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Ask HN: Would anyone like to join me on congratulating the BBC?
Despite serving up plenty of dynamic content and video, and despite huge traffic (http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2010/05/current_traffic_to_bbc_news_we.html), the BBC's election news website has been fantastic. It's been responsive, up to date and highly usable all night.
This is a real technical achievement and I for one would like to say well done.
- zimpenfish 16y agoThe £3.5bn they're given by the UK populace every year probably helps with that, eh.
- jacquesm 16y agoThe biggest beneficiary of that gift is the world at large, at least we have one somewhat independent news service.
- cromulent 16y agoI haven't lived in the UK for decades, but I love the BBC news service. It's a national treasure - well, an international treasure, as you point out. Australia's ABC to a lesser extent is the same. If a free-enterprise fourth estate fails, I wonder if more countries will create similar publicly funded versions.
- jacquesm 16y agoThe netherlands has the NOS, it's along similar lines but in a niche language (only 27 million dutch speakers world wide). Nowhere near the budget and not even remotely near it in quality and coverage.
- _delirium 16y agoYeah, even as an American I tend to use http://news.bbc.co.uk/ http://news.bbc.co.uk/ as my main online news source. Sure beats CNN, MSNBC, FoxNews, ABC, and the rest of that variety of nonsense.
- gaius 16y agoIndeed. We should be congratulating all the other news channels, the ones who managed it without unlimited resources.