While I think that already this is the best alternative to 606 so far, here are some things that could be improved. Some of them are quite small, and you could call it nitpicking, but just my view:
Smileys...
I know it's been said many times but this needs some. If the BBC Smilies are not available and you have to create some ideally could there be the vareity that BBC had and also please no animated ones - IMO makes the site look tacky
Zoom out?
Possible for the page to either align on the left our zoom out so it covers the whole page? Just generally looks strange on desktop and it's a pain to zoom out every time you're on the iPhone when on normal 606 the zoom it was on was fine.
Remember Me
When logging there is no 'remember me' option, meaning I'll have to go throughthe whole typing in e-mail and password before accessng anything.
Latest Activity on Member Page
Very confusing, needs to be more like the original. If you comment twice on an article it actually shows the two comments individually unnescarily clogging up the member page. When someone replies, instead of showing 'latest reply' it says 'posted' which is what it says when you originally post something...meaning that you don't know whether this is your comment or someone else's reply.
Time-Limit Comments
While I'm glad that the whole 3 minute rule is gone, I think this still needs a time-limit between comments - at least 30 seconds and at themost 1 and a haldf minutes. Need to keep the site as WUM Free as possible - it's a clean slate after all!
Search
I know it was the same on 606 but the search is pretty useless. Is it possible that when you use search it actually searches both the title of the article, any tags, and the content of both the articles and comments?
Event Articles, Match articles etc.
Think they should come back on create an article. Quite useful when making a report on a match or if you want to include a number of teams.
Member count
Place where we can see amount of members?
Home Page for Website
While I like the blog, could we also see something like http://sportwitness.ning.com/ and http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/606/default.stm where we can see the latest news and/or best articles? Just think it looks more profressional and interesting.
Links
You'll probably find that the links don't work for some reason so even though it's copied and pasted it right you can't click on it straight away and have to go through the tedious process of copying and pasting yoursself
Character limit on articles?
Is there any? Instead of 5000 it says NaN at the bottom of create an article page.
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No bold and italics Very useful tool on 606, among other things like the qoute box and table etc. Could easily be implemented couldn't it? And although the original didn't have it, could we also have it on comments, at least just bold and italics?
Cheers
Thoughts and mine, and what your feedback is on the website?
Feedback Thread
posted on 18/5/11
The feedback threads I've seen so far are sadly lacking in and s
posted on 18/5/11
yeah the spam blocker needs fixing...can't have any short messages.
Maybe have a look at that.
Agree with the other points. Also the other sports does not include all sports.
I wanted to create a article on weightlifting but no option.
posted on 18/5/11
This is a bit like when there's a power cut.
posted on 18/5/11
I'm here!
It looks normal on my home computer as well. Hopefully I can log on from work.
posted on 18/5/11
Its a bit slow but its still goin through the teething process.
Apart from that its bang on
posted on 18/5/11
Don't worry.
I'm here now.
posted on 19/5/11
what about finances?any assurance for us users that its going to be free?
posted on 19/5/11
The site is 100% free to use and that will continue to be the case. We are actually decent guys, honest! Just very sleep deprived at the moment.
posted on 19/5/11
super!thank u.
posted on 16/10/14
BK expecting the world