My God, but that BBC site is clunky and slow and hard to navigate. Quite how the Mudcat, on a fraction of the budget they must have to pay for that site, can manage to be so much better technically, is very hard to understand.

That's quite aside from issues of content - though obviously the ease of navigation, which makes it easy to keep tracks of a large number of threads, does affectr how people use the Mudcat and shape it. "The medium is the message."

I've never yet come across a site to come anywhere near touching the Mudcat when it comes to things like that. Yes I've found a few where there is interesting content, but I just can't feel at ease with getting round them in the same way.