Denver Post Digital e-Edition Hack 4.0.1 + Redeem Codes

This is my fourth review of the DP Replica app. The first three were all one star and written with the faint hope that they could do something - anything - to make it look like something a major newspaper would offer. I’d like to think that my reviews, along with countless others, moved the needle a little, because they’ve finally ditched the other app completely and started over, emulating the app that many of the Gannett papers use. Not the greatest, but certainly more functional and stable than what they had.

The only quibble have so far is that, even thought it automatically downloads the version for offline, it does not completely download. Where this is most noticeable is on the comics page. I learned this on a flight last week, when virtually none of the text accompanying the comics was legible, looking mostly fuzzy.

But otherwise, good on ya DP.

Since upgrade, when I open the app it requires sign in which - eventually, after a lot of spinning/loading time - takes me to the new “customer” web page where I enter my credentials and then instead of going back to the app automatically, like before, I have to tap the “digital products” tab and select Replica. But it just opens the web version of the replica edition with all the clutter and obnoxious layout. I haven’t been able to actually use the replica edition APP since the upgrade. To the Vulture owners of the Denver Post: if you are intentionally trying to run the newspaper into the ground by driving online subscribers away, then kudos to you. I hate this digital experience now, and have already been SO disappointed by the changes at the Post since you took ownership. Since I already have a subscription to the New York Times (I’m a Denver native, so don’t think I’m a transplanted snob), why should I even continue subscribing to your paper when so much of the content is coming from the NYT? I’d appreciate a response but don’t expect one since this app has had about a 1 star rating forever.

What used to be a barely acceptable app became unusable with the late November update. The web version however has improved greatly, highly recommended on the iPad for landscape… other than hyper sensitive article view.
In this update archive issues are woefully hidden. Full screen portrait mode is lost to some terrible layout with large, unnecessary, and non-removable header and footer bars. The needless loss of screen real estate on the iPad is unfathomable in 2022. How could this have seemed like a good idea to anyone? Search only works on previously downloaded issues? Why bother with search at all? “Only search issues I’ve downloaded and read” is a great *option* in a search interface but as a stand-alone it is a sad excuse for a feature.
This is either unannounced and forced public alpha testing or simply incompetence from developers new to the platform and completely unfamiliar with newspaper content consumption.
Hint: Interface elements no longer need to appear onscreen full time at the expense of content.

My previous rating was one star, but I’m taking it up to four stars with the latest updates to the iPad app. Major improvements, bravo! I would make it five except for pages snapping to the side covering text when you expand an article, page turn buttons still often go unresponsive if you pinch to reduce from the expanded view and it’s annoying that the page turn buttons disappear requiring one tap to wake up and another to turn the page. But overall, a much better experience with the updates.

Since retiring to our new home in the foothills close to Florence, co, this is the first time that I have received the Denver post with out any glitches. I use my I-pad at the kitchen table every morning and love reading the paper at breakfast. In the past I often had to sign in with my password which would be rejected repeatedly which would then force me to open my e-mail to access the paper which was harder to navigate on my I-pad. My husband and I depend on getting our news by reading the daily newspapers. We believe that every citizen should educate themselves everyday by reading,Our country would be far better off than we are today.

In the 60s, I would sit in the floor reading the RMN as I folded the papers for my three routes. I loved reading the News from cover to cover, often stuffing “inserts” (Sunday comics and/or advertising). Then after baseball-basketball-football practice I’d go home and share sections with my dad while reading the Post. As a rifleman in Vietnam my dad would send me his DP and I was able to enjoy keeping up with Denver. Years later, as I rode light rail, I would again read the RMN, mostly because the DP layout wouldn’t be conducive to crowds and elbow room. Then wanting to conserve paper, I found DP Replica. Wow! I really love having the ability to read it anywhere. ¡Perfecto! Thank you, Hawk

I do enjoy reading the Denver Post on my iPad because I refuse to pay the high cost of a seven day a week paper delivery. The only thing I can complain about is the fact that all the controls are on the right hand side of my screen and that is very easy to touch by mistake. So while reading an article suddenly I will get a magazine advertisement that I don’t want and have to delete it. I think that these controls should be at the top of the screen so that you don’t accidentally touch them while you are reading an article. These buttons are hypersensitive and will be set off accidentally very easily.
But overall, it is a good way to read the paper if you don’t want to pay the exorbitant price of the monthly printed issues.

Update: This app has gotten better, but I’ll leave my original one star review as a reminder to DP to keep working on it and improving the app.
Why is it so hard for the Denver Post to provide a newspaper app that actually works? It seems to have a functionality issue at least once per week, and I keep having to delete the app and reload it. Today I did that, and it still keeps giving me yesterday’s newspaper. This is a very unreliable app. It often crashes then asks me to log in again, but when I try to log in it won’t let me. I love reading the morning newspaper, but I guess I’ll have to start watching the morning news on television. Ugggggghh!!!

When this app works, it provides a nice, convenient way to read the Post on my tablet. Unfortunately, it seems to fail about once a month, at which time I cannot log in. I have a couple of other things I’d like to see fixed before I raise my rating. 1) It is pretty easy to download issues for offline reading and I love that. But then how do I delete a downloaded issue after reading it? There’s no obvious method other than removing the app and all its data, then reinstalling the app? There’s no way that was the intended design spec. 2) when you attempt to contact app developer support from Apple’s App Store, the link is not valid! Please give this app the attention it deserves and fix these piddling easy things!

The pages don’t advance well and, when you want to jump to continue reading an article, more often than not, it jumps you back to page 1. It’s too quirky. For as much as I pay for a yearly subscription, it should work far better. Go back to the old platform.
Update: still pretty bad. The latest quirk is advancing to the next page only to find images but no text. Still having problems with page advancement.
Update to my update: thanks to another reviewer, I learned the “classic” e-edition version was still available. I switched back and have no issues.