I've had trouble using the new version of the app. Many times I'll select a topic on the front page or the board and it will not load and the app will just close. I have better luck just going to my browser on my iPhone 7 and just going to mgoblog.com.

MGoBoycott!

I switched to the HD app long ago and have never looked back. The old app crashed a lot and sounds like it continues to do so. 

To echo a previous poster, creating a mobile-friendly website would likely obviate the need for a separate mobile app.

 

I can't use the official app to post on. Kinda sucks. What's a man to do! Sit on a fucking computer! That's so 5 years ago! Hahaha

discontinued on the eve of signing day? Cumong mang.

I've made a couple post using the old app since this was announced. Just opened up on a browser and see that none of them went through.

Bull. And shit.

Just reloaded the old mgoblog app.  Must say, I haven't really missed the East German Cold War era look of the app.

at least the app crashed before one of your shitty ads redirected me to the app store.

so, um, thanks. i guess.

Never used it. 

MGoBlog should partner up with the Hd app creator, sell the app for $.99 or $1.99 or whatever, and split the proceeds.  Everybody would likely be happy, and it would probably raise as much, or more, revenue than the old app's advertisements did.

I have no trouble whatsoever with MGoBlog on my phone without an app. Everything that's valuable and viewable on my laptop is there on my phone too.

 

Now that the HD app is outlawed, only outlaws will have the HD app.

Just downloaded it.  It's interface may have scarred my retinas.

You do realize we would gladly pay a purchase fee for a good app, no?

Hell, I'm not even talking $1.99 -- you would get a steady stream of $4.99 or even $9.99 purchases if it were actually good.

Go Blue! .... sad day.

How much would it cost to get a robust site upgrade? I'd chip in some money.

I mean, does it really matter that for some of us, we only used MGoBlogHD? The official app is terrible and quite frankly....amateur. So, now we are faced with the following choices: A. Use the crappy official app B. Login to the non mobile friendly website C. Get our Michigan news elsewhere Sadly, I'm starting with C and I'll maybe eventually try A again if it gets upgraded significantly or I find that the other sites don't get me sufficient info, but with both MGoBlog options being rather mobile unfriendly, I'm not real motivated to try A or B. Way to think it through guys! Maybe in the future, you could upgrade the official app first. Smh

I'm not one who posts to websites much but I created a username just to weigh in on this topic.  To amplify an earlier comment, it's mind-boggling to think that these guys could be so passionate and committed to the content and mission of the site and care so little for the user experience.  The 'classic' mobile app is an affront to programming, user interface, the university, motherhood and all that is good and right in the world.  It is literally unusable.  That's not hyperbole.  I mean 'literally' in the literal sense.  The website is barely better.  Crashes regularly and features a circa-2005-North-Korean-internet caliber interface.  You seem to believe that the content and community is somehow separate from the overall product.  It's not.  And it's well past time you fixed it.  To continue to ignore the problem is a big fat FU to your users, whether you realize it or not.

I can't even post using the official app. Tried doing it and it doesn't work. Brian, I've been a long time viewer of this site. Like most people. I now do 95% of my web browsing on mobile. Like most of the site viewers, I come here habitually and the reality is, this is going to disrupt my habit and hence cause me to visit the site less. As much as I like the site, it's now a pain in the ass to view. I get that you need the ad revenue and respect it. But discontinuing the Hd app without a suitable replacement implemented is shooting your self in the foot long term. You're going to lose users over this, not so much as a sour grapes thing, but because people don't maintain habits when there are barriers that are erected. My two cents - overhaul your official app. Hell, just have the HD guy develop the official app. Make it like the HD app, but with ads by default, and the option that go ad-free for a fee.

First, they take the app away claiming that it never actually belonged to the site. In a few months, they'll tell us that the app never existed at all. In a few years, we'll all be reading 11 Warriors without even realizing what's happened. Tragic.

Whoa wait. You caved the *good* app? Lol wtaf

Guys, this is ridiculous. Not to pile on, but I'm gone. I'll just stick to twitter and bleacher report for my news. Let me know when you get your head out of your a$$. Don't bother responding, I won't see it.

Android version works fine for me. no clue if it is an HD version or done by Brian & Co

You purposefully did this right before NSD to make people switch over. You need to over haul one of the apps. HD was just fine, should have added advertising. This is ridiculous. Having a very difficult time posting in original app.

So disappointing. Change sucks.

Probably would have been worth talking to some of your customers before making such a move. I understand your need to make ad revenue but worst case you could have bought the app or vastly improved the native one. Honestly the user experience has been significantly downgraded here and it's probably going to lead to less page views overall as angry customers will avoid coming on the computer browser as well now. You guys have by far the best content out there but at the end of the day we have seen the best products in the world fail when they try to make rules for the customer. Don't be Blockbuster. P.S. add me to the list who are willing to pay $10 for the HD app or even $2-4/month for an ad free subscription.

I feel like we're about 3 months from brian shutting the site down and opening a flower shop in ypsi. no warning, just one day in April the site 404s and then we see an article in w/e the equivalent is to the old A2 observer about a new flower shop in ypsi