Is this the worst web site? [Archive]

numediaman

Jun 17, 2005, 01:44 PM

Manzana

Jun 17, 2005, 01:59 PM

Between the design of the site, and the total lack of judgement when it comes to news, can this be the absolutely worst web site out there?

Then again, what other "popular" sites do you consider the worst?

that's funny! yeah that site sucks, i think most sites for large commercial entities just blow. i think the designers have to "wow" the suits or the marketing dept with their deft knowledge of web code. just look at my personal favorite worst site
ESPN.com (http://www.espn.go.com)

nasty!

Manzana

Jun 17, 2005, 02:00 PM

oh yeah...if you click on it now the headline is "Not Looking Good"

totally!

broken_keyboard

Jun 17, 2005, 02:01 PM

Then again, what other "popular" sites do you consider the worst?

The redesign of Apple Downloads is horrid. They used to have a simple list of files, and you could scroll down to where you were up to in the list last time you looked. Now they have all these extranious concepts that no one cares about, such as "Featured downloads" and "Hot picks" and "Hot Tiger" and "Recently featured". LOL, what retards.

Google groups has also been ruined. It used to be a pleasure to use, and now it makes me just want to throw something.

MacRy

Jun 17, 2005, 02:01 PM

Between the design of the site, and the total lack of judgement when it comes to news, can this be the absolutely worst web site out there?

Then again, what other "popular" sites do you consider the worst?

Toshiba UK (http://www.toshiba.co.uk/)

Not necessarily the worst but just truly dreadful in my opinion. Really busy looking and just a bit cack really.

Manzana

Jun 17, 2005, 02:12 PM

could you explain "cack" please? i tried reading that last sentence with my best british accent and just saying it cracked me up. what does it mean? i tried wikipedia but no joy.

munkle

Jun 17, 2005, 02:28 PM

could you explain "cack" please? i tried reading that last sentence with my best british accent and just saying it cracked me up. what does it mean? i tried wikipedia but no joy.

That's where UrbanDictionary (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cack&r=f) comes in, look at definition 2,5 etc ;) :p

Sharewaredemon

Jun 17, 2005, 02:30 PM

Why is it that any computer site other than Apple I am unable to navigate without being confused?

njmac

Jun 17, 2005, 02:41 PM

Ahhh, right "popular" sites, thanks Mr. Anderson.

I'd say godaddy.com (http://www.godaddy.com)

Its cluttered and just looking at it makes me feel a little anxious ;)

Mr. Anderson

Jun 17, 2005, 02:43 PM

Then again, what other "popular" sites do you consider the worst?

News sites are always a bit much in terms of too much content at once - what I'd like to see is one without advertising - I think that's the thing that really messes those sites up.

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Leeloo the 5th

Jun 17, 2005, 03:00 PM

http://www.mtv.com/
It's been a while, but when I once browsed this site, clicking on a link that said the same, starting from two different pages, brought me to different pages. Not consistent at all.
News sites are always a bit much in terms of too much content at once - what I'd like to see is one without advertising - I think that's the thing that really messes those sites up.

D
Well here is one: www.vrtnieuws.net, although I doubt it will help you much since it's in Dutch :p, but just click on the "Flandersnews" link on the left side, it will bring you to an English version. (It's the news site of the Belgian, Dutch-speaking public tv.)

solvs

Jun 17, 2005, 03:03 PM

I think www.tvtome.com has taken a turn for the worst, thank you CNet. You didn't screw up Download.com (... that bad). Judging by what I've seen of the (mostly former now) regulars over there, I'm not alone. I'm still not thrilled with the "new" www.maccentral.com (now MacWorld News) either, but it's not the end of the world, just a little annoying. And believe me, I've definitely seen worse, but it sucks when a web page you love and visit all the time has to make such a drastic change. Especially when they don't listen to the feedback of their users.

I liked when this site made some changes. Nice and subtle, change for the better, and listening to feedback from it's users. That's the way they all should do it. Then again, I used to have to work on this (http://www.unitedfarmworkers.com/) site. It looks a lot better now, you should have seen what it looked like before (http://web.archive.org/web/*/unitedfarmworkers.com) . Sorry kids, just following orders. :o

XIII

Jun 17, 2005, 03:13 PM

Alrite, MSN (http://www.msn.com/) is pretty bad,,..

dotdotdot

Jun 17, 2005, 03:17 PM

that's funny! yeah that site sucks, i think most sites for large commercial entities just blow. i think the designers have to "wow" the suits or the marketing dept with their deft knowledge of web code. just look at my personal favorite worst site
ESPN.com (http://www.espn.go.com)

nasty!

Whats wrong with ESPN.com? And to whoever said that, whats wrong with GOOGLE!?

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Microsoft.com is pretty bad but gets the job done.
GreenDay.com is horrible, like all flash-based sites.

Leeloo the 5th

Jun 17, 2005, 03:23 PM

GreenDay.com is horrible, like all flash-based sites.
Hey! http://www.jkrowling.com/ is flash and really neat! LOTS of hidden stuff among the rest :cool:

dobbin

Jun 17, 2005, 03:44 PM

News sites are always a bit much in terms of too much content at once - what I'd like to see is one without advertising - I think that's the thing that really messes those sites up.

