OT: Wtf did they do to Blazersedge?

[santeesioux]

As well as the other SB Nation blogs, they are so ugly now!

http://www.blazersedge.com/

 

[HailBlazers]

boo indeed.

 

[BoBoBREWSKI]

I like it.

Nobody ever likes it when a website is changed... but soon get used to it.

 

[HailBlazers]

True.

 

[Eastoff]

I think it looks fine. It has a feel like they want to make it SmartPhone friendly.

 

[UKRAINEFAN]

It needs a little fine tuning, but overall looks pretty good.

 

[Wizard Mentor]

before: zero clicks required.
now: clicks required.

It's probably easier to get to their advanced content, but harder to get to their basic content. I don't like it, but future me may like it better.

 

[RoyToy]

Blazersedge new layout

I hate it

 

[Haakzilla]

Re: Blazersedge new layout

http://sportstwo.com/threads/222261-OT-Wtf-did-they-do-to-Blazersedge

 

[blue32]

I definitely think it's worse now. Information is definitely harder to get to. Now it favors fancy looking graphics. blah.

 

[3RA1N1AC]

for sites like mccoveychronicles where every post gets 1000 comments...its MUCH harder to follow and the writing now goes off the screen where you have to scroll over to read it.

bad

 

[THE HCP]

Losing no sleep....... that was my first time visiting that site.

 

[BlazerBeliever]

It looks like it will be harder to find info. I see on another thread about Stotts starting lineup and in the thread it says the source is BlazersEdge. I looked and looked for that story and still have not found it.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

Is Dave really behind this redesign?

It's total shit.

 

[Darkwebs]

The old layout was so much better. What are the advantages of this new design? More ad revenue?

 

[TradeNurkicNow]

i never went there before, but i like it now. big and shiny

 

[BoBoBREWSKI]

before: zero clicks required.
now: clicks required.

It's probably easier to get to their advanced content, but harder to get to their basic content. I don't like it, but future me may like it better.

The old layout was so much better. What are the advantages of this new design? More ad revenue?

Ad revenue could be the reason. The more pages a viewer has to click thru gives the site more opportunities to show different web ads which increases the impression #'s for each ad.

 

[Ed O]

The old layout was so much better. What are the advantages of this new design? More ad revenue?

It is a responsive design. You can see it by starting with a large browser window and then drag it to be smaller. The site images get smaller at first, and then at some "break point" it becomes a single column at the top, and then at a third break point, it hides the navigation.

This allows for better experiences on all of desktop/tablet/smartphone than there would be if they had a non-responsive design.

Ed O.

 

[HailBlazers]

It is a responsive design. You can see it by starting with a large browser window and then drag it to be smaller. The site images get smaller at first, and then at some "break point" it becomes a single column at the top, and then at a third break point, it hides the navigation. This allows for better experiences on all of desktop/tablet/smartphone than there would be if they had a non-responsive design.

Thanks for explaining that, because all I thought was this:

It looks like it will be harder to find info.

The old layout was so much better. What are the advantages of this new design? More ad revenue?

 

[Ed O]

Thanks for explaining that, because all I thought was this:

Those things definitely might be a factor.

I didn't/don't go to BE very much, but I think that they have gone to more big pictures, right? It's gotten away from the "river of news" which is what most blogs are (and, presumably, was the technology that BE was based on) to a more visual approach. Some people love that and some people hate it, of course, but if they don't do a good job, editorially, of keeping interesting stuff highlighted at the top then it is going to be a potential clusterf***.

Ed O.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

I gave it another chance today and I just can't stand the new design.

It's a cluttered mess.

 

[MickZagger]

Is fuck censored these days?

 

[MickZagger]

Oh, guess not.

 

[santeesioux]

I gave it another chance today and I just can't stand the new design.

It's a cluttered mess.

I used to check out Deadspin everyday, haven't really since the redesign there either. This reminds me of that.

 

[blue32]

I get sick to my stomach trying to navigate the site, it's like it gets me carsick. The damn thing is so confusing and the layout......is schizophrenic at best!

 

[BoBoBREWSKI]

Have any of you who hate it emailed them and given them your feedback?

 

[Nikolokolus]

Looks fine: text in articles is actually legible now, without having to fiddle with fonts in your browser and it's a lot "cleaner" than the old layout.