Evocare Posted July 27, 2016 Report Share Posted July 27, 2016 Hi guys, What has happened to the main website - bcfc.co.uk? The font is just about unreadable and looking for more than 3 seconds makes me feel sick, what the hell is with the background? Its utterly torturous on the eyes. Sorry, its an absolute car crash, the content may be there, but the background and font surely has to be a wind up, not fitting for a club of City's stature, just how did it become acceptable to have such a low quality website with that ghastly red/white contrast, its vile. I remember when it was the best in the UK, for years and years and then about 4 yrs ago this happened, ive come back and its still the same - an abomination. Sorry if its your design, but if it is, get your act together you're an embarrassment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddie Hitler Posted July 27, 2016 Report Share Posted July 27, 2016 Happy to be corrected but IIRC City, like 95% of FL clubs, are signed up into some blanket agreement for design & hosting which they would need to buy themselves out of so aren't in control of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taz Posted July 27, 2016 Report Share Posted July 27, 2016 Part of a bigger contract which runs out this year/season I think I read on here somewhere. Same throughout the football league? Basically from my understanding of it, the club don't control as much of the content/design as they used to. I'm sure if that's wrong someone will correct me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbored Posted July 27, 2016 Report Share Posted July 27, 2016 I completely agree. Whatever/whoever is responsible for the design of the OS needs to think again. I use an iPad these days and on the OS i have to scroll sideways rather than up or down. Bottom line - it's crap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeh Posted July 27, 2016 Report Share Posted July 27, 2016 can't blame the club for this, its part of a contract from the football league imposed on all football league clubs, there is one more year of this shit then it will be gone and I suspect the OS will become part of the bristol sport site Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin phantom Posted July 27, 2016 Admin Report Share Posted July 27, 2016 2 hours ago, Monkeh said: can't blame the club for this, its part of a contract from the football league imposed on all football league clubs, there is one more year of this shit then it will be gone and I suspect the OS will become part of the bristol sport site Imagine the top of the new site will be the same as this http://www.bristolrugby.co.uk/ Just nit picking, but two things that our club do control, that I believe should be corrected On the main page there is always a lead story and then other smaller boxes with other stories - to me the latest story should always be the main box - often an update gets's put on the smaller tabs and gets missed The other and it is on the site right now, why when we have a link to match phtos etc does it make us go to a facebook page to view them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeh Posted July 27, 2016 Report Share Posted July 27, 2016 3 minutes ago, phantom said: Imagine the top of the new site will be the same as this http://www.bristolrugby.co.uk/ Just nit picking, but two things that our club do control, that I believe should be corrected On the main page there is always a lead story and then other smaller boxes with other stories - to me the latest story should always be the main box - often an update gets's put on the smaller tabs and gets missed The other and it is on the site right now, why when we have a link to match phtos etc does it make us go to a facebook page to view them? I can see the same, but at least with that we can give feed back and do something about it, the current site we can't Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phileas Fogg Posted July 27, 2016 Report Share Posted July 27, 2016 A bug bear I have, on a bit of a tangent, is the upload time difference between Player and YouTube. Last night's interviews from Bath have only just been put on Player. Last night they were uploaded to YouTube shortly after the game. It's annoying as the YouTube interviews are only snippets and cut out shortly before LJ gave info on Garita. I feel Player content should take priority and be uploaded first as it's paid for. Hopefully in a few years all content will be free and go on YouTube in full, rendering Player redundant. In the meantime though, I feel Player content should take priority. It's taken 12 hours to upload a few short interviews. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeh Posted July 27, 2016 Report Share Posted July 27, 2016 4 minutes ago, Phileas Fogg said: A bug bear I have, on a bit of a tangent, is the upload time difference between Player and YouTube. Last night's interviews from Bath have only just been put on Player. Last night they were uploaded to YouTube shortly after the game. It's annoying as the YouTube interviews are only snippets and cut out shortly before LJ gave info on Garita. I feel Player content should take priority and be uploaded first as it's paid for. Hopefully in a few years all content will be free and go on YouTube in full, rendering player redundant. In the meantime though, I feel Player content should take priority. It's taken 12 hours to upload a few short interviews. to be honest I don't see the point in player much after the deal with the FL runs out, I normally look at the you tube stuff, I'd hazard a guess that player will go when we get control of the website again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phileas Fogg Posted July 27, 2016 Report Share Posted July 27, 2016 3 minutes ago, Monkeh said: to be honest I don't see the point in player much after the deal with the FL runs out, I normally look at the you tube stuff, I'd hazard a guess that player will go when we get control of the website again Well the point of it is that right now the content is longer and more detailed on Player and uninterrupted match commentary goes there. YouTube, at the moment, is just snippets. I hope it is phased out too, the site and app are so clunky and unreliable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin phantom Posted July 27, 2016 Admin Report Share Posted July 27, 2016 4 hours ago, phantom said: On the main page there is always a lead story and then other smaller boxes with other stories - to me the latest story should always be the main box - often an update gets's put on the smaller tabs and gets missed And there we have it - the latest bit of news, and probably the most important for many on that page, and it's hidden away ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin1988 Posted July 27, 2016 Report Share Posted July 27, 2016 Is it hidden? The website is garbage compared to what it could be but there's a bit of an overreaction in here. If a fairly straightforward font makes you want to be sick after three seconds you should probably see a doctor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephenkibby. Posted July 27, 2016 Report Share Posted July 27, 2016 5 hours ago, Monkeh said: to be honest I don't see the point in player much after the deal with the FL runs out, I normally look at the you tube stuff, I'd hazard a guess that player will go when we get control of the website again Well I see the point in player. Its the only way I get to listen to the games!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeh Posted July 27, 2016 Report Share Posted July 27, 2016 44 minutes ago, stephenkibby. said: Well I see the point in player. Its the only way I get to listen to the games!!!! as philias points out phasing it out is a better option and start doing our own thing, we were always light years ahead of most other clubs when it came to the online thing before this football league contract, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 27, 2016 Report Share Posted July 27, 2016 The club asked for feedback a while ago - I posted a thread about it. Whether at the end of next season do they go it alone or see what the next FL deal comes up. However it's possible all clubs will walk away and go solo. If City do go solo then you'd expect it to go into the current network of BS Sites Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
View from the Dolman Posted July 27, 2016 Report Share Posted July 27, 2016 EFL Digital (the new name for FLi) announced recently they'd appointed a couple of new companies to deliver new websites for the clubs in the network from July 2017. http://www.efl.com/news/article/2016/efl-digital-new-long-term-partnerships-announced-3193708.aspx The last deal with Sapient Nitro had a lot of exciting promises when it was announced but it delivered a steaming turd so will be interesting to see what's delivered to clubs regardless of whether City remain in the network or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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