Comments on: A race against time

By: giggler

giggler — Tue, 12 May 2009 09:58:17 +0000

Actually, in 2007 Vision provided pretty hot coverage, going as far as to print a daily summary, akin to the Q daily glastonbury paper. Heidi Blake, then Nouse editor, had an absolute hissy-fit about it. On the subject of hissy-fits, very much enjoyed Camilla’s article on the finer points of trampolining.

By: Grant Bradley

Grant Bradley — Fri, 08 May 2009 14:46:38 +0000

Without wanting to turn this into a pointless argument, I’d like to point out that the site is still in its earliest phase of development, and improvements in design and loading times will be happing over the next few days…

By: Chris Lewis

Chris Lewis — Fri, 08 May 2009 12:27:51 +0000

Vision’s black background would be more appropriate to a circa-1995 Geocities site.

That said, I’ll keep my hopes up that when the site’s RSS actually finishes loading – and I’ve seen no evidence that it ever will* – it might be worth reading.

(* on either my home ADSL, or my Voda data card.)

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 08 May 2009 11:49:05 +0000

The Yorker isn’t YUSU-funded. And Nouse and Vision are rather different. (Would you scrap the university rugby team because we already have a football team for people to get their sporty kicks from?)

By: Chris Northwood

Chris Northwood — Fri, 08 May 2009 11:48:52 +0000

The Yorker isn’t YUSU funded. Also, liveblogging costs, ooh, about £5 to run. And ours is covered by advertising, so YUSU really aren’t paying for it at all.

By: Marmalade

Marmalade — Fri, 08 May 2009 11:30:35 +0000

Surely I’m not the only one who thinks that roses just displays the utter waste of resources having two (and a half) newspapers is.

There will presumably be three sets of people all doing the exactly same thing throughout this weekend, using up three offices, etc etc etc. People want to find out information; Nouse has undoubtedly the best site; its the easiest to read, is actually accurate (cf The Yorker) and the logo doesn’t look like its been cut from the print edition and scanned in (Vision), why are YUSU funding three identical groups, when one can pretty clearly do the same thing, and can do it better than the others.

By: Emma

Emma — Fri, 08 May 2009 08:04:10 +0000

I think the timeframe is the least of their problems. It’s poorly designed, it’s ugly and it’s unreadable (particularly using Firefox). Ditch the black background – it’s a news site for goodness sake! Did someone take their design lessons from 5 years ago?

The roses site, on the other hand, looks fantastic.

By: Thooloulalalalalalalalallalalal

Thooloulalalalalalalalallalalal — Thu, 07 May 2009 23:33:45 +0000

Easynews = http://www.theyorker.co.uk

I agree with Henry, I think this is going to be an interesting time for all those involved in campus journalism whether it be written, audio or visual and while I *hate* sports, I’m quite looking forward to York surpassing itself once again on the journalistic front – GO US!

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By: Elsie Rohr

Elsie Rohr — Thu, 07 May 2009 23:10:08 +0000

What battle? How is a just set up website supposed to compete with a long established one? Fair play to Vision for coming out at a time when people will be looking to the web for information rather than using it as a procrastination tool.

By: Michael R.T.R. Child

Michael R.T.R. Child — Thu, 07 May 2009 22:41:25 +0000

The new Vision site is an ugly, slow, clunky mash-up. Even bright orange would be easier on the eyes…

Only the hit counts and accuracy/timeliness of news this weekend will decide the winner of the “battle”.