The latest update wants to force you to view the magazine a different way than as a magazine. When you touch the cover to open, it takes you to an unintuitive table of contents, then to each individual article. It is not like viewing a magazine at all, but like viewing a website. From AOL. In the 1990s.
But what if you want to save the magazine for offline viewing? You can’t just touch the cover and download it like you used to. Now there is a star at the bottom of each issue that you must touch to download each issue. Sounds easy. But, like everything else with this update, it’s not. If you want to download issues now, you have to either log in with Facebook or create an account. Then you can download the magazine. But the app defaults to a text view, and if you want to view the magazine as it used to be in the app, you must click PDF view on the top right. This will, eventually, convert the magazine to be viewed the way you used to be able to view it with one touch/click.
If this version of the app was tested, I’m not sure how it made it through QA. If it is not changed back to the way it used to be, there is no chance I will renew my subscription.