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Websites Worse than the AFL's

Queanbeyan Demon
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There is the worst by far.

Trained monkeys could build a better website

 

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    Fails badly on the simple test - how many clicks does it take to get to what you want

    When I used it for the first time earlier in the year I couldn't believe how hard it was to find the match centre/results page. 

    They used to have a nice graphic at the top of the homepage that showed each game for the round. Now it's this annoying pop-up that is not user friendly at all.

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      On 20/08/2020 at 09:19, Queanbeyan Demon said:

    Can't think of any.

    The Foxtel website, particularly the Foxtel Go side of things is probably one of the worst sites in the world. On Demand takes forever to get updated, TV guide doesn't even work.

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    Perhaps we are not seeing it the way they do.

    The simple match score is the centre of the maze. First they want to drive us sheep into all the blind alleys that get their clicks (revenue) up.

     

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    Its the worst website.  Totally unusable.  Its  the year 2020 and thats the sort of tripe they dish up for their customers.  Insulting really.

     

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    I get all my Live scores, news and Stats from the Foxfooty website.  Everything is easily accessible and all the scores are right there at the top of the page.   

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    I dont think its worse... but www.conjunctivitis.com is a site for sore eyes.

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    I especially like how it is a completely different process to get the broadcast details and the game details, and you can't have them open at the same time or go from one to the other directly.

    #intuitive #gooddesign #humancentreddesign #definitelynotheaduparsedesign

    Also, as someone who can't watch that many games directly and enjoys playing with the stats to get an idea of what is going on in a game, I love the non-smooth horizontal scrolling and lack of heading-field retention in the player statistics.

    I'm nitpicking, but hey, it's the only way we'll cover everything.

    Ooh,  ooh, and I love how every freak'n week there's a new ever-so-related video with the fearless leader telling us how much he has the feels for

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    Supercoach app is pretty bad. Although your right the AFL website is bad. 

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      On 20/08/2020 at 11:10, BAMF said:

    I dont think its worse... but www.conjunctivitis.com is a site for sore eyes.

    @Demonland Ban BAMF please.

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      On 20/08/2020 at 11:19, Pickett2Jackson said:

    Heres their website from THIRTEEN YEARS AGO!

    Everything you need right here on the front page with one click.

     

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    Wow. Did you save a copy of the internet from 13 years ago? ?

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      On 20/08/2020 at 11:19, Pickett2Jackson said:

    Heres their website from THIRTEEN YEARS AGO!

    Everything you need right here on the front page with one click.

     

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    I actually think that's a mess too. It has the scores easily accessible, okay, but it's way too busy on the right hand side of screen.

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    Appalling website. The ladder says it all on how bad.

    It has a message after 8 position saying top 8 teams make the finals. I mean  really?

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      On 20/08/2020 at 12:20, A F said:

    I actually think that's a mess too. It has the scores easily accessible, okay, but it's way too busy on the right hand side of screen.

    Yeah its a mess alright, but at least you can see the scores, stats and ladder on the front page.

    Their current website has none of that.

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      On 20/08/2020 at 10:32, Pates said:

    The Foxtel website, particularly the Foxtel Go side of things is probably one of the worst sites in the world. On Demand takes forever to get updated, TV guide doesn't even work.

    all done by telstra........that explains a lot

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    Couldn't agree more. It wasn't always this bad, in fact even a few years ago the site was fairly serviceable and somewhat intuitive. 

    Nowadays the home page layout confuses me, menus have become more and more obfuscated and generally speaking its clunky and difficult to find what you're looking for. And don't get me started on the tabloid style, fake outrage inducing and virtue signalling "news" from AFL media. 

    Foxsports is good for checking scores; for everything else, theres Demonland. 

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    I love the gigantic links to other articles featuring an image and massive bold headline that are littered throughout the article you are reading. First few times I encountered these I thought what happened to the article I was reading?? Until I learned to just keep scrolling and eventually you'll get to the next paragraph ?. A truly terrible website.

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      On 20/08/2020 at 12:20, A F said:

    I actually think that's a mess too. It has the scores easily accessible, okay, but it's way too busy on the right hand side of screen.

    But it does convey a Demon win over The Filth. Can't  be too bad!

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    It's [censored] atrocious. Worst site I regularly have to visit.

    It should have the live match info stuff plastered across the homepage. I shouldn't have to navigate through menus to find it. Noone gives a [censored] about the rubbish articles they shove down your throat, we just want to see live scores and stats. 

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    Try just about any govenment services website, but that's hardly a fair comparison as these days, they are pretty much designed to fail to dissuade people from actually accessing the services they are there to provide.

    My current employer's intranet is also an absolute dog.

    Not defending the current AFL site by any means though.  The current one has gone backwards from what it was.  Biggest gripes for me are the several changes they have made to the match centre:

    1.  Removing scores from the banner up the top;

    2.  Only displaying the current day's matches rather than the whole round (i.e. requiring another button click to load the whole round);

    3.  Removing all the ticketing info off the match centre/game details pages.

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      On 20/08/2020 at 12:17, Brownie said:

    Wow. Did you save a copy of the internet from 13 years ago? ?

     

    LOL nah, just did an image search for 'AFL website'.   Didnt expect to find one from 2007 that puts the current one to shame, but thats the AFL for you.

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