The Daily Caller

I’ve been a big fan of The Daily Caller for years. Until this recent update I have struggled using the app for a variety of user-unfriendly reasons. Often I would be frustrated and forced to close the app and go to the website to finish reading a story. Other times I would just close and go to another of my favorite news apps. I don’t know if you changed app developers or looked at it from a user experience perspective but it’s better and I’m glad.

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The news items are great and not just a reiteration of the same contrite storyline. If I could rate them outside of the app I would give them 5 stars. However, over the past couple of months I had to report glitches through the online email address because I couldn’t find a way through the app. First, the search function wasn’t functioning. It would time out. Then state File Unable To Load. Server Error. I never received an automatic reply email. I suppose they received many emails because the problem was resolved. Second, is the same complaint as many others have written about. You get a couple of sentences and it says Read More. You tap on it and it brings you to another page with the exact same thing. Lastly, I’m don’t like all of the advertising either as so many others have written in their reviews. I noticed that the ads became very intrusive once The Daily Caller News Foundation began to a subscription based service. I feel like it’s a punishment to those of us who have been reading their articles since Tucker Carlson days and helped make them popular. I don’t want to pay for a monthly subscription. I understand that they need to make money but the amount of ads are obnoxious. It’s for all of these reasons why I gave the app a one star rating.

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UPDATE: I have deleted the Daily Caller app. Although the information on it is very good, my complaints below continue, and I have another complaint large enough to delete the app. For the past months Daily Caller has had certain articles, many per day, that you are unallowed to read unless you pay them a hefty monthly fee. If Daily Caller truly wanted the dissemination of this very important information one would not force someone to pay for it. Also, there is no ability before clicking on an article to know if it is one you have to watch an ad to read, or if you cannot read the article at all due to it being only for pay members. Some of these “pay articles“ have seemed important to disseminate to all without having to pay for them. I would suggest deleting this pay-to-read app and get the “BreitHedge” or the “Report” app instead. You get more information without the ads or the “pay-to-read” crap. UPDATE END This app has been a spectacular source for conservative-leaning articles and continues to be through today. Unfortunately they have decided to insert pop-up ads about 75% of the time when clicking on a link to an article. They are the kind of ads you have to wait a few seconds before you are able to X off the ad. Having to deal with this hassle 3 out of four clicks kind of wrecks the app for me. I would love to rate this app 5 stars, but the new ads bump it down to 2...

Considering we are constantly fed information from our mainstream media that is biased, erroneous, and self-serving, thank God we have an option to read a site that reports the info, then lets the reader do their own thinking. My main issue? The attractive banners and notifications that pop up on my phone, when clicked, never seem to take me to the accompanying article they’re promoting. Instead, it dumps me onto a generic home page. As a result, i don’t click on the stories anymore and am forced to get my news elsewhere

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The Daily caller corrected most of the problems in their ap & it worked great for a while, now they’ve screwed it up again. Video content has no sound & the popup ads are so frequent & obtrusive that it makes the user experience terrible. I just deleted it again & have decided that I’m done with The Daily Caller. I love the content, HATE the app, it closes by itself, 80% of the time it won’t render the content at all & when it does it’s not formatted properly to view on my iPhone; if I were looking for an example of how NOT to create an app, this would be exhibit #1!