IPL releases new, cleaner, better website, but how we can make it better for you? Looking for feedback!

Weaklink · 3 months

My only thing I have against the new layout is that the video's on the frontpage auto play. I can understand the auto play when you click on a video being nice but it would be nice if when I enter the website the video that first uploads doe snot auto play. Its only a small thing though. Thank you for asking what our opinion is it means a lot. <3

MaybeGiveUp · 3 months

I have one! Please put a countdown timer to next to close events, like TL does. As in "Prime vs Empire starts in 4h30min". For an international audience, this is a lot easier than to go look at time zones.

The new site looks a lot better overall, gj.

FakeSam · 3 months

it seems impossible to mute the commercial and also auto-starting video makes visiting the website really annoying

Rit4LiN · 3 months

I looked over it for maybe 20 seconds, and I have kind of an idea what's going on but nothing stands out. The first impression should answer the following questions.

What tournament or tournament related content is currently going on
What tournament or tournament related content is comming up

The current site is good, I'm not saying the information is unavailable or hard to find (probably). But the first impression doesn't tell me anything about what's going on.

BennettIGN · 3 months

Between this thread and the survey results:

stop auto-playing the featured videos
make it easy to find current tournament information (IPL 4, TAC 2, brackets, prize pool, etc.)

Half of you said that you couldn't find what you were looking for. Can you guys help us out? What content was hard to find? We'll implement good suggestions just as long as it's not "When/where is IPL 4?"

phrontis · 3 months

What about searchable tags for vods? (ZvP, Kiwikaki, IPL3, Metalopolis, etc.)

Crackensan · 3 months

Please Please PLEASE make it so I can quickly find out results. Like, a big giant button on the main page. MLG's website is NOTORIOUS for burying results and brackets.

TL;DR: Make it easy for me to find brackets and results with one click

2uneek · 3 months

some very minor things that bothered me instantly were the auto-play as soon as the website loads, the 9th game of a series' bubble goes to a new row (could just make them smaller and utilize 1 row, its very minor but it does erk me), the body content seems to use more space than is needed due to the size of the images, just make smaller thumbnails or something, you could display double the content, a lack of tooltips across the board - they can also produce quite a bit of content without forcing people to navigate away from the page, not a big fan of dark grey, light grey, and white color scheme but that's just being picky not really a complaint....

c0d3m45t3r · 3 months

why isn't the IPL iOS app available in EU?

robhoward · 3 months

I can't believe theres even debate over whether having a giant bandwidth heavy auto playing video on the home page is a good idea. Make that expandable/collapsable or something and the site is really nice but with it I would never visit in a thousand years given I can get most of the content elsewhere.

jiubling · 3 months

Really good looking. Please don't autoplay video/ad upon loading the page though. It seems cool, but it really goes against user convenience.

probablydyslexic · 3 months

I'm not advocating completely ripping off ideas or plagiarism but everything about GomTV's site is doing it right.

Please look there for inspiration.

wAvelulz · 3 months

I like it. I just don't like the autoplay, it would be fine it it was muted.

kirillis · 3 months

i really hate it when I can´t find the brackets and tournament related infos quick on a tournament site. i´m sorry but maybe i´m too tired or something but i couldn´t find any info for the new ipl or the past ones. no player info, particpant, past champions and so on.. one page that does deliver consitnely is liquipedia, see: this why isn´t this info on your site, and if it is, why can´t i find it? O_o designwise i don´t really like it. it is very full and not easy to navigate. the buttons in the main menu seem weird, not aligned properly and the spacing is off IMO. i liked the mor minimal styl of the old site much more. but i do like the implementation of the google calender, although one can still see that its a "foreign" element to the site, it adds functionality.

ggBet · 3 months

The new site is much nicer than the old. Big improvement.

Few things I dont like are:

the schedule: Embedded google calendar is not really good enough, particularly when this seems like one of the most important features.
results: Where can I see a list of the past results? If I havent been keeping up with the league I'd love to quickly view the past results before I sit down to watch the current match.

