ESPN's New Web Design

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ESPN's New Web Design

Post by knuckleheads » Wed Apr 29, 2015 6:56 am

Makes my eyes want to vomit. It is unusable.

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Re: ESPN's New Web Design

Post by Tom Kessenich » Wed Apr 29, 2015 7:28 am

It's the worst. I hate it too. Everything is white. There's no separation of content. It's like everything was thrown at one big giant white wall and I have no idea where anything is anymore.

Reminds me of last football season when CBS Sports revamped their fantasy pages. It was brutal. I'm the commish in my local league and I hated everything about it. Trying to do even the simplest of tasks was a huge chore. Just terrible.

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Re: ESPN's New Web Design

Post by Driver Love » Wed Apr 29, 2015 7:30 am

I downloaded the MLB app specifically because I found the new ESPN content difficult to navigate. Is it my device or when you go to the "scores" page showing all the MLB games.. does the score get mixed with the icon showing who is on base? It is unreal if that is happening to everyone. What a mess.

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Post by mattjb » Wed Apr 29, 2015 7:37 am

Agree it's awful. They probably paid a fortune for it too :roll:

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Post by Greg Ambrosius » Wed Apr 29, 2015 7:47 am

Driver Love wrote:I downloaded the MLB app specifically because I found the new ESPN content difficult to navigate. Is it my device or when you go to the "scores" page showing all the MLB games.. does the score get mixed with the icon showing who is on base? It is unreal if that is happening to everyone. What a mess.
I did the exact same thing. I can't believe I didn't have the MLB At Bat app before this. Thanks to ESPN's redesign for that. I struggle with that site when I go there and trying to download scores is almost impossible on the iPhone. It just crashes all the time. I can't believe ESPN did the redesign the way they did. Very tough to navigate these days.
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Re: ESPN's New Web Design

Post by Tom Kessenich » Wed Apr 29, 2015 7:50 am

I'm a big fan of MLB's At-Bat app. I love it.
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Re: ESPN's New Web Design

Post by knuckleheads » Wed Apr 29, 2015 7:53 am

Greg Ambrosius wrote:
Driver Love wrote:I downloaded the MLB app specifically because I found the new ESPN content difficult to navigate. Is it my device or when you go to the "scores" page showing all the MLB games.. does the score get mixed with the icon showing who is on base? It is unreal if that is happening to everyone. What a mess.
I did the exact same thing. I can't believe I didn't have the MLB At Bat app before this. Thanks to ESPN's redesign for that. I struggle with that site when I go there and trying to download scores is almost impossible on the iPhone. It just crashes all the time. I can't believe ESPN did the redesign the way they did. Very tough to navigate these days.
Same. Same. MLB App is great.

I can't decide what is more annoying...That ESPN only puts up 2 days worth of games on the upcoming schedule at a time, or that you can't read the entire day's schedule without having to scroll up and down,...or that clicking on the scores on the top of the page takes you straight to Gamecast rather than the box score.

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Post by DOUGHBOYS » Wed Apr 29, 2015 9:33 am

ESPN has gone from my 'go to' place to my 'stay away' site.

It is hard to believe that a lot of brilliant folks thought that the new design was better than what they had.
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Re: ESPN's New Web Design

Post by headhunters » Wed Apr 29, 2015 10:25 am

man- i thought it was just me. greg- tom- keep that in mind when some geek at stats can "improve" things- or 3 guys post 600 times on the boards they want "improvements" made.

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Post by Greg Ambrosius » Wed Apr 29, 2015 11:52 am

knuckleheads wrote:I can't decide what is more annoying...That ESPN only puts up 2 days worth of games on the upcoming schedule at a time, or that you can't read the entire day's schedule without having to scroll up and down,...or that clicking on the scores on the top of the page takes you straight to Gamecast rather than the box score.
It's the clicking on scores that take you straight to Gamecast. I WANT THE BOX SCORE!!! I hate this.
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Re: ESPN's New Web Design

Post by CC's Desperados » Wed Apr 29, 2015 7:27 pm

I hated what Yahoo did last year as well.

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Re: ESPN's New Web Design

Post by ToddZ » Wed Apr 29, 2015 8:20 pm

Not justifying anything and can't check it out myself since I'm a PC guy but my understanding is the new design is due to the extreme number of users that use mobile. The number is goofy high.

Can't speak towards the box score issue.
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Post by Navel Lint » Wed Apr 29, 2015 9:55 pm

ToddZ wrote:Not justifying anything and can't check it out myself since I'm a PC guy but my understanding is the new design is due to the extreme number of users that use mobile. The number is goofy high.

Can't speak towards the box score issue.
I'm a PC guy as well.....new design sucks!
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