The Telegraph: UK & World News 4+

One of the more reliable sources of news and analysis.

I start my day by reading the Telegraph on an iPad, and doing as many of the crosswords and other puzzles as I can in the time available.
It is easy to read and navigate on an iPad, with a clean layout.
The Telegraph is traditionalist and to the political right, so it will not appeal to everyone. It does provide alternate views from different correspondents. I generally find its reporting reliable, and analysis interesting. It does not hold back from criticising a Conservative government if it disagrees with policies or actions.
Sports coverage is good, but like all papers wastes far too many column inches on the round ball game. The “lifestyle”, culture and travel sections provide good information and ideas, but also too many links to hideously expensive items outside the budget of mere mortals.
I like saving some articles to Evernote for action or future reference. That used to be simple with two clicks on the “share” button. Since the revised design, this has not worked. I can still save, but it has become a tedious, multi-step process. I have considered giving up my subscription until that feature is repaired.

More than one type of Rugby.

I just nearly cancelled my Telegraph trial yet decided to hold off and ask a question. May I ask why the coverage of Rugby is only featuring the Rugby Union version of the sport? I would be interested to know as living in Devon for many years I also suffered at the hands of blinkered teachers who thought league and it’s professionalism was just not ‘Rugby’. I tried to teach them to play more like league and run lines and use the league way of thinking as opposed to the crash and tumble they’d played for a hundred years. The bigotry towards league was extremely surprising to me a young lad. But as time has wore on you can see the changes Union has made becoming a great users of League coaches and plays in the game itself. So back to my point. Is the Telegraph a paper that is blinkered like the old fashioned teachers who disappeared into the woodwork at School who just would change no matter what was needing to change in the outside world? The appetite for Rugby League is huge and to take on the likes of Soccer killing everything and Union just not appealing enough to the youngsters league must be allowed in the column inches and see it thrive (look at Australia with the NRL). In this year of the RL World Cup we need as much coverage in the diverse ranges of sports we have in our great country to ensure we don’t lose the children to video games or soccer. Thanks for listening. I’ll hold off the cancel button for now.

Anthony Baldwin.
Wigan.

Unreliable. Unimpressive. Update 2: Please please fix the crossword

I find the new version of the Daily Telegraph app much less reliable than the previous version. It keeps closing unexpectedly, does not automatically download and the crossword puzzle suddenly crashes and will not load. Previously downloaded issues of the newspaper suddenly disappear from the library and have to be re-downloaded, which takes ages. Very disappointing. When it does work, the features of the new app are no better than the old version. A big publication like the Daily Telegraph should debug their app before launch, rather than expect subscribers to help do it for them.

Update: Since writing the above a couple of weeks ago, I have lost count of the number of times that I have had to load and re-load editions of the newspaper, which keep disappearing from the archive (they have all just disappeared again!). The crossword puzzle rarely works and almost always crashes while I am doing it, displaying a message saying something about error loading.... The only good news is that my subscription is about to end, though I do feel sorry for all the excellent journalists who’s work is let down by this flaky app.

Update 2: 2 April 2020. My favourite part of the newspaper, the quick crossword, still keeps crashing to the point where it is unusable. Other than that most of the other bugs seem to have been fixed at last.

Developer Response ,

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We'll release a new version to the App Store in a few days, please keep an eye on updates.

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The Digital Edition team @The Telegraph