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SPORTING LIFE why oh why ?
SPORTING LIFE why oh why ?
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I think most of you will come round to the new sites, not that you have much choice
 I also think its possible to study on your mobile now, with the old sites it just wasnt possible and that is why no one would ever want to do it, not saying its better or advising it but its possible now, you have the full formbook and video archive in a mobile friendly layout and theres been a few times in the past when I would have been grateful for that |
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Reading form and watching racing is no longer a part of my racing analysis
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Oh yes, and another good reason for me not to use a mobile smart phone is the tiny little diddy screens that they have. Which is why (amongst other reasons) that I prefer my desktop. The iPad screen is just about bearable as far as small screens go. Also, I hate tiny buttons - give me a standard keyboard size any day!
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If a site has changed for the worse for us then we simply don't like that. We do not care whether it is better or worse for tablet and mobile users.
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It is very sad that when we spent most of the nineties or whenever it was aspiring to ever bigger pc monitors and all the BENEFITS that brings, we are now sold the line that smaller is better?
I never used the RP mobile site, I forced the desktop version to my smartphone and whilst it wasn't perfect at least I had ALL the information where it should be. The RP beta on my smartphone is shockingly bad - unusable for me, so post all the graphs you want but I won't be using RP on mobile and I will reserve judgement on RP desktop when I am forced onto it. Sporting Life was never much good in my view and has got significantly worse. |
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"we are now sold the line that smaller is better?".."I forced the desktop version to my smartphone" your name is perfect
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Smaller text I can enlarge, missing text what do I do with that?
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undecided • February 24, 2017 7:39 PM GMT
I never used the RP mobile site, I forced the desktop version to my smartphone and whilst it wasn't perfect at least I had ALL the information where it should be. thats the point, the mobile version of rp was useless for non mugs now you have the full site and database on your mobile and its readable, and rp only need to run one site instead of 2, a small change in the desktop version isnt much of a price to pay, you will be well used to it in a few weeks tops the fact that you forced the desktop site on your mobile obviously shows that there are times when you wanted access to the site on your mobile |
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I use my iPad when I'm away from home. My parents' house does not possess wifi and so no internet connection whatsoever,so I use my 3G option on my iPad to access the various bookies and place my bets. That works fine, but a bit slower than my desktop in placing bets. Also, when I'm abroad, depending on which country I'm in depends on whether there is a block on accessing some UK bookmakers.
Even using a VPN, Bet247 is not accessible! |
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Why does racing depend on these 3rd parties to provide basic information? Why isn't all this info available on the bhb site? Why is the bhb site so w@nk?
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oney, I'm not prepared to go beyond the acres of white space instead of packing more information on screen (can't even choose an at-a-glance version like you can on the desktop or is that going from the desktop too?) together with the demented scrolling text in the card header, a pet hate of mine, there you go, not interested, but as I said I'll give the new site a chance on the desktop, little alternative if I don't want to give up my hobby of 40+ years.
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Dr Crippen 24 Feb 17 17:37
mobile overtook desktop about 3 years ago In what respect? For putting bets on or studying races? Someone who works, might study the race on their PC the beforehand, then put their bets on using their mobile while they're away from their PC. I couldn't imagine trying to study a race properly on a mobile. Who does that? Absolutely agree |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2nCui9aU2w
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absolutely shocking. we need everyone to contact them via the email address and voice their concerns - i have emailed them three times alone. it is an absolute shambles of an upgrade. and two weeks before Cheltenham what were they thinking!? i have suggested they activate the old site again, with users able to toggle between the two.
please use the contact us link and email them! |
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The old site is still there lucky22.
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Is there a link for the old site please?
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sportinglive
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http://www.sportinglive.com/racing/racecards
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the old site is still there but you cant use it,when you want to watch a race video - it tells you to log in to skybet,then when you click on sporting life it re sends you to new site.
when you try and get round this by logging in then opening 2 pages one for old one for new ,then you try and watch a video - error message comes up and it says video content not available for desktop. with this and the racingpost - betting on racing is now finnished.the hardcore live long bettors will now pack it in. these new sites are built for drunks in beer tents who just want to watch the last race of one horse before they put a tenner on it. |
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sportinglife.com - new site
sportinglife.co.uk - old site |
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to access the posts old site,put racing post in a search engine and click on results or cards but not on the main address
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nice work comingupthehill!
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Will work for a While ,they Did same to the Greyhound Bit ,its a complete Shambles and can no longer access old site
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The link to the Racingpost old site is at the bottom of left hand corner of the home page. Usually.
All the information we need is still out there comingupthehill. The win prize money totals and their value to many punters, which both the Sportinglive site and the Racingpost seem unaware of, is still readily available on the At The Races website. |
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Thanks for highlighting this OliasOfSunhillow.
I went to the site to browse the form as usual and it's a definite downgrade ! I used to like the single page overview which included 'distance between' and I seem to remember e-mailing them last time they down a re-vamp which was also slightly worse than the previous. Once you have to start multi-clicking to see everything you lose track. Clear info needs to be on one page in columns you can quickly scan down. Maybe they get more money from advertising if you have to flick between pages ? Either way it's poor, and if anyone has any suggestions for better websites that were similar to their old one please highlight them Good luck for today's racing |
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Thanks for the link http://www.sportinglive.com/racing/racecards
At least i can still see the old format - anyone know if this will be staying ? |
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i doubt it, same thing happened with espn etc, they wouldnt change it back and 'who scored' was the beneficiary
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Where is the 'Profile Search' section?
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^^lost without trace^^
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Who on earth decided that they didn't need that?
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They have promised to include it, eventually.
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Are the techies responsible for this mess likely to be highly embarrassed at present, or are they above that kind of thing?
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birdy 25 Feb 17 12:48
Thanks for the link http://www.sportinglive.com/racing/racecards At least i can still see the old format - anyone know if this will be staying ? ---------------- For quite some while - if they have any sense ... and are monitoring the rapidly diminishing hits/traffic on their 'New' site - which must be bordering on Zero shortly - given that you only need to take one look at the 'New' aberration to see it's total inadequacies and NON-usability. |
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The new look will be fine if they get all the bits and pieces back. Usability is really quite poor at present.
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I have used Sporting Life Horseracing Results for yonks. A few days ago, the format changed. I was being bombarded with results from USA and the like. I do not want these. They interest me not. I do not like the new site. It is scheister.
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^ "The new look," is ATROCIOUS - never mind, "fine"
--------------- - and, worse still - the 'New Site' does NOT have the 'Fast Cards' format ... http://www.sportinglive.com/racing/racecards http://www.sportinglive.com/racing/meeting/kempton-park/25-02-2017/fast-cards Which are the ONLY style of cards that many of us both USE and PREFER - same as we both Use and PREFER 'At-A-Glance' style on RacingPost.com .... rather than the enormous elongated Colour cards. |
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As I say it will be fine if they get all the old bits and pieces back.
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Nonsense - You must be easily satisfied - and, obviously/apparently, not a serious Form Student.
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anyone know how to add the form & spotlight to the at a glance cards on RP Beta?
they seemed to have disabled these features on the AAG. |
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btw had to reduce my screen size to 95% to make the RP a bit more readable on my screen.
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