Comments on: It’s official: America hates Advance’s news sites

By: ADVANCE CRISIS: The insanely obsessive guide to the Birmingham News/al.com implosion | Media of Birmingham

Thu, 23 May 2013 18:04:08 +0000

[...] Before that explosive announcement, Advance’s online portal al.com joined nola.com and mlive.com in a drastic and comprehensive site redesign. Reaction by readers nationwide — as Advance switched all its sites over to the 2012 look — was overwhelmingly negative. [...]

By: Dateline: The second biggest city in America without a daily paper « Birmingham Blogging Academy

Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:01:48 +0000

[...] long-standing community voice will have to make do with its widely derided web site and three editions a week. Unlike New Orleans, no outlet or blog or billionaire has rushed to fill [...]

By: Wade Kwon

Wade Kwon — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 17:33:53 +0000

I discovered this morning that the mobile site loads on my phone if I go to the front page. But if I start at any other linked page inside, I get the full desktop version.

Sigh.

By: Pinktoad

Pinktoad — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 11:08:07 +0000

It is not just the design. It is not a user friendly site. Things that would seem easy to search do not even come up. Very frustrating. I look at it as little as possible and I definitely don’t try to search beyond the first page. Sad.

By: Wade Kwon

Wade Kwon — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 00:24:22 +0000

I dream of a convention where all the site haters get together to sing songs, tell jokes and commiserate over the dreadfulness of these designs.

By: Nolagirl504

Nolagirl504 — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 23:31:20 +0000

It is comforting to know that EVERY city hates these designs, not just New Orleans. A digital-based paper would be a lot easy to swallow if the digital part was nice to look at and functional. Kudos to the brains who let the s@&! hit the fan with this as their backup plan.