Marin Independent Journal News Hack 7.6.3 + Redeem Codes

I can’t login to this app with my own paid-for user ID, but only with the Auth0 ID, which tells me it will sell all my data. Honest, but ecch. There’s no way to exercise my privacy choices under the California Consumer Privacy Act— all links that might lead to the choice buttons are dead. The website isn’t easy to navigate, either, and it puts up more ads than my iPhone can reasonably handle. This app, and the website, need a compete rewrite— perhaps with a lawyer’s guidance.

Update: a long phone call to the IJ allowed me to update my card expiration date and password, and, even though I was still Auth0, I could then exercise my privacy choices. I still can’t give this more than one star, though; this process should be much easier and doable without a phone call from within the app.

This app is awful. I need to unsubscribe- there are few that are full articles, most are only headlines linking to a series of ads or tweets. And I can’t figure out how to easily cancel my subscription. Now I can’t even post this because I need a ‘nickname’ and the ones I enter all seem to be taken… Argh

Paid $140 for an app that does not allow me to read more than 3 articles. The IJ should be ashamed of it’s utterly incompetent attempt to enter the digital media arena. Anyone thinking of purchasing this app should do themselves a favor and drop the though altogether.

No ability to convert to the eEdition? Why make it so hard? And when I try all versions of ‘not happy’, that all seem to be taken. No way…

I have been a San Rafael resident for nearly 50 years and the IJ has been the local fish wrap. I even delivered it as a young man. Unfortunately the website is broken, non-inviting and boring.

Example of broken: I now get the paper through the app on my iPhone. Today I had a flag depicting New news as well as a banner flash talking about the Paris accord. When I clicked the icon, instead of the article that flashed all over my iPhone coming up, some basketball article came up instead. Moreover, I had to search the news list to find the article, it was fifth from the top.

I'm not sure why they flash a banner and flag my app with a red number then make me search for the article?

I've used this app for over a year. This month (Apr 2015) the format changed (with no notice) so that only paid subscribers can read news stories. Non-subscribers can see headlines only. It was nice to keep up on local news, but guess I'll hope for another source for that now.

Also, the new format does not fix a problem that this app has had the entire time I've used it: it takes several minutes to load current content. So each time you open the app, it shows you the headlines that were there the last time you opened the app (perhaps 3 days prior). And then you wait several minutes for it to update. :-/

I've kept the app for now to use the live traffic map (helpful), but if I find another app for that purpose, I guess I'll delete it.

Now the app warns me that it is telling my information to a third-party but gives me zero options for opting out except to contact the company -and it won’t let you in unless you accept. I called three times and got dropped by the automated system - when I select the different departments just go dead. So then I emailed them to let them know that I did not want my privacy information sold. It’s unclear if I’ll get removed or not.

I like reading the IJ, and have been reading the web version on my IPhone, so I'm glad they got an app. However the app needs a little work. It cuts off headlines in the list of articles, just so it doesn't have to display more than two lines (even after an update to 1.1). Let it wrap as many times as necessary for me to see what the article is called.

Otherwise it's nice to see the IJ in an app.

Yes, you have to pay for a subscription to access the content in the app. It's far less expensive than having a newspaper delivered to your home and much more convenient. That being said, I'd like to see more content added to the app. I enjoy the articles and would like more of them and more frequent updates.

This app is decent at providing local news, but it updates the headline maybe 2-3 times a week. I am the type of person who reads a few news apps throughout the day and this one really does take a day or two to update stories that were already previously posted. Does nothing happen in Marin? I doubt it. They need to update stories more often. Other than that it's good.