SB Nation Launches New Mobile Sites and Postseason Hub

by louismg on Oct 3, 2008 10:20 AM PDT

Big news, AN fans. If you're as obsessed with the Green and Gold as I am, you'll probably find yourself feeling disconnected from the site when you're on the go. But in the last week, SB Nation rolled out a big initiative aimed at making all its sites, AN included, optimized for mobile phones. With so many of you checking out AN on your iPhones, BlackBerries, SideKicks and other cell phones, the new interface should load much more quickly, and take you right to the stories, without making you scroll-scroll-scroll through the sidebars commonly found on the standard Web site.

The new mobile version of AN is just the first step in a series of enhancements planned to make catching up with your favorite teams on SB Nation blogs even better. While today, the mobile site doesn't yet enable you to login and add comments, future updates to the platform will undoubtedly move in this direction.

If you're at your computer, you can get a sneak preview of the new mobile interface by pointing your browser to http://mobile.athleticsnation.com/. The mobile subdomain works for other sites in the SB Nation family, with examples including http://mobile.halosheaven.com/ and http://mobile.lookoutlanding.com/. You can even go straight to fanposts for AN here: http://mobile.athleticsnation.com/fanposts/full.

Also new with SB Nation is a hub dedicated to following the Postseason. You might have seen the new Postseason widget on AN on the right side below Fanposts and above Fanshots. The new hub, found here: http://www.sbnation.com/mlb/postseason, has the latest posts from the active teams' blogs, as well as linescores of each game. It's a great one-stop page fo get caught up on what the fans of this year's postseason clubs are saying, so check it out.

Having had a long conversation yesterday with Trei Brundrett, who is leading the development team at SB Nation, I am even more excited about the future of the SB Nation platform, and you can expect many big things coming. But for now, check out the AN mobile site and the SB Nation Postseason hub. You can also keep updated through the official SB Nation blog: Blog Huddle, found here: http://blog.sbnation.com/.

If you have comments on the new mobile site or Postseason hub, feel free to leave them here. I know they will see it. You can also see this announcement cross-posted to louisgray.com, in an effort to get the news to the masses.

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AN Mobile completes me.

by mikev on Oct 3, 2008 10:25 AM PDT reply actions

SB Nation Postseason Hub is pretty.

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by pam5981 on Oct 3, 2008 10:43 AM PDT reply actions

I'm wondering whether it will allow me

to log in and post on my iPhone. As you may know the iPhone uses the Safari browser, with which I’ve problems in the past logging in even on the computer, and have not been able to do at all on the iPhone.

by OaklandSi on Oct 3, 2008 10:52 AM PDT reply actions

The new mobile site doesn't yet.

So far, it’s essentially read only, but I would expect this to be a high priority.

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by louismg on Oct 3, 2008 10:55 AM PDT up reply actions

I'm looking forward to it

by OaklandSi on Oct 3, 2008 10:56 AM PDT up reply actions

Definitely a high priority

We’re really looking forward to making the fun, interactive features of SB Nation blogs quick & easy to use on mobile. This was just a first step to make reading your favorite blogs on your phone/PDA painless.

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by Trei Brundrett on Oct 3, 2008 12:49 PM PDT up reply actions

also, the post season posts

require us to join each individual blog in order to post.

While I might want to participate I don’t really feel like joining all those blogs. I prefer just being registered with AN.

Would there be any way to piggy back to those discussions with our AN membership?

by OaklandSi on Oct 3, 2008 10:56 AM PDT reply actions

Your one account should incorporate your activity at all registered sites.

For example, if you go to http://www.aroundtheoval.com/ (Ohio State’s blog), and click comment, you just have to agree to the site’s TOS to start making comments. Everybody has a top-level account with Sports Blogs Nation, and you can “join” the hosted blogs as you please. All that activity would show in one place, under your account.

Examples:
You: http://www.sbnation.com/users/OaklandSi
Me: http://www.sbnation.com/users/louismg

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by louismg on Oct 3, 2008 10:59 AM PDT up reply actions

I just tried to do that

agreed to the site’s TOS, and this is the message I received:

Your membership isn’t fully active yet

Your Bleed Cubbie Blue membership will be fully active in 2 days, on Oct 5, 2008 11:19 AM PDT. Until then, you won’t be able to post comments, FanPosts, or FanShots. In the meantime, we hope you’ll explore the community. Stick around!

by OaklandSi on Oct 3, 2008 11:21 AM PDT up reply actions

Well, I'm not in charge...

But in theory, that’s a waiting period to block spammers who might join just to drop bombs on a site and leave. When I tried the Ohio State one, I believe it turned on right away. Maybe it’s modifiable on a site by site basis.

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by louismg on Oct 3, 2008 11:39 AM PDT up reply actions

Yeah. Each place has their own restrictions (or none at all) on a waiting period

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by Flashfire on Oct 3, 2008 11:42 AM PDT up reply actions

ok, thanks!

by OaklandSi on Oct 3, 2008 11:43 AM PDT up reply actions

That's right, each blog has its own set of rules

Every community in SB Nation is different so we give each blog manager the tools to moderate them as they see fit. Over on Bleed Cubbie Blue, he has more trolls so he uses the option to make all new memberships provisional. Other communities, like the Ohio State blog Around the Oval, don’t need that level of protection.

Your SB Nation account is a passport across the entire network, but you still have to explicitly join a blog to participate, agree to their specific community guidelines and play by their rules. If you’re banned by that blog, it doesn’t effect your memberships in other SB Nation communities.

It helps if the hitter thinks you're a little crazy. - Nolan

by Trei Brundrett on Oct 3, 2008 12:47 PM PDT up reply actions