Star Tribune 12+

Have always loved reading your paper. I am sad of the smaller paper and fewer reporters as you have always had outstanding reporting . I also want to say that I’ve appreciated the person on your staff who double checks the spelling- after the Spellcheck automated system. Sentence structure matters to the intent of the message and STrib has always seemed to be really so aware about that. My mother was a schoolteacher and she was picky picky picky about spelling, grammar, and sentence structure. I like reading billboards, roadside signs of one kind or another. Looking for some ‘Oops’ in the sign about those English topics I mentioned. So thanks for your attention to these things. They matter. I have a 88 yr old friend. I gift her a daily and Sunday paper for her birthday, Christmas and other holidays. She tells me it’s a highlight of her day to make a cup of coffee, sit down and read your paper. And she thinks of me everyday. So thanks for all you do for us who love the Star Tribune. Keep it up. We’ll keep reading…

I read the eEdition every day. Maybe it having grownup with a printed newspaper that has influenced the way I get news. I appreciate the layout of a real newspaper. A front page with headlines of what’s most important happening in the world, state, city or neighborhood. Not the same old rabbit hole feeds from so many online services. I’m always shocked by how uninformed my adult children are concerning news. I read the Star Tribune cover to cover and don’t need any other news. If you live in Minnesota it is an essential app and subscription.
Paul, Minneapolis

I’ve had this app for years and it’s most obvious issues have never been addressed, which I find hard to believe. Either the app developers do not use their own app, or Strib does not care that the app just doesn’t work. The pervasive issues I see all the time:
- frequent crashing or closing when accessing certain sections from the sidebar
- stories do not match what is on the website or physical newspaper for the day (this makes no sense)
- app does not open if you click a strib link in the web browser, requiring you to search for an article you want to read within the app if you see it linked or referenced elsewhere online.
- the search feature is laughable. Search hits are almost always several years old and not relevant. Sometimes the search will not hit even when you copy the headline of the article you want to read into the search bar.

For what they charge to use this app- especially since their print service delivery is spotty at best - it is shocking how bad it is. It’s almost like they don’t want you to read their content. This makes it really hard for me to want to support local news.