Ah, so it's an RPG! Nice! Though, I must tell you, I'm not a fan of RPG's. Make it an FPS, Action/Adventure, Racing or Sports title and I'll be interested.
So I'm seeing a lot of video talk in this thread. Overall: * Video seems to be great for most, but doesn't work at all for a substantial number of users, either because of their software or because their area is blacked out. This deserves a thread, especially because there are so many geographic blackouts that don't make sense. * General content still has issues. The overall layout needs improvement. Stats and information in general are difficult to access and sometimes inaccurate. I think if we really want to effectively address the MLS website's shortcomings, we really need to split the discussion in two: one for video, and one for everything else. Right now the video talk and the content talk are burying each other.
I wouldn't mind seeing a seriously-toned straight-up "bug report" thread. Everyone's just enjoying kicking them while they are down a bit too much in here. How about we actually rack up lists of things that are f'ed up and email them? With as many things as they're trying to fix they probably don't even have some of these things on their to-do list.
Because I literally get paid to do that all day, I don't really care to do it for free when I get home.
OK. Now that I and several others griped about the videos page, and the highlights in particular, I'm back to give them props. Went to the mlssoccer.com/videos url this morning to catch the highlights from the game last night, and got rolled over to a new URL that has a tab especially for highlights, and no results listed. I am happy now. Sad that it took a month for this to get going but it looks like they're starting to get there. At least, as far as this user is concerned.
I do like the new videos page looks great and the Best of MLS is a nice way for those who are just following the league to learn a bit of the history. Yes at 15 years we are starting to get history. I second a Web app for iphone.
New bug. On the scoreboard on the main page, every game scheduled this weekend is listed as "Today." Since it's technically the 24th on the East Coast, I can excuse the Saturday games (even if I don't like it). There is, however, absolutely no excuse for telling us that Toronto vs. Seattle, scheduled on Sunday, is "Today."
Peeve 1) If the game isn't available via MatchDay Live, then "Watch Now Live" shouldn't show above the game on the top bar. 2) Secondly, if it isn't available, they really need to tell us where the game is being broadcast instead of telling us to "check local listings". I mean, that's why were on the league's website? Right? If the freakin' league website can't tell us whether it's on espn2, Telefutura, or HGTV, what's the point?
This. On the old MLSnet.com, at the bottom of each game on the little schedule widget on the homepage had a very simple "TV: ESPN2" or "TV: FSC, FSE", etc.
It's nice to have a database of all the video features. Before you could watch programs such as "the daily" only by clicking the link from the main page and then if you missed one, it was incredibly hard to find previous days because there was no main page that listed the similar videos. Now they're all in the same place and well organized.
...... aaaaaaaaaaaaaand the games that are not 48-hour blackouts are listed under the "Live" tab......... the next morning.
rofl you STILL have to highlight the font over their main image article headline text just to read it. The image links in their ( Hahah) picture section still have huge grey boxes making the entire thing look like some kid built this site with Frontpage in 1997. If you are going to play into negative Soccer stereotypes in America, at least line up the boxes for the "Handsome Devils" section. **tin foil alert**** Maybe MLS is secretly run by the NFL and they are trying to drive the nail in the coffin that is US Soccer. Crush any masculinity out of the game with categories designed for 11 year old girls and, um, men who think they are 11 year old girls. Woohoo. ***tin foil alert over***** THANK GOD mdl isn't hosted by the same POS system and people. 25 days after launch right??
No shit. I was going to catch highlights while I ate lunch today and expected to spend half the time searching. Now, it's all set up for me. Very awesome, but frustrating that it took a month.
I watched Highlights yesterday but the video is over the names of the games. So I just have to click the corner not knowing what game Highlights I'll be watching. Just not very professional.
I submit this as the latest example of things an "official" league website's editorial staff shouldn't let out of the newsroom: http://www.mlssoccer.com/news/article/nyrb-player-ratings-hall-new-yorks-best-vs-philly For starters, the headline on MLSSoccer.com that links to this article is "NYRB ratings vs. Philly." Does that not imply TV ratings, instead of player ratings? Second, does any other sports league's official website rate its own players performances in the public, in particular by this utterly subjective scale? Third, on other newsmedia websites that do rate players (for example, Sky Sports), there is always a link in the article that explains the scale used. Where is that explanation here? Finally, in the "3 Things to Know" box, we find that "New signing Brian Nielsen shared a team-low 5-point rating." Why is that something I should know? Really? I know Dyer, and about everyone else on this staff, used to write for newsmedia companies/blogs and this sort of writing is standard for sites that value opinions as much or more than objectivity. But an article like this not only doesn't belong on an official league website, but the details required to make something like this even work on a newsmedia website are lacking.
When I go to schedule, I pull up the highlights of the latest game. Once that game is done, it automatically moves to the next game on its own. That rocks.
basically MLS stole the template of Toronto FC TV and used it......i was wondering what took them so long to do so
Gotta disagree with you there, man. It's clear that the league has put up a wall between its web/editorial operations and its official operations. The writers no longer must speak in neutered, censored, official, voice-of-the-league fashion, and that's a good thing, if you ask me: really frees them up to provide interesting content. Since few of the major independent soccer websites offer MLS coverage worth a damn, and not one of them focuses on MLS, there's been a content void for years, and it was slowly filled by a random mish-mash of blogs, forums, and sites like MLSRumors: a maze, frankly. The casual fan was left with two options: sort through the bland-out, press-release, voiceless, colorless, Pravda-inspired "journalism" of MLSnet, or enter the maze and get eaten by the minotaur. Noticing this, the league decided to make use of its resources to move in and fill that void, hoping to become the destination source for professional editorial writing about the league, thus concentrating everything in one place and making it easily-accessible for even the casual fan, a move which improves the league's media and web presence as a whole. There should be a clearer wall of separation between news and editorial content, but as long as they can manage that, the new direction is a good one.
Are they going to add league-wide attendance averages and league-wide goals-per-game averages to their stats (or are those already there and I'm too dense to find them)?