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  • November 7, 2017 at 10:14 am #27824
    CygnusX1

    So, what do you think of it?

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  • April 18, 2018 at 12:09 pm #905833
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    CygnusX1

    BUMP: Has this feature gone

    BUMP: Has this feature gone altogether? With all the “fun” of the new mobile site I hadn’t noticed that the daily rolling blog stories had stopped.  Just realised I’ve not seen it for a week or maybe more.

    November 8, 2017 at 1:50 pm #905831
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    CygnusX1
    alansmurphy wrote:
    Walkers crisps forgot to ask me before making these new flavours – diskustink!

    Nor me, but they didn’t put the new lime and chilli crisps in a box labelled with one of the old flavours.  Now I don’t mind giving the lime/chilli a go, but not when I thought I was grabbing a bag of salt ‘n’ vinegar.

    November 8, 2017 at 12:28 pm #905829
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    Tony Farrelly
    brooksby wrote:
    Tony Farrelly wrote:
    Just looked and you are the same one… confusing. 

    Anyway, as I said above I’m sure we’ll be tweaking the format of the blog as we go along. In fact I know we will.

    And to answer Barry’s question regarding whether we have enough stories to fill a live news blog – unless it’s a really quiet news day yes we do, easily. Loads of potential news stories don’t make it on to the site – in fact none of them made it on to the Live blog either today. That said whether we want to put a load of the things deemed not as newsworthy above the stuff we did deem newsworthy even if the news stories we chose to cover are the biggest part of the feed  is defo one to ponder.

    Or even have a /news page and a separate /liveblog page, perhaps?

    I mainly read road.cc on my phone (an older iPhone), and waiting for the live blog to finish loading so I can scroll down to the static news headlines, all the while with my fingers crossed that something’s not going to pop up and block everything (yes, I know you’re looking into that yes​ ) is a bit of a pain, tbh.

    Today we’ve turned the story display limit down from 10 to 5 so that should cut down on the scrolling to get past it, we’re looking at some further tweaks tomorrow too which should cut that out all together.

    November 8, 2017 at 12:21 pm #905827
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    alansmurphy
    BarryBianchi wrote:
    Tony Farrelly wrote:
    Er, not after one day we can’t Barry sorry.

    So – fine to foist it without asking anyone.  Do you really think you have enough stuff to justify a live blog we have to wade though?  Well, you don’t.  It’s bloody irritating and nothing more.

    Fine – I’m off, I’m sure people who want this “live” nonsense filling their screens will love it.

     

    Walkers crisps forgot to ask me before making these new flavours – diskustink!

    November 8, 2017 at 8:47 am #905825
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    brooksby
    Tony Farrelly wrote:
    Just looked and you are the same one… confusing. 

    Anyway, as I said above I’m sure we’ll be tweaking the format of the blog as we go along. In fact I know we will.

    And to answer Barry’s question regarding whether we have enough stories to fill a live news blog – unless it’s a really quiet news day yes we do, easily. Loads of potential news stories don’t make it on to the site – in fact none of them made it on to the Live blog either today. That said whether we want to put a load of the things deemed not as newsworthy above the stuff we did deem newsworthy even if the news stories we chose to cover are the biggest part of the feed  is defo one to ponder.

    Or even have a /news page and a separate /liveblog page, perhaps?

    I mainly read road.cc on my phone (an older iPhone), and waiting for the live blog to finish loading so I can scroll down to the static news headlines, all the while with my fingers crossed that something’s not going to pop up and block everything (yes, I know you’re looking into that yes​ ) is a bit of a pain, tbh.

    November 7, 2017 at 6:43 pm #905823
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    Tony Farrelly

    Just looked and you are the

    Just looked and you are the same one… confusing. 

    Anyway, as I said above I’m sure we’ll be tweaking the format of the blog as we go along. In fact I know we will.

