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Sportsblock : Why we Redesigned Everything at Once

Broadcast UI redesign

We Tore Down The Stadium And Built A Newsroom

Heads up. The whole app looks different. No, you didn't fat-finger a different URL. Yes, we just ripped up every primary page in one go. Here's why.

The real reason: predictions need real estate

We're going hard on Predictions and Contests. Like, hard. The old UI couldn't hold it.

Picture it. Left nav eating 240px. Top nav eating 64px. Right rail eating another 320px. By the time you got to the actual prediction card you had a glorified tweet column to work with. Try fitting a pari-mutuel odds breakdown, a stake slider, fee structure, a settlement timeline and a comments rail into 580px of dead-centre column.

You can't. We tried.

And where Predictions is going (which I'm not spilling yet) needs even more space. So we had a choice: ship the next round of features on a UI that doesn't fit them, or fix the canvas first.

We fixed the canvas.

The other reason: we looked a bit too much like Twitter

Yeah. We'll say it. The old layout was Twitter-with-the-paint-changed. Three columns, threaded comments down the middle, accent colour swapped for teal. Nobody was confused about what we'd been inspired by.

Fine for an MVP. Bad for a brand. Worse if you stay there long enough.

We burned it down before someone made us.

Why every page got the treatment

Half a redesign is worse than no redesign. You get this Frankenstein where /predictions is from the future and /blog is from 2024 and the user is constantly recalibrating. We've all used apps like that. They suck.

So the rule was simple: if one primary surface gets the new chrome, they all do. Same nav. Same rail. Same ticker. Same footer stamp. Same vibes.

The new chrome: broadcast layout

It's a newsroom. Dark, dense, no white screens, edition stamps on the footer like you're reading the morning paper. Top nav across the top. Vertical rail down the left with rotated meta text. Scrolling ticker between them. KPI strips on every hero. Corner brackets. Diagonal hatch overlays. Mono labels and Barlow Condensed display headlines that do not whisper.

It looks like a place where money changes hands. Because it is.

/blog

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The long-form feed. Replaces /new, /discover, and /feed in one shot — those URLs now redirect here so your bookmarks survive. Four mode tabs: For You, Following, Trending, Latest. Sport chips. Right rail. Slider votes (1–100% weight) instead of the old 5-star pick.

/predictions

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The reason we did all this. Odds bars, stake button, settlement state, escrow info — all breathing properly for the first time. And there's room above the fold for the stuff we haven't shipped yet.

(Being deliberately vague. Eyes on the changelog.)

/contests

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The contest hub. IPL Boundary BlackJack, Last Man Standing, Matchday Matrix — all under the same chrome. KPI strip up top: total prize pool, active competitions, total entrants. Clear status badges. Big ENTER CTA that doesn't apologise.

/sportsbites

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The hot-take feed. 280 chars max, polls, six emoji reactions, MEDALS tips. Now wrapped in broadcast chrome instead of the old Twitter cosplay column.

/leaderboard

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This one's bigger than a redesign — it's a re-shape. /leaderboard is now your hub. Three tabs: RANKINGS (public), OVERVIEW (your dashboard), MY PROFILE (your stats). /dashboard redirects here now. One destination instead of three.

/match-threads

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Live match discussions. Lineups, events timeline, stats panels, sportsbites locked to the match. The old layout made us choose what to show. The new one shows everything.

/news

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Sports headlines in newsroom dressing. The chrome finally matches the format.

/communities

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Same energy, same chrome.

/wallet

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HIVE, HBD, MEDALS — all balances, transfers, staking, claim rewards. Same dark, dense, broadcast feel. Money product looks like a money product now.

Mobile: not an afterthought

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The broadcast chrome auto-collapses the left rail and ticker on small screens, swaps in a bottom nav, and reflows the hero KPI strips so they don't run off the edge. Same dense, dark, edition-stamped vibe — no apologetic mobile-only stripped-down version.

If anything the mobile views read tighter than the old layout, because we stopped trying to cram three columns into a 375px viewport.

What this unlocks

  • Predictions can finally sprawl out, and the next features fit.
  • Contests get the breathing room of the real money product they are.
  • The brand stops borrowing from a blue bird that's already a different colour anyway.
  • One layout to maintain across nine surfaces, not nine.

We didn't redesign because we got bored. We redesigned because the next six months don't fit on the old canvas. By the end of the week most of the bugs will be ironed out so you can get onto me on Discord around tweaks or what needs to go in. Now that we have the space we can seriously take user feedback and run with it.

Strap in. The interesting stuff starts shipping on top of this.

— Blanchy

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