To wonder why nobody can do a news website that is a readable as the Daily fail without the shit reporting

[MellowAutumn]

Its constantly referenced here and I have to admit to using it as a quick read some mornings - Why is it so readable compared to say the BBC News site which I should love but is meh ? Or the Times site which I bloody pay for but again just does not hit the spot.

Can anyone who knows about these things explain why it is so appealing even though I hate the paper itself ?

LittleMilla - your Daily Mail reading MIL has a point; grapes are a major choking hazard for young children.

I have a love hate relationship with the Daily Mail. Love the app, ridiculous stories and completely hilarious comments section. Hate their politics!

I quite like it, but I still haven't worked out what a Kardashian is

I confess it's my go-to site for news but like others here I do try to read with a healthy degree of scepticism and follow up elsewhere, usually the Guardian.

Weirdly the Mail ipad app is rubbish compared to the phone one.

OP you should try Huffington Post.

Seriously some of you find the Mail website better than the BBC News?

BBC News has been my homepage since forever. The desktop and mobile sites are excellent.

I agree Huffington isn't bad either but for accuracy and impartiality the BBC wins hands down.

Bbc has no ducking content - I don't want videos , I have a tv , I like to read my news.

yep, too many videos on the BBC and the articles are just too brief.

The BBC magazine articles are good but I usually have to follow some tortuous maze of links to find them. The news stories are too brief and don't have enough emotional/personal content (actually not that I think the BBC should do that, but it makes it just for headlines to me). I don't read bullshit or celeb stories on the DM but I like the fact they have lots of photos (e.g. extreme weather stories have dozens of often great pictures) and they mix fashion and beauty articles in well.

Can't stand the videos on the BBC website. I can't watch a video at work and they don't work on my mobile. I want to read, not watch!

When it comes to news stories I want to read a bit of everything, politics, business, international, local, science, lifestyle, gossip. Quite often I will read the same story on the BBC, guardian, daily mail and huffington post, to see the facts (as the journalist see them!!) from different viewpoints.

The BBC used to be my homepage too, but they ruined it when they hid everything away.

This has just made me realise though, that it's not just news websites I dont like where they hide stuff away. I hate any website where there's not a view all option for dresses for example. I hate having to click through too many categories to find what I want, then click back again and into the next category and so on. I like to see as many as possible on one page so I can quickly peruse and make my selection.

Huffington Post is so slow to load though, US site is good, UK one is terrible.

Anyone reading the Daily Hate Mail, print or online, is like a teenage boy buying a girlie mag - he knows he should not really but he just can't resist it.

The difference is that most of those teenage boys will stop, it will just be a phase they went through, whereas Mail reading seems to be a habit that sticks once you get into it.

It was easy to support the Blackshirts in the 1930s (as the Daily Mail did) as it is to read the Daily Mail today. That does not make it a good thing.

It is incredibly readable. It's fast food of journalism.

So easy to access, the images down the side are one click away. No one likes scrolling through and getting lost in mazes. BBC is more a traditional site than one tailored for quick fast online reading.

I don't understand why the proper news outlets- BBc etc, don't just copy the DM layout but obviously stick to the news. The DM site is so easy to navigate, so it's the easiest place to get the headlines. ( I then go on other websites to check the facts)

I continually try to give it up but it is my office equivalent of a smoke break and I just can't help hate-reading it. The sensationalism and the comments are worth it alone though.

A good alternative is the Huffington Post for the online content.