ESPN manages to make the football blogs worse

[rochrist]

I didn't think it was possible.

 

[Brady_to_Moss]

People read those!?!

 

[rochrist]

People read those!?!

Some of us still read Mike Reiss, yes.

 

[QuantumMechanic]

I didn't think it was possible.

What did they do this time? (I only go directly to articles via links in Reiss's tweets.)

 

[rochrist]

What did they do this time? (I only go directly to articles via links in Reiss's tweets.)

There's some kind of intermediate page between the main ESPM Boston page and the actual blog that just have very tiny excerpts of the articles. So you click on an article and it takes you to the normal blog page. Then if you want to get back to the main page you have to go back twice instead of once. It's not a giant deal, it just seems like another attempt to cater to phones and is even less efficient than before.

I pretty much think these things happen because there's a dev team that's worried about justifying their jobs so they have to keep aimlessly shuffling **** around.

 

[Wax Frog]

 

[Deus Irae]

Reiss' blog used to be a must read for me, and I'd go there a couple of times a day. Now, I don't go there at all. These companies don't seem to understand that, in an era where content is available everywhere, making your website more difficult and unpleasant to access is essentially the same as deliberately driving readers away.

 

[Fencer]

I've lost the ability to simply go through Reiss' blog, one post after another, like one can on any blog.

I don't even mind that there are uninteresting posts by other people mixed in. I just want to be able to easily find all of his.

 

[patchick]

These companies don't seem to understand that, in an era where content is available everywhere, making your website more difficult and unpleasant to access is essentially the same as deliberately driving readers away.

For those of us who still prefer to do our web browsing on the comfort of a computer, this is clearly the future. Designers have an explicit mandate from management to cater to phones first (and second and third), regardless of the effect on desktop users.

 

[rochrist]

Speaking of they who should not be named, they've replaced the Packers at #1 in their power index while bypassing the Pats.