Everton site - feedback please

Mikelangelo · March 24, 2017

robi said:
To be fair you aren't the only person to say this so I'm gonna add a button so you can switch to a more "newsnow" like text list if you liked? The reason it defaults to how it looks now is unlike newsnow it brings in images, videos, instagram and tweets etc. Thanks for your feedback

That would be a good option. Give the user the choice... text or visual...

The Cowboy · March 24, 2017

robi said:
Afternoon gents,

I have spoken to the powers that be at GOT towers (cheers lads) and they have kindly given me permission to use this forum to get some feedback from fellow bluenoses regarding a site i have been putting together over the past 10 months

Some of you may have interacted with me on twitter (and some may have not) butt he site is basically a news aggregator (like newsnow) which brings together news, videos, tweets and instagram posts into a continuously updated news wall

You can view the Everton page here:

http://www.footyfeed.co.uk/everton

Clicking tags will also let you drill into other pages such as:

http://www.footyfeed.co.uk/ronald-koeman
http://www.footyfeed.co.uk/ross-barkley

or even

http://www.footyfeed.co.uk/bramley-moore-dock

The site tells you how long it takes to read articles and also auto tags and groups content into collections or "topics" across the top of any team page

It covers all premiership and championship sides

And soon it will also detect clickbait or spammy articles and let users filter them out - just leaving the good stuff!

It's still very much in development so just looking for feedback - good or bad - regarding the look and feel, ease of use, usefulness, what you think might be good, what you think is rubbish

And if you like it please feel free to share and / or like our facebook (www.facebook.com/footyfeed.co.uk) and twitter (www.twitter.com/footyfeed_efc)

And if you REALLY like it please consider bookmarking and using it instead of newsnow ;-)

Cheers lads and COYB!!!!

That's a very aesthetically pleasing website. Bookmarked. Best of luck with it, I think you're onto a winner with that.

chrismpw · March 24, 2017

robi said:
To be fair you aren't the only person to say this so I'm gonna add a button so you can switch to a more "newsnow" like text list if you liked? The reason it defaults to how it looks now is unlike newsnow it brings in images, videos, instagram and tweets etc. Thanks for your feedback

Yeah, I'd prefer a list, maybe with smaller images - but yes, good site, already favourited on my browser. I especially like the ability to filter sources. I have been using footballspider, but the inability to filter out the echo, which dominates and keeps asking me to answer questions to access articles, does my head in. I'd really rather not see their articles listed.

robi · March 24, 2017

The Cowboy said:
That's a very aesthetically pleasing website. Bookmarked. Best of luck with it, I think you're onto a winner with that.

Thank you

robi · March 24, 2017

chrismpw said:
Yeah, I'd prefer a list, maybe with smaller images - but yes, good site, already favourited on my browser. I especially like the ability to filter sources. I have been using footballspider, but the inability to filter out the echo, which dominates and keeps asking me to answer questions to access articles, does my head in. I'd really rather not see their articles listed.

Yeah. Doing a lot of work atm around filtering. I built this originally for myself and for that exact reason - I wanted to bring everything together and filter out the noise or rubbish. I'm not quite there yet but it's getting better every day. Thanks for the feedback.

Ring master · March 25, 2017

Well done mate,nice look,easy to understand,easy on the eye colouring,keep going mate,bookmarked it

robi · March 25, 2017

Ring master said:
Well done mate,nice look,easy to understand,easy on the eye colouring,keep going mate,bookmarked it

Cheers mate

chrismpw · March 25, 2017

robi said:
Yeah. Doing a lot of work atm around filtering. I built this originally for myself and for that exact reason - I wanted to bring everything together and filter out the noise or rubbish. I'm not quite there yet but it's getting better every day. Thanks for the feedback.

Technical feedback
Not sure what's going on under the titles "all match transfers" etc and above the first set of pictures. Looks like a white bar and some scrambled text.
Am using boat browser on Android.

robi · March 25, 2017

chrismpw said:
Technical feedback
Not sure what's going on under the titles "all match transfers" etc and above the first set of pictures. Looks like a white bar and some scrambled text.
Am using boat browser on Android.

Wasn't familiar with Boat Browser but just downloaded to test and everything looked fine to me? What phone do you have if you don't mind me asking? Will keep my eye on this though. Thanks for the feedback

COYB · March 25, 2017

Looked nice that, very neat.

just bookmarked also good luck with it mate.

chrismpw · March 25, 2017

robi said:
Wasn't familiar with Boat Browser but just downloaded to test and everything looked fine to me? What phone do you have if you don't mind me asking? Will keep my eye on this though. Thanks for the feedback

The problem is on Galaxy Note 2 running Android 4.4.2.
Having said that, I looked on my note 7 (currently acting as my hotspot) running Android 6.0.1 and all is fine on that. Both using same version of boat.

robi · March 25, 2017

chrismpw said:
The problem is on Galaxy Note 2 running Android 4.4.2.
Having said that, I looked on my note 7 (currently acting as my hotspot) running Android 6.0.1 and all is fine on that. Both using same version of boat.

Yeah bit of a nightmare trying to get it bang on across all devices and resolutions. I'll certainly look into it though. Cheers again mate