I occasionaly come across references to the Huffing Post and wonder how the SDMB members feel about it.
Do you like it?
Do you not like it?
Why?
I read it often and enjoy it, but I do get annoyed with the way their front page links just take you to another page where you have to find the story’s link again and click. Just an annoying way of multiplying their pageviews for advertisers.
I read it if has an interesting article. It’s more of a “Gotcha!” tabloid than a self-respecting newspaper. Still, they’ll run stories other media outlets won’t and I respect them for that.
I mostly know it as a haven for the left’s favorite types of woo and pseudoscience.
And then it has lots of politics/editorials/goofy news bits that I’m not interested in reading.
They’ve got to be making a fortune on the ads. I often just give up (especially if I’m using my phone) never actually reaching the page I wanted to read because of all the ads that must load and load and load…
I visit regularly as it covers a very wide spectrum of material that I would have to track down if they hadn’t aggregated it.
However, I find it’s tendency to “tabloid” style headlines extremely annoying.
I hear that complaint too, but, I don’t ever see that stuff on the front page so it doesn’t hit my radar.
How many havens does the right wing have?
I run adblock and don’t see all that many ads.
I will agree that navigation could be improved.
Several years ago, just after they started, I began reading HuffPo, and really enjoyed it. Like others, I appreciated the links from many other news sources, as well as the blogs.
But it seemed to me they began putting too many (for my taste) frivolous entertainment stories on the front page alongside the hard news stories. For example, I just pulled up HuffPo, and here are some examples headlines of the hard news:
See, I’d be interested in reading those stories, so they’re the pros.
The cons? Bullshit like this on the front page:
Now sure, people are interested in that sort of thing; that’s why tabloids sell at the checkout line. And if that’s what people want to read, I have no problem with that (actually, I say that’s their problem, but I won’t try to stop them). I’m just speaking for myself, and in my opinion, HuffPo has gone too far in the stupid news area. I prefer harder news and look to ThinkProgress, TPM Muckraker, as well as more traditional sites like the BBC and others for news.
Far more than there ought to be :p.
My favorite thing about HuffPo is that even though most of the links I see from there end up at stories that are about videos, they tend to describe the video in detail or even transcribe it. Lots of places you have to watch the video and that sucks.
I don’t explicitly read HuffPo but I get a lot of links to it. It seems like they are becoming increasingly unbelievable.
I glance at it every once in a while. They have some interesting stories, but they’re also like the Drudge Report of the left, so you have to take some of their more outrageous headlines with a grain, if not an entire bushel, of salt.
It used to be one of the ugliest, (aesthetically) worst-designed sites on the Web—but now, so many sites have adopted the same horrendous “billboard diarrhea” layout that it doesn’t even stand out anymore. I still think it’s obnoxious, though.
I hate the way it’s designed, but they do have interesting articles from time to time.
I read stories there occasionally when facebook friends link to them, but I almost never go there otherwise. There’s too much visual clutter to wade through.
Or when SDMB friends link to them (we hope).
I check it out every week or so and usually enjoy a couple articles, but I’d never use it to get my daily news. I consider myself pretty liberal, but Huff Post is a little TOO liberal for my taste. Sometimes I think to myself “Oh now I get it. Those conservatives think we’re ALL LIKE THIS. No wonder they don’t like us.” And as others have mentioned, there’s often a lot of borderline woo in certain sections.
I don’t understand this though I’ve heard it before. I’m right of center and like the paper. It doesn’t strike me as having an overly liberal bias, even in the political reporting.
I used to really like it and didn’t understand why many people didn’t. Lately, though, I’m sick of the difficulty in navigating the damn thing. Quite often, I click on a headline and absolutely cannot find the story referenced in the headline. And I’m beginning to really dislike the way they include multiple stories under one headline. I think I’m gonna stop patronizing the thing due to all the clutter.