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About the only thing I'd moan to the BBC about is that they still use flash for the videos on their website. The rest of the BBC website, Radios 1 - 6 + Asian,
by icc97 10y ago
About the only thing I'd moan to the BBC about is that they still use flash for the videos on their website.
The rest of the BBC website, Radios 1 - 6 + Asian, TV stations (perhaps some of BBC 3/4 is bottom feeding), weather forecasts, world news, is awesome. That's just all I can think of off the top of my head.
Their articles are still decent enough that they'll make it to the front page of HN.
In specific areas they can be bettered, e.g. I prefer some specific football (soccer) websites, but this isn't a moan just a fact that they have to cover everything. As a general resource certainly for world news I think they're the standard to match.
- toomanybeersies 10y agoThey only use flash on the desktop site. If you spoof your user agent to that of a mobile device, you get exactly the same site, except with html5 video. I don't fully understand the reason for not using html5 video when on desktop, it functions perfectly. I think their problem is that they've become a bit of a content factory, which links back to the whole freelancers thing. They churn out a lot of articles, and some are much better than others. It's the shotgun approach to getting views.