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Re:How Queen and Pink Floyd were judged before they were famous by cyberferret on Thursday November 23, 2017 @06:13AM (#15764335)
Interesting information, but I must say I hated the delivery. A faux slideshow format with animated graphics in between very busy images with overlaid text.

Oh how I miss the good old simple web page with a block text on a white background, an image, a block of text, an image... etc. as you scroll down the page.

Re:How Queen and Pink Floyd were judged before they were famous by sudojudo on Thursday November 23, 2017 @11:21AM (#15765995)
Arriving on the page, I'm prompted to run 11, no... 13 scripts. After allowing everything from BBC and reloading, the page is still borked and I'm prompted to run 34 scripts.

All of these third-parties surely have nothing but the best of intentions when executing code in my browser, but I'd still appreciate a simplified alternative for viewing the content.

Re:How Queen and Pink Floyd were judged before they were famous by elsurudo on Thursday November 23, 2017 @07:24AM (#15764570)
Personally I liked it. Looking at those authentic, old, typewritten documents added a certain charm, and brought me back in time. I wish the "animated" segments were longer, and included audio, though. I was even looking for an "unmute" control on the first one.
Re:How Queen and Pink Floyd were judged before they were famous by strawcomb on Thursday November 23, 2017 @09:09AM (#15765123)
I also thought the delivery was pretty good. But found the image quality too low to easily read the notes in the background (and would also have liked audio for the videos).
Re:How Queen and Pink Floyd were judged before they were famous by benmmurphy on Thursday November 23, 2017 @09:09AM (#15765128)
I got stuck on the Who page for a bit. I found it hard to distinguish between a white arrow and the tan background.
Re:How Queen and Pink Floyd were judged before they were famous by tessellated on Thursday November 23, 2017 @12:24PM (#15766507)
I won't bother to read the article anymore if the readability function in my feed reader can't fetch the content. Straight to the discussion. Life's too short.
Re:How Queen and Pink Floyd were judged before they were famous by dkersten on Thursday November 23, 2017 @11:02AM (#15765835)
I didn't like it either. It was slow and sluggish and the images behind the text too distracting.

At least it wasn't a slideshow just so they could show adverts though!

Re:How Queen and Pink Floyd were judged before they were famous by Angostura on Thursday November 23, 2017 @03:02PM (#15767461)
I quite liked it. I don't mind the BBC experimenting with new forms of presentation.
Re:How Queen and Pink Floyd were judged before they were famous by King-Aaron on Friday November 24, 2017 @01:14AM (#15769725)
It's almost as if the website was aimed at a different target audience
Re:How Queen and Pink Floyd were judged before they were famous by delta1 on Thursday November 23, 2017 @09:11AM (#15765138)
It honestly made me close the tab after one "page"