Big Red Rich Posted December 20, 2014 Report Share Posted December 20, 2014 Anyone find it an absolute disgrace?! It seems their modern day business model is to write sensational & factually incorrect stories to drive readers to their website to then hit them with a barrage of ads & pop-ups. Clearly they are desperate for the ad revenue due to falling sales of their horrible rag. Wish they would just pack up and take their awful publication with them... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zyderiup Posted December 20, 2014 Report Share Posted December 20, 2014 Couldn't agree more. I only go there when someone has posted a link on here but it quite often freezes my browser while playing adverts at me. Hate it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tins Posted December 20, 2014 Report Share Posted December 20, 2014 Appalling website. I work in marketing and we deliberately avoid putting our clients ad's on sites like that as it's not effective, it's the complete opposite. There is too much going on and it leads to negative brand image. Unfortunately I can't see the Bristol Evening Post being around in 10 years as whoever is running it has no clues about the future of media. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbored Posted December 20, 2014 Report Share Posted December 20, 2014 They make their site as difficult as possible to navigate with all the pop-ups and adverts. Obviously it's to discourage people getting a free read of their stories. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 20, 2014 Report Share Posted December 20, 2014 It's become worse by the day - the adverts now physically stop me reading articles sometimes. But yes they also sensationlise headlines for even nonsense stories Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barrs Court Red Posted December 20, 2014 Report Share Posted December 20, 2014 Its shit. However the alternative is the openly lefty biased Bristol24/7. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedM Posted December 20, 2014 Report Share Posted December 20, 2014 It's beyond annoying, I cancelled the paper years ago and now only look online if I really need to. On my iPad the adverts pop up and the page constantly shrinks and jumps about, it's very unstable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 20, 2014 Report Share Posted December 20, 2014 It's being teed up for an add free subscription version I bet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red-Robbo Posted December 20, 2014 Report Share Posted December 20, 2014 Local World - the Post's owners - are a small firm trying to compete in a big world with an online model that is not quite right yet. Look at any of the group's papers and you'll see the same mess. They are trying to do things on the cheap. I could write more, but it's not commercially wise for me to do so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhistleHappy Posted December 20, 2014 Report Share Posted December 20, 2014 I'm glad this post has appeared here... I also found The Posts site increasingly annoying as more and more ads popped up and virtually impossible when, for want of a better description, 'auto start' video ads popped up making reading whatever article so bloody hard.... For me its gone a stage further however and got a feeling it might be something to do with my tablet rather than the site itself - can anyone explain why when clicking onto a post article it appears normally but a couple of seconds later the screen shrinks horizontally into an impossible to read narrow centre of screen vertical strip ? Is this, as I suspect, something to to with my tablet or is it due to this now appalling 'news' site.? Anybody know, or experiencing similar? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhistleHappy Posted December 20, 2014 Report Share Posted December 20, 2014 It's beyond annoying, I cancelled the paper years ago and now only look online if I really need to. On my iPad the adverts pop up and the page constantly shrinks and jumps about, it's very unstable. ..hmm sounds familiar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Club and Country Posted December 21, 2014 Report Share Posted December 21, 2014 Glad it's not just me Shocking website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aizoon Posted December 21, 2014 Report Share Posted December 21, 2014 Couldn't agree more. I only go there when someone has posted a link on here but it quite often freezes my browser while playing adverts at me. Hate it. Let AdBlock be your friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aizoon Posted December 21, 2014 Report Share Posted December 21, 2014 Appalling website. I work in marketing and we deliberately avoid putting our clients ad's on sites like that as it's not effective, it's the complete opposite. There is too much going on and it leads to negative brand image. Unfortunately I can't see the Bristol Evening Post being around in 10 years as whoever is running it has no clues about the future of media. Or football, given that they're all Gasheads. Hint - look at which football stories they highlight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedM Posted December 21, 2014 Report Share Posted December 21, 2014 ..hmm sounds familiar. Yes, just to reassure you it's not your device. