ISU's new website design & relaunch

[Sylvia]

Welcome to the new International Skating Union digital home!
Whether you are a fan or corporate stakeholder, select below for a customized and engaging experience.

Fan site Home of skating:https://isu-skating.com/

Corporate Inside isu https://www.isu.org/

 

[Karen-W]

FS Xwitter is already panning the Biographies section - it's coding to identify skaters' countries by their place of birth rather than the country they currently represent.

Even worse, as I'm digging down through it... The Pairs & Ice Dance bios are sorted by the FIRST name of the female partner - and there is no ability to filter the bios by country or anything else.

Who were these bozos who did this site re-design and WHY did they think mid-October was the ideal time for this launch? Did they not consult with anyone who uses their site for anything?

 

[jmtfti]

I just tried searching for a couple of ice dancers by name once already in the Figure Skaters bios section and got "Application error: a client-side exception has occurred" each time, so looks like things are definitely running great.

 

[swissskate]

There’s definitely room for improvement, yes

 

[Karen-W]

The bios section really is the worst. You just have to "load more" on the pairs & ice dance pages to even get to the letter of the alphabet for any team - how many people are going to waste their time clicking "load more" until they get to Madison Chock let alone Piper Gilles, Riku Miura or Sara Conti - just to name 4 of the 8 women who were one half of the WC medalists in the last two seasons in ice dance and pairs. And, God forbid you want to look up any pairs or ice dance teams by country - nope, that option does not exist.

 

[sk9tingfan]

I must be dreaming but...

ISU-skating.com

ISU Home of Skating

Discover official ISU Home of Skating - figure skating, synchronized skating, speed skating and short track events, news, live results, athlete profiles, and championship results. Stay updated with trending competitions worldwide.

isu-skating.com

Looks like there's a lot more to be fully populated.

 

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

LOL, I commented on this about three or four hours ago and then Sylvia has made a new thread about it

IMO the previous version was a lot more user-friendly, I don’t wanna have to scroll down so much to find events and what I’m looking for, not a fan of who they used to redesign

 

[Sylvia]

Thanks for giving me the heads up to make this new thread :

LOL, I commented on this about three or four hours ago and then Sylvia has made a new thread about it

IMO the previous version was a lot more user-friendly, I don’t wanna have to scroll down so much to find events and what I’m looking for, not a fan of who they used to redesign

 

[sk9tingfan]

Welcome to the new International Skating Union digital home!
Whether you are a fan or corporate stakeholder, select below for a customized and engaging experience.

Fan site Home of skating:https://isu-skating.com/

Corporate Inside isu https://www.isu.org/

Sylvia, or administrators, would you please get rid of my duplicative thread post? Thanks

 

[Sylvia]

Sylvia, or administrators ...

I'm not an admin. here but I'm sure one of the admins will take care of it when they can.

 

[Colonel Green]

Oh goody, they broke all the links to articles on their old website that I used as sources on Wikipedia.

 

[Rukia]

Well according to the isu the genders are now men, women, pairs, and ice dance and i for one support this

 

[farahfan]

Well according to the isu the genders are now men, women, pairs, and ice dance and i for one support this

The technical word would be "discipline", but I could imagine a new fan logging on and being confused by that.

 

[Karen-W]

Just an FYI, some of the upcoming competitions have entry lists available on the ISU website, though they're a bit hard to access unless you know the specific file path and event name.

The correct path is here - and if you click on the event name from the events page, you can copy & paste the correct event name in the portion of the link that I've bolded below:

https://isu-skating.com/figure-skating/entries/

EVENT_NAME

for example - NRW Trophy has entries already showing up and the link is as follows:

NRW Trophy 2024

NRW Trophy 2024

isu-skating.com

It doesn't work for every event - Tirnavia Ice Cup which is next weekend doesn't have any entries listed yet; but Volvo Cup that same weekend does already, so it's sort of hit & miss and may depend upon when the event organizer publishes the entry lists. Who knows what the logic is.

 

[Lanie]

It is terribly coded as well. What a mess.

 

[Wyliefan]

Leave it to the ISU to screw it up.

 

[Karen-W]

Leave it to the ISU to screw it up.

Maybe we'll all wake up tomorrow and this will have been but a fevered dream as they realize they need to do a lot more testing and work before they go live with it, lol.

 

[MacMadame]

Who were these bozos who did this site re-design and WHY did they think mid-October was the ideal time for this launch? Did they not consult with anyone who uses their site for anything?

Software engineer here. The project was scheduled to finish in Aug (or earlier) but then people wanted more features and changed their minds about how the pages would look and a few other things took longer than expected and the schedule slipped.

And all the stupid decisions like sorting by First Name? Either some engineer who knows nothing about skating decided that. Or someone made a technical decision ages ago that made doing something sensible too hard. Though being designed by a committee is also possible.

Fellow software engineers, am I right?

 

[jiejie]

Thumbs down from me. I don't like forced pull-downs, without any option to just enter the field. Like entering the country of a skater. And the "View More" is horribly cumbersome. I want as few clicks as possible to get to where I want to be, without a bunch of photos to trip over along the way.

