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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.

Second edit I see that you now have to sign up to a free account to read many stories. Why on earth would you require a free account? Is it so you can sell my private data etc to third parties? No thanks. Not ever going to happen Edit Tried this app again to see if things had improved. It seems not. It seems that many articles only show the first couple of paragraphs, then the article fades out and stops. Is it now a requirement to sign up/pay to see all the story or is this yet another bug? And I am not talking about the content that is sometimes behind a paywall. The new update has made it harder/slower to navigate between sections, slower to read articles, freezes, etc. Did anyone actually beta test this???? Given the often poor quality and selection of news articles, the increasing amount of opinion pieces and advertising and now this update, it seems stuff is trying very hard to drive visitors away from the app.

More and more articles paywalled, have to have an account now, and their bias reeks. Turned from reputable to trash.

You now have to sign up just to read the news, DELETE! What was a great news platform has become about nothing but the adds. If you want revenue then use a pay wall so at least the content will be good. The other issue is that the adds cause crashes and freezes on my iPad.

Dear stuff I miss you but everytime I try and rekindle the love, I’m met with no improvement. And please can you address the mess that it is and let us know how you can get it back to anything close to the usability a newa app should have? If I finished a story yesterday, then it’s not the first story I want to read today. Would just be comforting to know that a complete redesign is in the works and maybe for a start the mauve from the icon might be gone soon. Regards, long time reader