No longer useful for local news
So much content is now under pay wall, increasingly each week, so not useful source of local news
Janky so dar
Usually the app works well as. However, there’s been two instances in the last two days since I’ve been using it where, despite the fact I was already signed in it hasn’t let me view an article saying, “to continue reading you need a subscription…”. After I push the button saying, “ restore purchase” and got a message from the app that said “ purchase history restored” the app simply went back to the original page saying that I needed a subscription and never let me read the actual article. Another time, when I clicked on a link in an article within the app, it took me outside the app to Oregonlive.com to read the article, again blocking my access to the article when it did so and saying I needed to sign in.
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Rip Off Artists
There is nothing good to say about OregonLive. I subscribe to two national newspapers and one UK newspaper and never have been denied access to any of them. I am continually being denied access to Oregon. The Oregon AG should investigate them. They are ripping off their subscribers.
Love the Paywall
Love how all the left-leaning media outlets have gone behind paywalls.
Paywall extremes
Far too many articles are behind a paywall. Makes this app functionally useless.
Access
I subscribe thru the app but am blocked from reading the entire article ….
iPadOS Navigation Bug Still Needs Attention
Today, after a long hiatus, I subscribed to OregonLive again. Unfortunately, the latest version (4.5.11) of your app still has a bug that prevents proper navigation on Apple iPadOS. For example, when navigating from “Portland” to “Politics” on my iPad, the content is not refreshed. The same navigation works correctly on iOS. Selecting “Politics” should refresh the page and display the Politics section. Instead, the app remains on the previously displayed content.
I’m using a 12.9-inch iPad Pro (4th generation) running iPadOS 26.5.2. The problem is consistently reproducible on my device. When I previously reported this issue to your technical support team, I was told they were unable to reproduce it. Because I primarily use my iPad to read your content, I canceled my subscription last year (under a different email address).
As I mentioned to your support representative, I believe your development team could benefit from looking at the New York Times app as an example of a more polished user experience. Your browser-based navigation could also be improved.
I’m using a 12.9-inch iPad Pro (4th generation) running iPadOS 26.5.2. The problem is consistently reproducible on my device. When I previously reported this issue to your technical support team, I was told they were unable to reproduce it. Because I primarily use my iPad to read your content, I canceled my subscription last year (under a different email address).
As I mentioned to your support representative, I believe your development team could benefit from looking at the New York Times app as an example of a more polished user experience. Your browser-based navigation could also be improved.
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App is buggy!
The Oregonlive app crashes, won’t save articles, and won’t allow sharing stories.
Annoying: Now Only Fragments of Articles
A so-so app has taken a monumental downturn. The OregonLive app now only includes the first paragraph of each article. It’s a poorly designed and flawed attempt to get readers to subscribe, yet every complete articles are accessible at no cost on oregonlive.com. What’s the point of the app now?
iPad app loads slow and freezes
Very frustrating. On my brand new iPad, it loads slowly and then after one menu selection, freezes and won’t allow selection of another.
Poor performance!
Often very slow. Even in the background, it makes my phone sluggish. After two or three articles, it begins freezing for a minute or so.
Paywall barricades
I’m a paid subscriber but keep getting paywall ads when I try to read an article. I’ve contacted support services numerous times in an attempt to have the issue fixed, but nothing changes. I guess I’ll just keep up on the news by reading headlines. Not much value for $99 a year.
Doesn’t recognize subscription
I’m a longtime subscriber, have logged in properly, yet the app keeps demanding I login to continue reading, which doesn’t work. The thing is broken, not that it ever worked very well.
App is garbage
This app has basically become worthless with the recent releases. The app chooses what articles to display, which is their choice, but “search” is 100% broken, as in “does not work at all”. So to find an article that is not displayed in the app I need to go to a browser and bring up the full newspaper edition and find the article I want that way. Ridiculous!
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App closes out.
Every time I’m in this app lately, it closes it out. I’m a subscriber and it is increasingly frustrating to try to read or browse the app.
Poor performance
After two or three articles, it begins freezing for up to half a minute at a time. (Perhaps a memory leak?)
Content is fine. Functionality is awful
App is VERY slow to load, and constantly freezes. So frustrating.
Used to work but now freezes on iPad
I’m a OregonLive subscriber and happily used this app for years on my iPad 9th gen. Sometime in the last month the app became unusable with slowness and freezing. I have no trouble with other apps. I removed and reinstalled but this did not work. Finally my workaround was to remove the OregonLive app permanently and add a Home Screen link to the Oregonlive web page.
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Live on iOS26 on iPad
Performance awful - perhaps it is better on older iOS and iPhone but new iOS and iPad the app freezes constantly, gets hung up by its own embedded ads, and is just very slow. It is the slow way to finding out what is happening in Portland. Someone please debug and cleanup this app for all devices on iOS 26.
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New update
After latest update this app is glitching and a headache to deal with. Deleting for now, hopefully they fix it soon.
