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Turnbull2000Turnbull2000 Posts: 7,588
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Bloody awful IMO! Too many big pictures and big bland tiles. Horrible to navigate and pick out worthwhile articles and opinion pieces. Seems almost entirely designed for casual, younger tablet/smartphone users and sharing via facebook/twitter!

Does anyone actually like it?

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  • MesostimMesostim Posts: 52,864
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    Is it "vile"?
  • CreamteaCreamtea Posts: 14,682
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    Should I be outraged????
  • SemieroticSemierotic Posts: 11,131
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    I used to go on Comment Is Free a lot, but can't be bothered anymore. They've designed it for tablets and mobiles, and don't seem to care about those on computers.

    Shame, for all its stereotypical lefty rants there were a lot of good articles (and comments) on there.
  • KapellmeisterKapellmeister Posts: 41,322
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    I don't mind the look of it but it is hard to sniff out that miniscule number of articles that are actually worth reading.
  • Turnbull2000Turnbull2000 Posts: 7,588
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    Semierotic wrote: »
    I used to go on Comment Is Free a lot, but can't be bothered anymore.

    Likewise.

    Any mobile or tablet users who like it?
  • SemieroticSemierotic Posts: 11,131
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    This 'tablet style revolution' is nothing new, I know quite a few sites that have fallen prey to it (remember the furore over DS). I guess the thinking is that ad blockers are harder to implement on mobile devices?
  • KapellmeisterKapellmeister Posts: 41,322
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    Semierotic wrote: »
    I used to go on Comment Is Free a lot, but can't be bothered anymore. They've designed it for tablets and mobiles, and don't seem to care about those on computers.

    Shame, for all its stereotypical lefty rants there were a lot of good articles (and comments) on there.

    You mean 'Comment is Free as long as we agree with the comment': the lefty version of free speech. I've been put on pre-moderation more times than I care to remember and I can't be bothered with it anymore.
  • SemieroticSemierotic Posts: 11,131
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    Kapellmeister wrote: »
    You mean 'Comment is Free as long as we agree with the comment': the lefty version of free speech. I've been put on pre-moderation more times than I care to remember and I can't be bothered with it anymore.

    Their moderation was overzelous, but the vast majority of comments to any given article tended to disagree with the authors. Its readership definitely wasn't a left-wing love-in. Which made it more interesting, of course.
  • KapellmeisterKapellmeister Posts: 41,322
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    Semierotic wrote: »
    Their moderation was overzelous, but the vast majority of comments to any given article tended to disagree with the authors. Its readership definitely wasn't a left-wing love-in. Which made it more interesting, of course.

    Fair point. If they moderated all the comments that disagreed with their articles then there would be hardly any comments left, so out-of-step with reality has the Guardian become.
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    Semierotic wrote: »
    Their moderation was overzelous, but the vast majority of comments to any given article tended to disagree with the authors. Its readership definitely wasn't a left-wing love-in. Which made it more interesting, of course.
    Which just goes to show how deluded are those who believe the Guardian is aimed at a 'Leftie' readership.
  • KapellmeisterKapellmeister Posts: 41,322
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    FrankBT wrote: »
    Which just goes to show how deluded are those who believe the Guardian is aimed at a 'Leftie' readership.

    The readership might not be but the paper certainly thinks it is: a silver-spoon, middle-class, Islington-based version of the Socialist Worker. It's an utter joke.
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