The Mail Online is the best source of news period.

SuperInfinity · 26-01-2011 09:16PM #1

There I've said it.

Everything is laid out so perfectly well, you can click on what you want. I think it is both the most enjoyable and optimal way of consuming news. As well as that, they have almost all the important articles from their actual paper. The comments section is excellent as well, and in particular where you can see the thumbs up or thumbs down of other readers.

All of this makes it better than the Daily Mail itself or any print paper.

Sometimes they have a "slant" on things, but unlike other tabloids they aren't that sensational or have Jesus walking around Bristol type stories. And they're often more reliable than some of the broadsheets.

I feel sorry for the Mail having such an amazing online paper when they don't get paid anything except a little advertising for it. This is why on the odd occasion I'll actually buy the Daily Mail, but I'm sorry.... the website is just so good.

squod · 26-01-2011 09:17PM

Whats the bird on page 3 like?

26-01-2011 09:18PM

News period?
Sounds yucky

Thomas_S_Hunterson · 26-01-2011 09:20PM

The website may be the best in the world but at the end of the day, you're reading The Daily MFail.

easyeason3 · 26-01-2011 09:21PM

As fictional reading goes then yes, the mail can be good.

oppenheimer1 · 26-01-2011 09:23PM

Well between it and the Sunday Independent it appears to be the only source for news on boards.ie

mikemac · 26-01-2011 09:24PM

I love reading the outrage in the comments section

You can pick any story and the comments will be full of shock and rage

4zn76tysfajdxp · 26-01-2011 09:27PM

SuperInfinity wrote: »

There I've said it.

Everything is laid out so perfectly well, you can click on what you want. I think it is both the most enjoyable and optimal way of consuming news. As well as that, they have almost all the important articles from their actual paper. The comments section is excellent as well, and in particular where you can see the thumbs up or thumbs down of other readers. All of this makes it better than the Daily Mail itself or any print paper.

Sometimes they have a "slant" on things, but unlike other tabloids they aren't that sensational or have Jesus walking around Bristol type stories. And they're often more reliable than some of the broadsheets.

I feel sorry for the Mail having such an amazing online paper when they don't get paid anything except a little advertising for it. This is why on the odd occasion I'll actually buy the Daily Mail, but I'm sorry.... the website is just so good.

Every single word in that post is untrue and a complete fallacy. You should write for the Mail.

steddyeddy · 26-01-2011 09:36PM

The mail are one of the biggest funders of yeti finding expiditions

baltimore sun · 26-01-2011 09:52PM

laid out well?
Bah! Shows how much attention you paid in art/tech drawing, it looks like a dog's dinner that's been barfed back up onto a plate of bad sauerkraut,
Irish Times has a nice website, so does Breaking News (not a paper I know but good for news), of the English papers, I'd reckon The Guardian and The Telegraph are the best, but the Telegraph is terrible conservative.

bonerm · 26-01-2011 09:58PM

I like how they frequently name the street the subject of their article lives on and then compound matters by having them posing right outside their home meaning I (or anyone else for that matter) can locate precisely where they live.

SEPT 23 1989 · 26-01-2011 10:04PM

The Mail is the only independent news outlet in this country

Superbus · 26-01-2011 10:10PM

Did they promise you sex for this? Because they have a tendency to renege on promises like that.

Just don't get your hopes up.

Pace2008 · 26-01-2011 10:18PM

Obvious trolling attempt is obvious.

Dotsie~tmp · 26-01-2011 10:23PM

I'd be lying if I said I didnt click those salacious little square stories on the right hand side from time to time

. Still a rag though like most of em.

SuperInfinity · 26-01-2011 10:23PM

baltimore sun wrote: »

laid out well?
Bah! Shows how much attention you paid in art/tech drawing, it looks like a dog's dinner that's been barfed back up onto a plate of bad sauerkraut,
Irish Times has a nice website, so does Breaking News (not a paper I know but good for news), of the English papers, I'd reckon The Guardian and The Telegraph are the best, but the Telegraph is terrible conservative.

What the hell are you on about? Like I could give a **** what your art/tech drawing class said. Surely what matters is how a person can view it???

As if your art/tech drawing class could show you the "correct" way of laying out a website, are you off your rocker or what...

baltimore sun · 26-01-2011 10:40PM

SuperInfinity wrote: »

What the hell are you on about? Like I could give a **** what your art/tech drawing class said. Surely what matters is how a person can view it???

As if your art/tech drawing class could show you the "correct" way of laying out a website, are you off your rocker or what...

