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GoStanford.com - Ugh - M T - 09-06-2024

When something changes, one hopes for improvements.

The whole schedule mechanism of last year's GoStanford.com was poorly suited for Stanford with so many sports. The brief schedule on the landing page often didn't cover the day's games.

Well, it changed this year and not for the better. The schedule on the landing page is some amount of scrolling down. And, it only shows 3 events, unless you also scroll right. Hell, may as well go to the Full Calendar, which takes you to another ad for football tickets, and requires you to scroll yet again to get to the calendar.

Oops, the Full Schedule doesn't highlight today's date (maybe that is browser specific?). It doesn't immediately show whether games are home or away, or whether they can be viewed remotely (TV/stream). Nope, the opponent isn't shown. Heck, the Stanford team is only partly shown, depending on the size of your font. But it does clutter the window with columns of " PM PDT - ".

Small miracles! It does appear to show all events each day (at least, up to 9) rather than making you scroll within the day.

Ok, so click on one of the lines. Up pops a window that was designed by someone who never looked at it for Stanford.
We can finally find out who the opponent is and where the game is going to be. But wait, what about TV and streaming? Well, if you look close there is Cardinal on Black bar at the bottom. TOTALLY UNREADABLE.

And, as with each coup d'état of GoStanford.com web sites, data gets mangled and lost. Go to the men's water polo page and look at the rosters they offer. All the way back to 1999, that's good.... Until you go look to find the 2010 and earlier rosters are empty, except they show the wrong set of coaches.

WBB does have player rosters back to 1974, but not coaches before 2009/2010, not even for the NC teams or for 1996. It seems they want to have WBB stats back to 2001/2, but there are no stats for any year.

Is this what Coca Cola, et al, paid for???

RE: GoStanford.com - Ugh - 82 Card - 09-06-2024

The current design appears to be for full size screens. Running in Firefox on my widescreen monitor, the schedule at the top of the first page shows 7 events without having to scroll. Each of the matches shows the schools, the sports and whether its home away or neutral. If I hover over a match it shows video options and other links when applicable.

Although the schedule at the top of the first page works well enough for me, it would be nice sometimes to be able to go to the full schedule. I have not been able to find any link to the full schedule. The best that I can find is links to go to the schedules of each sport. The drop-down menu at the left side of the banner provides links to switch the banner matches to a particular sport or you can use the menus for mens and womens sports to go to the schedule page for each team.

RE: GoStanford.com - Ugh - BobK - 09-06-2024

I’m used to it now. No problems. You can add any schedule to your phone

RE: GoStanford.com - Ugh - paloalto - 09-06-2024

I always use a laptop for GoStanford and I don't like it. For WVB they don't seem to have any statistics posted for any year. Previously they would have all the individual and team statistics for every year and the current season. Perhaps they will upload stats at some point or maybe I'm missing something.

RE: GoStanford.com - Ugh - Canalejas - 09-06-2024

Yeah, the calendar is a mess. I'm one of those people that likes a portrait-oriented screen, so my max window width is just 1200 pixels. I had to reduce the font size quite a bit to get it useable.

RE: GoStanford.com - Ugh - 82lsju - 09-06-2024

(09-06-2024, 03:06 PM)paloalto Wrote: I always use a laptop for GoStanford and I don't like it. For WVB they don't seem to have any statistics posted for any year. Previously they would have all the individual and team statistics for every year and the current season. Perhaps they will upload stats at some point or maybe I'm missing something.

I use a Mac and I cannot see the stats using Chrome or Firefox but I can see them using Safari....

RE: GoStanford.com - Ugh - BobK - 09-06-2024

I’m used to it now. No problems. You can add any schedule to your phone

RE: GoStanford.com - Ugh - 82 Card - 09-06-2024

(09-06-2024, 03:23 PM)Canalejas Wrote: Yeah, the calendar is a mess. I'm one of those people that likes a portrait-oriented screen, so my max window width is just 1200 pixels. I had to reduce the font size quite a bit to get it useable.

With the Firefox browser, you can make a tab use the cell version of the site. If you click on the three horizontal lines icon in upper right corner of the browser, click on More Tools and then Select Responsive Design Mode (or use CTRL-Shift-M on a Winows machine), you will get a fairly small portrait oriented screen. You can stretch that out to fill more of the screen. However this only works as long as you keep the width under about 1000 pixels. Otherwise it reverts to the wide layout and just makes things worse. Might be worth trying if you are having usability issues in portrait mode.

RE: GoStanford.com - Ugh - crackpot - 09-06-2024

(09-06-2024, 03:46 PM)BobK Wrote: I’m used to it now. No problems. You can add any schedule to your phone

I declined due to the permissions it was requesting. Annoying.

RE: GoStanford.com - Ugh - GK3 - 09-07-2024

(09-06-2024, 08:52 PM)crackpot Wrote:
(09-06-2024, 03:46 PM)BobK Wrote: I’m used to it now. No problems. You can add any schedule to your phone

I declined due to the permissions it was requesting. Annoying.

