ok, that's fine, just DONT tell me what happened.
yep, well there you go. another website goes live in the 21st century, accelerating the hyper-warp-speed of our already out of control universe. The need to condense everything to a "hi-light" or "headline", turning everything into a "tweet" or "status update" that can be summed up in 140 characters or less is a sham. It implies one of two things: that a) we don't care enough to devote time to it, or b) we simply don't have time to spend reading up on the details (or c) that we are mostly illiterate). I suppose such a format is useful for news outlets that may have only a moment to try to communicate critical news updates about what is going on in the world to its readership. But what is lost in doing so? A headline expresses a statement of fact, without rhyme or reason. It is because it is, and we don't care why or how it happened. Consider- can the most important moments of the day be summarized in 140 characters? Can that textual parameter even begin to convey the emotion, passion, power, and realism of said event? These are the things that I, and I would assume many others, looked forward to in turning to cyclingnews. The fact of hte matter is that, while other websites ARE turning to a much more concise form of reporting, I refuse to believe that it generates intrigue, as much as it fosters a superficial relationship between event and reader. Surprisingly, most of us turn to cyclingnews.com as a source of enjoyment. We love cycling enough to check back, in my case, a couple of times a day, to read up on the sport that we love. We shouldn't, frankly, be insulted by content editors that assume we don't care enough about our sport (the reason we visited this URL to begin with) to click once more to read a result with report and photos. That moment of anticipation... that "drum roll, please" moment was almost as exciting to me as watching the end of the stage unfold live. The headline under the old format (in the report) was big, bold, and illustrated. Now, the headline is buried on the front page in a non-descript, yet unavoidable batch of like stories. The perfect anti-climax. We are here to enjoy and try to experience the sport that we love. This is leisure time. Most of us don't need to be lured in by a glossy headline or flashy website. We're here because we care about the how and the why. We want to try to recreate the unfolding action, not bluntly clobbered over the head with it like illiterate space monkeys. And besides, the estimated time savings in the new format <10 secs.
and i think the format for displaying pictures sucks too.