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OT: New Free Press site
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Uhhhh ..... click 'Sports'
There is a 'Bomber Report' and a 'Winnipeg Jets' section.
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Dane-O-Mite
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Well, first you have to find the symbol in the top left corner that says nothing. Pretty lame.
Jets4Life
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As I said before, the Winnipeg Free Press gets their facts wrong, and stubbornly will stick to their story, despite being given iron clad evidence that corrects mistakes. It makes you wonder what kinds or errors and mistakes they make about big stories, like criminal investigations and news from City Hall and the Legislature.
Ever read Gordon Sinclair Jr. articles? It's 90% fiction. The exploitation of Faron Hall was disgusting, and when he passed away, the most popular comments were begging the WFP not to let GSJ write anything about him. However, Sinclair milked him in death, as he did in life.
I could not believe how bad the new layout is. Then again, I do recall that the WFP let go most of their IT staff, and many young people associated with the company. Seniority rules, not matter how out of touch the writers are. Lawless, in particular, is horrible to read.
Ever read Gordon Sinclair Jr. articles? It's 90% fiction. The exploitation of Faron Hall was disgusting, and when he passed away, the most popular comments were begging the WFP not to let GSJ write anything about him. However, Sinclair milked him in death, as he did in life.
I could not believe how bad the new layout is. Then again, I do recall that the WFP let go most of their IT staff, and many young people associated with the company. Seniority rules, not matter how out of touch the writers are. Lawless, in particular, is horrible to read.
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Doesn't sound like you are seeing the same thing I am.
There is a banner just under the "Winnipeg Free Press" banner at the top. It has section labels:
"All Sections
News
Arts & Life
Business
Sports
Travel
Opinion
Media
Homes
Autos
Classifieds
Flyers
Jobs
Obituaries"
You do then have to scroll down to the content you want but it seems to work pretty well for me. Using Firefox with little customization.
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Dane-O-Mite
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I'm getting none of that and I use Firefox too. Under "Winnipeg Free Press" there's a search box, then under that there are there are four drop-down bars for Top News, Most Popular, Most Commented and My News. Then below that the articles start in side-by-side boxes. At the top left of the page there's a small blue box containing three horizontal white lines. Clicking on that pushes out a menu from the lefthand edge with all the stuff you listed, but that menu does not appear otherwise on the page I see.
The three horizontal lines is a pretty common symbol indicating a slide out menu nowadays. Mostly for mobile devices, but I've seen other uses as well.
Also, the new layout sucks hard.
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I see the 3 lines. If I click it I get a menu pop up on the left but without clicking, the stuff I listed is all in a horizontal banner to the right of (and including) the 3 horizontal bars. Weird. Early days glitches is my guess. I'd give you a screen shot but I don't have an account anywhere I could park it online.
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I've been driven away by the fact I have to constantly log in on every device I use to read any article on the site. I agreed that I'd pay the 27 cents an article to read content, but have yet to be asked for payment information. Guess it's still a free trial run. However, it's a pain when I've opened 10 tabs of articles I'd like to read to have 10 log in boxes starting me in the face. Logging in on a mobile device sucks too. The content of their previous mobile app was not kept up to date, so I have no motivation to go out and get the upgrade.
Smelling Salt
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I don't mind the mobile version (don't care for the size 100 font headline when viewing an article) but the main version is a bit of a tire fire.
I won't be paying for it I do know that. I'll stick to CBC and local blogs. I think the WFP is making a huge mistake here.
I won't be paying for it I do know that. I'll stick to CBC and local blogs. I think the WFP is making a huge mistake here.
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On a hunch I changed my screen resolution to a higher setting and now I'm seeing the same stuff you are, and when I changed it back all the stuff disappeared again. Try a lower resolution on your screen, I bet that stuff disappears.
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Koonta
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I do not want another login and password, so no more reading the 'Free' Press online for me.
I get all my Jets news from this site anyway.
I get all my Jets news from this site anyway.
The paywall model is a proven failure. Hearing the Free Press Editor and Publisher comparing the Free Press to the New York Times as they set up this monstrosity, which BTW has not been fully rolled out yet, made me LOL.
There just is not enough demand for the content to justify a paywall. They would have been much better served by finding creative and intelligent ways to convert page hits into revenue. All they've done is drive up the web traffic of the Sun, CTV and Global.
There just is not enough demand for the content to justify a paywall. They would have been much better served by finding creative and intelligent ways to convert page hits into revenue. All they've done is drive up the web traffic of the Sun, CTV and Global.
sipowicz
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The new Free Press is crap, actually it looks like something from the late 90's!
And as bodybreak points out, how many times do you need to log in, I put my ipad down for a second go back to the Free Press app and please log in.......F...
Log this in.....Freep...
Smelling Salt
Busey is life
Most mobile-enabled sites look like ass. It's just the nature of the Internet now. With a few exceptions the days of fancy websites is generally over.
Shakey Rustie
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I stopped using the Free Press once they required a login. For news I use CBC, BBC, VICE, Mashable, CNN (sometimes), and Metro 
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I stopped using the Free Press once they required a login. For news I use CBC, BBC, VICE, Mashable, CNN (sometimes), and Metro
Same here
Noscript seems to be blocking most of the main page now. All I can see are the top news links.
Yeah they're using a "responsive" design - so when your viewport (browser or screen-resolution) size drops below a certain threshold, your browser displays the mobile site - which strips out menus and reformats things to look good on an iPhone or whatever.
If I resize my browser to about 800px wide, it switches to mobile view.
I get what they're trying to do here, but the layout is really weird in desktop view.
That unnecessary blue line at the top. The Top News/Most Popular/Most Commented widget and Twitter widget at the top suck. Then you get to the banner. I might have started there because it briefly starts to look better starting at "Winnipeg Free Press". After the menubar it turns back into a bit of a mess - they have 3 columns available, but they nonsensically jump around from a 1/1/1 layout to a 2/1 to a /3/ and back and forth with reckless abandon. And then it just keeps scrolling down forever...
Part of the problem may be the uniformity of the blue headings on every article. There's no prioritization...and it's jumpy: Local, World, Business, Local (3 wide), Homes, Top Jobs, Local, Homes, Top Jobs...WTF?
There are also a confusing array of behaviours when you mouse over stuff.
And what do those ribbon icons do?
Jets4Life
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Back in May 2013, the editor of the WFP explained the justification for closing the comments section to non-subscribers:
"Our thinking here is that the bulk of our problem online comes from people who don't subscribe. Frequently, they hate us, hate what we write about, and feel empowered by dumping all over what is published. As expected, some of you don't like the idea of any cover charge so will be looking for a different place to hang out shortly. But I am encouraged by those who say this was long overdue -- especially those who had stopped commenting or reading the comments because of some of the stuff that landed there.
A few points as the discussion continues:
-This is not about a paywall. You are are still free to read what we put on our website for free.
-This is not about raising revenue, this is about raising the bar on debate. In fact, conventional wisdom is that we will lose money initially as our online advertising revenue is tied to online readership. Fewer commenting clicks means less cash coming our way.
-I never said this would fix all that is wrong with website comments. But I do believe we are taking a step towards that goal.
-And wow, those who see no value in what we do and have no intention of every paying a cent to support our journalism, sure do seem to be well-versed in what we write. Just saying.
I want to make clear that raising the bar on debate, not raising revenue, is the goal. In fact, the conventional wisdom is that we will lose online readership over this move, which will impact us in terms of what we are able to charge for online ads. But in time, I hope we will see our comment count increase as those who had been turned off in the past return.",
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Raise the level of debate? Is he for real?
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