Gair Rhydd

1. tweak

I think it’s great. Goggle-ish in the sense of not cluttered with tons of flash, the quality of content is improving and it’s user-friendly. The only point of concern is security, making it a bit too exposed to attacks.

2. Jon

Only recommendation I have is to provide the “latest comments” list in the right-hand nav bar on all of the pages, like it used to be. This wouldn’t ruin the layout of any of the pages because the nav bar is already there on each page, and would mean you didn’t have to keep going back to the “front page” every time you wanted to see any new comments.

3. Paul

Thanks for your comments guys, keep them coming!

4. plums

I think it’s great.

The only thing I would say it is missing though is a ‘colour your own pokemon’ section, and perhaps a bit of ‘sex on the beach’ instrumental version) background music.

Other than that- sterling job!

5. Jamie

I’d like to be able to go straight to comments by clicking on them in the ‘recent comments’ box, rather than just being taken to the article. The recent Taf-Od debate has been bloody annoying to keep up with due to having to constantly scroll down.

6. isaac

I’m not too keen on you being able to put anybody’s name in on a comment. I think it should be limited to registered names, and then choice whether you want anonymous or to disclose your own name. Too open to abuse from people using other peoples name.

Other than that it’s pretty nice and clean

7. Emma

I like the new website, but I’d like it even more if Quench content was put up as well.

8. Thomas Carroll

I agree with Emma, you’d think they could put a link to Quench on the menu bar or somethin…

9. Comments

On older articles where commenting has expired it doesn’t seem possible to read the existing comments.

10. Jamie

I can read existing comments; there are just a lot of articles that never had comments posted on, I think.

11. Jamie

‘Hopefully this will be an example of the very phenomenon I am trying to illustrate (making it quite long just in case)’

One thing I’ve noticed about comments – particularly if you put a quote from someone in inverted commas (although also in some other cases), the text will go tiny and run out of the shaded box. It’s easily fixed by going to admin and removing the codes – HTML I think, although I am ignorant of these things – so maybe if the comment box didn’t encode it?

12. Jamie

Oh, it’s usually the bit in the inverted commas that goes weird. Ah well, point still made.