ESPN Launches Rebranded SportsCenter App with League 'Clubhouses', Enhanced Game Pages

[C DM]

Did it occur to you that maybe recent experience with an "obscure and even recently hacked site" might make people less inclined to want to provide an email address in the first place? Who wants to go to the trouble? First name, last name, birthdate... Really, ESPN???

Oh, and how about those full-screen Kay Jewelers ads as you scroll through the UI. 🙄

And yet people complaining about that are still perfectly fine posting on the very "obscure and even recently hacked site". The disconnect is rather glaring. Honestly, it's just much ado about nothing. How many people perfectly provide "John Doe" name with "1/1/1970" birthdate and some "test123@gmail.com" type of address that you have for purposes like this to register for something inconsequential like that? It takes less effort to do that than and then peacefully use the app than to actually have a username on a site like this one (with probably more realistic information provided, or at least nothing worse) and actually spend time posting about it all, right?

 

[IvanX]

And yet people complaining about that are still perfectly fine posting on the very "obscure and even recently hacked site". The disconnect is rather glaring. Honestly, it's just much ado about nothing. How many people perfectly provide "John Doe" name with "1/1/1970" birthdate and some "test123@gmail.com" type of address that you have for purposes like this to register for something inconsequential like that? It takes less effort to do that than and then peacefully use the app than to actually have a username on a site like this one (with probably more realistic information provided, or at least nothing worse) and actually spend time posting about it all, right?

This is irrelevant. In pre-3.0 version of SC, they allowed anonymous saving of favourites. I wouldn't believe for a second if you were to tell me that it can no longer be done. It was a concious decision to remove that functionality. If another app can do it, so can they. If they are happy to lose some users as a result and not do anything about it, I'm not going to lose any sleep over it (to be fair, I wouldn't lose sleep either way). I'll just use another app that meets my requirements. I've provided them with ample feedback, nothing changed, time to move on.

 

[C DM]

This is irrelevant. In pre-3.0 version of SC, they allowed anonymous saving of favourites. I wouldn't believe for a second if you were to tell me that it can no longer be done. It was a concious decision to remove that functionality. If another app can do it, so can they. If they are happy to lose some users as a result and not do anything about it, I'm not going to lose any sleep over it (to be fair, I wouldn't lose sleep either way). I'll just use another app that meets my requirements. I've provided them with ample feedback, nothing changed, time to move on.

Oh, that's very well and everything, I'm completely not arguing against that or anything like that. I'm just saying that those who are (at least seemingly) blowing it out of proportion due to it being some really huge burden or (even just potential) invasion of privacy or something like that, there's a disconnect there when they clearly have no issues doing the same kind of thing on a site like this one simply to post random things and nothing more.

 

[IvanX]

Oh, that's very well and everything, I'm completely not arguing against that or anything like that. I'm just saying that those who are (at least seemingly) blowing it out of proportion due to it being some really huge burden or (even just potential) invasion of privacy or something like that, there's a disconnect there when they clearly have no issues doing the same kind of thing on a site like this one simply to post random things and nothing more.

Your comparison is still invalid. An Internet forum is an inherently different entity. It relies on a notion of semi-anonymous identities in order to function as designed. The app does not need to know anything about me in order to retrieve data based on criteria I specify.

 

[C DM]

Your comparison is still invalid. An Internet forum is an inherently different entity. It relies on a notion of semi-anonymous identities in order to function as designed. The app does not need to know anything about me in order to retrieve data based on criteria I specify.

Someone is willing to provide (even purely fictional) name, email, etc. information simply to post random thoughts and opinions--something fairly inconsequential essentially--while making a big deal about providing the same information to get something somewhat more useful to them like scores for their favorite teams.

What I'm talking about it's what's needed or what should be needed or anything like that, but the level of how much someone is upset with something like that in comparison to what they are already doing in many other places without much of a complaint (or often even a second thought).

 

[IvanX]

Someone is willing to provide (even purely fictional) name, email, etc. information simply to post random thoughts and opinions--something fairly inconsequential essentially--while making a big deal about providing the same information to get something somewhat more useful to them like scores for their favorite teams.

What I'm talking about it's what's needed or what should be needed or anything like that, but the level of how much someone is upset with something like that in comparison to what they are already doing in many other places without much of a complaint (or often even a second thought).

It may sound irrational to you, but it it is the way it is. Just read those studies/stories about how many people are apprehensive about spending less than £/$1 on an app after they just dumped a few hundred on a device. I digressed, but the bottom line is: ESPN didn't need to impose those requirements, but they did. Yahoo Sports provides a good alternative to those who do not wish to be bound by them (reqs).

 

[Count Blah]

Too freakin' white, and at least twice as slow as the old one, which was already twice as slow as the iOS 4 version.

Why do this outfits insist on making things slower and slower? They just upgraded the self checkout software at my local supermaket. It's sooo damn frustrating when it now takes a minut longer to check of because it's so damn much slower.

 

[nburwell]

Strange, I got the usual alerts I always get last night for one of the teams I follow and have alerts set for (which had a game last night).

Ironically enough, I re-downloaded the app over the weekend to test out push notifications. This time they worked. So I have ditched the Yahoo! app and use this full time.

 

[C DM]

Looks like a small update was released today which hopefully addresses some of the issues some people have experienced.