wtf just happened to cricinfo

[Mike5181]

And I thought the last redesign was bad.

 

[Bijed]

One thing I will say is it does seem quite a bit snappier and more responsive to navigate (in terms of loading times), used to really grind sometimes, I felt.

Not that this makes up for the massive downgrade in usefulness, of course, but if they listen to feedback and get it more back to how it used to be in functionality without compromising this too much, that'd be good

 

[Burner]

Their match commentary page was perfect. Don't know why they had to fix something that was so obviously not broken.

 

[NZTailender]

It's fine. You'll get used to it in time.

 

[Burner]

No I know these sort of reactions are common when something gets changed, but I don't think I'll get used to it. At least an option to use the old mode would have been useful.

 

[Starfighter]

As far as I can see according to cricinfo Test cricket didn't begin until 2003 - bye bye Bradman, and indeed TOTAB

Yeah, I mentioned that last night in another thread. How can you break all those links like that? You can't access any of the scorecards, match reports or other bits and bobs for the archive page now. It's completely ****ed.

 

[Starfighter]

The search function has also become useless, with that dumbed down style that is popular these days. You can't search for players by name anymore using the search box in the top bar. At least the player's archive still seems to work.

 

[TheJediBrah]

One thing I will say is it does seem quite a bit snappier and more responsive to navigate (in terms of loading times), used to really grind sometimes, I felt.

Not that this makes up for the massive downgrade in usefulness, of course, but if they listen to feedback and get it more back to how it used to be in functionality without compromising this too much, that'd be good

lol so cute

 

[TheJediBrah]

It does say you can sign up and customise so maybe you can sort of fix it by personalising the site?

 

[NZTailender]

Wankers. This should be some sort of case-study in how to **** up a good thing.

I remember when the previous Cricinfo design iteration was launched and people said the exact same thing.

 

[cnerd123]

I like this

This is way better than the previous iteration.

 

[morgieb]

Glad I'm not the only person going WTF. Hopefully I can warm to it.

 

[Prince EWS]

This totally ****s me over for so many reasons

 

[DriveClub]

I don't see any difference?

 

[smash84]

They could have at least done some A/B testing before making the page so shite

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Was this a ploy all along to divert all the guys from the sub-continent to comment on every single article?

 

[Black_Warrior]

They change every few years anyway... people will just get used to it. My only gripe with this one is that they have kinda hidden my two favourite sections - The Cricket Monthly and Statsguru which basically tells you that catering to geeks is not necessarily their priority when planning site design

 

[Prince EWS]

They change every few years anyway... people will just get used to it. My only gripe with this one is that they have kinda hidden my two favourite sections - The Cricket Monthly and Statsguru which basically tells you that catering to geeks is not necessarily their priority when planning site design

They're not catering to people who write applications to brute-force download all their scorecards either. Bastards.

 

[Athlai]

I remember when the previous Cricinfo design iteration was launched and people said the exact same thing.

Man I hated that last one, made everything so hard to find.

 

[TheJediBrah]

I remember when the previous Cricinfo design iteration was launched and people said the exact same thing.

And they were right. It was made worse but then people just got used to it and forgot how good it used to be. Now it's even worse again.

I honestly don't think this is just a case of "change is bad, new is scary". It really is worse.