Great to see the site is evolving. GomTV has set a very high bench mark for SC2 league sites. Their records and scheduling pages are updated in near real time and provide all the information you need at a glance.

1234blahblahblah · 3 months

You can start by removing the auto playing video + ad from the homepage. That is SOOOOOOOOOO ANNNOOOYYYYINNNNGGGG.

Seriously. What the hell is wrong with the people that are in charge of ads? People DO NOT browse one page at a time anymore. We haven't done it for years. NO ONE wants to open a tab in the background and then start hearing an ad.

Stop contributing to ad overload!

Beardcrafter · 3 months

You can have advert banners, nothing will make me visit your site whilst auto play ads even exist (unless i choose a stream). Im not a die hard fan however, loved IPL 3 though.

McLogan · 3 months

Ive always had trouble with your site, but i like the new version. Maybe make the schedule button bigger, and link to another page?

Blancgab · 3 months

I like the IPL TV, but I don't particularly like how the main IPL page, ign.com/ipl tries to combine being a video player and an community hub/info page.

If I go to ign.com/ipl, I'm going for information on what tournaments are running, if there's a new fight club, when IPL4 will be, if there are any new community articles, etc. If I see something interesting, I want to click on it, then be taken to a video of it playing (think youtube).

I preferred the old aesthetic design style a little better, but I might like the new web content better if you get rid of the huge central video player on the front page.

Edit:

Also, solid button links are always preferable to drop down menus. Too many drop down menus.

downfell · 3 months

Honestly, all I really want is to easily be able to download games and watch them at the gym on my Kindle Fire sans internet connection. I would be perfectly happy if ads were embedded in the downloadable vod itself. My gym doesn't have wifi, so the slickest website in the world doesn't help me. Instead, I end up watching other Starcraft related things that let me easily download it-- which, realistically, includes anything uploaded to youtube. I realize that this may be incompatible with your business model and that you may not be able to monetize the vods, but I would be willing to pay for this convenience.

Hapuman · 3 months

It's a small thing, but it'd be nice if the video titles listed the players' races. It'd be helpful for those of us who enjoy watching VODs, but aren't intimately familiar with every player out there.

DarthCaesar · 3 months

I turned on the website and an ad came on that I could neither pause nor mute prefacing a video I did not choose to watch. I also don't like the fact that the website has to be stretched horizontally very far in order to fully display the full UI for the Google Calendar on the right side. The Google Calendar doesn't fit the color scheme and looks out of place as well. Speaking of stretching the website, the jumping and switching of the format at specific intervals is really annoying. A well designed website shouldn't have to do that. The Videos section looks poorly designed as well because of the white text on the black background. Here's an example: http://i.imgur.com/2Mjwm.png . First of all, it is not clear at first that the circles are matches, and second, the circles are off center and that looks really bad. It also seems like the right side of the page is pretty empty - there's only the Google calendar and links to IPL Apps and after that it's just useless whitespace. The pop-up menu under Tournaments at the top of the page also looks bad because I can't find everything. I feel like there are so many different things that IPL runs including the fight club, team leagues, etc, but all that is shown is IPL3 and Team League 2. The page isn't representative of all that IPL does. The orange highlight color of the menu items also seems not to fit the page.

That's about all I can think of; you guys are awesome :)

timestep · 3 months

sick yo, when's ipl4?

Swampsteel · 3 months

I love this looking for feedback, it is a great thing in general. First, the auto-play feature is not something that I agree with, give people the option to play or not. Second, in areas like the store, put in a direct link back to the main page just for better accessibility and connection around all areas of the site. Third, I love the schedule scroll down menu, soooo much better than the old site in general! <3

Spankfurt · 3 months

I think on most sites for competitions(IPL) it's hard to find a well defined and simple calendar of events for the month. Something like a good space for each day with the events, who's playing, and at what time until what time (potentially) the games will end

Team Liquid upcoming events does the best job of this, I check it every day. It would be a good format to follow.

Play16 · 3 months

That HUGE video that autoplays at the beginning crashed my browser. So yea, I would remove that.

