OT: The 'New' ESPN Website Is A HUGE Failure

LowFatMilk · Apr 7, 2015

It's like a crappy blog site.

You have to search for the national sports news you want to read about.... ...which means you already know the news in the first place.

COMPLETELY SUCKS!!!!

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I know Rivals is related to Yahoo... ...so I'll just mention their new format in passing.....

BobbyBoucheer · Apr 7, 2015

Originally posted by LowFatMilk:

It's like a crappy blog site.

You have to search for the national sports news you want to read about.... ...which means you already know the news in the first place.

COMPLETELY SUCKS!!!!

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I know Rivals is related to Yahoo... ...so I'll just mention their new format in passing.....

I agree. Some people change shit because they think they have too. This new layout is ugly and not as user friendly as before. Quite shocking from ESPN, they usually are on top of this kind of thing and rarely misstep this badly.

GoWVU · Apr 7, 2015

You're dead on target...

I think this garbage redesign is the last straw that will push me off their site for good.

The college football page now takes more clicks to get to the content you want. I used to be able to click on the Big 12 blog directly from the "Blogs" pulldown menu. Now that pulldown menu disappears as soon as you move your cursor, so the only way to reach the Big 12 blog is to click the national blog first and THEN click on the Big 12 blog.

Another complete failure is on the MLB scoreboard page. It is now blank, and the calendar doesn't work. The only way to read box scores or recaps is by clicking on each game individually from the banner scoreboard at the top.

The old format displayed ALL of the day's games on a single page, where you could quickly see winning and losing pitchers, saves, and home runs along with quick headlines for each game without leaving the scoreboard page. It was a great one-stop clearinghouse where you could rapidly catch up on all the storylines from games that day. For example, because of the terrible new format I had no idea Boston had 2 players hit 2 HR each on Opening Day whereas under the old format that would've stood out immediately to anyone clicking on the scoreboard page.

LowFatMilk · Apr 7, 2015

To clarify...

--Every website format change gets completely TRASHED in the short term. ..it just does. Readers/posters typically adapt and accept.

--ESPN's has been going long enough (without any improvement) to know that it does, IN FACT, suck.

--Remember the HUGE failure from THE OTHER WVU SITE (now owned by FOX) ? They failed BIG TIME... ...went back to the old format... ...and then re-launched (with less programming issues) while COMPLETELY IGNORING customer complaints about the new site. Dumb.

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Hope that doesn't happen here.

Phil1972 · Apr 7, 2015

So many website redesigns these days are absolute failures. I don't know how may sites I stopped visiting because I can't stand the visuals and navigation issues.

Papillion · Apr 7, 2015

Re: You're dead on target...

Have you checked out CNN's site? It's absolutely hideous. And not user friendly at all. And the real issue with a lot of these big, commercial sites is they are so loaded with adware that it's becoming unbearable to visit anymore. You start to read something and the screen keeps shifting up and down because giant ads are loading and unloading. It's becoming all crap anymore.

torontoeers · Apr 7, 2015