Cyclingnews

andrew_s

The cyclingnews forum and registration links are returning 404 Not Found, so I can't complain there.
Is this a way of stopping the complaints about the new site?

anyway...

The UK Nationals have been shunted off the bottom of the results section, presumably because the CM team think that the Kazakhstan and Slovienian championships are of more interest to their readers.
Can you ask your developers to provide a "more" link on the end of the results so that we can get at the races and results that are no longer on the front page?
On a related topic, the results page from the Grand Boucle appear to have been deleted already. Links from the news articles are just returning 404 too.

robbarker

Another triumph for Future. First the well-liked Cycling Plus forum that attracted some good quality posters and had a friendly atmosphere, replaced by a bland set of forums inhabited primarily by numpties, since most of the original crowd have moved away to you-know-where, deterred by the increased commercialism and dumbing-down of the style and feel of tyhe place.

Now Cycling News. This site had a good vibe, provided interesting coverage of the race scene with no obvious commercial control or bias, was pleasantly quirky and, well, a nice place to visit. Now it's a corporate bikeradar clone with annoying flash picture animations (It's annoying with adblocker in place, so heaven knows how unbearable it is without) and thinly disguised ads for Trek and Colnago at the top of the page.

Fortunately, it is likely that something will come along to fill the void for genuine fans who don't simply want a glossy site where they are seen as fodder to sell things to. Maybe the original guys in Sydney will start up somewhere else, let's hope so. Oh, and a lot of the internal links are broken.