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

[Collingwood 4 eternity]

You haven't been able to do this for at least a year now without paying iirc.

I have the live pass but I still can't find replays of past games.

Just click on the drop down season menu , match replays go back to 2012

Select by round or team

click watch replay

 

[wagstaff]

Recall Rohan Connolly on Footyology last year saying he'd heard rumours the AFL was looking to make its website more appealing for casual fans interested in profile pieces on players as opposed to the pure news/stats site it was for hardcore fans. Perhaps this is part of that change?

In anycase, while the website is awkwardly constructed now, agree with those who say we should wait till the real stuff starts in a few weeks before judging it.

 

[Truckosaurus]

Yeah, casual fans definitely want to read profile pieces on individual players over things like scores, schedules, breaking news. I can see the AFL's logic in this.

 

[Rimmer]

Can't say I am a fan, the old style I could see and delve into mulptile articles off the front page, maybe 20 to 30 options ... now I have too many pictures clogging up the front page and too few quickly assessed articles, I have to go searching.

 

[Lsta062]

There are certain issues in the past that were inconvenient with previous AFL website designs, but this is probably the first time that I actually don’t like the website. It looks nice, but the functionality and user friendliness is probably far from ideal, especially if you are more than just a casual fan. The desktop version basically has the mobile experience with everything so enlarged.

We’ll have to see what they do with the team and player stats to get the full picture of this re-design.

Also, why did they get rid of that overview of games and previous results in the top? Was one of my favourite features as it made navigating between games convenient.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

There's also the removal of games before 2012 on the Match Centre.

 

[The 747]

Shows how bad Telstra are, this should be their flagship website to say "look what we can do for you if you want a website". Well actually it sorta does that, look we can produce you an awful, inefficient, illogical website with horrible UX to turn your fans away and charge you heaps for it.

 

[Rod Stroker]

More of their best work from fAilFL

 

[RedmanWasHere]

More of their best work from fAilFL

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Much clunk.
Such wow.

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Every update they have had over the past few years has seemed to lead to a less intuitive model that is more difficult to use.

Somebody gets paid for this stuff.

 

[Ozzie93]

The site is dog s**t now... Quick someone make a chrome extension for the old afl.com.au layout, thanks

 

[RedmanWasHere]

The site is dog s**t now... Quick someone make a chrome extension for the old afl.com.au layout, thanks

And allow multiple options that allows it to flow onto club websites. (2005, 2006, 2007 and 2013 with 2009-10 a possibility.)

 

[Lsta062]

I’m going to hold my final opinions until they fully release everything, but I currently don’t like that you cannot sort the ladder by stats and choose from a range of statistical measures. It’s something I liked about this website.

 

[My Tilly]

God this new website by the AFL is a crock of s**t!!!!
How the hell can I just catch up on today's mens footy's?

Bunch of absolute muppet's in charge.

 

[jackster83]

God this new website by the AFL is a crock of s**t!!!!
How the hell can I just catch up on today's mens footy's?

Bunch of absolute muppet's in charge.

It's absolute ******* garbage. Can't even look up match stats anymore - I suspect they are trying to push people to sign up to their live pass.

We need an equivalent of cricinfo. Footywire and Fanfooty are probably the best we've (currently) got.

 

[Quokka]

Why keep making it worse?

The team selections look so bad compared to the previous 'field' layout.

And the new match day stats look worse, I'm sure there are less of them (no advanced option either) and now you can't order the players by different stats.

 

[Luv_our_club]

It must have cost the AFL a lot of money to create a website so bad, then make it worse, then turn it to detritus, and now make it not worth visiting.

Someone is earning their billable hours.

 

[jj1978]

Telstra own the digital rights and have engaged with a sport website company PulseLive to build the new sites. Telstra concerned over other entities swooping in and getting the rights off them so appear to be trying their best to impress but looks like they’ve failed.

 

[Ishmael_]

Is anyone else finding that videos load horribly now? They might start but then stop or fail to load at all.

I've paused any extensions on the AFL website, use chrome and have excellent internet. It's frustrating as hell.

 

[TheFVK]

Why is this so ******* bad

 

[Wallaby]

Is anyone else finding that videos load horribly now? They might start but then stop or fail to load at all.

I like the clever 'duplicate sound' you can get - there is only a single video playing, but somehow there are two audio streams - out of sync by about 4-5 seconds.
It's probably some new, cool effect to attract the social-media-savvy kids.

Or it could just be another piece of s**t, as we've come to expect.

 

[HTPunter]

Everything is very bothersome and slow to navigate. Honestly a 0/0. Would rather use stat sites such as fanfooty and highlights on Kayo than use the AFL website

 

[Heaps of fun]

Even scrolling through an article sucks. I can't even tell where one ends and another begins. Also, who was the genius that removed scores from the top of the front page?

 

[caloschwaby]

Telstra own the digital rights and have engaged with a sport website company PulseLive to build the new sites. Telstra concerned over other entities swooping in and getting the rights off them so appear to be trying their best to impress but looks like they’ve failed.

Turns out they do the EPL... it aint all that much better, but I appreciate the table being present at least.
This would be great if matches were visible from somewhere on the page at a glance.



Turns out you can, but only once you go in to the matches

Stats are hidden all the way at the bottom, but at least they are ordered in to who got the most. Unsure if there's a complete player stat table, wasn't able to find it.

 

[Roobs321]

Recall Rohan Connolly on Footyology last year saying he'd heard rumours the AFL was looking to make its website more appealing for casual fans interested in profile pieces on players as opposed to the pure news/stats site it was for hardcore fans. Perhaps this is part of that change?

I think that trend has perceptibly been in train throughout this entire rights period. The preseason ad is another example of this, and the match analysis has been in decline.