THE BLADE News App

The Blade Newslide is by far the worst performing app on my iPhone. Slow is being kind. It typically takes about 30 seconds for the app to open, way too long in today’s technology. I usually get through 3 or 4 stories and then it will freeze for another 20-30 seconds before freeing up again. That means it freezes up 5 or 6 times each day I read through the stories. The news reporting is the same as it’s always been, not great but not bad. That’s not my issue. The Blade needs to find a team of programmers who can fix the problems!

Crashes repeatedly

I can’t seem to get all the obituaries to load. Seems like only 4 or 5 will show but when I jump on the other app I see them all.

On the iPhone version of The Blade I see rats, photos of live or dead rats between every news story. Fortunately, they don’t appear on the iPad version or on my Mac. Is this a bug that can be fixed?

I live in Michigan but I am from Toledo, please go back to your old app

I am having trouble finding the printed version of the Blade. When I click on Todays printed version - I receive Editors Choice??? And where can I find the obituaries. All of them. Did some kid write this app that never read the paper. And while I am here, I used to click on the columnist by name. Where did that go? Please go back to the original app! Thank you!

What a disappointment. Nothing but a watered down version of what a news site should be. Heck, even the obituaries only show 1or 2names. You have to be a high ranking white collar professional or a former government, civic or Blade employee to be mentioned there. This is a disaster of a site, that leaves out so much. If you want to see what’s going on in the Toledo area, other than the drive-by snippets that only cover a small number of things, then this is for you. As for the rest of us that like to see more than the barest of content and variety of items, this is the pits.

This app has more content, and less intrusive ads, than that horrible “NewsSlide” abomination! Send that piece of junk back to the socialists in Montreal where it belongs, and keep THIS platform! I’d willingly pay $10 or so per year to keep this, over the platform that has only a few stories (as well as the editorials with an obvious leftward slant) instead of all the opinion pieces (including reasonable editorials), plus the numbers of stories that are on this platform, along with being able to go back a day or two. I can’t go back to reference articles on the new platform. Again, save this app, and please make the new one like this one, with the same amount and accessibility of content, or just scrap that app and start over!

Pain in the a.. to navigate. Too many adds that won't move out of the way. Give me the paper!

Loading daily paper has slowed to a crawl, fix it please, old version was faster.