KTXS - News for Abilene, Texas

This has got to be the worst news app ever developed, or that I have ever used at least. I’ve had it installed for 3. or 4 years and keep it updated but it never gets better. The news stories are days behind and when “local” is selected there are only a couple stories related to the area. The majority of any headline stories are all syndicated. It truly is resemblance of a single person working out of their closet at home.

This rag mag does nothing but lie! They couldn’t tell the truth if they were paid to!!!

Who, what, when, and where. Your app is almost useless. I’ll read a whole news article about a crime only to find out it happened on Grape street in San Antonio. Didn’t even know they also had a Grape street. Try using bylines at the top. Try answering those four basic questions in every news article. It’s like your articles are written by kids or something.

Where did your app go?????

So many adds you will forget the news you were reading. Adds that will cause you to accidentally touch and take you to websites and you have to reopen app to get back to article. Adds that take you to the App Store when you bump it trying to read news. Adds that, my most hated that as soon as you scroll to new article they play a video add with sound. They ruined an otherwise ok app.

The last time not this time I updated this app I lost the icon for the app on my screen. I hoped this update it would come back. Maybe someone can help me.

We really don’t need push notifications for every story you publish. There is no reason to wake me up at 11pm for a story about somebody adopting 5 dogs.

Today’s update(9 Jan 2018) removes the ability of the app to rotate to landscape view. You also lose the ability to set the weather location to anything other than Abilene. Neither of these “features” are an improvement. I’d recommend NOT updating until a fix for the problems are addressed. UPDATE(24 Jan 2018): Still No Landscape View with latest update. It also appears they’ve morphed into nothing more than a rebranded USA Today. Fewer and fewer local stories. You now must scroll down several sections just to get to the “Local” section.

With no landscape view on my iPad, I must tilt it sideways. I have a keyboard and case, so this makes it UNACCEPTABLE. Wake up folks, most apps allow for landscape and vertical viewing.

Horrible! I can’t look at the weather without a pop up from Amazon!! ANNOYING! Fix your app KTXS!!!