ESPN has really screwed the pooch with this one

[captain insano]

I pay ESPN Insider for their crap.

I paid $3 for a promotion 2 years ago.

24 monthly magazines and free Insider.

lol thats sad. a penny is to much to spend on espn. i give you credit for admitting it

 

[Brady_to_Moss]

ESPN doesn't talk about hockey..it's a joke. If they do talk about it..it's for 3 min for the hour..then 24 min on a lebron dunk

 

[lurker1965]

I pay ESPN Insider for their crap.

I paid $3 for a promotion 2 years ago.

24 monthly magazines and free Insider.

You PAY them? Like MONEY?
Yeah, supposedly it is cheap. but for $3 you can buy a 3 cheeseburgers at McDonalds or something useful. (Hey, McDonalds is good for you as long as you don't eat it.)
Dude, that is totally on you.

 

[Brady_to_Moss]

You PAY them? Like MONEY?
Yeah, supposedly it is cheap. but for $3 you can buy a 3 cheeseburgers at McDonalds or something useful. (Hey, McDonalds is good for you as long as you don't eat it.)
Dude, that is totally on you.

I was just going to say...who gives ESPN $$

 

[BradyFTW!]

ESPN sees the analytics on who's hitting their website. They posted them when the site was updated. Like with SI, it's all about responsiveness: creating a consistent site that works no matter what device/screen size you access it from. They're right to make that change, the numbers don't lie.

As for the execution... I dunno. I'm not a big fan of the new site, but I'm also open to the possibility that maybe once I get used to it it'll be fine. Not exactly a ringing endorsement, since the best sites don't require the user to acclimate to them, but the only reason people liked the old site was because they had like 10 years to learn the ins and outs of it.

 

[upstater1]

It's worth it for Jay Bilas's OPUS alone

 

[RobertWeathers]

The only purpose I have for ESPN TV is for the 30 for 30s. Thats it.

 

[Chevy]

Windows 8's "innovations" aren't great, but you get used to the new start menu tiles. The only thing that's still really annoying after 8.1 is accessing the control panel (for instance, in 8.1 they brought back the old onscreen calculator since before it was an app that went full screen, which made it completely useless).

Even still, it can't really be compared to ME or Vista as an utter failure. For one, I think it runs smoother than 7, though that might just be my hardware.

IMHO - The biggest insult / mistake / display of complete obliviousness was to force the metro interface on their SERVER OS's!

25 years in this business - haven't seen an abundance of touchscreens in the server rooms ...

 

[goheels22002]

It crashes my iPhone all the time. Which the old format did not do.

ESPN Insider works just fine if you reboot your 386 and reload the program on this disk that came with the Herald this morning:

 

[rochrist]

ESPN sees the analytics on who's hitting their website. They posted them when the site was updated. Like with SI, it's all about responsiveness: creating a consistent site that works no matter what device/screen size you access it from. They're right to make that change, the numbers don't lie.

As for the execution... I dunno. I'm not a big fan of the new site, but I'm also open to the possibility that maybe once I get used to it it'll be fine. Not exactly a ringing endorsement, since the best sites don't require the user to acclimate to them, but the only reason people liked the old site was because they had like 10 years to learn the ins and outs of it.

I'm used to it. It sucks. Since a large part of what I've done in the past had to do with interface design, I'm not entirely ignorant of the issues.

Also, too: If they wanted it to perform consistently across all devices, it probably shouldn't crash the iPhone quite so often. The previous version worked fine on the iPhone.

 

[primetime]

Windows 8 suffers from the idiotic decision that were going to try and shoehorn both PC and tablet/phone OSes into one interface. Terrible idea, really badly executed. I suppose there must be some people somewhere who really think having to touch your monitor screen all the time is a good idea, I'm just not sure who they are. Maybe for some very specialized applications. Me, I'm too busy cleaning the screen very five minutes.

(Oh, the other really bad idea was that you didn't need an exit button for an application anymore, because OF COURSE I want to drag the whole window off the screen with my mouse!)

Yeah I've never dealt with it on touchscreen devices. It's really smooth with only very small annoyances on a desktop PC (it keeps out of your way better than any other OS I've used, as a compliment), but I imagine it would be terrible on a mobile device compared to Android (very little experience with iOS, I avoid Apple products as a matter of course).

However, I generally hate using mobile devices for any extended computing, period. And I can't believe they forced it on server instances, not at all a server OS.

 

[TheFlyingWedge]

Their new format is a total disaster. Worst change to a website I've ever seen, the old layout was perfect.

That's nice to hear as I did a lot of design work on that old site. We really tried to push them into a full screen (Responsive layout) back in 2008 - but its sad to see they screwed it all up 7 years later. Here's my original layouts - http://www.leisurepad.com/espn.html

 

[Canuck]

Windows 8 suffers from the idiotic decision that were going to try and shoehorn both PC and tablet/phone OSes into one interface. Terrible idea, really badly executed. I suppose there must be some people somewhere who really think having to touch your monitor screen all the time is a good idea, I'm just not sure who they are. Maybe for some very specialized applications. Me, I'm too busy cleaning the screen very five minutes.

(Oh, the other really bad idea was that you didn't need an exit button for an application anymore, because OF COURSE I want to drag the whole window off the screen with my mouse!)

I went from a desktop running Vista to a laptop with Windows 8. I like it better then Vista but only after I disabled most of the tablet part of windows 8 and used a mouse instead. Having to switch back and forth on chrome browser from desktop mode to windows 8 mode was dumb.

 

[rochrist]

I went from a desktop running Vista to a laptop with Windows 8. I like it better then Vista but only after I disabled most of the tablet part of windows 8 and used a mouse instead. Having to switch back and forth on chrome browser from desktop mode to windows 8 mode was dumb.

Well yeah, but truthfully, I'd like having bamboo shoots driven under my fingernails better than Vista.

 

[rochrist]

/Today/, the Pats blog seems to be mostly fighting news, boxing and UFC, with one very old Pats story at the bottom. Excellent work ESPN, on one of the most important NFL days of the year.

 

[Patsfanin Philly]

Why does Windows seem to **** up every other OS? 7 and XP were money.

And before 7 was the mistake, er Millennial......

 

[PatsFanInVa]

Microsoft was the 800 LB toll taker at the only bridge available for travel.

Chris Christy?