DS Forums

 
 

BB Official Web site verdict: crap!


Reply
Thread Tools Search this Thread
Old 05-06-2001, 17:00
fallyhag
Banned User
 
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Hampshire, UK
Posts: 503

Is it just me or does the official website seem dead slow to get updated with all the relevant news. After the Friday nominations I switched to the site and read all the old headlines with no mention of the noms.

Then I went to vote on the evictions just to be greeted with the "there are no eviction contestants yet", but there are!

I then E-mailed them but received nothing at all. There was no auto reply or answer or anything at all. Plain rude!

Then I went to the Cams and tried the Pan cam, which worked very well on the German show, but all I got was a blank screen.

Overall a very uninformative and un-interactive site but a site that is left to get on with a bad job that is totally unaccountable for its actions. Not once have I heard them mention its poor performance on the BB little Brother show. There must be a way to get this whole BB thing improved.



What do you think?

Fallyhag
fallyhag is offline   Reply With Quote
Please sign in or register to remove this advertisement.
Old 05-06-2001, 18:29
Jay-Dee
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Manchester
Posts: 492
well i looked on the webby after the show on friday night and it had been updated with all the news

maybe your isp is caching the pages so u dont see the newest content

hold ctrl+F5 to see the latest view of the page
Jay-Dee is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 05-06-2001, 18:36
Gopher
Banned User
 
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Ireland
Posts: 1,789
Official websites of alot of tv shows and channels are crap.Take www.sky.com for instance.No info whatshoever on their technologies or help with any probs u may have with your system.Its really just a shopping website.
Gopher is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 05-06-2001, 22:57
fallyhag
Banned User
 
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Hampshire, UK
Posts: 503

I checked the official site one hour after the nominations and there was still the old news posted. Knowing full well about the cache and the refresh, I hit refresh but still the old news. Look this Fri to see how long it takes them.

Cheers for the response anyway, but what did you think of my other observations though? Justified or not?

Fallyhag
fallyhag is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 05-06-2001, 23:27
Spin
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Jun 2001
Posts: 14
A good point, I cant decide wether the web site is actually any better than last year (when most of it wasnt updated for about 5 weeks)
Spin is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 06-06-2001, 01:23
fallyhag
Banned User
 
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Hampshire, UK
Posts: 503

Onlt today they have just caught up on the official site and updated the Vote:Eviction menu. I have been trying this for days and had no joy at all receiving a "there are no new contestants" message all the time. It has taken them from Fri til today to update this, pathetic!

Then the sad thing is that you cannot vote on-line, you have to phone in. What a lot of old age rubbish. What is the point in the WWW and interactivity when it is not available?????

Oh yeah, I forgot, we are all meant to spend 25p on a call where only 5p goes to charity. Good one!!!

Fallyhag
fallyhag is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 06-06-2001, 08:02
Spin
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Jun 2001
Posts: 14
particularly when it only cost 10p to call last year.
Spin is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 06-06-2001, 10:34
Jay-Dee
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Manchester
Posts: 492
i rang last year from a mobile and it cost me 80p !!!!!
Jay-Dee is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 06-06-2001, 14:09
fallyhag
Banned User
 
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Hampshire, UK
Posts: 503

Just checked the site 2 hours after the results of the First Aid wre announced and still no mention that they had passed it. They have the latest news including the time they were woken up to deal with the incident and then had the cheek to say they would update the site as soon as they had more news. Is the task result not news then?

Still slow, still crap!
fallyhag is offline   Reply With Quote
 
Reply




 
Forum Jump


All times are GMT. The time now is 14:35.