Edmonton Journal

I get a screen of Sorry Our Services Are Not Available At This Time

Don’t get this. Even as a subscriber, many of the stories just contain the lede and nothing else. The ads and videos keep flashing in and out making it a terrible reading experience. If you want the Journal, you’re best off going to the website rather than trying to use this Post Media garbage app.

Bring back the old version. This sucks big time. My iPad got the update and now is pointless. My iPhone I had to stop auto updates to prevent it. Go back and get it right. It is terrible. Update Stories like Edmonton oilers post game are empty beyond the headline. Ironically I go to google free access or web without signing in and I can read it. Lame lame lame lame

Keep your old app if you have it this new one will lock articles behind a sign-in. Government funded pay wall, LOL

Thanks, Dave. App is horrible. Do not update, do not download. I honestly used to love it and used it everyday. Now? Nope. Most of the stuff you can’t access anyway.

Literally does not work, says create an account, ok, try and create an account and nothing happens, works. Like did they never ask ‘Dave’ to test the app out once to see if it works? Cause it doesn’t!

Update April 2024: I thought this app was a barely adequate, marginal and buggy digital representation of this once great newspaper but now the visionaries at Postmedia have outdone themselves - it’s really terrible now. I read the paper on my tablet and they have “upgraded”this app to make my paper reading experience like I am on my phone. Lots of blank space, no “front page”, no pictures, impersonal and generally bad. This app just makes me sad. Digital newspapers could be so much better; Postmedia has zero understanding, awareness or concern for that or their readers generally. Bad. Previous Review from Late 2023: This app has been pretty bug-ridden for a long time. I blame Postmedia for not allocating appropriate resources to their digital distribution. The code writers are doing their best while the people actually responsible seemingly respond with a shrug. The app does not refresh and it does not allow you to sign in without another window needing to be populated. When I sign into that pop up, it does not refresh back to the app so I need to read the paper on an external (smaller) window. The solution is to delete and reinstall the app. Not great at 5am when you just want to read the paper. The Edmonton Journal was once a great paper. Generations of my family have read it. It actually had local news with local writers. It still has some of that but the numbers of those local professionals has been greatly diminished. The digital versions are maybe a sign of the decline of journalism. Postmedia has certainly demonstrated they don’t really care about quality of digital distribution, among other things.

Don’t update!!!!!

I guess I’ll go to CBC for all my news now. EJ is no longer free, shows only a few articles and then you need to be a subscriber, and it’s still full of ads.

Should never have done the update as now this site is being deleted! You’ve ruined what was once an informative site but now you’re just trying to sell trash! The old adage applies here not to “ mess with a good thing”! They did it and now don’t waste your time!