No option to remove US sports
Progressive deterioration under the NYT. Pushing US sports outside of the USA makes no sense, they have minimal resonance despite what the internal perception is. Why have tailored feeds to my interests only to the litter it with sports like nfl or wnba that I don’t care about? Add to that the terrible advert partners when the app used to be ad free and the experience is worse than ever
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Unwanted Pulse Notifications
Please stop sending me unwanted Pulse Newsletter notifications. I have no interest in American sports and there’s no way to turn off the notifications as they aren’t listed in the settings. I have previously contacted NY Times and all they’ve done is forward it to the team at The Athletic and no one has even responded to me.
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Disappointed
I continue to not receive my subscribed emails. Customer service is hard to reach and slow to respond.
Offensive Reader Commentary
This app features reader comments that are often offensive, derogatory and mean spirited. This is a New York Times owned product but unlike reader comments published in the NYT, there is minimal attention to comments in The Athletic. The feature should be carefully moderated and managed to maintain civility.
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Thieves
They are thieves, they make it intentionally hard to cancel your subscription. You have to wait in a Q of about 70 people before you can talk to someone and even then they lie and tell you they’ll contact you and never do. SHAME ON YOU THIEVES!
Fantastic app but a request (not sure where to put it)
Overall fantastic experience! Was not going to use paid app because I use the ESPN app, but ads on every video took their toll! Everything is so compact and readable with fantastic coverage and articles posted everyday! One thing I want is a podcast for the nats and the caps as those are the hot teams in washington right now! Make it happen! Go Athletic!
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Hit or Miss
The Athletic used to be the standard for sports journalism and some of its content still hits that mark, but the quality has been diluted with click-bait, listicles, and articles badly in need of an editor. Still worth the price if you're willing to wade through a bit of garbage to get to the good stuff.
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What Happened?
I have been a subscriber since the beginning, but I’m looking forward to my subscription ending. Once an excellent platform for football (soccer) fans, the NYT have completely destroyed any semblance of literate and informed journalism, preferring a populist circus, strewn with editorial errors and poor fact checking- all of which is blatantly censored to fit the NYT’s questionable political agenda.
The best writers have long gone. In their place, a bunch of sycophantic halfwits carry out the NYT’s objectives. The once well-rounded and broad podcast content is watered-down nonsense and the comments sections- once a forum where the writers would interact with readers- are ugly echo chambers where idiots are free to push their own hateful political narratives.
I would not recommend The Athletic to anyone even if it were free.
The best writers have long gone. In their place, a bunch of sycophantic halfwits carry out the NYT’s objectives. The once well-rounded and broad podcast content is watered-down nonsense and the comments sections- once a forum where the writers would interact with readers- are ugly echo chambers where idiots are free to push their own hateful political narratives.
I would not recommend The Athletic to anyone even if it were free.
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Pronman sucks
The app would’ve gotten 5 stars but Corey pronman shouldn’t be a writer. Destroys the credibility of this app and the writers. I don’t know how he can still be employed. He must have some blackmail or something.
Can’t pick up my preferred soccer team’s news
The quality of the journalism is great! I just wish I could find stuff that interested me. The soccer teams I’ve selected to follow generate news but don’t appear in my news feed, unlike the US-based NFL and MLB teams I follow. It means a lot of hunting around the app for content I like.
Dire usability
Upgrade items blocking page
Has gotten worse and worse over time
Has genuinely gotten worse and worse. The removal of the home page and introduction of games is a downgrade.
Minor issue
Only thing keeping it from being higher is the homepage not changing when removing something from your followed teams/leagues. Pretty annoying
No way to report iOS App Bugs anymore
New bugs are constantly introduced in new versions. The latest is the disappearance of the toolbar at the bottom when opening an article. No way to report bugs in the app any longer.
Can’t login
I’ve tried a few times to subscribe via NYTimes after they got bought and have always had trouble logging in. It’s really frustrating, I think the athletic has great coverage. Just wish I could actually use the app.
Riddled with ads despite subscription
You would think the monthly subscription price would cover an ad-free experience, but apparently not. Pathetic.
Need more Buffalo Bills articles
The volume of articles about my local team doesn’t seem to be what it used to be. It is football season- trickling an article every few days isn’t enough. I get way more from my local paper
Too many sports in headlines I don’t follow
Why do i see nfl, mlb, nhl, and nba in headlines?I couldn’trw1987 care care less about any of them.
Broken algorithm
Pushes stories unrelated to the sports I follow, unable to fix this.
Impossible to cancel
They have created a doom loop impossible to navigate. Contact customer service doesn’t exist. Cancellation only via a NYTimes account even though I don’t have one.
