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February 14, 2003
ESPN.com to redesign, : featuring video clips on the home page. Could be kind of like their EXPN: Action Sports on Demand.
posted by kirkaracha to culture at 12:57 AM - 17 comments
There's plenty of football coverage already.
posted by yerfatma at 11:09 AM on February 14, 2003
Soccer is good, but there are other sports that are fun too. :) I don't really see their EXPN site to be a huge change from their current home page, although it does have less clutter. Sometimes pages like ESPN, MSN, and Yahoo give me tired head.
posted by pfuller at 12:06 PM on February 14, 2003
maybe this time ESPN will actually test their site design on Macs and do a complete job of it. I can't tell you how many issues I've had with this and the previous generation site because it was obvious that macs were ignored... stupid simple design things like selects ruining column widths, etc that can be caused only by incomplete testing. Here's hoping that the redesign will come with reduced popunders too... yeah right...
posted by Bernreuther at 04:53 PM on February 16, 2003
If they can free themselves of the Microsoft clutter that they added when the partnership began, that'd be terrific. If they could start to write valid HTML from their content-management system(s), that'd be even better.
posted by yerfatma at 05:26 PM on February 16, 2003
New design is up today, and I have to say, BOOOOOOOOOOOO ESPN. Why make the newslines in flash, I ALWAYS want to open these in a new window, now I can't.
posted by corpse at 02:06 PM on February 17, 2003
Note that you can post comments here. I stopped reading fox's sports page because of Flash; I'd hate to think I might have to do the same for ESPN. :/
posted by tieguy at 03:52 PM on February 17, 2003
yep, as expected, it sucks. Takes 5x as long to load, I haven't gotten the newslines to load yet, and on a reload to try again it crashes IE on a Mac. Great. Right now it's frozen with nothing but the header and feedback story loaded, nothing else is coming in. It's too bad that I can't live without certain columnists, or else I'd boycott them entirely because of this crap.
posted by Bernreuther at 04:03 PM on February 17, 2003
The video quality is quite good if you're on cable. At first I was skeptical but now after seeing how pretty the video is I'm all for it.
posted by Stan Chin at 06:01 PM on February 17, 2003
on Mac OS 9 I'll never get the video anyway, but I'll just watch it on TV anyway :) Response on the message board seems to be about 70/30 negative.
posted by Bernreuther at 06:24 PM on February 17, 2003
Ugh. Now they've started popping up a '96% of the web uses flash, why don't you, you loser' page when I go to the front page. Ugh. Ugh.
posted by tieguy at 06:53 PM on February 17, 2003
That's it? They redesigned their homepage to make it less usable and that's it? How 'bout redoing your goddamn templates with valid HTML instead of bugging me about how I don't have IE5 for ESPN Motion. That sucks.
posted by yerfatma at 07:09 PM on February 17, 2003
it's as if some kid who just learned some new tricks designed the site without caring one way or the other about the audience. Now, I'm all for that for a personal site and have been guilty of things like that in the past with my own, but come on, this is a site that should exclude NOONE. It's friggin ridiculous. And I've been without sports info all day because I can't decide which other site to go to... heh, the only time I go anywhere other than ESPN is when someone links somewhere else from here... I'm lost now :( Which is better, sportsline or cnnsi?
posted by Bernreuther at 10:00 PM on February 17, 2003
This sucks donkey balls. I downloaded their ESPNMotion thingamajig, installed it and instead of seeing video, all I get is some techno-light-show that throbs in time with sound from what I assume is the video. I uninstalled that piece of crap ASAP when I read that it will constantly download videos to my machine without me asking for them, taking up bandwidth and RAM. I can't open headlines into different windows. Thankfully I can skip right past the main page and go to my bookmarked baseball stuff inside. The moment that becomes "Flashified", I'm moving on to cnnsi.
posted by grum@work at 10:41 PM on February 17, 2003
Not only is it a train wreck, it takes forever and a day to load on a 56k modem. I won't even wait that long for porn.
posted by Samsonov14 at 11:39 AM on February 18, 2003
I won't even wait that long for porn. Liar.
posted by grum@work at 03:55 PM on February 18, 2003
Is there going to be any soccer coverage? If not...who cares.