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Yes, what on earth could the common link be on the DJs and Shows page?

If that is a rhetorical question: I know what the common link is, by I think it is not the best thing they could have come up with. It's confusing to see Tom Deacon in the same section as Westwood. Even though there is a common link.

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Why do they keep making everything so big? The chart show number 1 and the playlist page are ridiculous.

I'm not bloody blind!

The DJs and Shows page seems pretty messy compared to the previous one. It also doesn't make much sense as it doesn't follow the schedule order.

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True, Chart and playlist are a bit too big. What just comes to my mind: I also don't like the new schedule page that much. The old one with a table showing monday to sunday instead of just one day provided much better information. Maybe change the DJs and shows page into that direction?

Also, there's many colours in the top bit of the homepage. Orange, green, black, purple, the flash bit...a bit too much for my liking.

That said, if it sounds as if I hated it, I don't. Just some points I don't like that much.

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Surely they should have also changed Fearne's pic then as she does look different now, at least hair-wise.

OT: just been looking on there and they apparently had Elle McPherson and Anna Kournikova on recently.. guess whose show they were on, Vernoff Kay... expect more tabloid 'revelations' about texts etc is all I'm saying.

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The 1xtra logo looks pixelated for me. Although why it needs to be there I don't know, I've said it many times before and I'm sure its not the last: "If I Wanted To Listen To 1Xtra, I would listen to 1xtra". How is radio 1's page most accessed by typing the address or coming in from the BBC homepage or radio page? I tend to go in through the BBC homepage, and if you go in from there and the Radio page why is it needed? as you pick from the list of stations anyway. If I was to go to radio 2 you don't tend to get listen to 6music, so why does radio 1 focus so much on 1xtra?

I like the genres pages and the playlist page, although I'm not too sure on the homepage itself.

The navigation bar would look better if it mached the BBC navigation bar, and didn't have those lines on the page you are on.

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Well, apart from the link they always have to one on 6 Music's programmes on the Radio 2 homepage...

A box at the bottom which blends in with the page, advertising a specific show not a random clashing logo at the top with no explanation. But I was meaning in general not just on the website: you don't get 6 music simulcast or 'Like this visit us over on 1xtra' Or should I say 6music

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"If I Wanted To Listen To 1Xtra, I would listen to 1xtra"

yes, but when I'm on the R1 website, click on a link to the 1xtra site and it directs me there, I may be watching it for a few minutes, but then I want to go back! And it took so long to type in the whole R1 adress again. Now it's only a single click.

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A box at the bottom which blends in with the page, advertising a specific show not a random clashing logo at the top with no explanation. But I was meaning in general not just on the website: you don't get 6 music simulcast or 'Like this visit us over on 1xtra' Or should I say 6music

There's been quite a few 6 Music shows on Radio 2 in fact, and plenty of adverts for 6 Music too.

Not that it matters because the relationship between 2 and 6 is not meant to be the same as the relationship between 1 and 1Xtra.

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I think its great that Radio 1 are doing a live camera, but it really annoys me when there is a live video cam up all day, but nothing is ever on it! Its useless and pointless when all you end up seeing is the Radio 1 logo in some shape or form. Apart from Fearne Cotton, Feet Up Friday and Guests, noone uses it! Its a bit of a waste of my battery to be honest when it runs on flash and I hope there'll be something decent on, but there never is.

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I think its great that Radio 1 are doing a live camera, but it really annoys me when there is a live video cam up all day, but nothing is ever on it! Its useless and pointless when all you end up seeing is the Radio 1 logo in some shape or form. Apart from Fearne Cotton, Feet Up Friday and Guests, noone uses it! Its a bit of a waste of my battery to be honest when it runs on flash and I hope there'll be something decent on, but there never is.

I definitely agree.

Flash is a bit of a power hog, on my computer at least, so I only put it on when they mention they're doing something with it on air.

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I only put it on when they mention they're doing something with it on air.

That seems to be the only time they have the Livecam on anyways, don't think it's intended as a 24/7 thing. Bear in mind that when they tried livestreams from Festivals they regularly failed, I don't think they'd want to try anything like a constant video stream for a long time just yet.

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I definitely agree.

Flash is a bit of a power hog, on my computer at least, so I only put it on when they mention they're doing something with it on air.

Its the same on mine - i've got one of those new macbooks which are meant to have like 7 hours of battery - but on flash it's more 4-5 hours.

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my macbook pro does 4-5 using flash as well, although you can really push it up by turning stuff off on them... like bluetooth, if that goes on you can kiss goodbye to an hour....

I wish they had the livefeed just running so you could watch the presenters presenting. It would fascinate my geeky side.

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my macbook pro does 4-5 using flash as well, although you can really push it up by turning stuff off on them... like bluetooth, if that goes on you can kiss goodbye to an hour....

I wish they had the livefeed just running so you could watch the presenters presenting. It would fascinate my geeky side.

You're not the only one. I really can't understand why you can see the presenters in the studio on a still cam, but the live camera you can only ever see on the Radio 1 logo! Its ridiculous, and they havent done any visual radio for an age now.

And i've turned my bluetooth off on my macbook pro too, did it two months ago and realised that it stayed on for another hour!!

Mind you I cant complain if i'm getting 8 hours without flash, not many other laptops have that. Worth the 1,499£ !!

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