Charlotte Observer

I can no longer see the Facebook comments on the articles on my mobile device unless I go to Full Sight. A lot of pop up ads.

This app has too many sub-menus. Many of the secondary or sub-menus have redundant content. This makes your app incredibly frustrating to use....you've completely abandoned the KISS methodology with your latest update. Too many free news outlets available to frustrate customers with an over complicated layout!

It appears to me that this app only want to advertise more than let you read the news.

Same as other reviews. App is very subpar but It functioned and I used it to check local headlines once or twice a week. With this latest update, not only do they now want you to pay for access there is no explanation of the pay-for-content system or how it works in the app. No warning the app was going to become a pay for content app. Nada. Not to mention you can use safari or any browser to access the same pages online at no charge. If you are going to charge for content put a little more effort into the app quality and consider how an end user feels when there is no explanation and suddenly an app that was free is now asking for a paid log in.

One star only because there is not an option for "no stars". Newest release as of 12/2014 dropped an easy to navigate menu in favor of something that attempts to be streamlined, but ends up being clunkier and less satisfactory than the previous menu. Some of the Living sections that I read have been dropped from the menu, so I have to scroll through articles that I'm not interested in, rather than being able to go directly to Home & Garden or Faith or Style. In addition, the full-screen pop-up ads are very annoying. The app wasn't great before, but it feels less reader-friendly and functional now.