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern Red Posted December 21, 2014 Report Share Posted December 21, 2014 It's a pain in the arse when you're trying to look at it on the sly in work and the ads keep popping up everywhere, slowing it to a crawl... Crap website. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 21, 2014 Report Share Posted December 21, 2014 Yes, just to reassure you it's not your device. On any iOS device it's just a clusterf**k Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhistleHappy Posted December 22, 2014 Report Share Posted December 22, 2014 Cheers people... Might write in to complain, anyone know the address for Peter Post at the Pillar Box Club? ..its been a while & I can't find my membership badge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aizoon Posted December 22, 2014 Report Share Posted December 22, 2014 Cheers people... Might write in to complain, anyone know the address for Peter Post at the Pillar Box Club? ..its been a while & I can't find my membership badge. Wasn't it a rather creepy Uncle Bob? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Red Rich Posted December 22, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 22, 2014 One thing I find in incredibly poor taste is a story about an individual dieing being interrupted by a pop up about televisions. A person had died and they are using it as an opportunity for ad space. Horrible horrible publication. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedRock Posted December 23, 2014 Report Share Posted December 23, 2014 But... I now get Player Ratings on the Twitter feed without having to post my weekly request on O TIB. Not all bad news! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Hunt-Hertz Posted December 24, 2014 Report Share Posted December 24, 2014 I think the Gloucester Citizen is owned by the same group, and is plagued by the same things. It really is beyond shit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redcityman Posted December 24, 2014 Report Share Posted December 24, 2014 It's beyond annoying, I cancelled the paper years ago and now only look online if I really need to. On my iPad the adverts pop up and the page constantly shrinks and jumps about, it's very unstable. I get exactly the same, you get halfway through reading an article only for it to constantly jump up and down, shrink, enlarge, pop up an advert you never asked for, then take you to another site or open a video anything but read the dam article. It's got to be the most infuriating website to read I have ever come across. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbored Posted December 24, 2014 Report Share Posted December 24, 2014 I get exactly the same, you get halfway through reading an article only for it to constantly jump up and down, shrink, enlarge, pop up an advert you never asked for, then take you to another site or open a video anything but read the dam article. It's got to be the most infuriating website to read I have ever come across. Same on my device as well. As I hinted earlier in this thread, I'm sure the post don't like people reading their stories for free and make their site almost impossible to navigate to discourage us. If that is the case why have a website at all? I'm assume that their site doesn't generate any income other than the advertising. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sniper Posted December 24, 2014 Report Share Posted December 24, 2014 Worst website I've ever had the misfortune of going on. Like others have said, impossible to read anything without all those ******* pop ups and videos playing and the screen jumping up and down. My CPU goes high, My RAM goes high and my FAN has a complete head fit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Red Rich Posted December 24, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 24, 2014 The ironic thing is the stories are utter shit. Poor grammar, typos everywhere, just a waste of time from start to finish. Very car crash but for some reason to just want to keep watching to see how bad it is!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dollymarie Posted December 27, 2014 Report Share Posted December 27, 2014 What's annoying as well is even when I've got the sound turned off on my iPad or phone, the advert still plays with the sound on! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nibor Posted December 30, 2014 Report Share Posted December 30, 2014 The rules of using the evil post website. 1. Don't. 2. Really don't, even if you get past the ads the content is shite. 3. Assuming you really wish to subject yourself to this crap, use browser extensions like adblock, ghostery, noscript and make sure you have cookies and javascript turned off. 4. Never, ever look at their site on a mobile device unless you want to risk hurling your shiny smartphone into a wall in frustration. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 30, 2014 Report Share Posted December 30, 2014 5. Never ever, under any circumstances, read the comments section Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 30, 2014 Report Share Posted December 30, 2014 Wow..http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/Freaked-ghostly-activity-going/story-25780690-detail/story.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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