BBC keep making weird decisions
The iplayer is/was a perfectly fine piece of software, did what it needed to, and seemed really popular. What do they do? Spend a load of cash on some new "BBC Sounds" thing, then put loads of effort into getting people to use it when it proves less popular than what they already had. It's mildly baffling.
(, Tue 27 Aug 2019, 15:56, Reply)
Took me ages to figure out why I couldn't find 5 Live Sports Extra on the website at the weekend. Turns out they'd canned the Radio section and crammed it into the Sounds section where I'd never think to look.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Tue 27 Aug 2019, 16:10,
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Quelle surprise
Nothing to do with being run by a bunch of inept, institutionalised Muppets.
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spazzcaptain Misses Valin @, Tue 27 Aug 2019, 16:23,
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RadioPlayer was fine, and still is
but whoever put the Sounds app together for them really made a mess. The suggestions are particularly weird. After listening to a play from Radio 3 the algorithm seems to think that episode 4 of a 6 part series that I've never listened to would be a good choice. How could it work so bad without it being deliberate.
(, Tue 27 Aug 2019, 17:25, Reply)