Digital Spy have unveiled their new look this week, which looks horrible and ugly. Preferred the design of the website before, as it was easier to navigate and it didn't feel like I was walking through a maze.
DS has become totally unusable for me recently. The amount of adverts they have on the forums prevent the forums loading properly or half a topic loads or their moving adverts crank up my laptops CPU by 45%
DS has become totally unusable for me recently. The amount of adverts they have on the forums prevent the forums loading properly or half a topic loads or their moving adverts crank up my laptops CPU by 45%
I use uBlock on a desktop to beat those pesky ads. There are some sites where I don't mind turning it off to earn the site revenue, but for DS, I'll make an exception.
I use 'Ghostery', 'AdBlock Plus' and 'AdBlock+ Element Hiding Helper' which seems to remove most ads of any website I've ever been to. Even with that though, the forums on DS look awful and are now harder to navigate. There is a theme you can download through Stylish to restore the old look somewhat.
it seems you can't now comment as a member of the site, only through Facebook.
The Facebook commenting has been there for a while but you used to have to had two IDs: One for the forums and one for the article commenting. Apparently this is no longer the case and now you can use either Facebook or your DS:ID. Why you'd want to is another matter, looking at the new DS.
It was the beginning of the end for me when they stopped having separate 'Media Headlines' and 'Showbiz Headlines' on the front page and merged them together. And that was years ago!
Eventually I just stopped visiting and posting. The forums, especially the 'Broadcasting' forum, are very repetitive with new topics seemingly made every day on the same subjects discussed the week prior. I still look there whenever there's a big story happening to see what people are saying, but I don't stay.
It was the beginning of the end for me when they stopped having separate 'Media Headlines' and 'Showbiz Headlines' on the front page and merged them together. And that was years ago!
Eventually I just stopped visiting and posting. The forums, especially the 'Broadcasting' forum, are very repetitive with new topics seemingly made every day on the same subjects discussed the week prior. I still look there whenever there's a big story happening to see what people are saying, but I don't stay.
The forums reflect how downmarket the site has become. It's a hybrid of the Daily Mail comments page and Twitter with repetitive comments about the licence fee, showbiz nonsense and bashing any major broadcaster.
The sort of news DS was good for on the broadcasting front I'm getting from a516digital.com which is a much better resource than DS ever was.
Completely agree - it used to very much be a broadcast and media website but nowadays it makes the Daily Star look like a broadsheet. It is so poorly written nowadays - half the articles appear unfinished, barely expanding on the headline.