Digital Spy

Hearst UK reviewing portfolio of assets

.@CosmopolitanUK publisher Hearst to make cuts incl shutting youth site Sugarscape + https://t.co/LNBsUzhqNA and downsizing @digitalspy 1/2

— Mark Sweney (@marksweney) November 17, 2016

(surprised by Sugarscape closure)

Wish they would cut out some of the gifs, and ads. Nightmare.

Wouldn't be too surprised if they'd cut the more respectable sections and relied solely on showbiz/Buzzfeed crap, ironically making more competition for themselves.

Also wouldn't surprise me if the forum gets the axe, unfortunately.
Agreed. I don't go there as often as I used to, and that's why. Far too many animations.

The forums are mostly just either TV licence/BBC bashing or far-right bigotry and racism these days. So there'll be little to miss if they go.

Not surprised - the revamp last year supposedly led to a significant drop in traffic, yet Hearst carried on running down the site anyway.

Better there than here though.

To be fair, there's some really good threads on there particularly in regards to sports rights and Sky/BT Premier League selections

Of course don't even think of mentioning Madeleine McCann on there, of the banhammer will be down on you before you've even clicked the post button.

Endless threads of Islamaphobia are perfectly fine though.

Harder to be sued by Islam, though.

Few are far between though. It's finding the good stuff in the sludge.

The TV platform specific sections are pretty useful. They have a level of technical detail that (rightly) a forum like this doesn't have