Saw a news item tonight about the newly redesigned Hagerty Motorsportreg website. Went around to look and took an instant dislike to it.
It looks like some bright spark, who's never signed up for a motorsport event, decided to redevelop the website to cater to mobile. On the old website, when I used to log in, I'd get a "dashboard" with months of local events listed in a compact column for me to browse. Now you get three. That's it. Three. Thing is, they do offer a "browse" option on that page, but all that happens is that three becomes ten that have massive branding logos that fill the screen. My 32" 4K screen has room for two and a half events, and that's it. They've lost that nice tight list that used to be there. At ten events per click and endless scrolling down, the 830 events on the list are going to take a while to look through.
And of course there's also a search option. Thing is, search has never been MSR's strong suit because tracks and organizers never spell the same thing the same way twice. It's hit or miss, mostly miss, in my experience. You'll never find anything that you don't already know is there, and even then it's a chore.
The old site looked like it was designed by enthusiasts for enthusiasts. This new thing is just junk.
It looks like some bright spark, who's never signed up for a motorsport event, decided to redevelop the website to cater to mobile. On the old website, when I used to log in, I'd get a "dashboard" with months of local events listed in a compact column for me to browse. Now you get three. That's it. Three. Thing is, they do offer a "browse" option on that page, but all that happens is that three becomes ten that have massive branding logos that fill the screen. My 32" 4K screen has room for two and a half events, and that's it. They've lost that nice tight list that used to be there. At ten events per click and endless scrolling down, the 830 events on the list are going to take a while to look through.
And of course there's also a search option. Thing is, search has never been MSR's strong suit because tracks and organizers never spell the same thing the same way twice. It's hit or miss, mostly miss, in my experience. You'll never find anything that you don't already know is there, and even then it's a chore.
The old site looked like it was designed by enthusiasts for enthusiasts. This new thing is just junk.