D

You need good old Auntie (http://news.bbc.co.uk) :)

MacRy

Jun 17, 2005, 03:48 PM

That's where UrbanDictionary (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cack&r=f) comes in, look at definition 2,5 etc ;) :p

Thank you for saving me from a long winded and rambling explanation there munkle ;)

I love your 'tar by the way.

snowdog

Jun 17, 2005, 03:53 PM

http://icq.com/
These guys used to be even worse a couple of years ago.
There's just to much of....nothing...

G4scott

Jun 17, 2005, 04:01 PM

I'm going to say, any site that uses flash to deliver it's main content sucks...

I think CNN has more of an organized look that most other news sites, and it's easy for me to navigate through their content.

munkle

Jun 17, 2005, 04:03 PM

Thank you for saving me from a long winded and rambling explanation there munkle ;)
Would have been interesting though! :p

I love your 'tar by the way.
Cheers matey, it's of a little critter from the London Zoo :)

MacRy

Jun 17, 2005, 04:14 PM

Cheers matey, it's of a little critter from the London Zoo :)

Primates rock! I've adopted an orangatan called Gordon from
Monkey World (http://www.monkeyworld.co.uk/main.php) in Dorset. He's so cute :)

MacNut

Jun 17, 2005, 04:17 PM

I think espn.com is one of the better sites.

AppleAce

Jun 17, 2005, 04:22 PM

Whats wrong with ESPN.com? And to whoever said that, whats wrong with GOOGLE!?

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Microsoft.com is pretty bad but gets the job done.
GreenDay.com is horrible, like all flash-based sites.
There's lots of things wrong with espn.com. I used to read articles and stuff there all the time, but now my major gripe with ESPN.com is that it completely blows because 90% of the good articles are effing ESPN insider pay $20 a month to read a website which used to be free.
And I believe broken_keyboard said Google Groups sucked, not Google in general.
And I agree that 99.99% of flash based sites blow, with the 0.01% being homestarrunner.com I especially hate flash sites that don't give you choice to navigate through a normal html page or the option to skip their retarded 5 minute long intro that takes an hour to load on dialup.

Frisco

Jun 17, 2005, 04:30 PM

dell.com is very hard to find what you are looking for. Too many categories makes it very confusing.

Not that I ever tried to buy anything there :eek:

panphage

Jun 17, 2005, 04:39 PM

WithTea

Jun 17, 2005, 04:42 PM

I was at a site recently that I think was done in flash. The navigation was a bunch of floating, unlabeled bubbles. When you moved your mouse, the bubbles moved away from your cursor. So you've got unlabeled mystery navigation that avoids the mouse. Sweet! Wish I could remember what site it was.

This is a technique favoured by teenage girls - I've had shooting stars following my mouse, hearts that ran away from the cursor, and other annoying things like pages that faded into each other. Flash goodies are not always good.

dotdotdot

Jun 17, 2005, 04:45 PM

dell.com is very hard to find what you are looking for. Too many categories makes it very confusing.

Not that I ever tried to buy anything there :eek:

Dell is actually a very easy site to navigate.

panphage

Jun 18, 2005, 04:36 AM

This is a technique favoured by teenage girls - I've had shooting stars following my mouse, hearts that ran away from the cursor, and other annoying things like pages that faded into each other. Flash goodies are not always good.
I've seen that as well. This time, though, it wasn't just decorations. It was actually the links that took you around the site. And it was a real, live, purposeful site. I mean, not a personal vanity site, but like marketing for a business or artist. Totally messed up.

solvs

Jun 19, 2005, 02:22 AM

Dell is actually a very easy site to navigate.
:eek: You forgot the :p denoting sarcasm. Though I have to admit, they are better than they used to be. Maybe it's just because I don't have to visit there as often now.

TV Tome still sucks, but I guess I'll just have to live with it.

dejo

Jun 19, 2005, 02:24 AM

TV Tome still sucks, but I guess I'll just have to live with it.

You mean the NEW TV Tome? A.K.A. TV.com?

neildmitchell

Jun 19, 2005, 02:31 AM

Yes, the problem with the CNN website is information overload

Abstract

Jun 19, 2005, 03:52 AM

Why is it that any computer site other than Apple I am unable to navigate without being confused?

That's because you've been there too many times! :p

I just got someone to switch for the first time, but the first time she went to the website, she had a miserable time. Waaaaay too many links on the sides to read them all. Seriously. The world isn't full of MacRumours readers. On first attempt, I can find what I want to at.....say.....Dell.com. However, go to Apple's site and I can buy a computer, but no accessories or hardware if I went back for a 2nd time.

My friend couldn't even find the educational discount until I showed her how.

http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/canadastore/

Dell is actually a very easy site to navigate.

Dell's website isn't bad. Some people here are a bit biased, if you haven't noticed. ;) If a topic about "What's the worst.....": comes up, Dell is usually on that list, sometimes deservedly so, sometimes not.

iSaint

Jun 19, 2005, 09:36 AM

No sooner than this thread had started, than CNN (http://cnn.com) has a site revamp. Of course, you can't really tell unless you look hard. First of all the head now says With Free Video, I guess there are no more premium services. I, for one, could never pay extra for any web site access. Also, the menu bar on the left and the section headers are a little different. Not much change overall, though.

solvs

Jun 20, 2005, 12:20 AM

You mean the NEW TV Tome? A.K.A. TV.com?
Yeah, I actually kinda liked the old one. It wasn't anything fancy, but maybe that was what was good about it. Guess I should let it go 'cuz it's here to stay, but it still kinda pisses me off.

Post I made whining about it here (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=132714).