Oh no; the BBC is the site i use when I need something served over HTTP, not HTTPS.
A faster BBC News front page
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Re: A faster BBC News front page
#42Can you ditch the 'breaking news' whilst you're at it too please? It's never really 'breaking' and is usually the headline of the landing page anyway. Usability wise, it's as bad as a pop-up ad. Like this, for example: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cu_KsFAWgAADCJR.png
The breaking news banner is a source of much internal conflict, at least within the engineering teams. I think most people agree that it's too big, and most people also agree that it's over-used. Unfortunately it's one of those things that editorial will not back down on — they must be able to push their breaking news to people, and it must be prominent (and therefore quite intrusive). There is a small improvement to…
Might users be given the option of disabling the breaking news feature? I don't expect that it's a straightforward yes/no.
Re: A faster BBC News front page
#43There is one thing that annoys me about http://www.bbc.co.uk/news I use VPN node in Finland. When I visit the news site the page loads very quickly, I start reading and after 3 seconds you figure out that I'm not in UK (based on IP I guess) and you reload to the international page with different articles.
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#44Am I supposed to trust any news from a domain that spells "wildly inaccurate"?
Am I in how people react to "fake news" experiment?
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#45always love how you optimise the news front page. are you guys still running the Perl backend and "Html Put" :) @joseph_wynn ? a former BBC News CSD here.
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#46This does feel a lot faster, but hasn't fixed my pet peeve (on bbc.com): clicking on a link to a news article and getting taken to the wrong one because the ads loaded and everything moved just as I clicked. This often happens to me 3 or 4 times in a row. Space needs to be blocked out for ads as soon as the page renders.
Re: A faster BBC News front page
#47There is one thing that annoys me about http://www.bbc.co.uk/news I use VPN node in Finland. When I visit the news site the page loads very quickly, I start reading and after 3 seconds you figure out that I'm not in UK (based on IP I guess) and you reload to the international page with different articles.
Sorry about this... The BBC has some extremely strict rules around not showing advertising to UK users (who already pay a license fee to the BBC). We attempt to prevent this by redirecting people to the "correct" edition based on their location.
Unfortunately, for legacy reasons, the geolocation lookup and subsequent redirect happen in the browser. It might be possible for us to issue the redirect from the edge soon, since most non-UK users now come via Fastly which does some geolocation.
In the mean time, you can prevent the redirect by ensuring you go to bbc.com or bbc.co.uk, depending on whether you are in the UK or not.
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#48This does feel a lot faster, but hasn't fixed my pet peeve (on bbc.com): clicking on a link to a news article and getting taken to the wrong one because the ads loaded and everything moved just as I clicked. This often happens to me 3 or 4 times in a row. Space needs to be blocked out for ads as soon as the page renders.
Yes! For me its the lazy loading of the images (not necessarily ads). Just as you are about to click on a link, the whole page jumps down and you end up clicking the wrong link. And then you click the back button, and the same thing happens again. So, you end up just having to wait 5-10 seconds for all the images to load just to ensure that you don't mis-click on the next article.
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#49Am I supposed to trust any news from a domain that spells "wildly inaccurate"? Am I in how people react to "fake news" experiment?
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Re: A faster BBC News front page
#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
On your last point — the new breaking news banner doesn't have the infuriating jump-to-top behaviour. At the moment the new banner is only on the new front page but I think we're going to backport it to other pages in the not-so-distant future.
This is at least an improvement. But can't the breaking news only appear if something breaks after I load the page, rather than on initial load? Even then... give me an option to set a cookie to never see it please.
I'll raise this with our product team. I think it's totally reasonable to expect the banner not to appear as soon as you load the page — if there's a breaking news story, it will already be on the page, right? So there's no need to also pop up a banner with the same story.
But —this is a big "but"— I wouldn't expect this to happen soon. Changes take a long time at the BBC :)