Barbados Advocate Website Down Again Today

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Seems like the Barbados Advocate is having technical challenges with
its new website again today. It is great that you can read the entire
paper online especially if you are overseas and can't get access to a
print edition but it becomes cumbersome trying to link to and/or share
articles as the pages are basically all Jpegs. Probably it's the
weight of all those jpegs that finally crashed the server.

Talking about linking and sharing I am sure none of The Nation's
online readers appreciated how they also recently in one swoop made
all of the links people had created to their articles completly
worthless with the new edition of their website. Not that both the
Advocate and The Nation have not done this before, but one would think
that by now these papers should have understood how the Internet is
suppose to work. It is a way of finding and linking every single
document that was ever created. If you are going to "upgrade" your
newspaper website and it is not backwards compatible with all your
database of past articles and you also provide your readers no way to
access those past articles, then clearly either you do not value your
readers or you need to hire a new IT team.

This blogger's advice to readers sharing articles from either the
Barbados Advocate or The Nation is to copy and paste the entire
article citing its source somewhere so that due credit is given. In
that way, whenever these offending papers choose to "downgrade" their
websites again your copy would still be safe.