Does Anyone Else HATE the New Oregon Live format?

by Fizbin on Mar 13, 2008 9:00 AM PDT

Sorry if this is a repeat... but man! I hate the new Oregon Life format. It's the least navigable thing I've ever seen. It's like they did a web design based on sites from the early nineties. What gives?

I was already getting virtually all my Blazers information from this site... now I'm just about all the way committed. Has anyone else complained about that or am I all alone here?

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Yes it sucks plenty

It was pretty darn good the way it was.

They should have paid Casey a cool mill to keep him over there.

"Life is a meaningless sequence of events in between Blazer championships"

by broggerboy19 on Mar 13, 2008 9:03 AM PDT reply actions

I absolutely agree

So very annoying. I think they already tried a set up like this a couple years back but I don't think it lasted as long as it has this time. Hopefully someone comes to there senses and changes it back to a managable site

Change We Believe In

by KPin2008 on Mar 13, 2008 9:10 AM PDT reply actions

I

couldn't agree more. I about threw up when I saw they changed it

Smile, you're on a poster!

by RoysOurBoy on Mar 13, 2008 9:10 AM PDT reply actions

YES

I'm super duper awesome

by hobobob on Mar 13, 2008 9:10 AM PDT reply actions

sigh

As a web-designer, it annoys me that newspaper corps try to adopt the mantra of turning a webpage into a newspaper clone.

Guess what? IT AIN'T [sorry Dave, I said ain't, deal with it].

Make it a website, not a damn piece of paper!

ROTUNDITYDOTNET

by damir on Mar 13, 2008 9:14 AM PDT reply actions

I agree as well...

much harder to find the content I want to read.

by EngineerScotty on Mar 13, 2008 9:33 AM PDT reply actions

Two years ago

I regularly read Oregon Live, Truehoop, Hoopsworld, and Hoopshype. I found Blazers Thoughts and had a new favorite Blazers banter site. Last year, I read less O-live and hoopshype and more Blazersedge after Dave's transition. This season, I primarily go to Blazersedge, occasionally go to Truehoop and rarely lokk at any of the others site I mentioned.

This is mostly due to the quality of discussion at Blazersedge. Plus I trust that I will see ever bit of Blazers news in a diary very shortly after it is posted somewhere. This allows me to spend less time scouring the web for Blazers banter.

And yes, O-live is just ugly, slow and not as good as Dave.

by NWfan on Mar 13, 2008 10:22 AM PDT reply actions

The criticisms are valid

but once you know where the links are you want to click it's not much different functionally than any other site. I'm just irritated that they changed it all. Whatever happened to, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it"? Make it better or leave it alone.

by MiledAnimal on Mar 13, 2008 10:34 AM PDT reply actions

My Biggest Beef..

..was actually implemented shortly before the redesign. When I go to the blogs, I like to just be able to print (or scroll through) the new stories in one go. Now, if I want all of a story, I've got to click on the "continue reading the entry..." link at the bottom of the teaser. With the old format of the whole story followed by all of the next (like Blazers Edge) I can just look at the print preview and print the new pages I need in one go instead of clicking on each story.

by TLF_Big_Papi on Mar 13, 2008 10:47 AM PDT reply actions

Good... "user error" aside...

... I'm glad I'm not alone. I thought for a minute I had just gotten too old to keep up with the way things are supposed to work.

by Fizbin on Mar 13, 2008 10:56 AM PDT reply actions

I am with you

I also do not like the new format and would like to see it back to the way it was.

by sleeves on Mar 13, 2008 11:22 AM PDT reply actions

Yup.

Bad layout - bad navigation (right-hand, WTF?), bad bad bad bad bad.

by DonkeyShins on Mar 13, 2008 11:25 AM PDT reply actions

I liked it better before...

but the worst site is definitely USAtoday.com.

That is just terrible.

Bill Simmons is smarter than I thought.

by you'vegottomakeyourfreethrows on Mar 13, 2008 12:10 PM PDT reply actions

Me too me too

I know I can find the stuff just fine still (Just gotta scroll down to see the Blog and Quick's blog links), but it's annoying and it's harder to just look really quickly at the front page and see if anything new has happened. You have to actually LOOK and double check crap just to see if anyone has died or something. I don't like it at all.

If they don't change it back, I'll live. But it's a dumb setup. The content and everything has been GREAT, but this redesign is dirty booty sticks.

All me want is ease of navigation and ease of access to info. The old site you could LOOK, and see if there was new news to read. Now I gotta do more work and I am too important for this nonsense.

Mortimer

by Mortimer on Mar 13, 2008 1:03 PM PDT reply actions

Hate it! Hate IT!

It just blows! Bring back the old one, please!!!!

God I miss Casey, but he's in a better place now, smokin' those huge cigars, countin' all of paulallensbig$$$ - just livin' the dream!

Ball Don't Lie

by bothteamsplayedhard on Mar 13, 2008 1:25 PM PDT reply actions

very cheesy

Its hard to describe how the new format makes me feel, as that Spirit Mtn casino commercial keeps going thru my head....

"I know a place where we can go!!!"

..For a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit. Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)

by bow4meow on Mar 13, 2008 2:42 PM PDT reply actions

Spirit Mnt

"At the door there is a man who will greet youuuu....with a bright blue smock and a bad hair cuttttt"......"I think I will up-chuckkkkkkkkkkk"

La la la I hate that freakin' spot!!!!!

by 92wastheyear on Mar 13, 2008 5:49 PM PDT up reply actions

Uh oh

Hope you guys don't hate the re-design coming for this site.

--Dave

by Dave on Mar 13, 2008 2:54 PM PDT reply actions

If it dosen't look

like that, uh, junk, on the O-Live site, Dave - we'll be cool.

But frankly Dave, I think you could shut down BE, start sending smoke signals from Idaho and everyone here would get binoculars...

Ball Don't Lie

by bothteamsplayedhard on Mar 13, 2008 4:12 PM PDT up reply actions

Just make it like TrueHoop

used to be before ESPN bought it. That was as close to a perfect site as I've ever seen. Simple but elegant, well-organized, and easy to read. Best of all, you could read lots of Blazer items without complaints from Laker fans and other fools.

by MiledAnimal on Mar 13, 2008 4:41 PM PDT up reply actions

I'm already working on some complaints

I just hope to get the first diary in the new format and go off topic so no one will actually complain about the new format.

"And even as I wander, I'm keeping you in sight. You're a candle in the wind, On a cold, dark winter's night."

by tominhawaii on Mar 14, 2008 7:56 AM PDT up reply actions

It is HORRIBLE

It looks cheap and disjointed. It is hard to navigate and it looks like blog. In fact, you can't tell what is a blog and what is a newspaper article. It is a jumbled mess. It was fine before, there was no need to change it. Thankfully we have Dave and this site where we can get our information.

by Blazer22 on Mar 13, 2008 3:52 PM PDT reply actions