3lijah · 3 months

I love the big-ness of the site. That's so hard to do well. I don't know if the player works for iPad but the design of the site probably does.

I was going to say that the video should start as muted but that was already discussed. It should of course set a cookie for the session that retains the volume whenever it's changed.

My feedback is that I want more information the the current video. It must be live. It would be awesome to have a bar (about 100px tall) under the video that explains the context. It would show a crop of the relevant bracket, the casters, the tournament, and that the stream is live. If it's not live, I would have a countdown to the next stream instead.

This is great that you're asking for feedback. You're involving the community and earning their respect.

Venom0us · 3 months

Just wanted to say CatsPajamas looks like a handsome young man without his beard LOLZ

joedude · 3 months

I'd like when i watch your streams to not just get an endless loop of 30 second ads followed by two minute intro videos until it lags to the actual stream for about 5 seconds until i get hit by another 30 seconds ad. adblock is my friend on your new site.

lobstertainment · 3 months

Couldn't change the quality of the video for some reason however, I can do it on teevox, which leads me to believe that it is something on your end and not twitch.tv/justin.tv.

Maybeice · 3 months

lots of great advice here, but as a casual viewer enjoyed it thoroughly. design is crisp and highly intuitive. Jobs would've been proud.

PolishxThunder · 3 months

You guys are doing a great job but can we get replay packs?

iLuVtiffany · 3 months

More rocks.

-illuminati · 3 months

When watching a video on full screen, moving the mouse doesn't bring up the control bar. So I can't pause, change the volume or shrink the video without hitting Esc on my keyboard. This is really annoying.

I tested this out in Firefox 9.0.1 on my Windows 7 PC, as well as Firefox 8.0.1 and Safari 5.1.1 on my Macbook Pro.

Asdayasman · 3 months

My god, threads like this REALLY make me like big companies, and I wish stuff like this was more common.

IGN, you're awesome.

ZeroPageX · 3 months

I tend to watch stuff like this on my TV which makes browser zooming absolutely vital. Your new video player on the IPL TV page does not play well with Chrome's zoom function. Instead of zooming in making everything bigger, it shrinks the entire video and moves the full screen button away from the rest of the UI.

Also, once I am full screen, there is no UI available and I am forced to use the Escape key to get out of full screen even if I just to change the quality. Since I'm in my living room, I don't always have my keyboard on my lap.

ch41n54w · 3 months

Looks beautiful! thanks for the update!=]

omgitskae · 3 months

Is it just me or when viewing the new site does it feel like it's made for my grandmother? Why is everything SO BIG? x.x

To be more specific, the Videos section is way too large, you could use smaller graphics and the game # buttons (1, 2, 3, etc) look kind of silly, they aren't all aligned the same and I think a square might look better with the design.

In addition, I'm not sure I like the size of the stream, is there a reason it's so large? The way I see it is typically if someone wants to see a larger stream, they go fullscreen, so why not just make it like a 360p size and use the extra space on the sides for the links under the stream (interviews, boot camp, fight club, top 5)?

Admittedly I'm a minimalist, but I feel good design should follow the idea that less is more. I feel the elements on the new design are way too big and seeing all of the content requires far too much scrolling. A lot of room could be saved by slightly altering the design and placement of some of the elements without removing any functionality or content.

flick_ch · 3 months

To be honest, the design of the site doesn't look very professional, it's somewhat dull and lacks contrast in some areas.

One of my big issues is the Google Calendar, it doesn't take much effort to create your own widget and not use Google's (especially if you're IGN) - just makes it look unprofessional and the site like patchwork. There are jQuery plugins that will help you, you can also easily parse the raw XML into a nice widget that aesthetically integrates better with the site.

Furthermore, there simply isn't enough line height (line-height in your CSS) and enough "air" between your paragraph and lines. Setting a line-height in your body text to ~1.6em and a margin of 20px to your paragraphs really helps. This should also be done in your lists, such as "Headlines" at the bottom. Additionally, there's isn't enough contrast between the background of a content box and the font color. You should either make the font darker or the background lighter.

