AFL.com.au Website Update: "New Digital Publishing Experience"

[HTPunter]

The AFL and the NRL seem to be in direct competition for who has the worse, least practical and most poorly functioning website.

The AFL is hitting 2020 with a full head of steam it appears...

 

[The Victorian]

It is so hard to find anything on this website!

The old one was far more similar and easy to navigate

 

[Pessimistic]

Theyd want to have a whole new and bigger audience cos theyve peed off all the previous fans

 

[The Goon]

Can't filter the fixture by team anymore.

AFL Fixtures and Results - AFL.com.au

AFL fixtures, results and scores from the Toyota AFL Premiership Season, NAB Women's and State Leagues seasons by round.

www.afl.com.au

Noticed that too. Diabolically stupid.

 

[FlowersByIrene]

No ****ing stats on the AFL website for live games, this is less quality than even i first though.




Something has to be done. The AFL website is beyond putrid, desktop experience is completely sanitized and looks like everything has been prepared fro a mobile phone and then just blown up to full screen. Looks, tacky and directionless in browser.

Worst ****ing website i've ever seen for a professional sporting organisation.

 

[Gavin Excell]

Telstra

 

[Unique Name]

Why on earth would they remove the bar at the top of the website with all the games for the weekend? It was an easy way to quickly check the scores.

 

[Truckosaurus]

No ******* stats on the AFL website for live games, this is less quality than even i first though.

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Something has to be done. The AFL website is beyond putrid, desktop experience is completely sanitized and looks like everything has been prepared fro a mobile phone and then just blown up to full screen. Looks, tacky and directionless in browser.

Worst ******* website i've ever seen for a professional sporting organisation.

The money that could have gone into separate builds for mobile and desktop was probably spent on more important things, like redecorating Gil's office.

 

[the harry]

Even just trying to get ticket dates is difficult.

Why make it so hard?

 

[Rowan18]

The old website was really good, this new one is shit.

How do you watch match replays now? I have AFL live but can't find past games anywhere.

 

[AuntyBlindEye]

Watching videos on the AFL website or teams website's is a horrible experience. All sorts of pop ups blocking parts of the video and the task bar.

It might just be a mobile thing but it's still woeful.

 

[Jeremias]

The old website was really good, this new one is shit.

How do you watch match replays now? I have AFL live but can't find past games anywhere.

The old website was shit. They’ve just managed to make it worse.

 

[BEaston]

The new website ****ing sucks.

 

[Godchin]

Mobile phones have ruined desktop browsing (although in this case, the AFL mobile app is garbage too).

 

[Truckosaurus]

Basically if I want a quick score check I'm better off going to a fan site than the official one. Good job, AFLstra.

 

[Coaster2012]

Shockingly bad yesterday. I just wanted to see the live score, couldn't find it anywhere. I eventually found it, by clicking on the live blog and then clicking on another link inside the article but without stats for the game, ahh what? Atrocious. Even now, going back to it, I can't find the scores from yesterday. I need to go to news, scroll until I find a news article about the game, and scroll through the article to find the scores somewhere in the article. If it takes me longer than 90 seconds to find scores, I'm not doing it.

If I click on fixtures, It wants me to download a pdf? wtf is this?

At least they haven't decided to revamp the AFL fantasy this year. Every year they completely revamp it, its full of bugs and doesn't actual work properly till round 16. Least they have done something right.

 

[FlowersByIrene]

"Game Starting Soon"

campaigner... tell me WHEN the ****ing game is starting, do I need to check the stream again in 10 minutes, 3 minutes or 25 minutes.

You cannot find the starting time fo this WBD v North game ANYWHERE on the AFL website... this continues to get worse and worse

 

[Cleavy]

It was a good website a year or so ago, but since then it's become a steaming turd.

one could argue it was never good

 

[raymond35]

Well, the radio call actually works on my Samsung phone for the first time in 2 years.
Well done telstra. Clap......clap......

 

[Rod Stroker]

It's deplorable. Terrible UI. The video platform they use to host their content is so slow. And nowhere on the main page does it show what games are on this weekend.

All the money in the world and still can't design a decent web site.

 

[footyfan1978]

The old website was really good, this new one is shit.

How do you watch match replays now? I have AFL live but can't find past games anywhere.

I had such trouble with videos on their website this year that I simply no longer can go there.
Same with my club website. I actually had to shut down my computer as some weird shit happens with the videos that I can no longer click off properly when videos seems to take forever to load up. Any interviews with our own players or new list manger in last 5 or 6 weeks I still not seen as the sites are no longer fixed. I thought it was just a hiccup and would be fixed after a few days but during the week tried to visit Carlton site to listen to an interview on video and same shit happens. Are all the club sites using the same type of bullshit the afl.com.au has been downgraded to ?

 

[footyfan1978]

Watching videos on the AFL website or teams website's is a horrible experience. All sorts of pop ups blocking parts of the video and the task bar.

It might just be a mobile thing but it's still woeful.

aha, so it is not just my club website. Seems like other club websites too. I noticed it all started happening at the same time afl.com.au changed theirs.
It is beyond a joke how bad it is. Cannot believe this was not fixed after a day or two and being left to be the way website functions for now on. Simply will not visit ever again at this rate.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

And said videos cover the whole screen.

At least you could navigate the website in 2005-06.

 

[dumb]

Abandoning more common sense design each year. Nobody should have to work hard to find basic information.
Shades of cricinfo being molded to fit the inappropriate ESPN template.

 

[MowShow]

Both the website and the app have been made worse each year for the last 3 years.

It's quite embarrassing.