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Is SI.com the worst sports media website?
Posted on 5/5/16 at 10:35 am
Posted on 5/5/16 at 10:35 am
I used to think it was ESPN, but they seem to have streamlined theirs.
With SI, it seems that every article is now accompanied by a video that launches immediately upon opening. Just now I was reading an article on re-grading the 2013 NFL draft, and there's sound coming from who knows where. Not only that, any time your mouse passes over the top bar to select a league/sport, it brings down a menu that takes up half of the screen.
With SI, it seems that every article is now accompanied by a video that launches immediately upon opening. Just now I was reading an article on re-grading the 2013 NFL draft, and there's sound coming from who knows where. Not only that, any time your mouse passes over the top bar to select a league/sport, it brings down a menu that takes up half of the screen.
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Posted on 5/5/16 at 10:37 am to Rickety Cricket
Most websites are horrible now. Filled with clickbait. Even this one.
I like the clean boring drudge format
I like the clean boring drudge format
Posted on 5/5/16 at 10:38 am to Rickety Cricket
espn has always been pretty good. si/bleacher report crap is terrible now.
Posted on 5/5/16 at 10:39 am to Rickety Cricket
Does Bleacher Report still do the 50 page slide shows?
If so, then "no" is the correct answer.
If so, then "no" is the correct answer.
Posted on 5/5/16 at 10:46 am to PortCityTiger24
Yeah I was gonna ask about Bleacher Report. Seems like every time a BR article is linked or quoted, the response is pretty negative.
Posted on 5/5/16 at 10:48 am to Rickety Cricket
It is way up there. It's a shame too because SI has some good writers on there
Posted on 5/5/16 at 10:58 am to PortCityTiger24
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Does Bleacher Report still do the 50 page slide shows?
If so, then "no" is the correct answer.
The Bleacher Report single handily made me hate online slideshows.
Posted on 5/5/16 at 11:13 am to Rickety Cricket
There are ads now that Open up the App Store without your permission, then you have to close that down, re-load /refresh the article just to read some bullshite update about why "The Cowboys new 3-headed monster will keep Elliott fresh for a post season run"
Now, if they pull that shite, I close the app, the article, refuse to read it. Eventually, I'll stop going to their site altogether like I have a few others. SI was much better before Peter King branched off MMQB
Now, if they pull that shite, I close the app, the article, refuse to read it. Eventually, I'll stop going to their site altogether like I have a few others. SI was much better before Peter King branched off MMQB
Posted on 5/5/16 at 1:42 pm to AjaxFury
Flipboard and Feedly are a great way to browse websites with pop-up Hell, Adblock blockers, and "we are blocking you because you read too many articles " nag screens.
Posted on 5/5/16 at 2:24 pm to lsutigers1992
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Flipboard and Feedly are a great way to browse websites with pop-up Hell, Adblock blockers, and "we are blocking you because you read too many articles " nag screens.
The thing with the videos, at least on SI, is that they are on the page itself. I always use AdBlocker, but it can't make up for a terribly non-user friendly site.
Posted on 5/5/16 at 2:27 pm to Socratics
What's the point of online slideshows? Is it artificially generate clicks and hits on the site? I can't think of any other reason they would exist as they're miserable for users.
Posted on 5/5/16 at 2:28 pm to Rickety Cricket
ESPN does that shite with the auto video too.
It doesn't matter how many times I tell it to not play the video. It will do it the next time I open the browser.
Hell, the other day I went to one of ESPN's fricking player stats pages to see Evan Fournier's career stats and even on that there was a god damn video that auto played.
It doesn't matter how many times I tell it to not play the video. It will do it the next time I open the browser.
Hell, the other day I went to one of ESPN's fricking player stats pages to see Evan Fournier's career stats and even on that there was a god damn video that auto played.
This post was edited on 5/6/16 at 1:06 am
Posted on 5/5/16 at 2:29 pm to Rickety Cricket
espn's video media player is pretty troubling to deal with
Posted on 5/5/16 at 2:31 pm to FootballNostradamus
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What's the point of online slideshows? Is it artificially generate clicks and hits on the site?
you nailed it w/the bolded
its fricking horrible
Posted on 5/5/16 at 2:38 pm to Rickety Cricket
Caitlyn, brah. So brave.
Posted on 5/5/16 at 7:15 pm to Rickety Cricket
SI has a website?
Posted on 5/6/16 at 12:37 am to Rickety Cricket
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used to think it was ESPN, but they seem to have streamlined theirs.
With SI, it seems that every article is now accompanied by a video that launches immediately upon opening. Just now I was reading an article on re-grading the 2013 NFL draft, and there's sound coming from who knows where. Not only that, any time your mouse passes over the top bar to select a league/sport, it brings down a menu that takes up half of the screen.
ESPN's is real real bad. Not only is the content created either by a computer program or a team of remedial 4th graders, they also have serious bandwidth issues. I logged on the other day to try to see what a certain score was in an NBA game and I swear it the score of a game that had already been finished for 30 minutes up as like 82-83 with 3 minutes to go in the 3 rd quarter.
I'm like, really? Y'all make how much money?
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