Also, what's up with that orange when hovering some menu items? It should at least cover the entire element on leave margins on either side.

I could go on. I see what you're trying to do with keeping the design simple and letting the videos take center stage but it just looks very basic and NOT in a good way.

Don't get me wrong, I love IPL and the content it produces, I've just always had issues with the visual presentation of your content, whether it'd be web, video etc.. - inconsistent and gaudy colors, questionable overlay themes and tastes, inconsistent fonts (on your own logo!) etc.. It's a shame because everything else with regards to production is top notch!

I truly hope this feedback helps.

ponysuccess · 3 months

The one thing I would like is a way to view the current tournament/season standings, and have it easy to find and access.

rtschutter · 3 months

Here is an issue with the IPL site I was getting annoyed with today. It may just be a bug, as the games seemed to be synced correctly at first but then things got wonky.

Warning, this link contains Fight Club jakji versus nerchio spoilers.

http://imgur.com/lQweq

You will notice that the game I have selected at the bottom is not the game which is playing at the top. When you want to watch the games in order to get the full suspense of the series playing out, it can be pretty frustrating when you click the next game and instead of showing what you expect it plays three games down the line and ruins the results of all of the games in between for you.

epij · 3 months

Just speaking from a designer's point of view - please hire a professional to rework your layout / typo (also font rendering might be nice, typeface/cufón).

Avenger88 · 3 months

My suggestion is that you keep doing things close to perfection. Amazing content, and thank you for keeping in touch with the community.

Falconhaxx · 3 months

but how we can make it better for you? Looking for feedback!

Nah, I'm satisfied.

Iwonshittygum · 3 months

While i love the site and the support ipl is giving the esports communities, i think you guys need to do a better job of grouping events and information together. Like when i click on "Tournaments -> IPL3", how come the videos shown underneath the IPL3 video are the same shown as on the front page? Why not links to content specific to IPL3, like top plays, or maybe finalist matches? I would much prefer to see something like a tournament layout with the vod links beside them so i can follow a certain players progression and not have to dig through a long list of vods as it is now through ipltv.

I guess what im saying is, when i follow the links to tournament pages, those pages should display more content realvent to those tournaments and make it easier to find. Right now it doesnt. I find for me to find information or the content i want, its buried under too many things

edit for a second comment - the IPLTV - Shows list can be confusing. When you click on it, it seems to show the newest episode in the group (ie - ipl3 shows whitera vs idra) which i think can be a bit confusing and esepicaly with the amount of content IPL is producing, i think this space would be better server to give short explanations of what the content is. IE at first i didnt know that clicking on the whitera vs idra link would lead to the rest of the ipl3 matches and spent a bit of time trying to find them. So maybe instead have a more prominent graphic (just a large IPL3, the current graphic is kinda small and unreadable at 1920x1200), and the "Description" could be IPL's 3rd tournament played live in "wherever it was". Too further this argument, if someone new came to the site, what to them is the difference between "Team Arena" and "Team Arena Challenge" if they havent seen them befor? I think a small description could help this

opl3sa · 3 months

vods

Primo161 · 3 months

Having the schedule is a god send and as such maybe you should make it looks a little fancier but my main plea would be to be able to view the schedule in your choice of timezone! For example, having tabs at the top of the schedule to switch it to PST, GMT, CET, KST, EDT etc. The site looks great though, love the font!

Nefestus · 3 months

I thought they were releasing a new cleaner - cleaning at 100% efficiency :(

bayaka · 3 months

More Lani!

heorlic · 3 months

I like it, except this.

Zevee · 3 months

You could just put pictures of Lani everywhere and it would be the best place on earth and my new frontpage.

pjb0404 · 3 months

Bug Found: It appears that your function that handles window resizing is broken. If I manually adjust my Chrome (16.x) browser's window, the stream will lock up and force the entire browser to crash. I found the same bug when testing Teevox 2.0.

url in question

isamura · 3 months

Autoplaying videos is terrible UI in general. Here is no exception.

Roxor99 · 3 months

No option to mute ads!

odif · 3 months

put Naomi and Jessica on the front page.

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