Stuff.co.nz

Purple screen, great. Who needs to read the news

The app itself is good. The bugs make it very annoying though, almost enough not to bother with it. It often takes 3+ attempts to open (freezes on a black screen then goes back to iPad home screen). It can also be frustratingly slow.

Excellent app. Sometimes takes a little while to refresh.

Precise, up to date, short, varied! Very good when one doesn't have the possibility of watching the news (such as parents with young children) or read the news paper (too busy at work)!

Now we have to sign up. I think that’s the final straw for me. No one wants this

Have to log in to read a article. And tye log in page takes you out of the app and tyen gets stuck on loading page. Al Jazeera news app doesn’t require this!

Well I didn’t think it could get any worse until this new login to your account was introduced. Didn’t mind and managed to for 1 WHOLE DAY!!!!!!! Now it just says authenticating and redirecting - goes nowhere. I’ve just downloaded one news because at least I can read it albeit you can’t swipe right but compared to stuff now who cares.

It’s a shocker….most of the time you can’t access it because of a problem and then they have the check to try and screw more money out of us by “blocking” content

Always the eternal optimist and despite the continuing catastrophe this app has been since its “upgrade” earlier this year, I thought it fair to at least give it one more go. My advice? Don’t bother. It remains one of the clunkiest online news media apps you’ll find, worldwide - and now, with more and more of it’s content paywalled.

I’m needing to sign in again and again to read every article. Even paywall sites make that process easier than your amateur effort.