Orlando Crosby 9
Thursday, December 21, 2023
I would have loved to have given this app 5 stars for making credible and authoritative news available to Chinese-speaking readers around the world. The critical problem is that there is no tool for increasing the app character font size. The default character size in the app is so small as to make the text nearly illegible. The irony is that the web-browser version has such a tool, but it actually doesn't need the tool. Whereas the app desperately needs such a tool. Edited
M. 4
Friday, November 22, 2024
Has a bug where it shows simplified characters upon a fresh install, despite it claiming to be set to traditional in the settings. Manually switching to simplified and back again fixees it, expect for notifications which remain simplified. Also, you get "Please note, as your phone has less than 3GB of RAM the full-page screenshot feature may fail." when tapping the full screen screenshot button, even if you have 12 GB of RAM 😅 Edited
Johannes Törnquist 5
Monday, January 6, 2025
Good articles, but the app is missing lots of basic functionality, which makes it feel a bit like an afterthought. For exsmple, there is way of changing font size, save articles for offline reading or even of searching for articles (or anything) within the app. I get the feeling thst the people programming the app aren't actually using it.
Graham Hope 3
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
The option for Traditional Chinese is broken. The articles only render in Simplified Chinese no matter what you select as your preference. Selecting Traditional Chinese only changes the app interface, which is very limited in and of itself. Edited
Kevin Donnelly 107
Monday, January 25, 2021
This is a terrific app for learning Chinese - use a character identifier like Hanping Popup to read the characters and compare them with the English translation. Great for improving your knowledge of the syntax of longer sentences, as well as getting some reportage from China. A big thank you to NYT for this!
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