Comments on: Urban Climber Website Gets Redesigned…Sort Of

By: News & Notes: Get Outta Town Edition | Climbing Narcissist

News & Notes: Get Outta Town Edition | Climbing Narcissist — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:00:21 +0000

[...] my recent “bashing” of the climbing mag sites, Climbing.com has a couple of interesting articles up right now. One is [...]

By: JPWill

JPWill — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:58:02 +0000

The rags’ sites suck. Why go there when I came come to the Narc and have my Gravatar post up next to my name (edit: wait a minute, that didn’t work…)?

Midwest pride. JW

By: Narc

Narc — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:34:30 +0000

That was sort of the funny thing for me. I spend most of my online time reading about climbing stuff and I hardly ever visit the mag sites.

By: tissuetendons

tissuetendons — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 13:29:14 +0000

people go to climbing mag sites? weird.

By: Kate T-C

Kate T-C — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:10:19 +0000

As a software engineer in a previous life, I totally understand the philosophy behind “Why re-invent the wheel?” I use WordPress and Zenphoto and essentially my site is also the same as many others, with a different theme. That doesn’t make me feel bad.

However, if things aren’t working right, there always does come a moment of “It’s time to throw away the old wheel and start over completely.” And there’s certainly many a (not just magazine) website that has probably reached that point.

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:51:33 +0000

They all kinda suck. Each has a ton of killer content but they all make it nearly impossible to find. Too bad the new urban climber didn’t do something completely different with their website since they usually try out random thing anyways. Now it is just cluttered and ugly.

By: sock hands

sock hands — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:10:46 +0000

word to the so brave and humble it hurts !!

By: Tarik

Tarik — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:49:19 +0000

Agreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed.

Having the same page reload over and over when browsing pictures on Climbing’s site is a bit lame given how is easy it would be not to. Alpinist has great content but half the functionality is broken. Rock and Ice could do so much better…

This said I like Escalademag.com but it’s in french…