Clifford
Footballguy
Our dynasty league switched to this site from yahoo this year. I will say it is easier to trade picks and like the ability to trade year round, but to me these functions (which can easily be replicated via email) pale in comparison to the massive downgrade in user interface/experience.
These sites, regardless of what skin you put on them, are nothing short of horrific in these two all-important areas for websites and applications. Why do hardcore fantasy players accept these shortcomings as if nothing could be done about them? MFL is making BANK off us and apparently hired unpaid interns to design their site about 10 years ago and have not updated since.
Aside from being butt-ugly the navigation and simple use of the site is terrible. There is no real flow to the site at all, there are three different navigation areas (brow, sidebar, top nav) which is something I haven't seen since the early 2000s. On top of that most major screens introduce a fourth navigation area below the top nav but above the content, so I know have 4 different areas of the site to examine just to get to a single page. What's more most of the nav is broken and disconnected. Clicking something in one of these navs removes the fourth nav, so the only way to get back is using the back button on the browser.
Of course all these issues can be overcome, but why should they be? Why does the hardcore fantasy community give these guys a total pass on a ridiculously sloppy and bad user experience on their sites, in addition to being complete eyesores?
/rant
These sites, regardless of what skin you put on them, are nothing short of horrific in these two all-important areas for websites and applications. Why do hardcore fantasy players accept these shortcomings as if nothing could be done about them? MFL is making BANK off us and apparently hired unpaid interns to design their site about 10 years ago and have not updated since.
Aside from being butt-ugly the navigation and simple use of the site is terrible. There is no real flow to the site at all, there are three different navigation areas (brow, sidebar, top nav) which is something I haven't seen since the early 2000s. On top of that most major screens introduce a fourth navigation area below the top nav but above the content, so I know have 4 different areas of the site to examine just to get to a single page. What's more most of the nav is broken and disconnected. Clicking something in one of these navs removes the fourth nav, so the only way to get back is using the back button on the browser.
Of course all these issues can be overcome, but why should they be? Why does the hardcore fantasy community give these guys a total pass on a ridiculously sloppy and bad user experience on their sites, in addition to being complete eyesores?
/rant