[a3n]

This page made my laptop scream. It never stopped trying to load something. I run ABP, perhaps that's the "fault?"

I also tried to find a sensible place to point that out to the BBC, but nothing was obviously (to me) the right place.

[teh_klev]

Forget trying to report technical faults to the BBC, every road leads to obfuscation, misdirection and frustration. They don't provide support for anything or anyone. This includes TV License payers. They even discontinued what little real time interaction they had with viewers when they abandoned the iPlayer forums a few years back.

Even if you do manage to report "something", it takes them weeks to respond, if at all.

I rarely consume BBC products and services these days, and after the Scottish Independence referendum I no longer trust them as a competent news source. They're a bit of a running joke to many folks in Scotland, especially news and affairs output from Pacific Quay (BBC Scotland) [0][1].

0: http://www.bbc.scotlandshire.co.uk/

1: http://newsnet.scot/citizen/

[Retra]

You could try using Ghostery (https://www.ghostery.com/en/.) For me the page loads slower than most, but not problematically so.

[cpncrunch]

Seems to work fine on my MBP. I'm just annoyed by the dumb parallax scrolling which covers up the title when you're trying to read it. Parallax was cool on Amigas in the 80s, but today in web pages it's just flashy and annoying.

[ghostly_s]

No issues here in Firefox. I even disabled uBlock Origin and didn't notice any issue. Not about to allow flash, though...

[serve_yay]

I wish every HN link had a separate comments section where people bitch about the page the news was served on.

[ashmud]

Without JS enabled on FF39, it looks like a nice WAP-era mobile page.

[recursive]

I'm not running any ad blocking, and had a similar experience.