The new AFL web page is shit!

[Macca19]

2 hours after the Port game...and the statistics are still not up! The old one...at least you could look at them while the game was playing as well...i got home from the port game...and the afl website hadnt even registered that any game was being played tonight!!!!

Bring back the old one, at least it worked properly

 

[QT]

Agreed Macca, why did they scrap the LIVE scoreboard's for? maybe channel 7 are still pissed they lost the AFL rights!

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[WCE2000]

i was watching the scores for all 3 games without a hitch up until 3 quarter time of the Port/Brisbane match.

I would give it a few weeks, because there obviously a few bugs, still in the system.

I haven't had any major problems with it so far.

 

[WCE2000]

QT:

what are you talking about, they have the live scoreboards. You can access them by the box in the top right of the screen.

 

[WCE2000]

and they've got all the stats up for tonights 3 matches on there now.

 

[Grave Danger]

Originally posted by WCE2000:
i was watching the scores for all 3 games without a hitch up until 3 quarter time of the Port/Brisbane match.

Heh heh, Port's blistering third quarter must have overloaded their system

 

[Bluey]

I've said this before - they've made so many design errors on that site that I believe that upper-level AFL management has had a bit of a hand in the design.

White text on a blue background? That looks absolutely unreadable on any older monitor. I'm looking at it on my (brand new) laptop monitor now, and it is NOT easy on the eye. Black on white or a similar light colour will always be best for larger blocks of text. No question. If they wanted to use blue, the main text should be black, and the background should be the same as the background of the Newsflash box on the front page.

The menu system at the top of the page is not the best. The old system worked perfectly - this one forces people to scan too much, and scan from text to image to text.

Little thought has gone into this new site, or (more likely) sensible thought has been overridden by management demands.

I no longer visit the official site for news items. Scores and fixture info are the only use I find for afl.com.au

 

[Lionel Lyon]

THey now have free lie telecasts of most the matches, so as far as I'm concerened the stats issue is pretty secondary, though a slight nuisance. Long live the new site!

 

[JUBJUB]

I couldn't get a 'LIVE SCORE' of the Port v Bris or the Freo v Carl games after 3qtr time.

The AFL site is a bit of a mess.

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