OT Si.com redesign

Holy hell is it bad.

I can't find anything, its like a 13 year old girls wall. just bad, so so bad.

503 Service Temporarily Unavailable is what I get.

Very Pinteresting.

Overall I think it'll be good, once I adjust. Still has top headlines down the right, then the endless scrolling bit for perusing, and the team pages seem to have some promise.

I don't mind it. But it looks like a page designed for smart phone users. I can see that page having a lot of aesthetic value to Samsung Galaxy users.

I don't like it. Change for the sake of change is usually a very bad idea. Just because you CAN do something doesn't mean you should.

Ah well, I get pretty much all my NFL/Patriots news from here now anyway, so I'll just drop SI from my bookmarks.

KontradictioN said:

I don't mind it. But it looks like a page designed for smart phone users. I can see that page having a lot of aesthetic value to Samsung Galaxy users.

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That's what I thought too, and I was surprised they didn't use a responsive design (MMQB is responsive); guess that's one current trend they skipped. I'll have to check it out on iPhone and iPad.

Uncle Rico said:

That's what I thought too, and I was surprised they didn't use a responsive design (MMQB is responsive); guess that's one current trend they skipped. I'll have to check it out on iPhone and iPad.

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It's actually better on a lower resolution screen than it is on a full browser. Haven't tried it on a tablet yet, but it looks like maybe that was what they designed it around? Just odd.

I don't get everyone moving to these block formats all over the place...seems like a lot of sites are doing that now.

The new design is 100% designed around tablets and phones. The new format makes using the touchscreen to scroll and click links easier. Does seem like way too much for a homepage to load up when not using wifi though.

Sticky Caulk said:

The new design is 100% designed around tablets and phones. The new format makes using the touchscreen to scroll and click links easier. Does seem like way too much for a homepage to load up when not using wifi though.

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Just tried it on my phone, it does render well there. Tried it on my daughter's Ipad, it loads really, really slowly. Looks like they still have some kinks to work out.

The biggest issue though is still on a high-res browser...way too much going on there.

Hate it... when I scroll down the page on my tablet and click on a story, it acts as though I didn't scroll and opens a story at the top of the page. Very frustrating. Won't be going back to SI anymore until that's fixed.

What a mess. I should've figured that something was amiss when their draft coverage/tracker
was so terrible. Come to think of it, their draft coverage/tracker sucked last year too.

Someone above said Pinterest and it really does have that vibe to it. I agree on the tablet/phone focus, but given that I do about 1% of my browsing on my phone (still haven't seen the need for a tablet for me), it's not of much use to me and I may carry my traffic elsewhere. It's pretty unwieldy on my MBP.

Nikolai said:

Someone above said Pinterest and it really does have that vibe to it. I agree on the tablet/phone focus, but given that I do about 1% of my browsing on my phone (still haven't seen the need for a tablet for me), it's not of much use to me and I may carry my traffic elsewhere. It's pretty unwieldy on my MBP.

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The use for a tablet that sold me on it was the ability to stream Netflix from it wherever I go. It's made traveling loads easier. If you have a couple of hundred dollars disposable income to blow, I'd suggest picking one up.

what are some other good all sport news sites to check out? I can't use SI anymore in its current fashion.

It is not that bad, I think it will grow on me more.

I think the new SportsCenter set looks 10 times worse than the SI.com page.

Awful, i liked the old page a lot

The new site is awful. I had switched to using SI more than espn after espn butchered their own site, not SI makes the espn design look usable. I primarily use a laptop when browsing (at work), and the new large logo/banner take up a large portion of the screen. I never understood the need to have 1 design across all platforms. Webdesign has the ability to have multiple styles based on the connecting device, they easily could have made a computer design plus a mobile/tablet version with limited difficulty.

Uncle Rico said:

That's what I thought too, and I was surprised they didn't use a responsive design (MMQB is responsive); guess that's one current trend they skipped. I'll have to check it out on iPhone and iPad.

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The new si.com is responsive; the desktop version of the site is completely different from the mobile version (checked it out on my iphone). I don't like the design: I think it's overdone and places form over function, but that's a separate issue. All in all, if it was a site that I navigated regularly, I'm sure that I would get used to it, but there's a strong argument to be made that if your users have to 'get used to' your site, you've already made a mistake.

Most of the redone sites have been horrible. They're overstuffing their pages.