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The Advocate mobile app is pure garbage...

Posted on 3/9/18 at 12:06 pm
Posted by supadave3
Houston, TX
Member since Dec 2005
32421 posts
Posted on 3/9/18 at 12:06 pm
Have we discussed the absolutely worthless Advocate mobile app?? The Advocate is usually where I have looked for my local news. Their app has made this so damn frustrating that it makes my blood pressure rise. It’s stable and pretty bug free, but it’s damn near impossible to view the content of the article because of the constant pop up ads. You can’t navigate to a different page without viewing a ad. The articles are split up with an ad every damn paragraph. As if this wasn’t enough, in the last month or so my screen changes to an ad requesting to sign up for instant alerts for weather, emergencies; etc. I’ve declined the alert service time and time again but it continues to happen. It’s so bad that I’ll click off and not even scroll down and the ad will pop back up without even being touched. I completely understand that the newspaper/app is driven by ad revenue but it’s made its the app not worth the headache. I’m sure they have have received complaints for this. We know their reporters read this site so maybe our cries will be heard.
This post was edited on 3/9/18 at 12:10 pm
Posted by cwarr14
up da bayou
Member since Oct 2013
386 posts
Posted on 3/9/18 at 12:07 pm to
Posted by goofball
Member since Mar 2015
17356 posts
Posted on 3/9/18 at 12:08 pm to
The paper version isn't any better.
Posted by shawnlsu
Member since Nov 2011
23682 posts
Posted on 3/9/18 at 12:08 pm to
The advocate as a whole is pure garbage. Nothing new and definitely not limited to the mobile app
Posted by craigbiggio
Member since Dec 2009
31805 posts
Posted on 3/9/18 at 12:08 pm to
Dear Facebook
Posted by Harry Caray
Denial
Member since Aug 2009
21045 posts
Posted on 3/9/18 at 12:09 pm to
Their website is pretty damn horrible too. At least the paper has sudoku.
Posted by Sao
East Texas Piney Woods
Member since Jun 2009
68469 posts
Posted on 3/9/18 at 12:09 pm to

I get my news from their competitor, Noadvocate.
Posted by fallguy_1978
Best States #50
Member since Feb 2018
53837 posts
Posted on 3/9/18 at 12:11 pm to
Their website is bad with ads too now. About 5 seconds into reading an article a full page ad will cover the entire screen that you have to close.
Posted by TheHarahanian
Actually not Harahan as of 6/2023
Member since May 2017
24361 posts
Posted on 3/9/18 at 12:11 pm to
If the ads prevent you from reading the Advocate, then the app is an improvement over the paper.
Posted by lsugerberbaby
baton rouge
Member since Mar 2008
3071 posts
Posted on 3/9/18 at 12:12 pm to
quote:

The Advocate is pure garbag
Posted by andwesway
Zachary, LA
Member since Jun 2016
3802 posts
Posted on 3/9/18 at 12:14 pm to
It sucks bad. They'd slap an ad on dead puppies if they thought it would sell a paper or two.
Posted by The Pirate King
Pangu
Member since May 2014
69729 posts
Posted on 3/9/18 at 12:17 pm to
Have you ever been to their website? It’s the computer version of aids
Posted by Crow Pie
Neuro ICU - Tulane Med Center
Member since Feb 2010
27948 posts
Posted on 3/9/18 at 12:20 pm to
Makes sense the mobile apps suck donkey scrotum because generally speaking ALL newspaper websites are the worst websites on planet earth. They must think giving your computer, tablet or phone the internet version of full blown aids is a good way to attract readers.

Thank God for Chicken and Tigerdroppings.
Posted by RedFoxx
New Orleans, LA
Member since Jan 2009
6825 posts
Posted on 3/9/18 at 12:24 pm to
Yeah, but I can't house train my dog with their app.
Posted by Ed Osteen
Member since Oct 2007
59350 posts
Posted on 3/9/18 at 12:28 pm to
I avoid their website because all their ads drive me crazy.
Posted by TigersSEC2010
Warren, Michigan
Member since Jan 2010
38535 posts
Posted on 3/9/18 at 12:30 pm to
I’ve completely stopped reading it because you either buy their shitty paper full of SJW retards or your computer catches AIDS from their shitty website full of SJWs.
Posted by LSUjefe
Member since Jul 2013
214 posts
Posted on 3/9/18 at 2:53 pm to
Can’t handle their app.
Posted by supadave3
Houston, TX
Member since Dec 2005
32421 posts
Posted on 3/9/18 at 4:33 pm to
quote:

computer catches AIDS from their shitty website full of SJW


The app is all I have looked at in years and those days are now done. When the ads aren’t filling the whole screen, it’ll do this shite where the words disappear from the article and I have to swipe right to another article, then come back to it to see the words again. Right about that time, another ad pops up about signing up for this/that or a free iPhone or eBay gift card.

frick the Advocate. I wish we had a competitor but we’re kind SOL there too.
Posted by Bison
Truth or Consequences
Member since Dec 2016
1339 posts
Posted on 3/9/18 at 6:59 pm to
Their instagram is disgraceful
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