What is it with people who design websites? The SCMP website has been re-designed, and of course it looks better, but…
One of the better features of the old SCMP site was ‘Today’s Stories’, a single (simple) page with all the stories in that day’s paper. You could even go back over the last 7 days and fairly easily find recent stories.
That’s gone.
What else have they “improved”? Well, rather puzzlingly, stories can now stray on to a 2nd page, with just a single sentence on page 2.
However, I think my favourite is the headlines with missing words, such as:
- “He sold cigarettes, now he’s selling …” Let me guess – is it cigars? Or cheese?
- “Gateway Capital joins Zhuhai rush with…”
- “Thousands of home sellers facing…”
- “Would you drink the tap water being…”
Angus Deayton eat your heart out.
Any actual improvements? Well, yes, they have some RSS feeds (finally), but if you were hoping to be able to click on them and add them to your favourite RSS reader you’ll be out of luck. On the other hand, if you’d like to copy the link from the annoying little box that pops up then, yes, you can do that. Right…
In theory, readers now have access to the full archive (in the past, each subscriber was granted a generous allowance of 10 articles that they could retrieve, though you could buy more articles if you wished). However, so far I am not having much luck finding any articles.
And you still have to pay to access the website. Good thinking, chaps.
Ordinary Gweilo 
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