I wish I could say the latest update was an improvement, but sadly not. Not only was I not aware of it coming, but it did not auto update. The old version just stopped getting the latest editions and when going to the Apple apps store, the old version came up as #1, so I didn’t even notice the new version with the new thumbnail/logo. Where the old version allowed me to click anywhere on an article to bring it up, the new version only reacts to the article title (which I stumbled into discovering). Lastly, I used to be able to print out the individual puzzles/games I wanted. Now I have to enlarge a portion of the comics/games page and print that enlargement. Overall this “upgrade” gets a “D” grade. You folks didn’t need to make this change and when making future changes, I hope you do a better job of getting reader usability testing before proceeding.
The new version functions poorly on iPad. Navigation is clunky, largely because the banner ad at the bottom of the page keeps blocking the navigation bar. The old app allowed reading the e-edition the same way one reads a print newspaper, the new version insists on trying to force the reader into scrolling through the news stories, and the comics, one by one instead of picking and choosing what to read as one would do in a print version. And on some pages the scroll misses portions of the page, like the listings of corrections to articles. The navigation bar should be permanently affixed to the bottom of the screen, replacing the banner ad that continually blocks it, and one should be able to click an article on the overall view of a Trib page, read the article, then immediately jump back to the overall view. This version of the app will SOMETIMES allow that process, but because the app has such slow response, and because the banner ads seem to take control of the page, most of the time the top and bottom navigation bars do not pop up. Very frustrating!! If the clunky navigation and obstructive banner ads don’t get fixed, I won’t be renewing my subscription.
The app is getting better. Just stop having it ask a subscriber to subscribe!!! YES! That! Also, I miss having access to online crosswords. I don’t have the ability to print from my phone so the print version is useless to me!! Am I now allowed to also load and access the app on another device? I can print from my iPad but not phone although, TBH, would prefer online crossword access again! Thank you!
I have to say I was skeptical of going to the digital version of the Salt Lake Tribune but now that we’ve had to do it, I find I like the convenience of being able to read it any time and anywhere with ease. I actually read more of the content than I did as the paper version. I especially enjoy being able to touch on the article and being able to read the entire piece without having to turn to another page. Overall it’s a very positive change and saves the environment of excess paper and plastic. Same great content and more convenient! Who could ask for more! Update to the above review. I still really like the e edition but the recent update made it so we can no longer click on a comic to read easier or print just a game. That should change back to the way it was before.
The app is functional but there are some stylistic choices that I think hinder the app. There are 2 overlapping changes I would suggest- The design of the scrolling "live news" view is such that all the article titles get cut off part way through. This is pretty annoying because you can't see any full headlines. So if I'm skimming through it's difficult to find particular articles. The second change is the fonts in the app are incongruous with all the articles in the e-edition and the website versions of articles. Across all other versions the Tribune uses a font like Times New Roman, except in the app where it is a weird sans-serif font. It seems unusual to not keep that the same, and I actually think it contributes to the article titles not fitting properly because the formatting is different for t try his other font. Anyway- those are nitpicks. overall the app is fine, it just has a couple of inconveniences.
How frequently are we required to buy a new iPad to keep the newspaper? We can’t read any editions after July 26th of the tribune on the older iPad. It’s now August 9th. We can’t update to the new app because it says the iPad is too old. How difficult would it be to continue to allow people to use the older app? I can’t imagine it would need to be typed in manually. Does it need a lot of technical support? Would the advertisers mind if you at least allowed the older app to have recent editions, even if they were without the fancy pop up ads of the new app? What percentage of customers would go back to the older app? I like the new app on our more recent iPad, but I don’t like being forced to buy more iPads.
I cannot fathom why the tribune felt the need to transition from the old, black app, to this new red one. It’s a huge downgrade in every aspect. A short list of just a few of the problems: •The app’s design is terrible. It doesn’t look or feel like an iPhone app, and doesn’t follow iOS conventions. For example, swiping to go back after opening an article doesn’t go back, but goes to another article for some reason. •Constant UI bugs and glitches. Floating navigation bars (or just solid white bars because the buttons don’t load), missing buttons, freezes. This even extends to the articles, frequently entire portions of articles simply never render, forcing me to find the article on the web. •Notification bugs. Almost daily I will receive duplicate notifications, or four to five notifications in rapid succession. Even after turning off the notification for a new “e edition” of the paper, I still get it almost every day. Overall it’s just a mess of an app that is terrible to use. I feel bad that the Trib paid to have this made because it reflects terribly on their brand. Hopefully it can improve, but based on how long this app has been around, I’m not expecting much.