I was talking about your teachers :rolleyes:
of course there's a correct way to design a site, would you put the About page on the top of a news website? Nope. What about the Terms & Conditions? Would you also like to put that in a sidebar? Naw, you'd stick them at the bottom, ergo there is actually a "correct" way to design a website. You would also stick the title on at the top and the links to other sections very close to that, usually a nav bar either beneath or over the title of the website.

The Mail's site is too busy/cluttered. Their choice of using a dark blue for headlines with a lighter shade of blue for the subheads is quite silly.
While the site is quite east to navigate the landing page is far too long, to get to the bottom of the page you need to turn the mouse 5 or 6 times or press Page Down over 20 times.

But it's got loads of pictures and the Mails target market like pictures

Up de Barrs · 26-01-2011 10:41PM

"Secret disease carried by foreigners causes house prices to fall" - ultimate Daily Mail headline.

raymann · 26-01-2011 10:41PM

its a guilty pleasure of mine. i go down the home page doing open in new tab to all the pages that interest me.

i think you need to take your news from a variety of sources, as they all have their agenda.

read their review of kick ass though if you want a laugh. talk about hysterical overreaction.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/reviews/article-1262948/Kick-Ass-Dont-fooled-hype--This-crime-cinema-twisted-cynical-revels-abuse-childhood.html

SuperInfinity · 26-01-2011 10:43PM

Get the hell out of my topic and my internets baltimore sun, total idiot nonsense. Thanks for the replies by other posters.

coonecb1 · 26-01-2011 10:46PM

The only use I find for it is if I want to look at fresh pictures of Kerry Katona's cleavage.

Other than that I take it's news content with a pinch of salt. It is quite right-leaning after all.

26-01-2011 10:48PM

Ah, yeah, Daily Mail, they have a history of backing the wrong horse:

Daily Mail, 10 July 1933 wrote:

"I urge all British young men and women to study closely the progress of the Nazi regime in Germany. They must not be misled by the misrepresentations of its opponents. The most spiteful distracters of the Nazis are to be found in precisely the same sections of the British public and press as are most vehement in their praises of the Soviet regime in Russia. They have started a clamorous campaign of denunciation against what they call "Nazi atrocities" which, as anyone who visits Germany quickly discovers for himself, consists merely of a few isolated acts of violence such as are inevitable among a nation half as big again as ours, but which have been generalized, multiplied and exaggerated to give the impression that Nazi rule is a bloodthirsty tyranny."

Ehhhhhhh..........

baltimore sun · 26-01-2011 10:49PM

SuperInfinity wrote: »

Get the hell out of my topic and my internets baltimore sun, total idiot nonsense. Thanks for the replies by other posters.

Charming :rolleyes: I bid you good day squire

xxshebeexx · 26-01-2011 10:52PM

I quite like the layout too.. for a quick browse, it's so much better than the Independent or Breaking News!

26-01-2011 10:57PM

This thread reminds me of the "OK, so the Nazis were a teensy bit evil.......but weren't they impeccably dressed!? So fab!" thread.

Who the f*clk cares what they looked like. they were Nazis. *Points gun at Nazi. -BANG-* Now it's a good looking Nazi.

barbiegirl · 26-01-2011 11:02PM

It's my guilty pleasure too especially the femail and showbiz sections. They never publish my comments though I think i'm too Irish, working woman, centre minded for them :-)

AnonoBoy · 26-01-2011 11:02PM

A polished turd is still a turd.

markesmith · 26-01-2011 11:05PM

It's no Weekly World News

parker kent · 26-01-2011 11:06PM

feelingstressed wrote: »

I love reading the outrage in the comments section

You can pick any story and the comments will be full of shock and rage

I particularly love when they say "What would Princess Di think?".

th3 s1aught3r · 26-01-2011 11:07PM

SuperInfinity wrote: »

There I've said it.

Sometimes they have a "slant" on things, but unlike other tabloids they aren't that sensational or have Jesus walking around Bristol type stories. And they're often more reliable than some of the broadsheets.

They seem to appeal to the reactionary , hang em high mob with quite provocotive headlines. They also have quite a racist slant to their stories when they can

AnonoBoy · 26-01-2011 11:21PM

th3 s1aught3r wrote: »

They seem to appeal to the reactionary , hang em high mob with quite provocotive headlines. They also have quite a racist slant to their stories when they can

They love a bit of not-so-subtle homophobia too.

G'wan Jan Moir!

The Mail Online is the best source of news period.

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