Friday 23 July 2010

If It ‘Ain’t Broke ...

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I frequently check the BBC News website to get a snapshot of what is going on in the world. But this has been made more difficult after the whole thing was redesigned in such as way that the BBC has been receiving complaints that it is ‘chaotic’, a view with which I have to agree.

The BBC News Website Editor recently wrote in his blog, ‘Most of you commenting ... on the Editors blog have been critical, with many urging us to change the design back to the way it was’. That, I would have thought would have told you something.

But, of course, once someone’s made a decision very often they stubbornly stick to it regardless of the criticism. So it is no surprise that the editor then goes on to say that going back to the old design ‘is not something we're considering’.

The man that sent him the following comment is absolutely spot on: ‘Why don’t you just stop thinking and put it back the way it was? You have just acknowledged that most of us are unhappy with what you have done, yet you persist with this debacle.’

Or, as another man wrote: ‘ ... if it ain’t broke don’t fix it!’
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