SPH Cheat My $

namjayorja

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Been paying $26++/mth as ST Online subscriber but since 1/7 after the new ST look launch, i've not been able to read ST online successfully EVERYDAY. SUCKS MAN!!!!
I've been accessing it using IPad Safari browser all these times and prior to 1/7, no problem at all, reading ST in the morning has always been an enjoyment but from 1/7 onward, it's only NIGHTMARE and TORTURE. It does this EVERYDAY or EVERY ATTEMPT to read the paper: load blank pages and/or crashes and shut my access out showing the stupid page saying no multiple access allowed. Hey hello ST, I didn't try to do multiple access, merely trying to read the paper but your unstable apps and yet dare to claim that I'm doing multiple access!!
Even MRT so unstable also won't breakdown everyday but ST Online breakdowns EVERYDAY, topped MRT in terms of unreliability and poor performance. Excellent work by SPH team!

I reported/feedback twice to them of the above problems as still experiencing and for both times all they did was to tell me clear my browser cache and ensure i've sufficient system memory. Told them i've no issue with system memory and had also tried clearing browser cache prior to contacting them but doesn't help resolve the problem. Told SPH tech support during the 2nd report that maybe they should try checking the apps exception handling program since it crashes so often and guess what? The tech support asked me what is exception handling????!!!!!!!!
An IT tech support doesn't know what is exception handling??????!!!!!!!! can faint. So now I know where SPH IT folks level is - they only know how to tell people to clear browser cache, this is all they can do. Gees................
The tech guy said will call me but 2 weeks passed and still no response from them. I didn't expect them to call too after knowing they're not capable of solving problem at all.

Maybe I'm the only person having such problem with ST Online so that's why SPH team also don't bother to look into it. But to me SPH has already done a bad job of implementing a non working/unstable application without doing any testing and employed useless people whose tech knowledge is only limited to asking people to clear web browser cache.
 

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Just call them and screw their customer service upside down.

You paid for it and you should demand them to fix it ASAP if not pro-rate the subscription charge
 

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So you create acc just for this?
 

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and then you complain about it in a sph owned forum :s13:
 

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Ts, i suffered the exact same problem. It was a hell of an experience. But I sort of understand their problem.

May I ask... did you subscribe to the 'online edition'?

If you'd bought the 'online edition', you should only use the desktop comp to access the ST site. If you try to access the site with the webbrowser on your tablet or mobile phone, you'll get random multiple-access error. It doesn't even matter if you'd properly logged out of one device before logging in to the other one. You'll still get the error randomly.

The only way to read ST on your mobile devices (incl tablets) is to use the mobile app. And you must subscribe to the mobile edition.

It's really crappy as hell. ST is incredibly paranoid about people accessing their precious articles.
 

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Been paying $26++/mth as ST Online subscriber but since 1/7 after the new ST look launch, i've not been able to read ST online successfully EVERYDAY. SUCKS MAN!!!!
I've been accessing it using IPad Safari browser all these times and prior to 1/7, no problem at all, reading ST in the morning has always been an enjoyment but from 1/7 onward, it's only NIGHTMARE and TORTURE. It does this EVERYDAY or EVERY ATTEMPT to read the paper: load blank pages and/or crashes and shut my access out showing the stupid page saying no multiple access allowed. Hey hello ST, I didn't try to do multiple access, merely trying to read the paper but your unstable apps and yet dare to claim that I'm doing multiple access!!
Even MRT so unstable also won't breakdown everyday but ST Online breakdowns EVERYDAY, topped MRT in terms of unreliability and poor performance. Excellent work by SPH team!

I reported/feedback twice to them of the above problems as still experiencing and for both times all they did was to tell me clear my browser cache and ensure i've sufficient system memory. Told them i've no issue with system memory and had also tried clearing browser cache prior to contacting them but doesn't help resolve the problem. Told SPH tech support during the 2nd report that maybe they should try checking the apps exception handling program since it crashes so often and guess what? The tech support asked me what is exception handling????!!!!!!!!
An IT tech support doesn't know what is exception handling??????!!!!!!!! can faint. So now I know where SPH IT folks level is - they only know how to tell people to clear browser cache, this is all they can do. Gees................
The tech guy said will call me but 2 weeks passed and still no response from them. I didn't expect them to call too after knowing they're not capable of solving problem at all.

Maybe I'm the only person having such problem with ST Online so that's why SPH team also don't bother to look into it. But to me SPH has already done a bad job of implementing a non working/unstable application without doing any testing and employed useless people whose tech knowledge is only limited to asking people to clear web browser cache.

in the first place, why would one pay $$$ to read trash???
 

namjayorja

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So i not only 1 having this prob.. Ya, subscribed to 'online edition' but no prob with accessing/reading with safari before 1/7 at all.

This is even worse, i can only use 1 word to describe the SPH folks who developed, approved the 1/7 version app - MORON
How can they so brainless, think 'online edition' only refers to pc web browser???!!!

Give the SPH brainless moron folks another month, if they still don't bother or can't fix the problem, will stop my subscription n give up reading such trashy content created by trashy people.


Ts, i suffered the exact same problem. It was a hell of an experience. But I sort of understand their problem.

May I ask... did you subscribe to the 'online edition'?

If you'd bought the 'online edition', you should only use the desktop comp to access the ST site. If you try to access the site with the webbrowser on your tablet or mobile phone, you'll get random multiple-access error. It doesn't even matter if you'd properly logged out of one device before logging in to the other one. You'll still get the error randomly.

The only way to read ST on your mobile devices (incl tablets) is to use the mobile app. And you must subscribe to the mobile edition.

It's really crappy as hell. ST is incredibly paranoid about people accessing their precious articles.
 
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