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Not sure where to mention it however Hyma's got a mention in the latest BBC Internet blog entry...

As you will have noticed (Hymagumba got there first) the design of the Internet blog and some other BBC blogs has changed.

Blog: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/ ... blogs.html

Dreding this up again, very internetsing to note that the POV board apparently only gets 1500 unique visitors a day. Naturally, this is being spun to rubbish the remark on currybet that the site has "50 or so regular users"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/ ... ard_6.html

Now apart from the differences between regular users and unique visitors... 1500? For points of view? that's utter shit. Even on our absolute quietest days with no posts we get 300 visitors with about 700 being a normal good day. I'm not one who often gets riled about wasting licence money but if there ever was a waste then that bloody board is it.

I wonder whether they've filtered Googlebot and its friends out of that list of unique IPs? And good call on picking up on the difference between visitors and users.

Indeed, I note however that I used the figure quoted by a commenter of 1500, it's actually 9500 for the boards combined.

Either way though, not very high for the site that it is.

Cue outrage from some BBC posters as changes to the PoV message board have been announced...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbpointsofview ... ad=6445626

I do wonder whether some commenting on the Radio 4 blog have bothered to look properly at the new site before posting...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radio4/2009/ ... _site.html
...particularly as on the Radio 4 home page there's a link to a tour of the new site.

Some examples...
- "where's the listen live button gone"
- "Oh where is the "what's on now" feature and the "what's coming up" feature."
- "I would like to be able to find the daily schedule - it seems to have disappeared."
- "It occurs to me that what you may not have done was:
CONSULT YOUR CUSTOMERS BEFORE YOU MADE CHANGES ????"
- "Instead of going to say Comedy and getting straight to the list of what I can listen to again the new site just gives me a selection (based on god knows what mysterious criteria), I then have to go to the A-Z and trawl through that to get the rest."

Regarding the all new BBC News site, which obviously is evil, I have noticed a strange conspiracy theory emerging in the comments For example.

Considering the whole redesign has been introduced to create a new US edition of the site that can sport Ads, I have the following comment.

You are ignoring the license-fee paying british public to earn american money.
I find the whole debacle offensive, and think it heralds the end of the TV license. When people realise they are paying taxes (a rose by any other name.. ) for something that already is already collecting ad revenue, they will force the BBC to be completely Ad supported, Home and Abroad.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2 ... #P98574647

Now from what I can tell, this entire "the entire revamp was based on putting ads on international versions" theory is based on the following chain of events.

1 - BBC News launches news website
2 - News redesigns website several time, each time tweaking the same basic system more and more
3 - many years after launch, and between tweaky revamps, BBC clunkily shoehorns adverts into websites for foreign readers
4 - News decide to completely recode news website, launch news design, redo the CMS that runs the site
5 - News asks Worldwide how they'd like the ads done properly as they're starting from scratch this time


So based on number five, the BBC only cares about american ad money.


The only accurate comment I have seen during this whole thing is this one
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2 ... #P98575273

Looking back at http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2 ... anges.html, which was the previous redesign 2 years ago. It's essentially the exact same comments. "Dumbing down" "If it's not broken don't fix it" etc. etc. If that redesign was so awful, then why are all you lot complaining about the new one!

They just need rules

Lightoftruth wrote:They just need rules

pardon?

I don't think anyone moderates comments on BBC News stories posted on Facebook. Someone needs to.