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RE: BBC Website - James2001 - 29-07-2023
Still doesn't really make the current expansion a story of national interest though, apart from maybe a warning to other authorities thinking of introducing one to have a more measured introduction to give people more time to replace non compliant cars, especially during a cost of living crisis where the price of used cars have rocketed (I've seen far too many people say "they can get a decent compliant car for a grand or so"- they've clearly not looked at the price of used cars recently)- I think that's the main reason it's been so headline grabbing.
RE: BBC Website - Stu - 29-07-2023
Personally I only think it really became such a big story was because there happened to be a by election around the same time... If there hadn't been, I doubt it would have reached the levels it did.
But, as an aside, I do think there is a general lack of knowledge/understanding around ULEZ - most petrol cars from 2006 are free of charge in ULEZ zones, and you really can pick up compliant cars for under £1,000. In Outer London, over 90% of cars are compliant anyway. But they are damned if they do and damned if they don't.
RE: BBC Website - James2001 - 29-07-2023
Well, you CAN pick up compliant cars for less than £1000, but they'll likely be 15-20 years old and with 100,000+ miles on the clock that's likely not been maintained very well and you're therefore taking a risk that you're not going to have to spend a lot of money and time in the garage to fix problems, if it doesn't die and fall off the road entirely after a short period of time. That's why I said you're looking for around £3,000 minimum these days for something that's likely to be reliable and last. I had to replace my car earlier this year, and it really was a challenge to find something close to affordable that wasn't from a questionable dealer or look like it was about to rust off the road, in the end I still had to pay over £5,000 for a nearly 10 year old Nissan Micra with 60,000 on the clock.
While ULEZ isn't a bad thing, more than 9 months notice was needed for people who needed to replace their cars
RE: BBC Website - W. Knight - 31-07-2023
As a fellow user, overwhelmed to see the Beeb experimenting outside of Twitter/X!
Quote:As the social media landscape ebbs and flows, the team at BBC Research & Development are researching social technologies and exploring possibilities for the BBC. One part of our work is to establish a BBC presence in the distributed collection of social networks known as the Fediverse, a collection of social media applications all linked together by common protocols. The most common software used in this area is Mastodon, a Twitter-like social networking service with around 2 million active monthly users. We are now running an experimental BBC Mastodon server at https://social.bbc where you can follow some of the BBC’s social media accounts, including BBC R&D, Radio 4 and 5 Live. We hope to be able to add more accounts from other areas of the BBC at some point.From https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2023-07-mastodon-distributed-decentralised-fediverse-activitypub
https://social.bbc/@BBCRD/110808429680242963
RE: BBC Website - Keith - 01-08-2023
(31-07-2023, 05:53 PM)W. Knight Wrote: As a fellow user, overwhelmed to see the Beeb experimenting outside of Twitter/X!I guess they've seen how drastically Twitter can change within a few weeks. There's also the changes made to verified status in recent months, which means a lot of their accounts may no longer have a blue/yellow tick unless they pay for it. From what I understand of how their Mastodon server is configured it means that only their own chosen accounts can use 'social.bbc', which instantly makes it easy to identify genuine accounts.
From https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2023-07-mastodon-distributed-decentralised-fediverse-activitypub
https://social.bbc/@BBCRD/110808429680242963
As a side note the renaming of Twitter to X is potentially going to date some repeats, where programmes (e.g. Bargain Hunt) specifically use an onscreen caption promoting their twitter account. It's perhaps one advantage of programmes that opt to use a hashtag instead, which I guess is possibly also preferred when a programmes is redistributed to other channels/countries.
RE: BBC Website - James2001 - 02-08-2023
With Elon rapidly destroying Twitter, I don't think they have much choice but to look for other options.
RE: BBC Website - JAS84 - 03-08-2023
(01-08-2023, 10:29 AM)Keith Wrote: I guess they've seen how drastically Twitter can change within a few weeks. There's also the changes made to verified status in recent months, which means a lot of their accounts may no longer have a blue/yellow tick unless they pay for it. From what I understand of how their Mastodon server is configured it means that only their own chosen accounts can use 'social.bbc', which instantly makes it easy to identify genuine accounts.On screen captions can easily be edited. It'd be trickier if a presenter actually said "follow us on Twitter".
As a side note the renaming of Twitter to X is potentially going to date some repeats, where programmes (e.g. Bargain Hunt) specifically use an onscreen caption promoting their twitter account. It's perhaps one advantage of programmes that opt to use a hashtag instead, which I guess is possibly also preferred when a programmes is redistributed to other channels/countries.
RE: BBC Website - IanJRedman - 03-08-2023
Is anyone apart from X actually calling Twitter "X"? I'm normally very hot on keeping up to date with the correct names, but everyone I know is sticking with "Twitter" and I can't say I disagree. X just feels wrong on every level.
RE: BBC Website - Spencer - 03-08-2023
(03-08-2023, 01:36 PM)IanJRedman Wrote: Is anyone apart from X actually calling Twitter "X"? I'm normally very hot on keeping up to date with the correct names, but everyone I know is sticking with "Twitter" and I can't say I disagree. X just feels wrong on every level.I heard Tom Bradby say you could “follow the latest developments overnight on X” the other night. I’m still not sure whether he was talking about Twitter or ITVX’s news service.
RE: BBC Website - James2001 - 03-08-2023
(03-08-2023, 01:36 PM)IanJRedman Wrote: Is anyone apart from X actually calling Twitter "X"? I'm normally very hot on keeping up to date with the correct names, but everyone I know is sticking with "Twitter" and I can't say I disagree. X just feels wrong on every level.
Not least because calling it that is legitimising Musk and what he's doing to the platform, which I outright refuse to do.