In reply to a post by b4dger:

In reply to a post by cymru123:

The BBC News site has been using a responsive design for about a year now (I think).

Actually went live on March 23rd 2015

So it was, felt longer than that.

Same here, but the point is that on a laptop or desktop machine the new Homepage (as they call it) is dreadful and user-unfriendly. On my smartphone it isn't too bad.

Though AIUI most smartphones work perfectly well with the non-mobile BBC site.

It's only the Home Page that is the issue. At the moment the old one is still available if you inadvertently get the new one, but it won't be long before you have no choice. As I said, the easiest thing to do is go straight to the News page instead.

It actually loads in NARROW screen mode and then resizes - that should be transparent to the end user, however it is not.

the bbc has gone shockingly bad with their website in the space of a year.

Before it was a fast and responsive site, and it looked pleasant on my PC to use.

Now its been mobilised, and is aweful on my pc.

examples?

Massive text,
too much white gaps.
Lazy loading of pictures, so they dont all load at once, but instead on scroll etc.
Images seem to load first at low res, then high res on top, the process si very slow.
Website is laggy to browse (although is fine on my phone)

Also the bbc android app has gone the same way.

The new android app makes the phone hot and drain cpu fast, it eats cpu cycles for breakfast. On my main phone I have kept the old app in place and refusing updates.

By the way how does one contact the author fo that blog to give feedback? I am curious how they even got feedback given I cannot find a way to provide it.

The bbc site isnt desktop friendly.
Doesnt use full page width, is lots of scrolling with small width optimised for phone displays.
Too much white space between text and images.
Too big font size.
Lazy loading of images. (optimised for phones not pc's).

Edited by Chrysalis (Sun 31-May-15 11:21:34)

yeah I just checked the main home page now, completely agree.

That new one is way worse than the one there now, its as if they forgot pc's exist.

But for me I can revert to the older page, using the link at the bottom.

The "News" page and many of its offshoots have now gone the same way .

I can still get back to the old Home Page, but the links from that now go to new style.

The comments on the blog are closed.

You get to the feedback on the new home page by being on it and scrolling down to the link to go back to the old one. It's close to that link.

Likewise I find the BBC site useless on a laptop or desktop now. Its okay on my iPhone, doesn't seem to have changed. I assume the redesign is for tablet users :-/

It probably was. They offered it as a test to some users, so it's possible you accepted and used it before most.

Matt

given they have dedicated apps they could have kept the old desktop site with mobile users using the apps. Everyone happy.

They can stick two fingers up at google for the non responsive design search penalty as the bbc is well known enough they dont need google's help to get traffic.

In reply to a post by Chrysalis:

Lazy loading of pictures, so they dont all load at once, but instead on scroll etc.
Images seem to load first at low res, then high res on top, the process si very slow.
Website is laggy to browse

Everything instant and super-snappy here.