In general the new app works well. The biggest problem is text transfer from the digital view to the reading pane. There are lots of extra spaces and, at times, extraneous gibberish mixed in on most articles. The Live News section seems to work well. I do wish there were a connection to the World Table comments that you see in the web version. While I’m no fan of how World Table functions, it’s what we’re stuck with and it’s a pain to switch back and forth between the app and web versions to read and make comments.
The content of the newspaper is great and worth subscribing. The app, however, is frustrating. For one thing, there are weird spaces and line breaks through the text of the articles. Almost like instead of importing the text which was undoubtedly written on a computer, they print the newspaper and then use a text scanner to turn it digital. For another, if you start reading an article, then lock your phone or switch apps for a few minutes, when you come back it loses your place and sends you back to the beginning. The digital articles also don’t seem to include photographs in any meaningful way. So, yeah, I’ll keep subscribing but I hope the app gets better.
Well organized, excellent journalism from local to national news and sports. I look forward to reading it from cover to cover first thing each morning. My only suggestions would be (1) reinstitute the second page potpourris of brief snippets from national wire services and odd items and (2) include baseball standings in the digital sports page at least twice a week. Thanks for all you do in this difficult time for the media. W.M. Keane (Sacramento, CA area)
The journalism is great and I’m proud to subscribe. But the app has several bug flaws, chief among them a layout that doesn’t wrap headlines so they can be read in full. You can to click on an article to know what it’s about. Few articles have any explanatory subheading either. White text on dark background is difficult to read, but in the grand scheme this is a nit. Newspaper apps are pretty simple, and there are three highly successful national ones: NY Times, WaPo, and WSJ. Their apps are all more or less the same. In trying to (I guess) reinvent a format that isn’t broken or a create a needless unique take, the app really suffers for it.
We are very pleased so far. As an older couple who started every day with the newspaper over coffee, we have found the app to be very user friendly. A couple of observations: * it would be helpful to have dates on the sections of the Sunday paper. We sometimes keep sections for future reference and a date would be helpful. * my husband has been disappointed with how little national sports coverage and stats the paper contains. There seems to be less sports coverage * I recall comments about a connection with (I think) the New York Times to link to more news coverage. Is that something that is possible? * We love Andy Larsen! His coverage of Covid has made science and data and statistics very easy to understand! Overall we are good with the new version of SL Tribune
they’ve done it right on each story’s page. But displaying loud, disconcerting ads to a subscriber shows the Tribune is still more not concerned enough with user experience. Good UX design requires a publisher to negotiate ad content and design that does not distract from reading the paper online. The ads should not float. The ads should not be easy to accidentally click. They should not be more noticeable than the stories themselves. **Updated to two stars** Ads for subscribers who close a story?! What? No good. There are much better ways to generate revenue from ads.
I downloaded this thinking it would be nice and convenient to have a digital app for my tribune subscription, but I was left underwhelmed it. The app itself seems a bit sloppy in its design. It’s not necessarily an appealing design, the articles cut off sometimes while viewing them, and the app does not allow you to login to your account via Google which is just inefficient. I’m better off just using my mobile chrome browser to read the news until this app is improved. Such a shame.
I’m age 85 — lost my wife and soulmate of 65 years — please don’t arbitrarily switch music from my selections without asking me for my approval — I’m very computer literate especially for a guy my age — Dorene was “beautiful inside and out” with unconditional love toward all with whom she interacted — I was the luckiest guy in the world to have her at my side — thank you for your service. One frustration — can’t figure out how to use your frequency modulation to best adapt sound to my hearing-response curve — equalizer.
The new white app replaces the red app, which just replaced the black one a couple of months ago. Either of the former two worked fine when you got settled in with them. They lost me with this one. What’s the point of continuous switches when things are already going well? Don’t we all have better things to do with our news-reading time than to serve as consumer panelists for some newspaper’s IT department? This is a great paper, but there are plenty of other newspapers out there who won’t keep pulling the rug out from under you just when you are getting used to their style and presentation.
This is a sorry ghost of the once revered Trib which you count on for breaking news and sports. Most missed? The objective and balanced coverage of local and state issues. Painful to see the degradation of Utah’s last best hope of journalism. On top of all that the digital interface is clunky, non-intuitive and inconsistent. Despite all that there is occasional good reading. But all in all, average to below average.
