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Sports Illustrated redesigned its website (1 Viewer)

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I started using sports illustrated for scores and updates last year. I found the experience on their website to blow away ESPN, Yahoo, etc.

Unfortunately, all of that changed today. They completely redesigned their website from the ground up. I tried to load some baseball box scores and it took forever to load, and when it did it uses some stupid font that makes comic sans MS look grown up. I tried to find some in-depth stats but I gave up due to loading time.

Sports Illustrated RIP

 
The "play-by-play" for a baseball game is absolutely obnoxious. They present it in "timeline" format where you have to scroll way down to get to the first inning. Who is going to use that?

 
:lmao: looks like a 10th grade vo-tech student designed it.

When will these big sites learn that responsive design does not = tossing usability and desktop experience out the window?

 
Sites optimized for touchscreens are still in their infancy. Hopefully, they'll evolve into something more usable on all devices. But right now, most of them have a lot of wasted space, confusing gesture controls and require way too much scrolling.

 
Hopefully it's to fix their mobile site. Never seen a anything worse. It was incredibly awful. Would cut articles out midway through.

 
Same reason I left yahoo sports. It was awesome before. It was minimal design so it was much quicker and simple easy to read, but now it is all fancy and slow and overlapping.

 
I really don't get why this type of design is the in thing. It's horrible. Takes forever to find stuff.

 
dino259 said:
Same reason I left yahoo sports. It was awesome before. It was minimal design so it was much quicker and simple easy to read, but now it is all fancy and slow and overlapping.
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It's really amazing sometimes how a website can be pretty much perfect.. give you everything you want... and then presumably because they don't want to be left behind by a fancier looking website... they start tinkering towards "improvements"... giving the audience something they didn't really want and didn't even ask for... and sometimes I guess we are given things that ultimately we decide we do like and wondered how we did without it.. but it seems like far more often we don't like the new experience.

Look at Craigslist.. pretty damn basic website that hasn't had too many advancements since it started and its still an incredibly functional highly visited website.

Sometimes.. you just want the damn score and stats without streaming video, audio, massive commercials, etc.

 
fairly big fan of flashscore.com for really basic just knowing the score and stats

I haven't tried their mobile app because i'm a pretty big fan of the app "the score"

 
I wish one of these sports sites would realize less is better. ESPN is simple enough for the most part. Although 90% of each page is littered with things no one uses or even knows is there. All I care about are headlines. Don't make me have to hunt for crap. Sports should be easy.

 
Rich Conway said:
Phil Elliott said:
Seems news/sports web sites are being redesigned to be more video centric.
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Yup. Pretty much ruins them for me. Maybe there's a market for a no-video, no-podcast sports website. Just scores and articles without all the crap!
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sometimes just the damn score without even the articles would be great.

I use CBS for most sports things just because my FFL site is hosted there... I never goto sports illustrated, yahoo sports, espn, etc.

But I agree sports should be easy... and I'm using multiple sites and multiple apps to get what I want

The Score App, MLB At-Bat, cbs sports on desktop, flashscore... why so hard?

 
You guys do realize that they are looking to make money off you, not just provide you with stats and scores. Right?

 
dino259 said:
Same reason I left yahoo sports. It was awesome before. It was minimal design so it was much quicker and simple easy to read, but now it is all fancy and slow and overlapping.
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Yep. Yahoo sports used to be good, but now it's an eyesore. I remember recently just trying to find the playoff brackets for NBA and see what the series matchups were... nope. we can't do that.

 
I think the compressed text areas are to provide more room on the page for the Online Swimsuit edition, featuring the ever-expanding kate upton.

 
Dentist said:
fairly big fan of flashscore.com for really basic just knowing the score and stats

I haven't tried their mobile app because i'm a pretty big fan of the app "the score"
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TheScore is the best mobile sports app. Loads quick, easy to find score and news. Plus a bonus that it gives you the betting lines too.

 
Websites will find out the hard way that the death of the desktop is nowhere near as close as they think it is.

 
Google the sport abbreviation with the word scores or schedules... instantly get a nice little interface to see all the games and current scores with a link for the box score.

MLB schedule

 
:lmao: I don't normally use SI, but I went to check it out.

Pulled up a box score from yesterday. First mistake was that a box score should not take up more than one screen - i.e. I should never have to scroll down to see the rest of the box score. Annoying, but I suppose not the worst thing they could do.

Then, I noticed that each column is sortable. WTF? Why would anyone want a sortable column in a box score? Once you sort a column, there is no going back to the original line-up, or pitching order. Just insane, that lack of thought that went into the design and UI.

ETA - then I go to look for some basic stats - like Doubles, HRs, SBs, errors - things I normally look for in a box score - could not find those basic stats anywhere.

 
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Eephus said:
jwb said:
Websites will find out the hard way that the death of the desktop is nowhere near as close as they think it is.
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True but it's hard to carry a consistent UI across the spectrum from a 7" to 40" display.
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disagree with the bold, just most companies are doing it all wrong right now. To JWBs point, they are just overreacting to the responsive design wave sweeping across the landscape

i've been in web design for over 15 years. There is a good solution out there...doing one right now for a client. eCommerce will lead the way as their conversion rates provide immediate results and impact real $ decisions almost as quickly. Media sites will follow the lead of eCommerce once the effective designs take root

 
I have a fairly reasonable laptop (MacBook, '12 or '13) and the thing takes forever to load.

It was clearly designed for tablet use. Terrible.

 
MyLeftHand said:
Eephus said:
jwb said:
Websites will find out the hard way that the death of the desktop is nowhere near as close as they think it is.
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True but it's hard to carry a consistent UI across the spectrum from a 7" to 40" display.
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disagree with the bold, just most companies are doing it all wrong right now. To JWBs point, they are just overreacting to the responsive design wave sweeping across the landscape

i've been in web design for over 15 years. There is a good solution out there...doing one right now for a client. eCommerce will lead the way as their conversion rates provide immediate results and impact real $ decisions almost as quickly. Media sites will follow the lead of eCommerce once the effective designs take root
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Agreed - I've seen a ton of responsive websites that work just fine on both. But they look like "normal" websites on a desktop, with the navigation turning into a dropdown for phones. My own site is like this.

This entire "let's cram everything onto one huge page" thing is ridiculous.

 
Dentist said:
Look at Craigslist.. pretty damn basic website that hasn't had too many advancements since it started and its still an incredibly functional highly visited website.

Sometimes.. you just want the damn score and stats without streaming video, audio, massive commercials, etc.
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Joe and David should get on this.

A sports version of craigslist (layout-wise). Just scores for all the major sports with simple hyperlinks to details like box scores. I bet it would be huge. We can be the only ones who want this. However they want to monetize it, just don't be obtrusive.

 
It is really bad and judging by feedback from other sites, it is pretty universally despised.

The computers at work couldn't even access it.

 
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