How Would You Improve Bleacher Report?
Per usual, we continue to get great feedback from the community on things that they like about the site, but also things that they would like to see improved. Thanks to Joe W. for his most recent post.
Here are some updates on our priorities right now for making the site better:
1) People keep telling us that they are having serious concerns regarding Tags.
Some writers are putting too many tags on their articles so that they can appear on every page—and we’re working on a way to prevent this practice.
We realize that this may frustrate writers who want their article to appear on the NFL, MLB, and NBA page (in addition to about twenty or thirty team pages). But we have a responsibility to our readers to make sure that all articles are RELEVANT to the pages on which they appear.
Later this month, we are going to roll out a new tag-selector interface that will require writers to carefully pick which leagues and teams BEST fit their article, asking them to carefully adhere to some limitations that will lead to a much better Bleacher Report reading experience.
We also really like the idea of having a page for “Multi-Sports,” where people can post articles like “10 Favorite Sports Memories,” which don’t have a clear league page. We are now accepting recommendations for what to call this page, so feel free to put in an idea.
2) For a few months now, we have been asking users what TYPE of article they are writing (i.e. Editorial or Preview or Satire). We do this because more and more of the community is starting to care about the nature of what is being written.
Soon we will make it so that we are separating these out on the site. That way, if you really only want to read Editorial pieces, you can look in the Editorials column. If you want News stories, you can look on that part of the page. As such, Bleacher Report will better fit your preferences.
3) The “More Statistics” feature is coming!
We want to make it as awesome as possible, and our programmers have found it to be a little more difficult than planned. But we haven’t forgotten!
Anything we missed? Let us know in the comments.