BBC Messageboards Bookmarklet

I’ve created a bookmarklet for use with the BBC’s new messageboard system (which currently includes Points of View, 6 Music and 1xtra, although it’ll eventually replace all their cranky old messageboards). The bookmarklet enables you to ’subscribe’ and ‘unsubscribe’ to threads, which can then be tracked via your ’space’ on one of the sites (see mine).

Get me.

Comments

  1. currybetdotnet says:
    July 3, 2005 at 8:22 pm

    Brilliant Bookmarklet For The BBC’s New Message Boards

    At the moment the BBC is in the process of moving all of the messageboards on the site from the out-dated, clunky and very broken howerd2 system, to the DNA software the BBC bought when it acquired h2g2 back in 2001. One of the strengths, and problems, of DNA is that it is very complex and feature rich. Each of the different skins the sites powered by DNA use implement different subsets of the functionality….

  2. Andrew B says:
    July 4, 2005 at 8:55 am

    Great stuff!

  3. Dave Royal says:
    August 27, 2006 at 1:16 pm

    Neat – but (obviously) only works if I’m logged in. Any way to make it visibly fail if I’m not?

    Dave

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