bincitysioux Posted February 1, 2013 Posted February 1, 2013 Hey Jim, How much work would it be to get scoreboards and standings for basketball on the front page of the site like there is for hockey and football? Thought it may make it easier or help for casual fans to take notice of basketball................... 3 Quote
jimdahl Posted February 1, 2013 Posted February 1, 2013 First, I always meant to try to add basketball at the same time we went D-I. Obviously I'm behind. There's definitely a redesign in the works, I'm still really hoping this summer (likely coinciding with a rebranding?) The biggest challenge to just adding the basketball scores is finding an automated source. (The hockey community is good about sharing this stuff, football I still do by hand but its easy because games are almost always Saturdays; you really can't just scrape ESPN.com, they don't like that). Ideally, there would also be some non-GF Herald content. On hockey there's a ton, including some exclusive to SiouxSports. On football, there's at least one notable blog out there, though we haven't successfully recruited anyone to write regularly about it here (though I also haven't tried in years). While the new design is definitely still going to include the news links, the now four-year-old attempt to make the front page sort of a reddit for UND sports clearly didn't take off quite like I could have imagined, so I'm definitely going to place additional emphasis on the original content and less on links to gfherald.com. Quote
Let'sGoHawks! Posted February 1, 2013 Posted February 1, 2013 I really enjoy the front page new stories. It saves me a lot of time just coming here, instead of googling each teams home paper, athletic websites, etc. Thanks for the site Jim, not sure what many of us would do without it! (probably increase work productivity) Quote
jimdahl Posted February 1, 2013 Posted February 1, 2013 I really enjoy the front page new stories. It saves me a lot of time just coming here, instead of googling each teams home paper, athletic websites, etc. Thanks for the site Jim, not sure what many of us would do without it! (probably increase work productivity) To be clear, they're definitely not going away. As practical matter, we want to emphasize the content unique to SiouxSports a little more. I think the link aggregation is quite useful myself, but we've had some problems with people thinking at first glance that the site is nothing but links to other people's stuff. So, instead of getting the whole left column the news links will probably get part of a column to the right, but there will still always be the option to click on the "news" tab/link and get the full page version. Quote
FSSD Posted February 24, 2013 Posted February 24, 2013 If you are looking for someone to help with Basketball content... this guy does a great job covering the Big Sky in general.. I think it would be great if you added his blog to the main page. I believe that he is a UND guy. http://www.bigskybball.com/ Quote
Hayduke Posted February 24, 2013 Posted February 24, 2013 Jim, I think it would be great if you added basketball. It would be nice to see both women's and men's. Keep up the good work! Quote
GeauxSioux Posted June 14, 2013 Posted June 14, 2013 Is the twitter feed down? It is still showing tweets from 3 days ago. Quote
jimdahl Posted June 15, 2013 Posted June 15, 2013 Is the twitter feed down? It is still showing tweets from 3 days ago. Yeah, twitter made a change that I'm going to have to figure out how to deal with. Will do so soon. Quote
BigGreyAnt41 Posted June 15, 2013 Posted June 15, 2013 The url for their API is something like API.twitter.com/1.1 now, instead of just /1. It also returns a .json file instead of .xml Hope that helps Quote
jimdahl Posted June 16, 2013 Posted June 16, 2013 The url for their API is something like API.twitter.com/1.1 now, instead of just /1. It also returns a .json file instead of .xml Hope that helps Exactly -- the 2nd part is what's going to be a couple hours work, processing the new return format. However, there are also some new display requirements (e.g. all the tweets have to be rendered with all usernames, hashtags, @s "live" like they would be if you were on twitter itself). For now I may just fall back to a feed of specific people, using Twitter's embedding capabilities and ponder whether it's still worth rolling my own going forward. Quote
jimdahl Posted June 17, 2013 Posted June 17, 2013 Ok, I'll go with the Twitter widget for now. It's a bit tougher to combine searches and lists of people like I was doing myself before, but Twitter's widget is also a lot better than back when I originally felt the need to do it myself. I've been meaning to reimagine that whole section for quite a while, maybe this will light a little fire under me. But, this should have us back up and running for now. Quote
MoSiouxFan Posted June 26, 2013 Posted June 26, 2013 The front page of Sioux Sports hasn't updated since last evening. Anyone else having the same problem? Quote
jimdahl Posted June 26, 2013 Posted June 26, 2013 The front page of Sioux Sports hasn't updated since last evening. Anyone else having the same problem? Fixed. Quote
GeauxSioux Posted August 26, 2013 Posted August 26, 2013 Why isn't there a scoreboard and standings for football on the front page as there has been in the past? Quote
jimdahl Posted August 28, 2013 Posted August 28, 2013 Why isn't there a scoreboard and standings for football on the front page as there has been in the past? I just got the schedules loaded last week (still don't have a great source for football -- the Big Sky composite is promising, but is clearly human-entered and had a few errors last season). Just hadn't football back to the "active sports" list yet, just did now. Thanks. 1 Quote
UNDBIZ Posted November 26, 2013 Posted November 26, 2013 Thanks for adding links to basketball articles. Any updates on a tab for the basketball W-L records and conference standings next to the hockey and football tabs? Quote
jimdahl Posted December 5, 2013 Posted December 5, 2013 Same answer as before... I still don't have a great source for automated football scores, let alone basketball. It's on the list, but not at the top. Alas, my list blew up this year with both a major conference rearrangement (including a new points system!) and new RPI and PWR formulas. Quote
bincitysioux Posted December 10, 2013 Author Posted December 10, 2013 Thanks for adding links to basketball articles. Just so everyone is aware, under the "News and Media" section of the front page, any member can submit links to articles or videos. It is not limited to just mods or administrators. I added that flurry of articles the week of the NDSU and Oregon games because someone reminded me. in the past I've tried to remember to be more diligent about it, but it often slips my mind or I don't have time. Quote
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