MSE news service launched today - your thoughts please

Consumerist

Yep, looks good to me too. Have bookmarked it and is a candidate for my homepage.

poorandindenial

I am with those not loving the news ticker.

I don't like it on the forum pages, it is starting to annoy me, I think it is fine for the main site if it is popular (although I don't even like the news ticker on BBC either, it is a bit like having unnecessary animations in a powerpoint presentation *shudders* so i am a bit biased) but personally I don't like it and I think a static news box showing two or three lines of news would be better.

Sorry but I am an impatient sort and can never be bothered to wait for words to slowly go across the screen., am trying to make myself blind to it...

Biggles

poorandindenial wrote: »

I am with those not loving the news ticker.

I don't like it on the forum pages, it is starting to annoy me, I think it is fine for the main site if it is popular (although I don't even like the news ticker on BBC either, it is a bit like having unnecessary animations in a powerpoint presentation *shudders* so i am a bit biased) but personally I don't like it and I think a static news box showing two or three lines of news would be better.

It's even more annoying when you realise you are reading the same news item (the first one on the ticker) probably twenty, fifty or even more times as you look through various forums and you return from a thread to the to the forum pages, and you probably never ever get to see the second item!!

Mobeer

Not impressed by the news - the ticker says:
"Credit card cheques outlawed as part of govt crackdown"

But
(i) the government proposal is not to outlaw credit card cheques; customers will still be able to request and use them

(ii) "outlawed" is past tense; the government has only proposed this will happen