Professional Football Researchers Association Forum

Has anyone seen it recently? It just got redesigned. Oh. My. Goodness. One of the more user-unfriendly websites I've ever seen.

Yes, went there looking for something, couldn't find it, now consider the site useless/unusable.

Like most 'modern' - and terrible - website redesigns, it seems it's aimed at people who only use the internet on their phones (scroll and touchscreen) ... A lot of websites have done this, many used to have two different versions (a separate scaled down version for phones) but when they chose to have just one version, they went with the version more appropriate for cell phones (i.e. scaled down) ... I stopped visiting any sites that made that decision because of not only the navigation, but without fail information/content wise it's led to a very poor quality.

Agreed, awful website now. And they got rid of several things like the list of finalists by year, which was extremely useful. The site was fine as is, no idea why they had to change it.

Agreed, awful website now. And they got rid of several things like the list of finalists by year, which was extremely useful.

Speaking of which... now that these interesting lists are either gone or unfindable... did anyone download or copy-n-paste these? They would be cool to have.

Have you tried the Internet Archive Wayback Machine? I discovered it a few weeks ago. It has copies of
websites from earlier dates. It's not always perfect but I found it helpful in doing some research.

https://archive.org/web/

aha! Indeed helpful! Thanks!

oh... I just remembered p-f-r lists finalists on their site as well.
Here's 1989 for example...
http://www.pro-football-reference.com/h ... ballot.htm

Wow,
From a useful, fun website I visited almost daily to a piece of crap I'll never visit again... well done, HoF.

Yet another "improvement" in the name of "modernization."
If we can"t understand a simple concept like "if it ain't broke don't fix it" we are truly doomed.