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ESPN Strives to Eject Clutter From Its Site

12 points by echair 18y ago

mattmaroon 18y ago
As one of their semi-competitors, albeit an insignificant one, all I can say is "damn". I like the way looking at their site gives you a migraine.
- johns 18y ago
  You have to admit though that the redesign is significantly better than the current design.
  - mattmaroon 18y ago
    Yeah that's why I hate it. I hope I can find it and submit some feedback saying "I really hate having to look on more than 1 page to find every sports score ever reported."
    - tdavis 18y ago
      It does seem pretty inefficient!
- fallentimes 18y ago
  Here's a link to the new beta: http://beta.espn.go.com http://beta.espn.go.com By far the most annoying part of ESPN is the auto playing videos. I've found myself going to Yahoo Sports/Deadspin/thebiglead much more frequently because of it.
  - mattmaroon 18y ago
    Well, I guess the good news is that one still gave me a small headache.
  - aneesh 18y ago
    Yeah, the new site makes it easier to navigate, and emphasizes the top stories much more (which seems to be the goal of most news sites). (btw, clear your cookies if you want to get out of the beta -- it's "sticky" in that once you visit the beta site you're in the beta)
  - blackthought286 18y ago
    Yeah the auto playing is a killer. especially when I go there to listen to a podcast and their sports news at the top starts to play making both sounds clash.
rochers 18y ago
You can see the new site here: http://beta.espn.go.com http://beta.espn.go.com
RobbieStats 18y ago
As one of their competitors, I can say I went into the business in the first place because of ESPN, Yahoo, CBS's, etc. inability to create a usable interface for fans to navigate.
newmediaclay 18y ago
I think the new design is a vast improvement -- also, it serves a legitimate business purpose by letting them serve more than twice as many ads as before on highly trafficked pages. I actually wrote a blog post on the top 5 improvements of the new design: http://www.newmediacampaigns.com/page/top-5-improvements-of-espncom-redesign http://www.newmediacampaigns.com/page/top-5-improvements-of-...

12 points by echair 18y ago

As one of their semi-competitors, albeit an insignificant one, all I can say is "damn". I like the way looking at their site gives you a migraine.

johns 18y ago
You have to admit though that the redesign is significantly better than the current design.
- mattmaroon 18y ago
  Yeah that's why I hate it. I hope I can find it and submit some feedback saying "I really hate having to look on more than 1 page to find every sports score ever reported."
  - tdavis 18y ago
    It does seem pretty inefficient!
fallentimes 18y ago
Here's a link to the new beta: http://beta.espn.go.com http://beta.espn.go.com By far the most annoying part of ESPN is the auto playing videos. I've found myself going to Yahoo Sports/Deadspin/thebiglead much more frequently because of it.
- mattmaroon 18y ago
  Well, I guess the good news is that one still gave me a small headache.
- aneesh 18y ago
  Yeah, the new site makes it easier to navigate, and emphasizes the top stories much more (which seems to be the goal of most news sites). (btw, clear your cookies if you want to get out of the beta -- it's "sticky" in that once you visit the beta site you're in the beta)
- blackthought286 18y ago
  Yeah the auto playing is a killer. especially when I go there to listen to a podcast and their sports news at the top starts to play making both sounds clash.

rochers 18y ago

You can see the new site here: http://beta.espn.go.com http://beta.espn.go.com

RobbieStats 18y ago

As one of their competitors, I can say I went into the business in the first place because of ESPN, Yahoo, CBS's, etc. inability to create a usable interface for fans to navigate.

newmediaclay 18y ago

I think the new design is a vast improvement -- also, it serves a legitimate business purpose by letting them serve more than twice as many ads as before on highly trafficked pages. I actually wrote a blog post on the top 5 improvements of the new design: http://www.newmediacampaigns.com/page/top-5-improvements-of-espncom-redesign http://www.newmediacampaigns.com/page/top-5-improvements-of-...