Gazette Times

You can’t even read an article without a video ad popping up and no matter how many times you close the video it just keeps coming back up. The app was buggy when it first launched a few years ago and now it is unusable.

G-T app is a travesty. Everything is subject to a paywall & excessive advertising. That’s what happens when local news is captured by conservative private equity.

Online news utility is almost useless, having to wade through advertising bombardment, and then can access a few local news stories. E- Edition is fairly functional, although some days it is mid day before the current issue displays. I don’t understand why the Albany Democrat Herald (same paper as GT with different front page banner) updates promptly but not the Corvallis edition.

You almost couldn’t make a worse app for this most simple of goals: an E-edition of the local paper. I’m a long time subscriber, formerly of the print version and really had hoped this edition would be moderately effective nut its total crap. After more than a year of suffering through the extremely buggy daily experience with my morning coffee the latest glitch is it won’t open at all for over a week. I deleted it and still it won’t even open. If you want to keep up with the times and changing media landscape and stop the hemorrhaging of subscribers please find a new app developer and build a new app from the ground up. I’d be willing to pay a lot more than $1 for a 6mths subscription if it actually worked. It really doesn’t get worse than this.

There are so many things wrong with this app. Many have been pointed out but no improvements are made. The biggest single frustration for me is the giant black box that obscures fully 25% of the already limited iPod reading surface. Sometimes a tiny, less offensive square within is used as commercial space. I am paying a high subscription rate and view the ads in the e-edition as I would those in the print edition. Why do you make me suffer for naught? I subscribe because I believe in local news. The Gazette Times tells me in so many ways that it does not.

The app desperately needs functionality to filter app notifications. For the past 6 months or so, the app sends notifications for virtually every new article posted to their website, turning notifications in to unhelpful background noise

We Are subscribers and internet- poor sports section - I constantly go to other sources to find game schedules. Why not have a daily schedule with all local sports?

This app no longer works since it was updated.

Too little news, bad lay out. First page repeats info. Obituary page hard to read. Why can’t all the names be the same size?

This app desperately needs a makeover. The paper is expensive and the app is terrible. So much for local news.