Changes to the Radio 4 messageboards
At lunchtime today I was interviewed on the weekly Radio 4 programme Feedback for an item that covered recent changes to the design of the Radio 4 message boards. /dna/mbradio4/ After the forums were updated last Wednesday afternoon, various threads were started by users upset with the changes and several users emailed the programme frustrated with a number of bugs and overall how the new board was working. The interview was pretty brief so I've tried to summarise. Here are the points that I discussed with Roger:
Why did you make these changes?
The change in look finally brings the messageboards in line with other pages on ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Online. The pages have been simplified and several new features such as 'sticky threads' - which users and hosts had been asking for - have been introduced. I scheduled the work for Radio 4 as part of a change that's been going on across all the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ's messageboards over a number of weeks.
Jem Stone is Executive Producer, Social Media at ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Audio & Music
Read more, listen to the interview and comment on the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio blog