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The new BBC page is barely usable. Not to mention that the new BBC android app is thoroughly disgusting. Bring back the old one, please!!!
What do you not like about their new Android app? I use it daily and greatly prefer it to the old one.
2. Tiny cache, compared to the previous one, so totally useless offline
3. Intrusive UI
4. Much slower
Christ, so much hatred. I like the desktop site, I like the mobile site, and I like and appreciate that you're giving us an insight in to your tech stack and how content is published. Cheers beeb.
Christ, so much hatred. I like the desktop site, I like the mobile site, and I like and appreciate that you're giving us an insight in to your tech stack and how content is published. Cheers beeb.
And I totally hate that they're wasting taxpayers money on all this crap.
Besides, the BBC amasses fortunes selling their programs abroad; Top Gear in its original form and in the formula license is shown in over 150 countries worldwide. And that's just one of their productions.
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Does anyone know how much of this development is paid for by the UK tax payer vs BBC worldwide profits from DVDs etc? I'm not sure website development should be paid by UK tax payers TBH... Maybe at least some of the reason for hate. My main hate is the idiotic cookie policy which makes everything look ugly, but I guess the EU is to blame there.
you mean by license fee payers. Given the bbc is the 7th most popular site in the UK, and a clear leader over other news sites, I don't see why it shouldn't be paid for by the license. It fulfils its requirements outstandingly well. (There are questions about whether given the move away from a tv based model the bbc should be paid for by tax payers, and that's fair)
Hmm. While it's nice to push rendering out to clients for saving your server CPU, that can lead to a suboptimal mobile experience, requiring more CPU and battery power on the mobile device to work on the javascript and render the page. There are other factors, for sure, but you want to be keeping client side javascript down to a minimum. Taking a quick spin through yslow in the mobile browser suggests they've got a n…
How true is that though? Given that native apps render client-side too. In a much more optimized, device-specific fasion, I admit, but still - that too is client-side rendering.
The new BBC page is barely usable. Not to mention that the new BBC android app is thoroughly disgusting. Bring back the old one, please!!!
I believe there is a bot that monitors websites for changes, and whenever they change enough it posts randomly generated strings along the lines of: > The new design is terrible! Bring back the old one! Whether it recognises the irony that it also moaned about the 'old one' when that came out, I'm not sure.
Christ, so much hatred. I like the desktop site, I like the mobile site, and I like and appreciate that you're giving us an insight in to your tech stack and how content is published. Cheers beeb.
I for one think it is fantastic the BBC are sharing this information and am liking the direction they are taking. It might not be perfect - I too have experienced some issues with the site over the past few months - but I'd much rather a BBC that looks to refresh itself and attempt to improve the experience for their users. Glitches happen - as long as they are fixed then it is all good with me.
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And I totally hate that they're wasting taxpayers money on all this crap.
Subtle. The alternative is biased commercial TV which prefers ad-spattered sensation over what the BBC produces. But I'm sure you prefer that. Besides, the BBC amasses fortunes selling their programs abroad; Top Gear in its original form and in the formula license is shown in over 150 countries worldwide. And that's just one of their productions.
For those that aren't aware, the BBC has one of the worst cases of "Not invented here" syndrome you'll ever see.
Christ, so much hatred. I like the desktop site, I like the mobile site, and I like and appreciate that you're giving us an insight in to your tech stack and how content is published. Cheers beeb.
There are always mudslingers following change - its so easy to hate. I for one think it is fantastic the BBC are sharing this information and am liking the direction they are taking. It might not be perfect - I too have experienced some issues with the site over the past few months - but I'd much rather a BBC that looks to refresh itself and attempt to improve the experience for their users. Glitches happen - as long…