow morning? Actually sit in front of terrestrial television at a prescribed time? Use the competitors clone app (that curiously has the exact same notifications)? So, I'm stuck with this, although I do consider relegating local news to word of mouth again.
What's my problem? You couldn't pay me to care about Husker sports. It's fine if you really care, but I don't. Yet, probably two-thirds of channel 8's notifications are about Husker sports. Instead of the convenience of near real-time local news, I find myself constantly batting away every trivial thing that happens in Husker Nation.
Seriously, if you introduce a settings toggle to turn off the onslaught, I'll edit my review to five stars.
What's my problem? You couldn't pay me to care about Husker sports. It's fine if you really care, but I don't. Yet, probably two-thirds of channel 8's notifications are about Husker sports. Instead of the convenience of near real-time local news, I find myself constantly batting away every trivial thing that happens in Husker Nation.
Seriously, if you introduce a settings toggle to turn off the onslaught, I'll edit my review to five stars.
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Poor layout an Adds
Don't bother with this one - has a poor layout and is full of Adds - i won't waist my time on this one again!
If you want an app that has a good layout for local news get the 10-11 news app - Much better!
If you want an app that has a good layout for local news get the 10-11 news app - Much better!
OK, not as good as last version.
App shows same stories multiple times as you look down the page, making it harder to browse the news.
Older version was easier and more user friendly.
Older version was easier and more user friendly.
De
its great
Informative
This app is all you need to get news weather and sports from lincoln and surrounding areas!!!
Almost to organized
Overly organized and is a battery hog. Very great with keeping up to date with current events and the latest news!
great
it really good especially if ur in Nebraska!
