Dayton Daily News 4+

Less buggy but not great

Biggest annoyance is when you are in article read mode, if you side swipe left-right even the slightest when you intend to scroll up-down, the article reloads and you start at the top. I also don’t like that the page swipe to next page completely locks until the ad loads at the bottom. On some days that can take several seconds.

Interface is problematic

First, when using the “paper” interface and I inadvertently touch the screen it brings up a poor excuse for the page. I have a browser — if I want to read the paper in that manner I’d choose to. The team should allow the user to opt-out of this “feature”. Second, when a customer, who pays real money, chooses to select the “paper” mode every time he opens the app and leaves it in that mode when he exits the app, shouldn’t have to select it each time he opens the app. Remember the state. Third, I would like the local content to be front and center. I know how to subscribe to the NYT, I don’t need their content in the local paper. I know how to access AP news, I don’t need it in my local paper, especially when it’s placed haphazardly throughout. I realize we’re a small town but it’d be great to see all the non locally-sourced news at the back of the paper. The paper is The DAYTON Daily News. Show me news pertinent to the greater Dayton area.

Finally, don’t randomly log paying subscribers out of the app. This isn’t hard.

Developer Response ,

Thank you for taking the time to rate out app! We are always working to make improvements to our products and we use feedback from our subscribers in that process. I can help with setting your default view to the ePaper. To do this, tap the gear icon in the top-right of the app, then tap "Reading Preference". From there, you can select the "eEdition" option and the app will start there when you open it. It is rare that the app should log you out. If that's happening often for you, please email more information to onapps@coxinc.com where we can help you more directly. Thank you again for reaching out to us!

Worst iPad App - Ever

Many people have already shared my problems with this version of the app - it crashes every time I use it, especially on certain sections. And today I tried downloading the paper to try and prevent the crash but to no avail - the app crashed on both the same pages from when I was accessing the paper on-line.

And to make matters worse, I have contacted the customer (no-)service department several times to report this problem, and after ignoring me the first two times, they finally reported “we have reported the problem to our developers” but to date nothing has changed.

This is almost made me cancel the paper altogether since the ePaper app is my only option several days a week.