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Sportsfreunde.de is the new community portal about sports and recreational activities. Sportsfreunde.de is a 100% of the company Sport1 GmbH from Ismaning.

In her role as a sports community website offers a range of functions on the exchange, the individual user, network and contact you. Furthermore, the area of " sports partner "is an important building block in the offer to do this because it is looking for suitable people to do sport activities - so hopefully no one has gone without a partner. In groups, you can then devote sporting issues together, we can argue and discuss tell.

The well-known video and image uploads features complete the package.

At first glance, Sportsfreunde.de very tidy and clear, but also takes on the Web 2.0 and community spirit. Nevertheless, The rounded boxes, all in all not new, it has often feel a similar design have already seen elsewhere. Benefit from the offer that virtually all of the functions offered to run reliably so that could be dispensed with a large batch "beta". The first impression that is called forth no cheering yet still feels relatively well and is quick to click through the offer.

From conception Sportsfreunde.de solves a problem that many athletes do - if you do not just have a huge circle of friends, then it is always difficult to find suitable associates, with whom sport is driven. Especially in team sports to be yes, a few people used. With the purpose sports partners now had some hope for those with few friends or meet new ones for people who move because of job in another city. In addition, it is useful to promote the exchange of like-minded on the Internet. These are the groups and personal profiles, a very good way dar.

Positive on offer like the clear structure and despite all the existing Web 2.0 features objectivity. Basically all the must-have features include a community needs. However, very few users seem to abound in the community. Women in particular are extremely outnumbered. What might be the problem?

So on the one hand I'm missing in many places the "aha" effect, the surprise. It is not a function so novel and so original that you wonder rubs his eyes in astonishment. The design is the same - although quite pleasing but nothing new, nothing surprising and not very original.

In addition, there are still a few minor notes I would like to give:

The Profiles:

The profiles contain very little information so that it is possible only in a few categories get an idea about the other users make. Here one could think again and start the categories here are perhaps more useful (eg, athletic goals, sporting past. Favorite team, etc.)

"Who we are 'page

Under the " Who We Are "page I had imagined something completely different. I wanted to know how the idea came to the community, who is the project team and what will happen here in the future. The problem here is likely that one of Sportsfreunde.de Sport1.de, so a company has with its sports site is already a great success. The project team consists of five friends who had a great idea, it is not so. Too bad! For this reason, I do not have the benefit a little personal, family atmosphere of the many Web 2.0 offerings.

Further confusing I find the category descriptions on the "Who We Are" page. Since then it is called as "Pictures & Videos" while the horizontal tab "My Videos" hot. In addition, still appears a category of "sports" that I can not find them in the navigation. In addition, the order does not match up with the horizontal tabs, which I find to be inconsistent and confusing.

The orientation in this offer will be disturbed but only marginally. Since there are relatively few features and categories you're fast, "home" and can not do the first sports partner or seek to establish the first group.

Currently there is still a bit quiet in the community that will change in the coming weeks and months, but surely. With the major partner in the background is Sport1.de but certainly the way this community to make better known and more successful.

Conclusion:

All in all, it is a solid offer with useful features. For many users certainly there is great interest in the "sports partner". The pictures & video feature also provides the entertaining pastime and keeps the user on the offer. For the future we can perhaps add chat to single topics where users share the face-to-face.