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Washington Post Select
The Washington Post · 69,532 ratings · ★ 4.6
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Top complaints - extracted from 33 negative reviews
Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.
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"post"
6 negative reviews mention this · 18% of all complaints
★★★★★ "BUYER BEWARE! Everyone should be aware that Google Newsstand is completely unaware of the products that they're selling, they have no clue that when we purchase the Washington Post through their application that we will have no access to th…" - David F Zambrana
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"washington"
5 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "BUYER BEWARE! Everyone should be aware that Google Newsstand is completely unaware of the products that they're selling, they have no clue that when we purchase the Washington Post through their application that we will have no access to th…" - David F Zambrana
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"through"
5 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "BUYER BEWARE! Everyone should be aware that Google Newsstand is completely unaware of the products that they're selling, they have no clue that when we purchase the Washington Post through their application that we will have no access to th…" - David F Zambrana
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"washington post"
5 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "BUYER BEWARE! Everyone should be aware that Google Newsstand is completely unaware of the products that they're selling, they have no clue that when we purchase the Washington Post through their application that we will have no access to th…" - David F Zambrana
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"subscription"
5 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "BUYER BEWARE! Everyone should be aware that Google Newsstand is completely unaware of the products that they're selling, they have no clue that when we purchase the Washington Post through their application that we will have no access to th…" - David F Zambrana
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"version"
5 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "UPDATE 2023: Why is this app still on the Play Store?? Almost as soon as you open it you are instructed to switch over to the version with the black icon. Just remove it and save people a pointless download. At the very least you could post…" - Chris Smith
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"read"
5 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Terrible app, the old one was much better and easy to read." - Reno Davenport
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"news"
4 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "BUYER BEWARE! Everyone should be aware that Google Newsstand is completely unaware of the products that they're selling, they have no clue that when we purchase the Washington Post through their application that we will have no access to th…" - David F Zambrana
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BUYER BEWARE! Everyone should be aware that Google Newsstand is completely unaware of the products that they're selling, they have no clue that when we purchase the Washington Post through their application that we will have no access to the Washington Post website even though the Washington Post website states that we can connect our digital subscriptions to their website; but not if you purchased it through Google Newsstand. What's even worse is that Google Newsstand tried to alleviate t
I am canceling my subscription because the Post has become a tool of neo-fascists, and I'm not giving those people my money. Jeff Bezos ruined the Washington Post. to make every article published in the paper available online, through the app.
Democracy and this paper died in darkness.
print edition no longer loading.
Can this online edition actually be worse than trying to get delivery to my house? Apparently yes,
Watch out!! Google Play will not refund an annual subscription if you purchase through them!!
Cowards! Afraid of Bezos??
Sucks
UPDATE 2023: Why is this app still on the Play Store?? Almost as soon as you open it you are instructed to switch over to the version with the black icon. Just remove it and save people a pointless download. At the very least you could post a prominent message on the download page saying that this app is no longer usable. .... Excellent journalism brilliantly rendered in this intuitive app. "Democracy dies in the dark." 💡😎
Fake news.
is the royal blue washington post app different than the black and white washington post app?
Terrible app, the old one was much better and easy to read.
Wapo are proved lyers who repeatedly put out fake news.
I cancelled my subscription because I did not like the new format. The fonts are too small to read without reading glasses. I liked the old format much better.
The old app was perfect. The new will not work on my main tablet. The format sucks. I want a news app tp look like a newspaper like the old one did. I Will be cancelling my subscription soon. Things should improve over time, not get worse.
New App Sucks. I used to be able to proceed through the paper in a clear and orderly progression, picking whichever tab suited my interest. Now the screen is a big MESS and I have to scroll down and down and sideways this way then sideways that to try to find what I want to read. I am considering unsubscribing to the WP
I prefer the old app to the new because there aren't a whole lot of stories jumbled together, so it's easier to scroll down through them to find the ones you want to read or save. Also, both the old and new apps' search functions to try to find a certain story invariably fail to turn up what you are looking for, even if you put the full title of the story in the search bar.
The new version is awful- it's just the regular Washington Post app. The print is way too small and the article organization is choppy and abrupt. I used to spend about an hour on the app every day reading and catching up, now it's 15 min max. I would love it if Select came back.
Why mess for something that works good. I'd like the old app better.
The new version of the app is unusable for me and my husband, who has macular degeneration. The largest print is too small. It is also hard to use if you wish to scan all articles quickly, reading some partially and others in depth as we do. It doesn't hold your place when you are interrupted for a time, or show what you have already read.
The new app is a cluttered mess. The old one was 5 stars. It was so clean and easy to navigate.
Crashes - unstable.
This version is a giant step backwards. Content is missing that shows up on the website, and it's not that it's just not in the browse experience, you also can't search for it. The WP has two things going for it: good content and a great app experience. You've managed to blow up the former with a untested, lacklustre deployment of the latter.
The new app is terrible! The previous one was great.
My original 5 star review was for the original version of the app. The "new" version is much like the original, but now with ads even for paid subscribers. This used to be a great app, but now it's something less. They're discontinuing the old app because they aren't making money from ads in that one. When it's time for me to renew my subscription, they will no longer be making money from me, as I won't be renewing.
Will not load.
It's forcing me to update but then will not accept the update so now I can't even open Washington Post. And now it is called Washington select? There was no reference to this in any email or anything official. This is quite problematical.
Difficult to access the app. Seems to not think I have it. A real pain.
I must reinstall this app every time I want to use it!
Too bias, news wether good or bad should be neutral towards anybody
Preferred previous format, I liked the visuals with the article.
This app cuts off without warning when trying to review articles. It needs to be more stable when in use. So long as it keeps cuttong off, it is hard to know how easy it is to use.
still learning the navigation, finding it bright and intuitive. This "update" has ads and "in app purchases." What? I'm a paying subscriber. I'm uninstalling!
Sentiment summary
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