Rural Press actually do know the CT has a website

To give credit to the Canberra Times website it has improved over the years. However this site is by far the best for local news.

I think you’re a really beautiful guy, johnboy, and I want you to know that I don’t believe for a moment those rumours your ex has been spreading about you!

Maybe you need to use the “Submit News” link right on the top of every damn page to get there first?

Let me know when you figure out how to publish your own story on the Canberra Times site you idiot.

sorry to be a snag in the self-congratulatory flow, bros, but I’ve found RiotACT the most difficult (expletive deleted) site to use I’ve ever come across (but I don’t pretend to be technically minded). Like, the explanatory material says that when you want to make a post you hit “publish”! I can’t see “publish” anwhere!

Having not bought a CT in oh about 10 years, I can see that whilst these days the CT might have flashes of competence (re: jb’s comment) it is still by and large shite… guess it’ll be another decade before I buy one.

After my praise of the revamped email, they had to go screw it up today by leaving yesterday’s page and cartoon in…

However I think the back page of the first section was both cogent and insightful.

My view of the dead tree version was confirmed by today’s issue where the headline front page is an opinion piece screeching about the sky falling because of global warming caused by evil humans and how we’ll all be rooned in 10 years.

Apart from the fact that the whole thing was shite, why present some opinion piece as news that is worthy of the front page? And worse, it was just an article lifted straight from The Independent.

If this what is is to be served up as “news” then any changes to the on-line version while be a waste of time – it’ll still be full of shite.

I get their daily email bulletin, and the first one for 2007 is a vast improvement over what I used to get. Good layout, embedded front page, photos. Much like other papers around the country have been doing for a few years now. So perhaps they are seeing the light?
But on the subject of CT incompetence, a few weeks ago I said OK to a trial 5 week subscription for $10 they were hawking outside Magnet Mart. It ran out middle of last week, although I didn’t realise the trial was up and rang to report no paper delivered. I said to the person I was surprised no-one had called to advise it was about to happen and she said the telemarketing team were all on holidays. So how well organised is that? Gives me time before being asked to resubscribe to get used to NOT being semi-woken by the delivery vehicle roaring up our street at 3AM every morning.

Another interesting experience to the trial was you get a phone number to call if your paper hasn’t been delivered by 6AM. I called to report this once at 6.30AM, but then the paper was delivered some time after that (so we got 2 that day). The next morning the delivery guy roars up the street, tosses out the paper and sings out “fucking liar!” and roars off…

the CT website is a disgrace. It is useless, and not even worth going to for any reason. It’s even worse than the paper CT.
I suspect the SMH is more read (in paper and online) in Canberra than the CT.

I cannot fathom why, in this age, the CT continues to run such an awful website.

I didn’t know the rural press was part of Fairfax.