What websites do you visit every day?

[Kat Haylock]

And what keeps you going back?

Increasingly I'm finding that sites I always enjoyed have moved towards clickbait-style headlines or have changed their content strategy to "so-and-so said this on Twitter earlier"

I rarely use Facebook anymore (seems to just be a lot of videos and ads), which two years ago was probably where I spent most of my time online. I like Wired for their tech stories, The Outline for their long reads and Netflix for when I want to lose most of my evening.

Is there anything you've stuck with for a couple of years, or does it chop and change? Obviously let's exclude UKBF from this, because I know it's your number 1 destination. Oh AND let's keep it clean please, to our more smutty-minded members

 

[Ian J]

BBC
Cricinfo
Startups
My football club's fans forum
Twitter
Facebook
LinkedIn

BBC, Cricinfo and My footie club's forum should be self evident why I visit.

Twitter as I follow two or three gin distillers and I can find out what's new and good

LinkedIn I feel obliged to look in on occasionally although it's more like a bunfight and self promotion fest

Facebook I keep restricted to a handful of friends and overseas family so I can watch my young relatives growing up. I don't waste time reading the same shares on everyone's page though

 

[Alan]

Interestingly I visit Facebook now more often than I used to, I used to frequent Linked In groups but they became infused with links to blog posts - but I find the 'professional' groups on Facebook well moderated.
So good moderation is key to any community, point for UKBF to remember.

Obviously there are a whole group of 'transactional' websites ( banking, email, monitoring etc ) but I'm excluding those as they are specific to individual needs / businesses.

 

[fisicx]

theregister (IT news)
clicky (website stats)
large-ladies-wresling-in-jello.com (sports site - not smutty at all)

 

[Kat Haylock]

Twitter as I follow two or three gin distillers and I can find out what's new and good

I can't believe I've never thought to do this

 

[UKSBD]

I don't even know what the site (or if it's a website even) is that I visit most often.
It's what appears when opening a new tab in IE
I think it's the MSN feed

 

[KM-Tiger]

What's facebook?

But seriously, apart from UKBF, Twitter and Guido Fawkes are where I get news from.

 

[TotalWebSolutions]

LinkedIn
Google
Our own
Various acquiring bank partners (for their portals)
Facebook (in the evening)
Domain White Pages

Simon (that's me - not a website)

 

[Mercyel]

Google (Gmail of course, G+, Google Drive, Map..)
Dailymail
Facebook
Twitter
Reddit
Hacker News
Youtube
Quora
Slack

Apparently Google really does own my life

 

[MikeJ]

I don't even know what the site (or if it's a website even) is that I visit most often.
It's what appears when opening a new tab in IE
I think it's the MSN feed

You know you can change your home page?

 

[UKSBD]

Not the homepage, the new tab page.
Do you use IE?

 

[Ian J]

Not the homepage, the new tab page.
Do you use IE?

I do. If I understand you correctly you need to click on Tools then Manage Add Ons and you can change things from there

 

[UKSBD]

I know how to do it

It's my favourite page though, so why would I change it

When I said it's my most visited, I didn't mean by accident, it's my favourite website/page/feed and the one I visit most often.

 

[UKSBD]

I do. If I understand you correctly you need to click on Tools then Manage Add Ons and you can change things from there

It's in tools, Internet options, tabs
I have mine set to show the news feed

 

[MikeJ]

Not the homepage, the new tab page.
Do you use IE?

Occasionally (Sky's online service doesn't run under Chrome).
Under Internet Options/Tabs there's a "when a new tab is opened" drop down. You can set that to "your first home page", or "a blank page".

 

[MikeJ]

Note to self. Read the rest of a thread before replying.

 

[Clinton]

Various news sites - on the political left and right
Various financial & economics news sites
Zerohedge - "On a long enough timeline the survival rate for everyone drops to zero"
Various business for sale and business broker websites
LinkedIn
Spamcop - I submit all "spam" that gets through my detection filters (and emails that I simply don't like).

I diligently avoid sites like the below (or clean myself of all cookies after I've been to them):
Google (and Google services)
Microsoft and MS services (including Outlook)
Facebook (on rare occasions because some idiot decided to host his business site at FB rather than on an independent domain)

Sites I'd like to visit more often:
Reddit and TheRegister
Salty Droid - the nightmare site for internet marketers (and other scammers )
KrebsOnSecurity - an IT/online security site
The sometimes quite funny legal site, RollOnFriday
And if you want a laugh and are on an untrusted free wifi somewhere, there's always Shodan

 

[Ian J]

Spamcop - I submit all "spam" that gets through my detection filters (and emails that I simply don't like).

