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Ash_M1
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Ok...what's occuring? Selected the Beta version. Tried to access the forums and it keeps throwing me out. Anyone else experiencing problems?
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Ash_M1
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Clear your cookies.
To fix it in firefox it's Options > Privacy > remove individual cookies, then remove the Digital Spy ones
Pages taking ages to open, pages freezing, pages opening with no scroll bar - endless, endless, endless stress and problems.
BBC webpages - open perfectly every single time in 0.001 seconds, no freezing, scroll bar always there etc etc etc.
Is there anything I can do?
Use mobile version of the website I use it all the time its much better for most things. Works reasonably fast.
You don't need to remove them all, there's 2 or 3 that are named Beta opt in.. Just remove those and it works.
Pretty unusable, it was pretty awful before, primarily because of adverts loading taking forever, but now it's even worse, still loads slowly and the articles and images are huge so you can read anything at a glance.
Thanks mate. It was Firefox I was using.
Oh gosh, it's happening with Chrome now. As others have said, will stick to the old version for now.
Yeap same experience. Huge pics, lots of scrolling...no clear overview. Don't like it. Perhaps they they think we are short sighted and need everything huge.
I haven't tried the beta, but like you I find DS a ball ache on ipad, especially when writing posts. The tool buttons such as Bold, Underline, quote and so on in the message window are next to useless with the ipads copy/paste function popping up obscuring them when you tap a word or paragraph to highlight.
User friendly does not spring to mind.
Nice to see they bothered to test even the basics (switching from main to forums) before releasing the beta (which I think looks horrible - far to much wasted space/scrolling). This is even worse than the change from the old blue colour scheme.
I use Mercury browser on my iPad. Has Adblock functions :-)
Glad I'm not the only one!
..and in doing so proving they aren't worth anything.
I have no idea. I have a poor phoneline broadband connection, presumably this has something to do with it? However having exactly the same problems as you. In fact its an absolute nightmare at times-it can take me ten minutes to type a couple of small paragraphs at times. I have just had to unstick the problem of being perpetually looped back to the beta site (which by the way is ridiculously elaborate in presentation itself).
I don't understand the technicalities-I assume its because there are so many pictures and elaborate ads?- but its a poor show when peoples experience of the site can be so poor. Its got worse over the last six months for sure.
I do hope DS takes note of this thread. If Id spent any money accessing this site Id be asking for it back ;-)
There are also odd widths: http://i.imgur.com/ptmki4F.png of the two images which is very odd and there is a LOT of whitespace. The current digitalspy has some but no way near as much as this site.
Awful, and if this is published as the new design and is forced, I will not be coming back. I am glad they are doing a beta however instead of forcing it upon us straight away.
Pissed me off too because that shouldn't happen!
And the BETA site looks HUGE and on hell of a mess.
I really hope they leave it as it is or i think i will be done on DS and stick to the forums entirely and get my TV and movie news elsewhere!
There is absolutely no reason whatsoever to change it.
If the team at DS cannot stick with what they have instead of changing it, they either need to be replaced or close down the entire thing.
I love visiting Digital Spy but if that's how the site's going to be, it might as well be closed down. I don't visit the BBC News website anymore because it's so bad.
Truly epically awful, and to go with the freezing on the forums whenever certain banner ads appear, I will start to question if it is worth it anymore.