Christopher Rogers 16
Tuesday, February 11, 2025
The app sacrifices basic accessibility options (like allowing you to zoom the screen on images) for DRM. The more you use it to read articles, the more frustrating this becomes when a complicated line graph will be included that's impossible to digest. On the content side, the NYTimes ownership has unsurprisingly worsened the product. Soccer coverage focuses almost entirely on the biggest teams and the Athletic can't imagine a world where users aren't obsessed with the NFL.
L Shkane 0
Monday, June 23, 2025
pretty good app. nice that it is customizable to allow a user to delimit what sports' reporting he or she will receive. however, important stories, of headline stature, can be missed if one does not think to access the Discover link. notwithstanding, the Times deserves credit for creative thinking in a shifting media landscape. Their welcoming reader feedback is nice, too, and one can be confident that any feedback from its readership is carefully considered.
James Douglas 0
Sunday, May 25, 2025
The Athletic has some of the best sports writing on the planet, which is why I subscribe, but lately the home page has started auto-playing highlight videos of teams/events I don't follow, with no way to opt out. As somebody with a low data cap, this essentially renders it unusable when not within Wi-Fi range. This was a five-star app without the videos. If we get a chance to remove them, I'll come back and change my rating. Since I can only use it at home, though, it's significantly limited.
John Mark Zimmerman 6
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
I've been a subscriber since 2019, when you got an ad-free experience everywhere. A few years ago, they started putting ads in the stories and I put up with it because they weren't very intrusive. Now, ads have been added to the podcasts and I will probably be ending my subscription. What is the point of paying a subscription fee when ads are still placed everywhere? There are plenty of other places to get sports news. They also have ads, but at least they're free.
Nate 3
Sunday, June 15, 2025
It appears they've leaned more heavily into "curation" on the My Feed page, so I'm regularly getting suggestions for multi-day-old or multi-week-old articles despite there being newer articles within my selected interests. It could be something to do with articles I've saved being resurfaced, but that's what the Saved selection is for.
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