Is the iphone app constantly crashing for anyone else?
― Tell The BTLs to Fuck Off (wins), Monday, 9 November 2015 12:24 (eight years ago) link
Yes
― quixotic yet visceral (Bob Six), Monday, 9 November 2015 12:31 (eight years ago) link
Well great, I'll just have to cross the room to my laptop fml
― Tell The BTLs to Fuck Off (wins), Monday, 9 November 2015 12:34 (eight years ago) link
The website constantly crashes and reloads in Safari and Chrome on my iPad too.
― Al Ain Delon (ShariVari), Monday, 9 November 2015 12:34 (eight years ago) link
the mobile site is unusable on anything other than an adblock browser
― lex pretend, Monday, 9 November 2015 12:37 (eight years ago) link
It the app keeps crashing for you, you can do me a massive favour by emailing userhelp at the guardian dot com to complain.
Just tell them what phone you're using, and what version of the app (you can this by going to settings > about. oh, you get to settings by clicking on that 3-line icon in the top left that some people call the hamburger)
The apps team do their best to test, but often only really realise there's something badly wrong when lots of people email. They really welcome crash reports.
― Alba, Monday, 9 November 2015 13:00 (eight years ago) link
Same goes for persistent website crashing too.
― Alba, Monday, 9 November 2015 13:01 (eight years ago) link
The app doesn't stay open long enough the click the hamburger at the moment.
― quixotic yet visceral (Bob Six), Monday, 9 November 2015 13:03 (eight years ago) link
Yikes. Well, try updating the app and if there's no update available then you can just tell them you're on the latest version.
― Alba, Monday, 9 November 2015 13:06 (eight years ago) link
well, there's a few reports on twitter as well that the app's broken as well - so guardian dot com should twig eventually that something's up.
― quixotic yet visceral (Bob Six), Monday, 9 November 2015 13:43 (eight years ago) link
I sent an email
― Tell The BTLs to Fuck Off (wins), Monday, 9 November 2015 13:46 (eight years ago) link
old school
― quixotic yet visceral (Bob Six), Monday, 9 November 2015 13:47 (eight years ago) link
Sirs,
― Tell The BTLs to Fuck Off (wins), Monday, 9 November 2015 13:48 (eight years ago) link
The Mulberry ad on the iPad app, telling me to rotate my device for the best experience, really takes the biscuit for misplaced presumption.
― mike t-diva, Monday, 9 November 2015 13:52 (eight years ago) link
First line of the headline must be deliberate?
http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/nov/07/iaaf-dick-pound-sebastian-coe-lamine-diack
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Monday, 9 November 2015 15:57 (eight years ago) link
(A delete and reinstall seems to have solved the problem btw)
― quixotic yet visceral (Bob Six), Monday, 9 November 2015 18:16 (eight years ago) link
Are you sure you want to 'solve the problem'?
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/09/jeremy-corbyn-mark-e-smith-politics-labour-leader-indie-band
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 9 November 2015 21:16 (eight years ago) link
Tim Jonze
― Eyeball Kicks, Monday, 9 November 2015 23:51 (eight years ago) link
What are you looking at? That is his best work :p
― xelab, Tuesday, 10 November 2015 00:07 (eight years ago) link
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what, you mean 'quality journalism' like that?
― koogs, Tuesday, 10 November 2015 09:27 (eight years ago) link
The text of Gordon Brown’s speech runs to around 8,000 words. It does not appear to be available online yet, but I hope at some point it will go up on Brown’s website. It should do. Apart from the fact that it is borderline unreadable, it’s excellent.
What makes it so hard to plough through is that it is saturated with figures and statistics. Brown joked earlier about not being very good with statistics (see 1.03pm), but that hasn’t stopped him overloading the speech with them. There are countless passages where fine writing is hobbled and swamped by an overload of numerical facts.
But it is worth (just) getting past them because as well as containing the well-trailed attack on George Osborne, the speech offers a wide-ranging analysis covering the historical nature of poverty, and how changes to the labour market have affected it.
― doing my Objectives, handling some intense stuff (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 11 November 2015 16:35 (eight years ago) link
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/nov/21/a-letter-to-my-godson-with-whom-ive-decided-to-sever-ties?CMP=share_btn_tw
uh what is this and why is it on the guardian website
― Merdeyeux, Saturday, 21 November 2015 11:14 (eight years ago) link
because it's hilarious?
― when's international me day? (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 21 November 2015 11:27 (eight years ago) link
somewhat surprised and disappointed that the 'lbzc' did not manage to do a rolling dave simpson thread from that era when discussing guardian music writers was responsible for about 13% of ilx threads
― Dear Lesbian21 (nakhchivan), Saturday, 21 November 2015 11:28 (eight years ago) link
Xp I could use 25 quid, I'm up for this
― noe love derp wev (wins), Saturday, 21 November 2015 11:31 (eight years ago) link
A letter to the bloke stood next to me at the bar who got served before me even though i was stood here first
― when's international me day? (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 21 November 2015 11:46 (eight years ago) link
I’m not sure when your father started to dislike me – perhaps when I had the audacity to betray my working-class background and go to college. Actually, not just college, university.
What age is this guy? In his 90s perhaps?
