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Post by partytentdown on Apr 11, 2018 13:46:14 GMT
I see our former overlords have had a redesign. VERY salesy.
*judgey face*
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2018 13:51:57 GMT
oh no i do not like the new website, is very salesy and now just seems to look like every theatre ticket website but also has some news articles.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2018 13:52:25 GMT
Gosh, it's like running into your ex-husband and discovering he's spent an absolute fortune on some really disastrous hair plugs, isn't it?
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Post by lynette on Apr 11, 2018 14:02:00 GMT
Depressing that they are using the American spelling of "theatre" too. Noooooo!!!! |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2018 14:19:05 GMT
It just looks a lot like the Broadway.com site to me. I think it looks a lot cleaner than the old site myself.
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Post by Cardinal Pirelli on Apr 11, 2018 17:06:48 GMT
Not very user friendly, my big complaint at the moment is sites that have never ending scrolling, it makes it impossible to find a page which something is on when all you can do is spend ages scrolling down. The Amazon Wishlist has been pretty much ruined by doing the same (and they don’t even allow you to search your lists anymore either).
You wouldn't publish a book on one never ending scroll of paper, so why do what is effectively the same?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2018 17:19:44 GMT
You wouldn't publish a book on one never ending scroll of paper, so why do what is effectively the same? Papa can you hear me?  |
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Post by showgirl on Apr 11, 2018 18:20:22 GMT
I don't like not being able to single out reviews any more, as they are my prime reason for visiting that site and many others. I would sometimes read the news items if one caught my eye, but now "News & Reviews" seem all jumbled up together and in fact I found only one actual review amongst all the so-called news. So I may just give up on WOS.
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Post by dannyrichards on Apr 11, 2018 18:32:23 GMT
I don't like not being able to single out reviews any more, as they are my prime reason for visiting that site and many others. I would sometimes read the news items if one caught my eye, but now "News & Reviews" seem all jumbled up together and in fact I found only one actual review amongst all the so-called news. So I may just give up on WOS. Not a big fan of the homepage, but it actually looks easier to only pull up the things you want to see now. If you click on the review category you get a full page of all the reviews. Same with news and interviews etc. www.whatsonstage.com/news?categories=reviews |
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Post by showgirl on Apr 12, 2018 4:08:05 GMT
I don't like not being able to single out reviews any more, as they are my prime reason for visiting that site and many others. I would sometimes read the news items if one caught my eye, but now "News & Reviews" seem all jumbled up together and in fact I found only one actual review amongst all the so-called news. So I may just give up on WOS. Not a big fan of the homepage, but it actually looks easier to only pull up the things you want to see now. If you click on the review category you get a full page of all the reviews. Same with news and interviews etc. www.whatsonstage.com/news?categories=reviewsThank you; I had another look and found that a second click does take you to the section dedicated to reviews - but how stupid and retrograde to hide something away when it used to be visible on the home page! I've re-set my bookmark to save time in future and, I hope, to avoid seeing again the mis-spelling of "theatre". |
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Post by Xanderl on Apr 12, 2018 7:46:18 GMT
Don't blame them for the redesign - they had to do something to maintain their hard earned position as "most disliked theatre website" against stiff competition from TodayTix.
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Post by alece10 on Apr 12, 2018 8:45:19 GMT
Don't like it as you have to click on the picture to know what the story is about. I prefer to read the headline then decide if I want to read the article.
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Post by dani on Apr 12, 2018 15:31:20 GMT
Depressing that they are using the American spelling of "theatre" too. Are they? |
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Post by noboiscout on Apr 13, 2018 12:51:00 GMT
Sir,
Why, oh why, oh why, do companies upgrade their websites and invariably make them more cr*p than they were ever before. No indexation, no clue as to what the pretty pictures mean unless you click on them - actually, clueless in all senses of the word.
Yours
Disgruntled of Walthamstow
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Post by freckles on Apr 13, 2018 13:02:11 GMT
Don't like it as you have to click on the picture to know what the story is about. I prefer to read the headline then decide if I want to read the article. Sneaky way of getting more click throughs |
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Post by n1david on Apr 13, 2018 13:34:41 GMT
Don't like it as you have to click on the picture to know what the story is about. I prefer to read the headline then decide if I want to read the article. This might be a website bug on certain browsers - I am using Safari on a Mac and I see the headlines beneath the pics. Still don't like the new site though. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2018 13:37:21 GMT
I don't like the rebuild. As I check the site regularly for updates on theatre news, I like to see that easily and have reviews separate.
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Post by ada92 on Apr 13, 2018 18:06:31 GMT
I don't like the rebuild. As I check the site regularly for updates on theatre news, I like to see that easily and have reviews separate. Hate it!!! Where else can we get quick MT news of the day, anyone? Especially now that The Stage only let's you browse for a short time without paying! Suggestions?  |
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Post by showgirl on Apr 13, 2018 18:15:27 GMT
I don't like the rebuild. As I check the site regularly for updates on theatre news, I like to see that easily and have reviews separate. Hate it!!! Where else can we get quick MT news of the day, anyone? Especially now that The Stage only let's you browse for a short time without paying! Suggestions? It's plays rather than MT which interest me but the principle is the same. The Stage is the only website which invariably lists running time, which is essential info for me and whilst their paywall is a commercial decision for them, I don't understand their business model: I might be prepared to pay for website access but not the amount they ask for their package and when every other review site is free (excluding reviews in newspapers whose websites also have a paywall, eg The FT), why does The Stage think anyone will pay? |
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Post by n1david on Apr 13, 2018 22:03:56 GMT
Hate it!!! Where else can we get quick MT news of the day, anyone? Especially now that The Stage only let's you browse for a short time without paying! Suggestions? It's plays rather than MT which interest me but the principle is the same. The Stage is the only website which invariably lists running time, which is essential info for me and whilst their paywall is a commercial decision for them, I don't understand their business model: I might be prepared to pay for website access but not the amount they ask for their package and when every other review site is free (excluding reviews in newspapers whose websites also have a paywall, eg The FT), why does The Stage think anyone will pay? Well I pay but then I pay to other websites as well for content, because I want The Stage to be able to pay contributers. A year's website subscription to The Stage is just under £40 which is less than £1 per week, and I'm happy to pay that to get real journalism. To be clear, I'm not criticising anyone who chooses not to pay, and certainly not anyone who can't afford to pay, but for the value I get from The Stage content, I'm happy to pay 77p per week. |
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Post by Phantom of London on Apr 14, 2018 0:15:46 GMT
WOS making their website very unuser friendly could backfire as people might stop using that site it it is too much of a faff and may start using other websites that could crop up.
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Post by jake1345 on Apr 16, 2018 13:05:18 GMT
I used to visit Whatsonstage.com several times a day to keep up to date, and since the website update, have visited it twice. The first time last week and couldnt access anything, kept getting error messages etc, and once again today to see if they have improved or updated it, and it was worse today than last week, so their website is now completely unusable, and seems to look as horrible and clunky as lovetheatre. I havent seen or read anyone online saying they like this new website. Do we think they will end up changing it back or do people think they have probably invested too much money in it to go back to the old way?
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Post by Latecomer on Apr 16, 2018 18:44:30 GMT
Who? Moved on....over them!  |
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