In my experience people who actually interact with government sites regularly dislike the gov.uk changes. People inside the tech bubble don't actually use many

In my experience people who actually interact with government sites regularly dislike the gov.uk changes. People inside the tech bubble don't actually use many of the government sites, so their opinion is mostly based on the fact that the new sites look prettier and are built with a fashionable stack. A lot of the people who use government sites are those who try to keep government to account: journalists, charities, campaigners and so on. For those types of people the news sites are worse because they contain less information and have made it a lot harder to find the information you want (which also often happens to be information that the government department doesn't want people to know…). As an example: http://markavery.info/2014/10/21/awful-gov/ http://markavery.info/2014/10/21/awful-gov/ >I want to make a serious point here. This one single government website is less informative and less easy to use than its multiple predecessors. If you were the least bit suspicious of this government then you might think it had been done on purpose to obscure government actions and policies from the taxpayers who pay for it and the voters who might well choose another bunch of politicians in future. >This government has done away with watchdogs and independent commissions who had the time and wit to question what government was doing on the environment and now it has obscured its own actions on its own website. >This is highly reprehensible. I suggest you send FOI and EIR requests to Defra on any subjects that you wish to know about and say that you can’t find the information on the government website. I also suggest that you write to your MP on this matter – I certainly shall. Also of note is the fact that the sites for non-departmental bodies like Natural England that are supposed to act at arms length from government have been taken over by the cabinet's gov.uk site. That's a rather large power grab by central government. Sadly it seems like too much money (and ego) has been sunk into this project to reverse it, so I'm not sure things are going to improve much when we get a new government. I wonder if all the information that exists on the old sites has even been archived.