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Why was there no beta site for users, as there was with the new version of the BBC iPlayer?

April 26, 2017BBC beta iplayer site Users version

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Why was there no beta site for users, as there was with the new version of the BBC iPlayer?

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Making the site better for audiences and hearing feedback was very important for us: to ensure audience participation in the development of the new site, we invited thousands of users to try out prototype versions of the new site. Running a beta would have meant keeping the new (beta) site as up-to-date as the live BBC News website. Because the new site uses a different content-management system, running the two sites together would have required our editors to do everything in their day twice, once in each system, which could have compromised the quality of the service we provide to our audiences.