The Atlantic

Buggy/Slow audio player with lengthy ads. The audio content all begins and ends with ads anywhere from 20 seconds long to 1.5 minutes long. A 7 minute audio clip had an almost 2 minute ad for a podcast. The audio player is often unresponsive and always slow. The queue feature is buggy. The AI narration is just ok. The Economist has a similar feature set for narrated articles without ads and bugs. I shouldn't have to sit through this many advertisements for a service I already subscribe to.

there are several issues using the audio app, at least for an android user. The biggest issue is that it doesn't automatically go to the next article when one fi ishes or allow me to use the next button in the app. It doesn't seem to want to start where it left off after a pause and frequently has to be closed completely to reuse after a pause. This is a fairly big deal when trying use while driving.

The ads in this app are distracting and unwelcome given that I pay for a subscription. It is absolutrly ridiculous that I have to suffer through autoplay videos while I am trying to read an in depth article. I am a decades long print and electronic subscriber. It tears at me that Atlantic would completely ruin a reader experience for an extra $1 of revenue per month after I have already paid a full subscription price. I do not even have the option to pay $1 or more per month to turn ads off.

A few ads, not bothersome. Got The Atlantic app merely to change my snail mailing address. I ended up installing it on both phones to read my favorite magazine articles on the go, and some extra little goodies. I love the idea of gifting articles for 14 days! Would like to make text a touch bigger, is my only complaint.

Taking away the normal share option was not appreciated. I often opened interesting articles listed in the app mid-article, immediately shared them to my browser, and then went back to the one I'd been reading. It was my workaround so that I could read more articles, without losing my place. Now I can only share as a gift, which means searching for the article in the browser, and that's too much. I'm just not going to do all that; I'll read fewer articles and more books.