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The LEP mobile site is completely unreadable

The LEP mobile site is completely unreadable

MBcha

MBcha

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Look at the state of this;

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@MBcha if you're using an Android device, try installing Blockada 5 (Google to find link). Best mobile adblocker there is. If iPhone, use Blockada 6, which will be smoother but a paid for service.
 
It's absolutely shocking.
I hate it when they do a list of ten things, sometimes things that I'd actually like to see, but then they spread it all across about 5 pages. I don't think I ever get through the whole list as the adverts start and then I accidentally hit one and get diverted to another site and then decide to just sack it all off.

Message to those who advertise like this on Johnston Press, I never read any adverts on their site, so you're wasting your money. In fact your adverts annoy me so much that if I did take the time to register what the advert was about I'd purposefully not use your business.
 
totally agree, if its a link to LEP or gazette or similar I just dont even bother, ill get the news elsewhere. It's a bullshit site/system they have, even their advertisers are being ripped off as they just try and spam as many ads as possible at users, engagement will be so low but they will charge them just for the views.

to make matters worse after viewing x number of articles they then try and lock you behind a paywall to see more, you can get around easy with incognito mode and similar but who can be bothered with it all.

awful, needs binning they haven't adapted and moved with the times and stuck delivering nothing good for all involved.

sadly it will be gone soon as they struggle to sustain both any users or advertisers.
 
Regardless said:
Such a shame that physical newspapers aren’t viable anymore. A bigger shame that people will shell out £6 a day for a takeaway coffee and cake - but baulk at paying 50p for good journalism. So we end up with ahit journalism.
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Problem with paper journalism is that with 24 hour news channels available the papers are quickly out of date by the time they hit your door mat.
 
Regardless said:
Such a shame that physical newspapers aren’t viable anymore. A bigger shame that people will shell out £6 a day for a takeaway coffee and cake - but baulk at paying 50p for good journalism. So we end up with ahit journalism.
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But then again, the majority of newspapers that would be bought would not be classed as 'good' journalism.
 
I accept that they need a few adverts to make the process financially viable for them but the huge number that keep popping up on your screen just lead to a negative experience.
 
As an ex-hack, it's sad to say, but the site really is unreadable.

That's no sleight on the journos - I bet they're as naffed off with it as the rest of us.

Unfortunately, the legacy media hasn't moved fast enough, or smartly enough to survive in the 21st century.

Instead, it turned a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity into an extinction-level event.

(See also: The Conservative Party)

The Local Press has died quickly and quietly, but it's something that should definitely be mourned.

The whole media landscape is now so fragmented and partisan that very few organisations are doing journalistic basics.

The LEP (or whatever your local paper was) used to bring entire towns and cities together; everyone read the same outlet, built over decades of trust and shared values.

Campaigns highlighted issues, stories led to change, scrutiny held local councils and authorities to account.

Now, it's the wretched echo chamber of social media, shadow banning and Big Tech algorithms - all reinforcing your opinion and polarising what little genuine debate actually occurs.

Question the official narrative and you're immediately smeared as a 'nut job', 'conspiracy theorist', 'right wing nutter' or just 'Matt Le Tissier'.

Football? It's just part of the deflection and distraction at play; Greggs and the Premier League = bread and a circus.

It's all about divide and conquer and - look around - it's working.

Apart from on here, of course . . . where we're largely longing for the days of inky fingers and Norman Shakeshaft. 🙃
 
nomorebigideas said:
@MBcha if you're using an Android device, try installing Blockada 5 (Google to find link). Best mobile adblocker there is. If iPhone, use Blockada 6, which will be smoother but a paid for service.
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That's all well and good but a lot of people, me included, just want to read the website without pissing about. I've given up with it completely.
 
Libertine said:
Problem with paper journalism is that with 24 hour news channels available the papers are quickly out of date by the time they hit your door mat.
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I agree - and instant alerts on our phones in our pockets mean that there’s no chance of a newspaper really breaking news to us. but thinking about it, how often did the newspaper used to hit your mat with a big story you didn’t already know about? Probably rarely.

Leafing through a newspaper is a totally different and better experience than scrolling through your phone. Far better for the soul. More informative. A better perspective because of the layout options.

Sure, internet and tv have certain advantages- but I don’t think I am being an old fogie in saying that society is poorer for lazily choosing not to engage in newspapers.
 
I use AdGuard on the iPhone.
Let’s face it, the LEP has been shite for twenty years or more. Straight out of uni journalism taking on really important stories was the beginning of the end. The grammar became laughable and the repetition endless.
A pal of mine knew a previous editor - Simon Reynolds or something similar - who claimed to say that his brief was to make the Post a campaigning newspaper rather than listing local stories. It was those local stories that made the Post what it was.
If you read an article on Blog Preston today it won’t be on the Evening Post website until Wednesday. There are so many preferable local news sources nowadays other than that rag.
George Hodgson has done a good job since leaving LancsLive and represents a supporter view more than previous incumbents have. Nonetheless, he will be off to bigger things soon and then, for me anyway, visits to The Post website will cease completely.
 
Many years ago I worked in local newspapers including the Chorley Guardian, Burnley Express and the Gloucestershire Echo.
Even then you could see that local and regional newspapers, in their current style would not survive in the modern, instant news, demanding environment.
I felt that the papers could change and fill a gap.
So many news stories surface and then disappear quickly and you never get to hear what happened next or any follow up on the stories as they are immediately replaced by other items.
I believed newspapers could survive by being the media that followed up on headline making stories and provided a more in depth report.
I must have been wrong though as it had never happened and it doesn’t look like it ever will.
 
Yeah, it's total garbage. I don't even bother. Same with a lot of these sites now. Either that, or the cookie stuff; if I can't easily "Reject All", I just sack it off.
 
JG1888 said:
Use this site - https://www.12ft.io/

Enter the LEP article URL and it removes all of the ads.
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But again, it's just hassle isn't it?

I just want to click a link and read an article without having so much of the screen dominated by adds that it becomes unreadable.

The level of advertising must have an adverse affect on the volume of traffic to the site.
 
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