    And to answer Barry’s question regarding whether we have enough stories to fill a live news blog – unless it’s a really quiet news day yes we do, easily. Loads of potential news stories don’t make it on to the site – in fact none of them made it on to the Live blog either today. That said whether we want to put a load of the things deemed not as newsworthy above the stuff we did deem newsworthy even if the news stories we chose to cover are the biggest part of the feed  is defo one to ponder.

    November 7, 2017 at 6:35 pm #905821
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    Tony Farrelly

    Bye then Barry, close the

    Bye then Barry, close the door on your way out… 

    Oh hang on, I was going to ask if you were connected to the other BarryBianchi that’s just registered on the site?

    November 7, 2017 at 6:25 pm #905819
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    BarryBianchi
    Tony Farrelly wrote:
    Er, not after one day we can’t Barry sorry.

    So – fine to foist it without asking anyone.  Do you really think you have enough stuff to justify a live blog we have to wade though?  Well, you don’t.  It’s bloody irritating and nothing more.

    Fine – I’m off, I’m sure people who want this “live” nonsense filling their screens will love it.

    November 7, 2017 at 6:20 pm #905817
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    Tony Farrelly
    BarryBianchi wrote:
    CygnusX1 wrote:
    For me, in the office ( IE 11.0.9600.18816), scrolling down “a bit” is equivalent to about 3 full screens of “fluff”.  The “proper” News is way below the New Forum topics panel.

    Ditto on Firefox.  Can we please get this stuff off the top of the news page?  Incredibly annoying example of “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”.

    CygnusX1 Most of the live news blog is made up of links to the stories you’re scrolling down to links to…

    Er, not after one day we can’t Barry sorry.

    November 7, 2017 at 5:24 pm #905815
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    CygnusX1 wrote:
    For me, in the office ( IE 11.0.9600.18816), scrolling down “a bit” is equivalent to about 3 full screens of “fluff”.  The “proper” News is way below the New Forum topics panel.

    Ditto on Firefox.  Can we please get this stuff off the top of the news page?  Incredibly annoying example of “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”.

    November 7, 2017 at 5:03 pm #905813
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    CygnusX1
    Tony Farrelly wrote:
    We’ve added an i-frame to the top of the news page, you only need to scroll down a bit and your on the normal news page and the fluff is gone.

    For me, in the office ( IE 11.0.9600.18816), scrolling down “a bit” is equivalent to about 3 full screens of “fluff”.  The “proper” News is way below the New Forum topics panel.

    November 7, 2017 at 4:14 pm #905811
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    Tony Farrelly

    We’ve added an i-frame to the

    We’ve added an i-frame to the top of the news page, you only need to scroll down a bit and your on the normal news page and the fluff is gone.
    This is very early days so there is going to be a degree of tinkering, tweaking and possibly completely changing the format, until we think it works the way it should. 

    November 7, 2017 at 3:54 pm #905809
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    NPlus1Bikelights

    Strava’s recent changes did

    Strava’s recent changes did not teach you anything then about adding fluff to a good formula?

    Not a fan, looks very rushed. Requires much more scrolling down to view a handful of stories as page room is given to rubbish (white space, social controls, author name, title (surrounded by lots of white space)) so only one post fits on my large screen, give me a grid view at least please. 

    The images are also to big for quality and look very ugly. Not designed for the sizes you have them at.

    Please rethink or do I need to download an array of Firefox apps to undo the changes client side?

    November 7, 2017 at 3:11 pm #905807
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    Canyon48
    Tony Farrelly wrote:
    peted76 The idea is also to incorporate the pick of people’s comments from the actual news stories too to give a flavour plus to allow people to dip in with a comment using via social media using the #roadccliveblog hashtag

    Like the sound of that, seems there’s often a few comments over and fb from users – would be good to get them shared here too

    November 7, 2017 at 12:43 pm #905805
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    peted76

    I can comment on IG.. they’ve

    I can comment on IG.. they’ve not found me there yet….MWAH HA HA HA!

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