Bear with us

by kos on Sep 21, 2004 2:42 PM PDT in News

There are some technical difficulties that come with a migration of this sort. The big one is that people can't register. We're on it. I'll post an update when that error is fixed. Thanks for being patient.

Update [2004-9-21 18:18:47 by Blez]: The site will now allow you to create usernames...have at it, folks!

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Registered!

A suggestion about the email sent out when someone registers...

you might want to have the email use "www.athleticsnation.com" instead of "athletic.armstrongzuniga.com" as the address of the site.

by Kevin2 on Sep 21, 2004 3:27 PM PDT reply actions

Fixed

Thanks! And like Blez says, let us know if you see anymore problems.

by kos on Sep 21, 2004 3:41 PM PDT up reply actions

We're on that problem...

If you notice any more problems, keep letting us know. It'll help us get this working smoothly.

Thanks!

by Tyler Bleszinski on Sep 21, 2004 3:32 PM PDT reply actions

Minor suggestions

Overall, very nice. I'm looking forward to seeing how this works out. A few minor suggestions:

As Kevin suggested, the armstrongzuniga.com URL caused some problems. I had to relogin at athleticsnation.com; when I changed my password at armstrongzuniga.com, it had no effect at athleticsnation.com, and I had to change it again.

I'd add a few more pixels of padding around the text in the center. The page seems more cluttered now with the yellow running down both sides; some white space would be beneficial.

You might want to default everyone to the Pacific Time Zone; most of us A's fans are probably in this time zone.

by kenarneson on Sep 21, 2004 3:41 PM PDT reply actions

Looks great!

I like how there's lots of gold to go along with the green now...hopefully it will inspire the boys to claim some gold of their own in October.

by Vic @ Athletics Nation on Sep 21, 2004 3:42 PM PDT reply actions

I'm in

Thanks for all the hard work, guys!

Looks as good as Crosby at short.

by paradox on Sep 21, 2004 3:44 PM PDT reply actions

clock

Thanks blez and kos. The clock seems to be about 4 hours ahead.

by andeux on Sep 21, 2004 3:52 PM PDT reply actions

That freakin' clock

This happens every time I put up a new Scoop site.

We'll fix it later tonight, and also default the clock to PT.

by kos on Sep 21, 2004 3:54 PM PDT up reply actions

it works!

Looks great, blez!

by jrbh on Sep 21, 2004 3:58 PM PDT reply actions

Yeah!

I made it! The new stuff looks so great!

by Jennifer on Sep 21, 2004 4:09 PM PDT reply actions

Amazing amount of hard work...thank you!

Blez and Kos,

I basically make my living off the internet, so I have a pretty good idea of much work this must have involved for both of you.

Thanks a million for all that you've done. This might even make up for kos being a BoSox fan...

...nah...maybe not. ;-)

Take care,

LongGone
(aka Mike Long)

by LongGone on Sep 21, 2004 4:19 PM PDT reply actions

thanks, Mike!

kos is a Cubbies fan though. We don't want the Sox rumor spreading here :-)

by Tyler Bleszinski on Sep 21, 2004 4:22 PM PDT reply actions

Whoopsie!

Sorry Blez...

I just can't imagine being eith a Sox OR Cubs fan. To think that my grandfather, born in 1919, has never seen either of those teams win a World Series.

Sometimes, we don't realize how good we have it. :-)

by LongGone on Sep 21, 2004 6:04 PM PDT up reply actions

Great Work!

I was a bit worried when I saw a new, more complicated site was on the way... the simplicity of the old site was really nice. However, I have to say this looks like a great change all around. The design and functionality look amazing. Thanks for all the hard work.

by bog on Sep 21, 2004 6:15 PM PDT reply actions

Need Subject

Comments with no subject don't seem to appear in the thread you're commenting in. Just a minor thing, but it can lead to some needless frustration...

by OaktownTribesman on Sep 21, 2004 6:47 PM PDT reply actions

Comment ratings

I just noticed that while you have rating comments turned off, if you click on a user and look at their comments, ratings of "1.25/0" appear next to the subjects.

by Kevin2 on Sep 21, 2004 7:41 PM PDT reply actions

Testing

I'm just seeing if I can get this to work.

by bear88 on Sep 21, 2004 11:28 PM PDT reply actions

The look

I love Kos's site and have gotten very used to the orange. But for an A's site, there must be much more green than this. it's baseball! Other than that, good job, guys.

paul m

by paul m on Sep 22, 2004 12:07 AM PDT reply actions

The color is actually gold...

A's gold. Their colors :-)

Thanks Paul

by Tyler Bleszinski on Sep 22, 2004 7:03 AM PDT up reply actions

redesign

i really like the new functionality, blez. version 2.0 is all i could hope for. the threading and the diaries are all excellent. and the site looks pretty good too... except, personally, i think it's kind of abrupt at the top of the page with nothing there, and that picture of the ball and glove in the top left corner really doesn't fit. color-wise, it doesn't go with the rest of the site very well, and it doesn't really say "oakland a's" to me. overall, though: great job!

by vishal on Sep 23, 2004 2:07 PM PDT reply actions