The Guardian - Live World News

I decided to subscribe as I read the Guardian every day and wanted to support it as well as doing the crosswords since that app has been decommissioned. Unfortunately the reading experience is quite disappointing compared to apps like Apple News. There are quite a few times when the app won't respond. Content is difficult to find and I have more content from the Australian edition than I would like to read (often without knowing the article relates to Australia until halfway through reading). There is no history of articles I've read making it difficult to refer back to something once it has moved in some content reorganisation. Some of the crosswords can't be completed in the app and a lot of the articles in the crossword section can't be opened but just display a list of crosswords instead of the article. I'm disappointed after spending £79.99 and not inclined to renew.

The app is decent

In the latest update, you can no longer put the homepage in your preferred order and, even if you “hide” sections, the banners remain. The new “My Guardian“ tab means having to log into separate places for articles of interest. And that tab does not seem to work properly in landscape mode. Why change something that used to work so well? Update 19 March: App now crashing regularly. And contrary to what some of the developer responses say, not all my home page sections were copied into My Guardian, though it took me a few days to realise this. Still far too many large white spaces on the home page. Was this update tested on real people? Update 9 August: crashing even more since last upgrade. So much for ‘improvements’.

App now has a paywall. Bye bye app

Of all newspapers, in the Guardian I trust!

Lots of errors, partisan and more opinion than news. App not as good as The Times. But it’s free at least. Like Russia Today or the Mail.

It’s exactly as you’d expect from the brilliant journalists and contributors, no faff or headlines that shock. Just quality news as everyone knows.

Long time premium subscriber to the Guardian app but it gets progressively worse and pales in comparison with its peers in both UK and US. FT being about the best. It randomly skips past sections when returning from reading article and makes it very difficult to get back to where you were. If I was not so wedded to the journalism I would have given up on this app a long time ago. Still might.

The Guardian is very pleased with itself but smiles as it mines your data just as enthusiastically as some of the big tech boys. Of course it does, it’s part of the same ecosystem. Yes, you can read it for free, but in exchange, you have to sell your soul to their impressive list of legitimate interest vendors. Hence, like most advertising-dependent media, it cannot be truly independent and is often compromised on what it can say and how it can say it. Their editorial often leaves a lot to be desired; they can tiptoe around glaring injustices, weak on Palestine and the lobbying in the UK and US political system for example (I think you may get my drift) Although with writers like Monbiot, Owen Jones and others there are exceptions. They were on the wrong side of history on such a fundamental issue as press freedom; their spat with Assange/WikiLeaks could have been characterised as childish if the issue wasn't so vital to all of us. They threw the baby out with the bathwater due to editorially siding with their journalists whose opportunistic book actually compromised WikiLeaks and jeopardised journalism. Also, their position on Corbyn made unbiased coverage of his leadership of Labour almost impossible. Good on sports writing with Roney and Glendenning, poor with too many lightweight fluff pieces whose often embarrassing clickbait titles can be opportunistic, poorly thought out and researched. Like the majority of British media, it is tainted due to a London-centric culture and deeply embedded consumerism. Not the worst offender though.

Recent updates cause unresponsive links or links that open the wrong article. Only solution I’ve found is to quit and restart. Pity as the app used to function quite well.