SBN launches new look and feel. No your browser is not messing up. We have a new look and feel. If...

SBN launches new look and feel.

No your browser is not messing up. We have a new look and feel. If you have any comments positive or negative feel free to post them here. We are always trying to upgrade our platform and stay on the cutting edge.

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3 months ago Jaxon 16 comments 0 recs |

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So far it is terrible

As a professional web designer and programmer, so far I don’t like it. There are to many references to outside websites, and it is costing this site a lot in performance. It takes pages a long long time to load even on our universities very fast network. Some of these connections to other sites are timing out and preventing pages from loading at all.

I would suggest tweaking some of this stuff. It appears to be getting held up on ad-serve requests, or maybe some sort of traffic monitoring service.

by Tater596 on Nov 3, 2009 10:45 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Yeah, getting similar feedback via the internal email thread on that

BTW, we looking to adding to our development staff:

We are looking to hire a software developer and an operations
engineer. Details can be found here:

http://www.sbnation.com/jobs

Just FYI. Thanks for the feedback bigdavis

I blog the Carolina Panthers at www.catscratchreader.com

by Jaxon on Nov 3, 2009 11:01 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

we 'are' looking to 'add' to

lord I’ve got to stop typing so fast…

I blog the Carolina Panthers at www.catscratchreader.com

by Jaxon on Nov 3, 2009 11:02 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Same

It’s calling outside sites that are ridiculously slow.

by boywonderncsu on Nov 3, 2009 4:16 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

It's a mess right now.

I’m fine with the typeface changes, but like Tater596 it’s moving like a snail on my work’s network (where I get most of my posting done- lol).

Cat Scratch Reader's resident optimist.

by James The Aussie on Nov 3, 2009 11:27 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

If it helps your web folks

The problems seem to be when connections are made to:

sitemeter.com

Also, I am not having nearly as many problems in Internet Explorer as I am in Firefox.

by Tater596 on Nov 3, 2009 11:53 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

+1

I’m using IE at work and home (though I occasionally use Firefox at home, too). Looks like IE is getting along okay.

by NSpicer on Nov 3, 2009 1:35 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Something odd I noticed...

…is it just me or are extra breaks between paragraphs not registering right when we submit a post? The text is getting compressed because the site is now eliminating extra carriage returns.

by NSpicer on Nov 3, 2009 1:36 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

+1

I am also having this problem. Really messing up my posts.

by Tater596 on Nov 3, 2009 2:57 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

This looks awful.

Tons of empty space. It looks like somebody’s bad web design class project.

Remember when the Panthers had a good offensive line? Yeah, me too.
--Darin Gantt

by MichaelProcton on Nov 3, 2009 4:06 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

One the plus side:

It’s running a little faster this afternoon than it was this morning. My work has IE 7 though… so I’ll test with Firefox at home.

Cat Scratch Reader's resident optimist.

by James The Aussie on Nov 3, 2009 4:37 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

At first, I thought I had went to the wrong website. ha

I’m not sure when the site was dragging but it has been running fine for me (on Chrome).

by D-Ranged1 on Nov 3, 2009 5:14 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

It's alright by me

Though the pages do tend to load more slowly than in the past.

by SmithnCompany on Nov 3, 2009 6:37 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Now I'm home...

The site is running vastly faster on my work PC that has IE than my home network with Firefox.

For all other sites my hope PC is 2-3 times faster than my work.

Cat Scratch Reader's resident optimist.

by James The Aussie on Nov 3, 2009 7:39 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

I'm not a big fan of it.

This must be a sign of the end-times.

"Once again the trousers of evil are yanked down by the mocking hands of justice!"-Revshawn

by Revshawn on Nov 3, 2009 8:30 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Per the SBN email thread on this topic

some bugs have been worked out regarding load times. Lot’s of similar comments to those above regarding the white spaces, fonts, pictures being centered, etc…The Techies have asked for a little more time to work on it so hopefully the they can get is scraight.

Sometime you have to take a step back to move 3 steps ahead (my positive spin of the day!)

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by Jaxon on Nov 4, 2009 8:50 AM EST reply actions 0 recs