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Firefox on Windows 7

Ditto. I check it now and again but from hundreds of page views a day my usage of the bbc news website is down to significantly less than 100 per annum. It was near perfect on multiple platforms, now it's just total cr@p. Their contempt for the users knows no bounds, the censorship of comments and closure of commenting is totally out of order for a publicly funded organisation.

Edited by M100 (Mon 01-Jun-15 14:49:10)

yeah they want to moderate posts before they appear and close down comments within a few days after article published, your point is very valid.

I'm finding it almost useless now on a 15.5" laptop.

Since this new HomePage, and the new layout spreading through the site within a couple of days of it appearing, there are virtually no proper articles on the site with a decent layout and paragraphing. Almost everything can best be described as an expanded three-line headline, then a 2-3 minute (low quality) video clip, and under that a short summary of the video with basically single-sentence paragraphs and double-line spacing.

They are very likely to lose their adult audience in an idiotic attempt to attract the "yoof". An audience that (like us?) might have matured into using the site but won't be attracted either now or in the future by this pale imitation of the various social media news propagators.

I wonder what it is exactly you are seeing? Can you post a link and screen grab maybe?

I do not see any real change in the BBC News website, same full articles, laid out just like other major news sites (without the ads and clickbait). And everything is instantly rendered, and super-fast.

There have always been a small minority of news pieces on the site which were primarily video or audio reports, they are still there, is that what you mean? My sister produces news and documentaries for the BBC, and has done a few Business reports in that style for the website, I'll be sure to let her know you don't consider it real news!

Here's a link to the BBC blog about their RWD (Responsive Web Design) changes: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet/entries/b2c6502f...

The comments make for some interesting reading - they closed comments when they created this next post http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet/entries/ca4e1ad8...

They've made some tweaks - but it still doesn't work well on a desktop PC for me.
As you say it seems the actual content has also changed with less text and giant spaces between each sentence rather than paragraph!

so http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-polit... loads as fast as http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010... ?

2010 story http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010...

second url is faster for me and much more readable.

Edited by Chrysalis (Tue 02-Jun-15 15:02:48)

both links closed comments.

I would love to be able to contact their design team directly but they hide behind heavily moderated comment pages.

In reply to a post by Chrysalis:

so http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-polit... loads as fast as http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010... ?

2010 story http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010...

second url is faster for me and much more readable.

The new story loads identically fast as the old story for me, both are virtually-instant.

The key members are here on Twitter: https://twitter.com/HmmmUK/lists/bbc-techies/members

Some of them are a bit 'sensitive' though...