The website has been a disaster for ages. That said, the current version is a bit better but then I have a very large monitor. My old eyes don't like trying to decipher stuff on my phone. Unlike the rest of the world, I use my phone only as a phone and a device to play audible books to my bluetooth hearing aides. I tend to save links to the Stanford Sports I really follow and use those links to pull up the page or pages pertinent to those sports I have found.
Between my smart car and Alexa devices at home, I can get a lot of info without working too hard. I keep hoping that one of these days I can ask Alexa to give me the starting lineup for the Stanford - Whoever Whatever game. Maybe it already can and I haven't figured it out yet.

RE: GoStanford.com - Ugh - qwerty49 - 09-07-2024

Pretty funny that a number of the guys wore the Nerd Glasses for their individual photos on the roster page.

RE: GoStanford.com - Ugh - newguy - 09-08-2024

(09-07-2024, 05:34 PM)qwerty49 Wrote: Pretty funny that a number of the guys wore the Nerd Glasses for their individual photos on the roster page.

all the tight ends, as is tradition.
love it.

RE: GoStanford.com - Ugh - Nobadeer - 09-09-2024

For the team rosters and player bios, maybe my browser isn't showing them, but what happened to the listing of the student-athletes' academic majors?

RE: GoStanford.com - Ugh - M T - 09-10-2024

(09-09-2024, 11:39 PM)Nobadeer Wrote: For the team rosters and player bios, maybe my browser isn't showing them, but what happened to the listing of the student-athletes' academic majors?

You won't find it on the default card layout, or on the list layout, or if you click on the player and find all the other information about them.

But, if you click on Table, it will show up.

If this were a programming language, I'd say this feels like a deprecated feature, to be removed in a future release.

Hmmm.. One graduate football player's major is listed as "Post-Baccalaureate". Is that, as Howard Cosell would say, "Telling it like it is".? I hope it is just an AD person not caring about it and being lazy.

RE: GoStanford.com - Ugh - msqueri - 09-10-2024

Clay Patterson is at Stanford for football, not school. That’s a very, very good thing and we need to see much more of that among graduate transfers to be competitive going forward. Post-bacc a big development for us.

RE: GoStanford.com - Ugh - BostonCard - 09-10-2024

(09-10-2024, 03:33 AM)msqueri Wrote: Clay Patterson is at Stanford for football, not school. That’s a very, very good thing and we need to see much more of that among graduate transfers to be competitive going forward. Post-bacc a big development for us.

What are we doing here, really? Isn’t that putting the cart before the horse? Like, having a winning football team is nice and something we can be proud of, but we are a university with a football team attached not vice versa and I don’t think we should strive to recruit players who are not at least at Stanford for football AND school.

BC

RE: GoStanford.com - Ugh - Goose - 09-10-2024

(09-10-2024, 06:11 AM)BostonCard Wrote:
(09-10-2024, 03:33 AM)msqueri Wrote: Clay Patterson is at Stanford for football, not school. That’s a very, very good thing and we need to see much more of that among graduate transfers to be competitive going forward. Post-bacc a big development for us.

What are we doing here, really? Isn’t that putting the cart before the horse? Like, having a winning football team is nice and something we can be proud of, but we are a university with a football team attached not vice versa and I don’t think we should strive to recruit players who are not at least at Stanford for football AND school.

BC

+1000 Short and to the point.

RE: GoStanford.com - Ugh - fullmetal - 09-10-2024

The official website is done by some third party software vendor (e.g. Sidearm Sports) that the athletic department just contracts out. Looks like "WMT Digital" right now. What, you thought the athletic department had the budget for software engineers? They have a lot of raises to hand out... and this is why athletic department websites for so many D1 schools have the exact same layout.

I don't even know if the athletic department has a say in whether they can keep the old version vs. getting rolled forward with "this year's latest and greatest (not) fan experience!" What gets me is that none of these third parties do a good job with content management from older versions or perhaps even previous vendors. Old articles, rosters, schedules, etc are lost to the sands of time.

RE: GoStanford.com - Ugh - BobK - 09-10-2024

They recently added more history for T&F.
So I’m happy. It’s now back as it was before

RE: GoStanford.com - Ugh - M T - 09-10-2024

(09-10-2024, 03:33 AM)msqueri Wrote: Clay Patterson is at Stanford for football, not school. That’s a very, very good thing and we need to see much more of that among graduate transfers to be competitive going forward. Post-bacc a big development for us.

I think sometime one needs [sarcasm]...[/sarcasm] markers.
NFF Hampshire (football) Honor Society tags him as one of the top 2000 or so football academics from last year. (Dang, I forgot the markers!).

I was complaining about whoever put the data together for the roster, not knowing and not figuring out (and possibly, not caring) what grad school department admitted him.

WMT Digital appears to be an 80-ish person company with 18 software engineers.