{"id":1833,"date":"2011-11-30T13:53:26","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T13:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/?p=1833"},"modified":"2011-11-30T14:00:54","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T14:00:54","slug":"the-new-kebab-shop-style-bbc-homepage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/?p=1833","title":{"rendered":"The new kebab shop style BBC homepage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For sometime the BBC homepage has contained a link to view a beta release of a proposed new homepage with a request for comments.  They certainly received my input but it&#8217;s not made a scrap of difference.  Beta testing must be over now because visiting the homepage today immediately takes you to the new page :-(<\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;old&#8217; homepage was extremely configurable; users could remove sections in which they had no interest (Sport, Weird &#038; Wonderful etc. in my case) and expand those in which they wanted more detail (Business &#038; Finance being one of mine).<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how my customised &#8216;old&#8217; page looked.  It&#8217;s logical, tidy and contains lots the information in which I&#8217;m interested.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/?attachment_id=1834\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1834\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/bbchomepage.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"bbchomepage\" width=\"500\" height=\"457\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1834\" srcset=\"https:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/bbchomepage.jpg 500w, https:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/bbchomepage-300x274.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the new dumbed down homepage with the only customisation possible, location, having been carried out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/?attachment_id=1839\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1839\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/bbc_new.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"bbc_new\" width=\"500\" height=\"723\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1839\" srcset=\"https:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/bbc_new.jpg 500w, https:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/bbc_new-207x300.jpg 207w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Everything seems to need a picture alongside in case the words are not enough.  It reminds me of a typical Kebab &#038; Pizza takeaway where everything they offer needs not only words but a bright, backlit, gaudy image in case the words alone don&#8217;t convey the message.  The BBC homepage used to present a classic menu, now it&#8217;s dumbed itself down to a  kebab shop style menu just like this one!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/?attachment_id=1842\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1842\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/kebab_pizza.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"kebab_pizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"354\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1842\" srcset=\"https:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/kebab_pizza.jpg 500w, https:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/kebab_pizza-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For sometime the BBC homepage has contained a link to view a beta release of a proposed new homepage with a request for comments. They certainly received my input but it&#8217;s not made a scrap of difference. Beta testing must be over now because visiting the homepage today immediately takes you to the new page [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1833"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1853,"href":"https:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833\/revisions\/1853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}