Gazette Times 12+

Online news utility is almost useless, having to wade through advertising bombardment, and then can access a few local news stories. E- Edition is fairly functional, although some days it is mid day before the current issue displays. I don’t understand why the Albany Democrat Herald (same paper as GT with different front page banner) updates promptly but not the Corvallis edition.

You almost couldn’t make a worse app for this most simple of goals: an E-edition of the local paper. I’m a long time subscriber, formerly of the print version and really had hoped this edition would be moderately effective nut its total crap. After more than a year of suffering through the extremely buggy daily experience with my morning coffee the latest glitch is it won’t open at all for over a week. I deleted it and still it won’t even open. If you want to keep up with the times and changing media landscape and stop the hemorrhaging of subscribers please find a new app developer and build a new app from the ground up. I’d be willing to pay a lot more than $1 for a 6mths subscription if it actually worked. It really doesn’t get worse than this.

There are so many things wrong with this app. Many have been pointed out but no improvements are made. The biggest single frustration for me is the giant black box that obscures fully 25% of the already limited iPod reading surface. Sometimes a tiny, less offensive square within is used as commercial space. I am paying a high subscription rate and view the ads in the e-edition as I would those in the print edition. Why do you make me suffer for naught? I subscribe because I believe in local news. The Gazette Times tells me in so many ways that it does not.