― Caput Johannis in Disco (Tom D.), Saturday, 21 November 2015 12:03 (eight years ago) link
They do need to refresh a lot of the columnists.
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/nov/22/why-the-hidden-work-of-women-needs-to-be-recognised
I'm sympathetic to the argument, but I'm not convinced that this journalist is any longer in touch with modern Britain and its issues:
For example, as I’ve said before, the young women sent out to marry Englishmen ruling India had to control all the staff and cater for the whole outfit – the kind of stuff which would have counted as a serious job if a man had been doing it.
― quixotic yet visceral (Bob Six), Sunday, 22 November 2015 14:08 (eight years ago) link
Otoh I'm sure the columnists are refreshed enough most of the time
― noe love derp wev (wins), Sunday, 22 November 2015 14:15 (eight years ago) link
This would be premature and grossly unjust considering there is still no Paul Lester thread.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 22 November 2015 14:20 (eight years ago) link
On the plus side, it was good to see news today of Max Gogarty, after his abortive gap year column some years ago.
― quixotic yet visceral (Bob Six), Sunday, 22 November 2015 14:31 (eight years ago) link
LOL, indeed. Earlier I wondered if the guy who wrote the letter to his godson was in his 90s, well Katharine Whitehorn is 86.
― Caput Johannis in Disco (Tom D.), Sunday, 22 November 2015 14:31 (eight years ago) link
This obituary seems to be more about the author than the subject. http://gu.com/p/4ejb7?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
― Madchen, Tuesday, 1 December 2015 00:00 (eight years ago) link
Didn't seem too bad to me, though much of the material has already appeared in the Telegraph obit last week.
― quixotic yet visceral (Bob Six), Tuesday, 1 December 2015 00:18 (eight years ago) link
https://twitter.com/Ben_Everitt/status/679657860280758277
great stuff from the guardian.com
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 23 December 2015 22:31 (eight years ago) link
Now I do politicsy stuff in the countryside and strategyish stuff in the City. Views my own, etc
― The ✓ fan from the hilarious "xd" coombics (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 23 December 2015 22:39 (eight years ago) link
Recycling Twitter posts is quite lazy, isn't it?
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/dec/29/lemmy-from-motorhead-is-dead-and-the-internet-pays-tribute
― djh, Tuesday, 29 December 2015 17:59 (eight years ago) link
There were five other piece though
http://www.theguardian.com/music/motorhead
― Alba, Tuesday, 29 December 2015 18:40 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, my irritation is with the idea that collecting Twitter quotes is worth doing. There might be an argument for an article saying something along the lines of "Traditional media doesn't cover this well or reflect how people feel about this or misses the point" but the link quoted just seemed silly.
As with many of the things posted on here, it's not a Guardian specific criticism, either.
― djh, Tuesday, 29 December 2015 20:11 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, I kind of hate that these round-ups are branded as "the internet/Twitter reacts", but I think it's probably worth collecting these quotes. Ideally, they'd be combined with a ringaround for fresh tributes, but it was the middle of the night and tweeted reaction is there for the taking.
I guess I take issue with the word "lazy" as it implies nothing else was being done.
― Alba, Tuesday, 29 December 2015 20:20 (eight years ago) link
Not for a second suggesting The Guardian's coverage as a whole was lazy. Actually, it makes me wonder what I'd hope for from a new source - initial news story, fleshed out news story, obit and (later on) more considered piece, maybe? So, I'll be on here later whinging about too much coverage ...
― djh, Tuesday, 29 December 2015 20:43 (eight years ago) link
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/jan/08/alanis-morissette-to-be-guardian-weekends-new-advice-columnist
― Alba, Friday, 8 January 2016 13:02 (eight years ago) link
i don't want to hear one single joke about this.
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Friday, 8 January 2016 13:14 (eight years ago) link
Something good for a change:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/09/my-syrian-refugee-lodger-helen-pidd?CMP=twt_gu
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 9 January 2016 11:01 (eight years ago) link
Goes back to shit:
"David Cameron Leads Twitter Tributes"
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 11 January 2016 14:14 (eight years ago) link
At last some REAL front-page news!!!
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jan/19/twitter-down-over-web-and-mobile
― Liebe ist kälter als der Todmorden (Branwell with an N), Tuesday, 19 January 2016 09:13 (eight years ago) link
how will they get their stories now???
― The Male Gaz Coombes (Neil S), Tuesday, 19 January 2016 09:14 (eight years ago) link
The financial losses reported last week were brutal. I think they're planning to announce severe cuts later this month, though some of them are likely to be to the ambitious plans around arts venues etc. The report also pointed out that the Mail Online is also running at a loss despite being the most popular news site in the world by a mile so idk what the solution is.
― On a Raqqa tip (ShariVari), Tuesday, 19 January 2016 09:39 (eight years ago) link
The problem is that the world is not financially sustainable.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 19 January 2016 10:20 (eight years ago) link
xp the Popbitch website of all places posted a p interesting how-your-sausages-are-made thing about the Mail website - think this is from 2014 but I doubt they've markedly shored things up since: http://popbitch.com/articles/Profits_Of_Doom.html
― Skaciety (pronounced the way you'd pronounce society) (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 19 January 2016 10:40 (eight years ago) link