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The app could be better, but the access to actual human narration of all articles outweighs the downsides IMO. Maybe the reading experience is bad? For listeni
by n8cpdx 4y ago
The app could be better, but the access to actual human narration of all articles outweighs the downsides IMO. Maybe the reading experience is bad?
For listening, I download the weekly copy and that makes it a bit more reliable.
If anyone from the economist is listening, please give me the option of putting the next 15s, previous 15s buttons on the Lock Screen (it matches what I do for podcasts).
- the_biot 4y agoYes, the reading experience is what's so bad. Very often when you're reading it'll suddenly crash, or blank the page, or switch to a random page in the next issue, etc etc etc. A few months ago they broke swiping, if you can believe that. It's now suddenly hard to swipe to the next article, because it wants to scroll up or down instead. How the hell do you break swiping in an Android app in 2022! And to top it all off, the insult on top of the ridiculously bad experience: the regular pop-up (when you're reading), to ask how you like the app? Type your feedback here! Which is 100% ignored of course, for YEARS. I've taken to just sending in "fuck you". What, me bitter?
- n8cpdx 4y agoIt sounds like the Android app is worse than the iOS app. Unfortunately, that means my recent discovery won't help you, but will hopefully help others: With the Apple News app, you can log in to your Economist account and get access to the economist content through the News app.
- antognini 4y agoFor what it's worth I was having exactly the same experience as you on my Pixel 1. But a few weeks ago I upgraded to the latest pixel and the app works great now. I suspect that the app is just so heavy and bloated that it performs really poorly on older phones. Not that there's any excuse for that. All it should be doing is displaying some text so you'd think it would be pretty lightweight.