New ESPN site is horrendous!

Benny Hinn

Benny Hinn

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Geez. Whose bright idea was this awful layout? So much wasted space and can't even find the day's top headlines. It's even worse on desktop

:smh:
 
Like most site re-designs, most of us will get used to it.

Personally, I'm not a fan of the white space design that's spread across most of the internet it seems. (I'm sure there's a technical term for it, but you know what I mean) It looks clean, of course, but it wears on my eyes when every site uses a ton of white space. The redesign makes sense, though.. personalized info on the left, updating Twitter/recent news on the right, and I've read it's also supposed to look the same across multi-platforms which is obviously a big deal nowadays.

I only check ESPN for scores for the most part, but it is annoying I can't jump right into the box score from the top sports scores on the mainpage. It goes right into a gamecast or the recap story.
 
This is a text book case of people being obsessed with holding on to what they are comfortable.

The old ESPN site was a relic of themid 2000 internet. gradient nightmare abomination hell scape abomination, not only was it deeply ugly it was a confusing, terribly spaced, impossibly cramped garbage dump of bad design and bad ideas. Not to mention a jarring horrible mobile version that was clearly designed for a nokie flip phones with the resolution of a microwave clock lcd.

and to top off it all of, not only did it look like pure ****, it performed TERRIBLY,. it was slow, glitch and videos failed to buffer after showing two 30 seconds of ads.

it is impossible to measure the order of magnitude better the new ESPN website is compared to the old one.



it's faster, features responsive design for multiple screen sizes, less rigid, more customize, modern design, infinite scrolling, modern implementation of social media s, way better proportioned. less java script , and flash.

is it super original? no but this ESPN you don't want something too out of the current web standards.




Stop clutching onto the decaying husk of the past and embrace change.
 
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Big J 33 said:
Like most site re-designs, most of us will get used to it.

Personally, I'm not a fan of the white space design that's spread across most of the internet it seems. (I'm sure there's a technical term for it, but you know what I mean) It looks clean, of course, but it wears on my eyes when every site uses a ton of white space. The redesign makes sense, though.. personalized info on the left, updating Twitter/recent news on the right, and I've read it's also supposed to look the same across multi-platforms which is obviously a big deal nowadays.

I only check ESPN for scores for the most part, but it is annoying I can't jump right into the box score from the top sports scores on the mainpage. It goes right into a gamecast or the recap story.
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I think it's called the hamburger menu layout

Every site is starting to use that web design so that it runs the same on mobile and desktop. I blame Google... :smh:
 
Osh Kosh Bosh said:
This is a text book case of people being obsessed with holding on to what they are comfortable.

The old ESPN site was a relic of themid 2000 internet. gradient nightmare abomination hell scape abomination, not only was it deeply ugly it was a confusing, terribly spaced, impossibly cramped garbage dump of bad design and bad ideas. Not to mention a jarring horrible mobile version that was clearly designed for a nokie flip phones with the resolution of a microwave clock lcd.

and to top off it all of, not only did it look like pure ****, it performed TERRIBLY,. it was slow, glitch and videos failed to buffer after showing two 30 seconds of ads.

it is impossible to measure the order of magnitude better the new ESPN website is compared to the old one.



it's faster, features responsive design for multiple screen sizes, less rigid, more customize, modern design, infinite scrolling, modern implementation of social media s, way better proportioned. less java script , and flash.

is it super original? no but this ESPN you don't want something too out of the current web standards.




Stop clutching onto the decaying husk of the past and embrace change.
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Agree that ESPN mobile site was terrible. This new layout is just awful on desktop. Nobody cares about all this customizable and social media stuff. Just make the layout easy to find news. Everything is just cluttered now.

Reminds me of when YouTube redesigned and integrated Google+. Majority of people still want the old site back and that change was a few years ago.
 
Bennyhinn said:
Agree that ESPN mobile site was terrible. This new layout is just awful on desktop. Nobody cares about all this customizable and social media stuff. Just make the layout easy to find news. Everything is just cluttered now.

Reminds me of when YouTube redesigned and integrated Google+. Majority of people still want the old site back and that change was a few years ago.
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because it was easy to find news in endless tiny boxes of giant lists of tiny text?

The only reason you think it was easier is because you were use to it.


look it's not perfect, there are still kinks, and it's not super original like say the Bloomberg.com redesign. but it's way way way way way better than the old one.
 
As a former web developer, responsive websites which is what ESPN's going for in the new layout is the way of the future.

Gradients are a thing of the past. Adapting to modern trends keeping up to date with modern technology is better than clinging onto something old and could be outdated in a few years (maybe even this year)
 
For the most part if I'm on ESPN.com I'm looking at the schedule or scores but yeah it's awful.

Four months from now everyone will be used to it and it won't matter
 
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The web layout is very similar to sports illustrated. I hate the way sports illustrated changed their design as well :lol:
 
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