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I am aware that they've always broken the story up, but for some reason it just seems like they're being separated by sentence, which is really excessive. Paragraphs make it so much nicer to read, with a few sentences at a time. I realise I'm sounding like an old man, which I'm not - it's just something I've noticed.
And regarding the social integration, yes I agree that they should have them there. The Facebook 'Recommend' button just looks like clutter, and could be hidden and only appear when you click on the share button - like most of the other share links. Would look a lot cleaner, and that's what I would have done.

How am I supposed to know that you're comments were light-hearted? They certainly seem sarcastic, and even reading them as tongue-in-cheek now, this reading doesn't make much sense. I rather suspect you simply didn't like my comments, hence the 'p****' insult.


Let's disagree there then. I guess I'm not quite so 'austere' as you, and I'd rather the money was spent here than on the director-general's salary.


I was obviously referring to the fact that it's a tenuous link, and I again disagree with you on the 'ugly' navigation. I far prefer it.


Again I disagree. Why not hear other people's opinions on the story? If you don't want to, fine, as I say, ignore them, but I don't think it damages the BBC's overall editorial approach with the inclusion of these things.


This is far more than a refresh. Whereas before, the changes were made simply to increase the width of the site, this new one seems to be far more of a change in direction. Like that direction or not, I don't think it's fair to compare. Incidentally, are you able to provide examples that show the spelling problem is widespread, rather than just the one that you've cited so far? I accept that there is the occasional error, but I would hardly say it's a huge problem - the Guardian is far worse at this. Perhaps, rather than posting about it here, you should report errors to the BBC so they can change them? They do publish rather a lot of content, and finding every error is going to be difficult. I anticipate that you'll say something like 'it's the world's premier news organisation, these mistakes shouldn't happen at all', but I'm afraid I disagree there too.

However, I will say that I agree with you on single-sentence paragraphs.

I think it's just more obvious due to the new font, taking a page from a month ago for example

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10337552

and the cached version
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:GGSwYp9wHaQJ:news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/10337552.stm+Tragic+milestone+in+crucial+year+for+UK+troops&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&client=firefox-a


It's because the lines are longer, it makes the paragraphs appear shorter.


Secret Fact Attack: When the new TV Forum was in beta, it originally stretched to the width of the screen, this resulted in paragraphs being reduced to single lines on particularly high res monitors, hence the switch to fixed width.

Has anyone else noticed that the front page of bbc.co.uk has been displaying only the second news story downwards for a few weeks now. The top news story is missing.

Cable's tax proposal for graduates is the top story on both pages at the moment. Maybe it's fixed?

Not for me...

Can't access the BBC Homepage at all at the mo, 500 error being flagged.

Odd!

Nope, I still have the crime story as my top story on the front page.

I'm now back with the homepage and confirm it's in synch with the News site too,

Cleared cookies & history and works now!

I noticed on Andrews image he doesn't have the black bar across the top of the screen. It is the same on one of my PC's yet on the other I see it. Any ideas why?