Let the tree stand in the forest. The complete paper is here and can be viewed digitally. Sections expand easily or the entire story can be put in a section at the bottom of the screen with one tap. This allows the full article to be viewed without having to flip to back pages to see the rest of the story. Subscribing to the digital edition not only saves paper, but supports local newspapers who badly need our love and money!
The eEdition of the SL Tribune is a great way to read the news and a whole lot less paper to recycle! Plus the Trib is doing the best job it can to provide the news we need. Please consider contributing as you would to any nonprofit in our community! Send them a monthly check on top of their ridiculously low subscription cost so they can continue to keep our independent local news source alive!
This app was better before. The graphics are nice with the black background, but the ease and some print ability has diminished. (Can’t always print the crossword puzzle and can never print just the answer box without the whole chess page 🤔) The spacing of the print is better. We also need more coverage on women’s sports. I know there are great women athletes and your coverage is abysmal. Keep trying…this is new to us all!
I have read SL Trib as a subscriber on the app on my phone for a year or two without problems. The new app seems to work as well as the old one, easy and complete access by phone. The one criticism I have is I haven’t figured out how to turn off the newspaper-like layout on the opening page. Who would want to read a newspaper sized document on the small screen of a phone??
The latest update for this app was a disaster. People were locked out of the app. I have been a subscriber for 50 years. I pay for the online paper. I tried for over a week to get access to the paper. Even customer support could fix it. So I quit. I no longer a subscriber. Whoever worked on this update needs to loose their job. This app gets a F. Total failure!
After using the old SL Trib app and being sorely disappointed, I gave up on the Tribune for a time. I’m ecstatic they’ve made the effort to develop a new, better app! So far I’m loving the e-print version, including ads and color comics! Brings back the nostalgia of reading the print version every morning for decades. Thank You Salt Lake Tribune! Looking forward to many more years of the best reporting in the Intermountain West!
If any of you are looking at the SLT again after letting your subscription lapse under the previous owner, you are in for a treat. The quality of the reporting and news stories was a pleasant surprise. Also, the quality of the e-version is much more appealing and easier to use. Well worth the spend for UT news.
I did not want to lose the paper edition of the Tribune, but I was amazed the first time I read the online edition how easy it was. I had no trouble switching (and I’ve taken the paper edition for decades and am elderly). I was sold on it the very first time. Everything is there, simple to use and intuitive, and it’s much more comfortable to read it online.
The last app was a bit clunky, but it allowed printing pretty well, and the auto-zoom feature was good. It was more intuitive than the new one. New app is clunky, frustrating to center page views, and trying to print something as simple as a crossword puzzle is a joke. Help support description does not match how the app behaves at all (e.g., refers to menus that aren’t even in the app). Since the Trib now has to rely on this as it’s primary interface, I think you have more homework to do.
It’s been a long slow adaptation to read the paper on the phone. It’s nice to have it portable and read what I’m sitting in the car (or while driving! JK)The format is nice the pictures are nice the colors are beautiful. But it’s not that fun to put it on a laptop or home computer and sit at a desk. The portability of the paper is missed, but what can you do.
I enjoy the easy access to the digital version. My only complaint is the lack of proofreading of the final copy. Some words are broken apart into small pieces somewhere in the production process, which slow my reading. I am glad to enjoyed continuing digital access for bymy wife and me more than three years.
Looks great, but improvements are still being made
The digital edition has the look, if not necessarily the feel of a physical newspaper. Almost everything is there, and the opinions are available in the live edition. TV listings were just added, too, so things are still improving. Worthwhile addition to your news arsenal in Salt Lake.
It would be nice to have an expanded paper, different articles, opinions and views on community issues, the mixed section daily. These are suggested additions I feel would offer us more knowledge of our community and state. It seems to me they could be provided using the money no longer required for home delivery.
We have been subscribers to the SL Trib for over 30 years. While the transition has been difficult (for all of us) we appreciate the new app and continued excellent journalism from the fine staff. Thank you for all of your efforts keeping us informed with the top news stories.
I love the digital replica format. It is better than getting a physical paper. I receive my copy everywhere I go, even when I am on vacation. I am able to keep up on home news items, do the daily puzzles(with an annotation app) all without having to worry about getting newsprint ink on my hands.
