Stuff Reviews 102

The old app was nice. Concise and easy to navigate. Easy to scan for interesting articles.
This new app is the opposite! Just plain terrible. Time to delete me thinks.

The new site is absolute rubbish. There is a delay each time you want to read a new article as you have to wait for the new purple logo to do its thing, you can no longer access the quizzes without a sign in and a good percentage of the time after the new logo loads it comes up as error/unavailable. Absolutely terrible.

The new app is almost unusable - hard to read and discover content, clunky user experience, the prior one was not perfect but a much better content discovery - I am spending less time on Stuff as it is high friction to engage with the content and how it presents content to the readers

New Stuff App not even worth 1 star! I used to use it religiously to follow the latest news in NZ and globally - but now it's quite possibly one of the worst apps/mobile website experiences I've ever had. Nice colours, but clearly not designed with input on great
user experience.

I did read stuff because of good editorial and an easy to use app. The journalists must be frustrated that their content is now held back by the worst news app experience. Poor on every count, slow to load. I won’t be using stuff they bring back the previous app. You can’t sell advertising if no one reads your stuff. Someone should be fired for releasing such a shoddy app

Is this the world’s worst news app? Stuff has really stuffed up here.

Terrible new layout. Now have to make an account to do the quiz...yeah right! Over to NZ Herald i go.
Don't fix something that isn't broken!

The app update is genuinely one of the worst updated versions of any app I’ve ever seen. I’m not interested in watching short videos I’m interested in reading a news story. It’s difficult to navigate with the drop down menu not easily offering anything I want to read (world news, National news, etc)
The short videos enrage me, this isn’t Snapchat.
And no I won’t create a log in to play the damn quiz.

Stuff's motoring section is a right wing religion where no one can raise valid objections without the 65 y/o readers going irate. I have a 30 day ban for daring to point out misinformation in the comments that claimed EV sales were increasing.

Looks like a targeted campaign is going on in the reviews below. All 1 posters, probably FB Karen's.

Absolutely ruined the app. I’ve deleted it as I’ve tried for three weeks and hate it. The old one was fine and easy to navigate. Why try fix the un broken? It’s slow, it’s ugly, the stories don’t get updated as much and the font is terrible. I use to look at stuff on average maybe 10-15 times a day.

Such a shame that a previously excellent app has been destroyed.
Fonts are not correct for device, color choice is awful, there is no easy flow for the articles. It used to be easy to scan a number of articles and go from there, now there seems to be one per page because of ads.
Did anyone review this with users as a pilot before the launch?
Will read the news on other apps now

Worst app upgrade of the decade, so much clutter and ads all over the place. Not expected out of a big news room like Stuff

Terrible new site. Difficult to navigate, hard on the eyes and font that is much harder to read than the previous site. They also removed the “crime” section, incorporating. crime news into national news instead, jumbling the stories in with clickbait and politics. Have been a stuff reader for 14 years but now I’m moving to the herald / news hub and removing all bookmarks to Stuff. How could you “stuff” up this bad?

New layout is a jumbled mess. It takes so long to load to anything as every time you try to read something you get that stupid purple S logo going around for an eternity. I also don't see the need to log in just to do a quizz.
The site is an epic failure

The new layout is all over the place, start reading an article and had several ad pop ups or it went to the silly scroll ad thing, the old layout was better and had some sort of order to it, the new layout is all over the shop. Whoever designed it didn't think of the user just how to pump nonsense ads in your face. I get you need ads for revenue but you'll lose long time users with the new layout. At least put the most important headlines around the top of the page, it's kind of silly when I see several massive articles/promoted ads on 'how to put on summers makeup' etc and then in an actual headline of people dying in a plane crash is a third of the size and found after 10+ ads.....
Top article today was a prestigious golf coarse vandalised.... is that more important than 70+ peoples lives lost?

Stuff App has been destroyed, there is no way I am going to create a login for “stuff” that looks soo bad. Deleting that App.... don’t change if not broken... soo long Stuff!

Terrible UX freezes, does not scale to device difficult to navigate.

So slow to load then freezes - has become unusable so deleted. Impossible to navigate.

What a jumbled mess and full of ads. Previous had a better layout with news listed in a chronological order. Now it's just all over. Will be looking for another news alternative to view.

Poor user experience. Poor layout. Hard to navigate.