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The AJC with it’s stable of reporters does a stellar job keeping metro Atlanta informed. News papers do the work and have the space to report local government business, along with in-depth and investigative stories that need to be told. It appears today’s editors have followed in the footsteps of the bold men and women before them. Relying on cable news is only half the information with newspapers filling in the gaps providing a levity and time for reflection
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Like others have said, it’s impossible to scroll down on the main feed to read more stories because the app will automatically jump back to the top of the page every 5-6 seconds. It makes it impossible to use and I’ve stopped reading the AJC as a result. Since there’s no search function there’s no other way to find articles.

It is also impossible to access the sports section in the app, because none of the choices in the top menu bar are for sports. That is really annoying because AJC publishes a ton of good articles about the Braves and I’m unable to even access them through the app.

Articles in the app are also limited to those published in the last few days. If I miss a notification about an article I want to read and click on it several days later, it will tell me the article is no longer available. You’d find the same thing if you were able to successfully scroll down all the way to the bottom of each news category. I’ve never seen this happen for any other news app, or at least not with such a limited time frame of articles included.

Finally, most apps now have a dark mode, but this one doesn’t. That feature would be greatly appreciated.

I know there is also the ePaper app and I have also used that in the past, but that app is also filled with its own problems (some of which are the same) and isn’t really a replacement on iPhones, particularly my iPhone 13 mini.

The app is much better than it was over the past few years but it needs improvements to ease of access. A big step would be making it easier to access different sections. For example I have to scroll quite a bit to get to the sports section, then scroll vertically to pick between different Atlanta teams. I would at least like a button at the top of the Home Screen that displays a vertical list of major sections.

If at all helpful, I believe the best newspaper app is the New York Times’. Following their lead on UI and UX could be a good strategy to continue building the app.

Many of the photos accompanying articles seem stock photos that aren’t current or newsworthy or remain unchanged from day to day in certain sections. I would find it visually helpful to have a headline-only option to be able to quickly scroll through to select articles. Please consider adding this option to the settings.

Occasionally I can’t arrow back to a previous screen; that option seems frozen, but if you’re not hearing that’s a problem I can’t rule out it being an internet issue on my end. Thanks.

I only use the app to read the paper, but each iteration of the app makes it more and more difficult. Now to download to read offline, I have to download a pdf file. If I read online it takes forever to get the paper up, the app constantly shuts down unexpectedly or just closes the edition I’m reading and goes to the front page of the most recent edition. It never remembers where I’m at so each time I open the app I have to remember and find my place.

Contacting support does no good. They just bleat out the old, tired call of “restart your device” or “make sure you have the recent update”.

If there was another paper in Atlanta I would drop this one like a rotten squash and move on.

I’m a subscriber so I can keep up to date with local news. Up until recently I haven’t had any issues, but now I have a banner at the bottom telling me I have only so many “free articles” until a certain date, and when I try to sign in it says it couldn’t open the page because the server can’t be found. Signing in on safari doesn’t transfer over to the app, and neither does deleting and reinstalling the app. I never signed out on the app either, and the most recent update was 5 months ago, so I’m not sure why I would’ve been signed out.

Used to be one of my favorite ways to get ATL/GA news. Now, I’ve become so frustrated with clicking notifications that don’t take me to the story I want to read in the app, scrolling various stories only to have the app bounce back to the top (and lose my place), stories not loading (or plain do not exist), amongst other issues. The app seems to get worse and worse every day, and that’s unfortunate considering there are smaller-market papers with incredibly professional and well-made apps- and that is the future of newspapers.

The latest AJC update is aesthetically pleasing and well organized. However, as you read, the constant refreshes take you back to the top every time. I get so frustrated trying to read all the articles, I shut the app. The app developers asked about my problem. After sharing my experience with them, the problem persists.

I just Love the AJC, it’s so beautiful to me to hear the rumble of paper as I read the latest news. I think about my deceased Mother and Father as I read the Newspaper, because that was their daily afternoon wine down time. They would exchange different sections of paper as they discussed the recent daily news, obituaries and sports. Also, I love to read all sections in order, news metro, sports , etc. Just don’t go up on the price anymore!
Mildred in Conyers

Something just started happening in this app last week. When I am in the middle of doing a crossword puzzle, a google pop-up ad comes up and forces me to give personal info and take a survey to win a “prize”. I don’t want the stupid prize and I don’t want to keep giving my email id , sex, etc. But there’s no way to even finish it and get past it except to get out of the app. Then, when I come back into the app, my crossword puzzle progress has not been saved. I am considering canceling my ajc subscription if I can no longer use the puzzle portion of it.