 

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

Holy moly, is this new website a fail, if I have to post a message here asking people to help me find where the World standings are on this website then the website is a fail.

Too many moving parts, too many flashing photos, and images that load as u scroll down. Don’t need that. I need information quickly. OK now that my rant is over can someone tell me where the world standings are?

 

[Karen-W]

Holy moly, is this new website a fail, if I have to post a message here asking people to help me find where the World standings are on this website then the website is a fail.

Too many moving parts, too many flashing photos, and images that load as u scroll down. Don’t need that. I need information quickly. OK now that my rant is over can someone tell me where the world standings are?

World Standings - International Skating Union

The International Skating Union is the international sport federation administering Ice Skating sports throughout the world.

current.isu.org

Statistics - International Skating Union

Figure Skating Statistics and World Standings/Season World Ranking.

current.isu.org

ISU Results - International Skating Union

The International Skating Union is the international sport federation administering Ice Skating sports throughout the world.

current.isu.org

 

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

World Standings - International Skating Union

The International Skating Union is the international sport federation administering Ice Skating sports throughout the world.

current.isu.org

Statistics - International Skating Union

Figure Skating Statistics and World Standings/Season World Ranking.

current.isu.org

ISU Results - International Skating Union

The International Skating Union is the international sport federation administering Ice Skating sports throughout the world.

current.isu.org

Thanks, did you just bookmark this link or where did you find it in the new website? Thank you.

 

[Karen-W]

Thanks, did you just bookmark this link or where did you find it in the new website? Thank you.

I found it after some digging. Now, I have all the new pages bookmarked/open in a separate browser.

 

[ice coverage]

Thanks, did you just bookmark this link or where did you find it in the new website? Thank you.

Start at isu.org home page.
At right end of top line, click on "HOME OF SKATING," to reach https://isu-skating.com/
Click on "FIGURE SKATING", which is the label for the first photo box at the left, to reach https://isu-skating.com/figure-skating/
At the right, look for "RESULTS" (the order of the tabs is: NEWS, RESULTS, EVENTS, SKATERS)
The three options on the drop-down menu for "RESULTS" are:

Entries and Results (directs to https://isu-skating.com/figure-skating/results/)
World Standings (directs to https://current.isu.org/figure-skating/entries-results/standings)
Statistics (directs to https://current.isu.org/figure-skating/entries-results/statistics)​

The World Standings page and Statistics page look the same as on the old version of the ISU site, but the new URLs start with "current.isu.org" instead of just "isu.org"

 

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

Start at isu.org home page.
At right end of top line, click on "HOME OF SKATING," to reach https://isu-skating.com/
Click on "FIGURE SKATING", which is the label for the first photo box at the left, to reach https://isu-skating.com/figure-skating/
At the right, look for "RESULTS" (the order of the tabs is: NEWS, RESULTS, EVENTS, SKATERS)
The three options on the drop-down menu for "RESULTS" are:

Entries and Results (directs to https://isu-skating.com/figure-skating/results/)​

World Standings (directs to https://current.isu.org/figure-skating/entries-results/standings)​

Statistics (directs to https://current.isu.org/figure-skating/entries-results/statistics)​

The World Standings page and Statistics page look the same as on the old version of the ISU site, but the new URLs start with "current.isu.org" instead of just "isu.org"

Hmmmm I’m on the iPad so I think it must look differently. I can’t find a drop-down menu.

 

[Tesla]

Hmmmm I’m on the iPad so I think it must look differently. I can’t find a drop-down menu.

The three lines upper-right corner (aka the hamburger).

 

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

The three lines upper-right corner (aka the hamburger).

The only options there are home of skating, inside ISU and contact us

 

[Tesla]

The only options there are home of skating, inside ISU and contact us

That’s weird because I’m on an ipad, and I see the three-line menu. Did you go through Google? When I got to ISU that way, I picked fan. I still get the three-line menu.

 

[Lara111]

Its just awfull

 

[Evanstonsktr]

Start at isu.org home page.
At right end of top line, click on "HOME OF SKATING," to reach https://isu-skating.com/
Click on "FIGURE SKATING", which is the label for the first photo box at the left, to reach https://isu-skating.com/figure-skating/
At the right, look for "RESULTS" (the order of the tabs is: NEWS, RESULTS, EVENTS, SKATERS)
The three options on the drop-down menu for "RESULTS" are:

Entries and Results (directs to https://isu-skating.com/figure-skating/results/)​

World Standings (directs to https://current.isu.org/figure-skating/entries-results/standings)​

Statistics (directs to https://current.isu.org/figure-skating/entries-results/statistics)​

The World Standings page and Statistics page look the same as on the old version of the ISU site, but the new URLs start with "current.isu.org" instead of just "isu.org"

Do you have a way to find the Biographies listings in the old format? i have discovered that doing a Google search for a skater's name brings up the old-format biography page for that skater, usually as the 3rd or 4th link. However, i wonder if those biographies will get updated as time passes.