Devon Live Avis 

Worst news website ever. Impossible to read any article through to the end. Too many ads, too many pop ups and too many misleading headlines to lead you down a rabbit hole.
Too much cut and paste.

I'm a web developer & designer & now use this website as my example of 'worst ever'. So much is going on and loading & blocking your view, you can't ever actually see or read the content. With such a large amount of ads, things are constantly loading, which causes the page to jump around as well, while you try to read it. As I actually do need to read the content here from time to time, it is the only website where I ever turn on 'reader view'. This does actually help & allows you to focus on the article.

Regarding the actual journalism though, I just read a completely useless clickbait article titled "Tesla Driver describes 'Terrible' journey 270 round trip to Devon". Curious to see what was terrible about it, I read a whole article about how everything went fine, ending with this statement:

Summing up the 'terrible' journey, James concluded: "So what was terrible about my journey? Absolutely nothing about the driving or charging experience." He then went on to say everything was completely fine.

If this is the approach they are going to take to writing and naming articles, what is the actual point of the site? This is the crappest news article I have ever read.

Pop up Ads, Gutter Press...

Pop up boxes repeatedly jumping up, screen moves, pop up videos, virtually impossible to read an article without dismissing 35 adverts and signing in and accepting cookies 6 times. grrr

I want to report on the sensationalist, gratuitous reporting by Devon Live of the death of a man from an overdose on the Exeter Live page. Much of the detail given was not newsworthy but designed to titilate the readership. This is not the first time I have been struck by the poor quality of journalism shown by this news service.

To many adverts! Unable to read the article that interested me. Very poor website design.

Devon live is so annoying. I can't read an article without the screen being jerked around by adverts popping up like popcorn displacing the text...

Another woke article,this time about poor asylum seekers (they get three meals a day) saying that they are hungry.I would love three meals a day,can barely afford one.There is a very simple solution. Send them back to the safe country they left(hence saving them thousands of pounds) and tell them to feed themselves. We are a small country,and people here can't put food on the table. But we are supposed to feed,house and clothe them. Enough is enough,send them back.

This company think they can post peoples personal information, that’s not even necessary to be posted! They have no right, they’ve leaked my dads suicide yet no other paper has put a post up! Who do this company think they are? This Anita Merrit? She’s nasty vile and horrendous who posts stuff about suicide? My siblings have to live with what their farther did every day do you not think that is enough? No wonder they get bullied at school !!! Bunch of absolute muppets and evil!

Probably the worst news website in the world, written by stupid people for stupid people. Everything that is bad about this sad little country.

This website is awful.
- A completely biased comments section! Any remotely anti-Tory comment is immediately deactivated, yet they’re happy to publish misogynistic, misleading and crude content.
- Layout/functionality and the amount of advertising is shocking. Whoever designed the website needs to find a different career.

Absolutely appallingly literacy skills. Repetitive, grammar embarrassing who is employed to write these articles?

Very bad news site, Posts and spreads misinformation about animals and wildlife such as seagulls having bird flu without even checking facts or scientific evidence. This causes people to deliberately harm them which in tern costs wildlife rescues and charitys more money many of which are already struggling for funding.

With the storm currently raging I thought I would check Devon Live for an update, what a terrible site. Bombarded by adverts and very difficult to negotiate.
Next time I'll just tune into Radio Devon.

This Live sites appear to be full of articles which regurgitate Social media comments from either side of any perspective, if I wanted to know what ‘Dave’ from Plymouth thought I can waste my time in other unchecked uninformed and free for all platforms myself. (I don’t!)

And the site content generally is so crammed with click bait causing poor and apparently untested functionality it makes for a frustrating and ultimately very short lived experience!

Check your site as a user now and again would be my advice.

Devon has such a beautiful landscape BUT !!! Such a shame about all the very narrow lanes ( scratched car ) and very high dark badges!!!!!
You can not see any thing what so ever 🥴😳.
Unless you have a built in cherry picker 😣
Much rather travel to some where I can see views not dark hedges.

The almost total withdrawal by the BBC News in the southwest has left a vacuum which Devon Live tries to fill. Mostly it succeeds even if some of the content is questionable.

The articles though are poorly written and littered with spelling and grammatical errors suggesting that the journalists have very poor English skills, at times these errors can be quite funny and at other times very irritating.

The level of advertising makes the pages difficult to read, a good ad-blocker is essential, and most of the ads are puerile rubbish not intended for the British market so are a waste of time anyway.

But it fills a gap left by the withdrawal of the BBC from the southwest whose own pages rarely get changed now, sometimes going days without updating. If Devon Live could up their editorial standards they could become the top news agency in the area.