Me too but I've no idea if it does any good or not

 

[Scott-Copywriter]

The only site I visit on a regular basis without fail is BBC News.

It's one of the very few news sites out there where the left/right bias isn't annoyingly obvious.

And before anyone comes along and tells me that I'm missing some blindingly obvious bias - really, compared to most, it's not bad at all.

I honestly can't stand news publications that try to pander to political stances in such a conspicuous way that they almost wear it as a badge of honour - even if it's a political stance I'm fully on board with.

 

[JEREMY HAWKE]

when I'm not working I like to be away from work
everyday I visit
BBC
Runners world
Bad Left Hook !
East side Boxing
Ebay
UK Saabs I run a couple of these old cars !
Holiday companies ! That is very important !

 

[Ian J]

Holiday companies ! That is very important !

I forgot that from my list. I agree very important

 

[sirearl]

Obituaries.

 

[STDFR33]

AND let's keep it clean please, to our more smutty-minded members

That would be just UKBF then. The list would have been much, much longer without the imposed rule.

 

[EdSim]

The one website that I visit everyday is youtube,i spend a few good hours on it listening to music.

 

[billmccallum1957]

chess.com - still a novice at 60
pokerstars - for relaxing
youtube - mainly for music
facebook - for our business pages
BBC iPlayer

 

[Paul Norman]

Obituaries.

Me too. Mostly to check for my own, these days.

 

[Paul Norman]

I do not go on line everyday.

And when I do, it is primarily for my businesses, which I promote on the most obvious social media platforms. And elsewhere.

And then I dabble here, in the mistaken belief that I might accidentally say something useful.

 

[MOMARBLE]

Google, twitter, instagram, facebook and our official web

 

[Ashley_Price]

From my work PC:

Epicfail.com
Clientsfromhell.net
UKBF
Linkedin
Facebook (but mostly to message friends)

On my mobile, I also have several news source apps:

Sky News
The Guardian
Irish Independent
Irish Times
Plus "Squid" which gathers news from lots of different sources.

 

[Web Hosting UK]

BBC
Facebook
Youtube
Twitter
LinkedIn
Pintrest
Instagram
Reddit
Soundcloud

Mainly for getting social signals back to our website and promoting.

 

[Brook999]

Facebook, Instagram and dpreview.com

 

[maxbrainer]

I go to Google to search--Quora to blog--Wikipedia to validate and Netflix to relax

 

[Violinni]

And what keeps you going back?

Increasingly I'm finding that sites I always enjoyed have moved towards clickbait-style headlines or have changed their content strategy to "so-and-so said this on Twitter earlier"

I rarely use Facebook anymore (seems to just be a lot of videos and ads), which two years ago was probably where I spent most of my time online. I like Wired for their tech stories, The Outline for their long reads and Netflix for when I want to lose most of my evening.

Is there anything you've stuck with for a couple of years, or does it chop and change? Obviously let's exclude UKBF from this, because I know it's your number 1 destination. Oh AND let's keep it clean please, to our more smutty-minded members

I think I visit YouTube way too often. The information abundance inside is astonishing, and I watch it during my break, when I eat, when I’m waiting for something or someone, mostly all the time.

I also visit Google to search for random data, books and random info I need.

I think that’s about it.

 

[Jeff Nev]

BBC
The Guardian
The Daily Telegraph
Quora

 

[Clinton]

Does nobody here use any aggregation service like Feedspot to get all their favourite stuff together in one location?

 

[Clodbuster]

Facebook simply because of what happened in Zimbabwe, my friends and relatives are scattered around the world, on a trip to Oz and NZ last year stayed with friends in every major centre (Yup - cheapskate) and this is a very simple way to keep in touch.
BBC News
The Mail
Zimbabwe Situation.
Opposition websites.
Cricinfo when particular games are on.

 

[JamesWW]

As soon as I log on to my laptop, I load up my gmail, Google+ and Youtube as well as UKBF, the only thing is I find myself watching pointless vids on YT instead of work and I dont have facebook or twitter, but as I am just starting up everyone say I need too, but I just dont like them sites, so I might get someone else to do it for me

 

[bobby280]

BBC
Hotmail
Gmail
Facebook
Business and personal bank accounts
2 other financial institutions to check investments

 

[zed_uk]

BBC
BBC Sport
Sky Sports
Gmail
Twitter

That's it.

 

[davidjames9001]

After waking up first comes gmail then other sites like facebook, twitter for very less time then tech news websites.