Someone needs to teach them a lesson

[Pero]

I was on internet last night, trying to find out some news for vertigo tour and i went on u2.com. After finding no news, i started looking around.
THE SITE IS SO AWESOMELY BAD.
If you look on the "interactive timeline" on the bottom, you'll se that Pop came out in February 1997, but when you go to albums page, there is a line in text pretty much obvious that says:
"Pop
Release date: March 1997"

C'mon, if u2 doesn't know when was their album released, who will know.
And that's not the only mistake.
How can the site of the best band be the worst?

 

[Chizip]

yeah it sucks

 

[Achtung_Bebe]

How can the site of the best band be the worst?

The world will never know.

I ran across a crazy error on u2.com the other day but cannot remember what it was at the moment... I must've wiped it from my memory.

 

[clifedge]

Yeah it does suck. I never go there anymore now that my fan club membership expired.

 

[HelloAngel]

Yeah it does suck. I never go there anymore now that my fan club membership expired.

I only go there when I need to look for U2 news for this site.

 

[catlhere]

Yea they are pretty weak there. Usually the only times I go on that site are to look up song lyrics, or get album cover art to put on my iTunes songs. But other than that, I never stop to read anything. I use to check out their forums like 2 years ago, but stopped after I found Interference

 

[Dismantled]

I loathe that site only reason I joined was to get a better shot at tickets.....and look how well that turned out for members

 

[PopDaisy]

Admittedly, my eyesight isn't the greatest, but come on. The font size on that site is so small it's just an aggravation to read. Plus the fact that the better fan-run websites are usually more on top of breaking news than U2.com.

Not impressed.

 

[pop marter]

The site needs a major overhaul, I agree. Its pretty bad - do the band really approve of it?

 

[roy keane]

Every big band has bad oficiall site. fact

 

[u2granny]

Every big band has bad oficiall site. fact

True, but does U2.com have to be so officially awful?

 

[bobert16]

Under U2.com's Lyrics section, "Original of the Species" is spelled "ORIGNAL of the Species"

 

[U2DMfan]

the correct answer is March '97, in any event

 

[Ellay]

How can the site of the best band be the worst?

I know, it's ridiculous, considering the sort of stuff they COULD be doing on it.

Let's face it, most of us would give our right arm (and our left one) to run their website....

(ok we'd have to type with our noses)

 

[Jack In The Box]

haha, so true, U2.com sucks, content and design have so many flaws for a site of this kind

 

[Bodnex]

Teaching lessons eh?

"And that's why you don't yell..."

 

[fly so high!]

I don't visit very much often for the reasons that have been stated previously,frankly i find it astonishing that it is U2's official website.

 

[katiebu21]

Yes the site completely sucks. I'm still a member but I never go there...whenever news is posted I can just come here. As far as the other stuff on U2.com goes...they hardly ever change it so I don't bother checking. It's a shame because their site could be awesome.

 

[LemonAid]

It sucks even more when you consider that this a band that has prided itself on being at the very edge (no pun) of technical innovation....

...I mean, really, think back to Zoo TV, and then Popmart, these guys were Multimedia before there was multimedia...the frustrating thing is, how easy it is to make an awesome website nowadays in Flash, and y'know, being 'the Band' itself, I'd think there wouldn't be a shortage on upto date news to put in it...

..shame.

 

[Lemon Grrrrrl]

I go there without my glasses on when I want to feel old. It is a pity that they can't make a decent site.

 

[Cassandra]

Yea they are pretty weak there. Usually the only times I go on that site are to look up song lyrics, or get album cover art to put on my iTunes songs. But other than that, I never stop to read anything. I use to check out their forums like 2 years ago, but stopped after I found Interference

Don't go there for the lyrics. Go to atu2.com. They are probably the only fan website that still have the lyrics. They worked out a deal with the publishing company. U2.com doesn't have all or correct lyrics-note no B-sides.

 

[Joey788]

I agree that the official website truly does suck. Almost everytime I went there to view a setlist, it would be different than U2tours.com and usually, U2.com would have the incorrect information. I find that to be very sad and pathetic.