Home page hilarity

[Feta]

Feel a little guilty because I reported this one (off topic, since the subject is feedback, not arguing about other people's feedback, but sauce for the goose, eh?). It'll probably be restored:

1374.
At 20:39 13th Dec 2011, DBOne wrote:

@1371 Mike - So three of the hundreds (or is it thousands?) of posters here that saw fit to critisise the homepage felt it their duty to comment on the new page. Life isn't fair is it?

So you know (for sure) they didn't have to go live with the homepage or that the old version would run OK in parallel (even if it appeared to) and the server loading were OK or that the resources used to curate the old page could still do it....of course you do!

If only maintaining a large website was simple.......I'm sure half the posters here could manage bbc.co.uk from their armchair whilst reading the Telegraph.....

[sterac]

Maybe, just maybe, the answer is here!!!!!!
t.co/mdkBIbUK

[Wellwisher]

I note, with glee, that the chief catpeer (Deputy Dawg, of course) is now having his own posts catpeed.

[Feta]

That website is disturbingly satisfying...

Sadly, I've been AFK since around 9, and missed a few moderations. It almost occurred to me that I might have a good word to say about DD, because at least he pops up to give a clue about why a post has been modded, but then I realised he just wants to let people know that he's responsible for it's deletion. Pride definitely going before a fall...

One of the things that has popped up occasionally in the discussions on those two blog entries is that people always complain about new designs. It's a common occurrence, certainly, but my recollection is that when the iPlayer was revamped, most people thought it was an improvement. I don't, therefore think that the BBC's defenders can seriously argue that the backlash against the Home Page is anything like a typical reaction to change. I hope that they accept that soon.

Maybe it'll be all over by Christmas?

[Feta]

What the blazes..

1431.
At 13:34 14th Dec 2011, Muriel Whitchurch wrote:

I mentioned, in reply to earlier poster @1408, re Firefox issues, that the HollyOaks Homepage on my Firefox 8.0.1 mac DOES work... but got moderated out, as I mentioned that I had experienced a posting restriction or bug that required me to register again, Now I am locked out posting on boards on both usernames.

[Feta]

At 1431, I now notice it says, 'All this user's posts have been removed'. In my experience, that either means that that user has pissed DD off royally, or been caught re-registering under a new name after being banned before, which is not unknown when bans are handed out so casually. What a bell-end Reynolds is.

[sterac]

This has to be one of the best so far! What is the world coming to when the BBC starts to moderate itself? This has been under further consideration for quite awhile.

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At 12:56 14th Dec 2011, BBC_Five wrote:
We'll be moving over to the new pan-BBC iSite system - which all current BBC blogs will be moving over to within the next few months. In design terms, iSite blogs will follow GEL - the BBC's new global experience language for its digital services, giving a unified look and feel across all blogs and websites on bbc.co.uk. Read more about GEL.

From your perspective as a user - blog comments will work in exactly the same way, they'll just be using the new comments system which you can view on this page. You will now be able to rate other users' comments and change the order in which comments appear according to ratings, newest added and latest added.

Pure class

[Wellwisher]

I understand Radio4Extra is soon to include a new Sherlock Holmes mystery "Double Identity and the House Rules", Deputy Dawg being played by Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck taking the role of Muriel. Sheriff Stone makes a guest appearance, as does The Rivera Kid as Darth Vader reincarnated with a lobotomy. (BBC_Five got banned from the programme audition on the grounds that he was impersonating somebody important.)

[Feta]

Well, I guess that's it for now (that's 'well' as in 'well', not short for 'Wellwisher). I wasn't there at the end because I had to attend a public meeting about the threatened library closures at 7. I suppose I should look up what the complaint options are, re telephone, email and snailmail, to have ti all in one place, unless anyone else wants to put that up. Have to force the kids into bed and maybe watch some TV first...

[Feta]

From www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/ I get this:

How to make a complaint

Online: Make a complaint
Gwneud cwyn

Phone: [phone]*
03700 100 212* (textphone)
*24 hours, charged as 01/02 geographic numbers


Funny looking number, but I guess I could give it a go...


And no sign of the home page issue in responses to recent complaints...

www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/complaint/

Post: BBC Complaints
PO Box 1922
Darlington
DL3 0UR