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Classic for me please.
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beta is good. that said, i dont understand how long they keep a product as beta. almost every page of the website has some crappy link to a beta or a classic version. it is unprofessional.
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classic.
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Has to be classic by a country mile. Where is the 'my markets' tab on beta? It's too fussy and discourages market-making. Plus the only thing I play--the horses--aren't even on it yet.
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classic.
I hate beta. |
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put the beta homepage on the classic, then I might stand half a chance of reaching a market in under 5 minutes and having a bet without a migraine
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so to wee on your fireworks but we had a vote.
resounding "We hate beta" was the result ( I dont like it either - sorry Betfair.) But guess what ? they aint listening. |
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or in English
sorry to urinate on your fireworks but we had a vote. Several threads have been started about this btw. |
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prefer classic by a distance - can't really get used to Beta and i have tried to give it benefit of the doubt , BF should continue with both imo - there are those who may like the new site .
Prefer BF not to keep shoving Beta down our throat all the time though  |
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The new betfair is coming. All you can do is send them feedback. So far, several points I have made have been incorporated (though some were obvious and were probably supported by others).
All I can do is encourage you to send feedback while it is in beta since once they roll over, changes will be harder to implement. |
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classic....pre current classic
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classic
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So that's a resounding no to Beta then!
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Classic. Beta is terrible, a massive backwards step and just something else to add to Betfairs 'how to drive more customers away' list.
The person responsible for Beta must secretly have a large shareholding in the purple site. I cannot think of any other reasonable explanation. |
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This beta is fkin useless , some markets don't show up in it and takes forever to load.
God knows how many floating punters drop by and disappear never to come back. Everyday I have to opt out of this **** because I don't store cookies and the sites too badly coded to remember my preferences once I eventually manage to log in. |
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classic.
another beta hater here. |
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Classic at the moment. Excuse me but I think it has been sh!t all the time since at least ten years back in time.
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Classic. No contest.
Can't even get gruss betfair refresh to work on the beta. I'm all for improving a site but Beta is a backward step. |
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It's like Betfair and Microsoft are managed by the same mindset. The internet is full of reviewers saying Windows 8 is fine for the desktop but complete dogs eggs for the Desktop, and leaks saying people WITIHN microsoft are saying they know this, but the "vision" is to push for tablet market, so everyone who is getting a downgrade pushed on them will just have to suffer it. (Basically MS are pushing a tablet friendly interface to get people used to it cross platform and companies to make products for it, but for desktop users it's like tying an arm behind your back, and drives them mad).
Not exactly "the customer is always right". More like "you'll like what we tell you to like, or you're wrong". |
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I have seen this sort of scenario before. A company spends a colossal sum on a new beta website. The directive comes from very high up in the food chain.
To back down now, scrapping the beta version, would mean loss of face and reputation, plus resignations, at the very top for those who started this beta initiative. Chances are the beta will be railroaded through regardless of the poor feedback. No turning back. Classic phased out. When classic goes, a lot of people will be looking for alternatives. With a 'real money' site; clean, clear and simple is the way to go - which is exactly what classic offers. At the very least we should be given the option to opt out PERMANENTLY in our personal settings. |
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Classic.
Beta is so bad I actually think I wouldnt bet on this site if that was the only option. |
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Sorry just re-read this, I meant to say "The internet is full of reviewers saying Windows 8 is fine for the TABLET but complete dogs eggs for the Desktop"
Doh! I remember as I typed that thinking "should I say desktop or something else like "normal PC"" and outfoxed myself :) Oh and Emden, you're spot on. There's a point where things become internal politics. It's not so much that they should stagnate, but that change for change's sake is not a good thing, and they should be focused on what the user wants in front of them to achieve their goals with the minimum of effort, obviously with the business side (some internal advertising etc) respected, but not what looks good in a colourful powerpoint presentation to people with MBA's and **** all common sense, and hell mend the user. |
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Classic of course is better for the punter, but I suppose they have to do something with all this PC revenue. Eventually we'll be stuck with Beta as the new classic because all the inconvenient negative feedback will be ignored.
At the moment it's a ruddy pain having to keep renaming my hosts file on a daily basis so I can complete the temporary opt-out process. |
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I've had to amend my bookmarks to http://sports.betfair.com/?optout=true so it's doesn't load the beta crap when I come here. Things like the bookings index don't even show in the beta and if you can manage to navigate to them they don't do the6 odds increments correctly
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it needs reorganising -it's not that hard
how do so many people with IT degrees and Phd's fail to connnect and get things so wrong all the feckin time ? They should be pushing trollies imo - that's where i'd shove them |
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Idiot savants the lot of them
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I hate beta. Please stop trying to ram it down my throat!
Also hate the 'new' forum and spend far less time on it than I ever used to, but am now chatting in a far better place. Improvements? Don't make me laugh! |
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we live in a society where YOU will take whats on offer ,and then in 10 years time (because of the huge costs ) we will improve it.
remember how awful digital TV was (and still is ) on a standard LCD TV ? - 20x worse than analogue - but 'they' made sure that analogue was dead before all the improvements were made |
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****z
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classic
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Classic - easily superior.
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old
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remember how awful digital TV was (and still is ) on a standard LCD TV ? - 20x worse than analogue - but 'they' made sure that analogue was dead before all the improvements were made
Digital has taken away the "being able to read the race/game/shot" as you are to far behind for it to matter on the whole.Bring back analogue |
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yes ,that as well wit-ham
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Did anyone else get the research email to compare new pages?
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I suppose I will be waiting in vain for someone in I.T. to read this and make the necessary changes!
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tinca, send the feedback when you are on pages. I made several comments and some have been incorporated (not to say I was the only one pointing things out).
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Imo the site should open automatically in Classic mode, and give us the choice of opting into Beta
Not the other way around |
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agreed. am getting fed up being diverted to beta all the time while I'm trying to bet despite continually opting out!
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Classic
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