The main problem with this app is that after clicking a headline and going into “reader mode” the text of the story is truncated just as it is in the “layout mode”. This is unsatisfactory. Either include the entire story text, or include a link, within “reader mode” to the rest of the story.
The latest updates to the Trib app have made it easier than ever to read my morning paper on my iPad. Still some random glitches, like photo captions that stray into placeholder gibberish, but that’s a rare, almost quaint occurrence. For a nonprofit effort, The Salt Lake Tribune’s app continues a rich tradition of Pulitzer-winning journalism!
When I leave the page on the app, opening another app or browsing the web, when I come back to the Trib, the page reloads and I have to search out the article I was reading again.
FOr an app that’s major purpose is to present information in text version there are way too many gaffs. Words are split and broken up in a seemingly random fashion. This makes for difficult reading. Any basic word processing software could do better.
I have many issues with opening the newest newspaper articles in the mobile format. Sometimes when I’m reading an article the back and forward buttons disappear. When I can back out of an article it resets to the main page of the newspaper. It would be great to have the app open when I click on articles through Facebook or Instagram. It’s really disappointing to see a great app turn to dust. I’ll cancel my subscription soon if this keeps up.
I don’t understand why the Tribune no longer allows us to click on and print a game. It did before. You took away my reason for using the app. Otherwise, reading the articles is fine.
I’d learned how to read & navigate after going on-line in January. Why, why, why, was it necessary to change everything up last week? Still trying to figure out how to easily read, print crossword (much harder). Why couldn’t you have left it as us??????
For the past 3 weeks my I phone is unable to down load the paper it lets me read the first couple articles then it says the sender is not responding I think the responder is the Trib before I enjoyed reading the articles were good if you have someone who can help me it would be greatly appreciated Don Williams
I read it on my phone and wish I could just tap on an article to read it. All the clicking is the bane of our First Word existence. Can’t get the weather to open at all and can’t get it to enlarge so have given up and just go to the NOAA app now.
The Tribune’s new app (with subscription) provides a much more reliable delivery of content than its predecessor as well as any other Utah news source. The news reporting is extensive in today’s world of limited options for efforts to be objective and fair. It has a slightly liberal bend on some topics.
The newly reimagined Salt Lake Tribune app offers a true newspaper experience to users, along with sharp local and national reporting. It’s easy to read and highly adaptable. The only negative is occasional spacing irregularity between words when the story moves from digital news display to more traditional web display.
We cherish our subscription to the Salt Lake Tribune and the access it gives to the digital edition. We are sad that it has become thinner and thinner over recent years but we won’t give up our morning newspaper! It is part of our morning ritual to begin our day with the Trib!
It was very frustrating for me to access my account for several months. Now that I can use this app on my phone I am able to access my use. I do have a hard time reading because I am visually impaired but it is now possible to get the information I need.
Not sure how much longer I will subscribe to the Trib. I’ve taken it for about 45 years. The paper has become a propaganda vessel for Uber-liberal thought. The editorial urging Gov Cox to call out the National Guard to keep the unvaxed in their homes! The proven liar Adam Schiff allowed his perspective in an editorial! -are two noteworthy examples. Your type setting, syntax, and spelling skills are surpassed by most middle school papers. I do enjoy reading the obits and comics. Here’s hoping Holly Mullen can bring s modicum of professionalism to this once great paper.
hasn’t loaded papers for last 6 days. no app support.
app has been going fine until this last week. now i can’t get access to daily news past Wednesday March 2. Prior to gaining access to some of last week’s articles, i had been completely locked down/out for almost the full month of february. Tongue in cheek, I propose blaming russia for the issue of my missing issues and access. Governments clearly don’t want my news to be readily available or current.
I cannot stand the new layout, font, sizes, everything about this last update. It looks like a page of clickbait. The font is especially unappealing. Strangest layout. I used to check the news app every morning and get all caught up. Now i click on it and give up after a few seconds bc it’s so off-putting.
The new editor is doing a tremendous job on trying to bring a 19th century ship into the 21st century. The reporting is significantly improved particularly with its greater focus on local/state’s worts and blemishes. The web page needs improvement particularly for older, predigital citizens. Please keep it up.
One of the most aggravating apps I use. Everything loads so clunky, ads continue to load after starting to read which causes shifts in scrolling. Scrolling up and down hides/up hides top nav bar which causes layout shift. For being a content app that requires a subscription to view the content, the content sure takes a back seat to all of the other UI.
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