Washington Post: Live News

Note: v7.7.0 still crashes. The app has become progressively worse over the last few versions. It now is crashing every 15 minutes or so. It also will frequently close an open article and return to the home page. The widget works for only a couple days before it has to be deleted and reinstalled. Nothing seems to help - clearing the cache, deleting all user data or reinstalling the app only serve as temporary fixes. I've made multiple reports to Wapo's support team, but they haven't found a fix.

Imagine paying for a newspaper subscription, but the app won't actually hold an article open for more than 10 seconds before going back to the homepage, eventually leading to the app crashing. It's updated and all. Don't feel like I'm getting my subscription's worth. Plus, with them consistently changing who does the Seven in the morning, and always changing the music is just annoying. I come to you for news. Not different personalities in a podcast or funky transition music. I want the news.

Good news source, but too easy to accidentally "tap" an article you don't want to read, which counts towards your 10 free articles a month. They ought to prompt you to verify that you want to read it, or give you a few seconds to back out without penalizing. For all the ads, I think they could do that. Or maybe have you watch ads in exchange for reading.

App opens with Top Stories (I can't say I don't want this). Half(!!!) of the screen is used for those four little "cards" that are useless.Today three (yes three) of them link to games that I can easily find via the games menu at the bottom of the screen. The most annoying, though, is when I get "continue reading" hints. I am well aware of what I've been reading and don't always want to read a whole article that has already repeated itself ad infinitum. I'm about done w/ WaPo altogether.

Horrible app, and it's gotten worse. Now, many pages cannot be bookmarked, at all. Either they have no bookmark icon that can be pressed, or pressing it does nothing. It's a shame, because the Post provides good news. It constantly loses my location and I have to scroll through many articles to figure out where I was. Bookmarks show up in the app, but not online, or vice versa. Some bookmarks cannot be cleared, and the article is left in the reading list forever. It's just become unusable.