Old desktop, mobile websites retired
New unified website is the future of the popular lottery brand
MARTINSVILLE, N.J. — Lottery Post Founder Todd Northrop today announced the launch of the new Lottery Post website, unifying the mobile and desktop experience and implementing numerous improvements, while positioning the popular lottery website for the future.
In an intense but carefully-orchestrated two-year project, the world's most popular website devoted to official government-run lottery games completed its rebuild today, retiring the old desktop and mobiles websites. Previously, Lottery Post visitors would use different websites when visiting on mobile devices and desktop computers.
The rebuild of the website was first made public in June, when Lottery Post announced the availability of a special preview website, allowing anyone to try out the new website before the old one was retired. A video hosted by Northrop explained the steps leading up to the development of the new website, as well as a demonstration of several key new features.
(See LOTTERY POST ANNOUNCES NEXT CHAPTER OF WEBSITE, Lottery Post, June 24, 2022.)
Lottery Post members and visitors do not need to do anything differently to access the new website. Even for pages where the link (URL) of the page has changed, the new website will automatically redirect the browser to the correct page.
The only case where users may have to do a little "work" is if they installed Lottery Post as an icon on their device's home screen. In that case, Lottery Post recommends long-pressing on the home screen icon and selecting the Remove/Uninstall option. After the icon is uninstalled, the Add to Home Screen can once again be used to add a fresh installation of the new website on the device's home screen.
Getting to today's launch was no easy task, given the website's scope and complexity. When the multi-year project started, Lottery Post's founder and developer was not even certain it was possible to rebuild the entire thing.
"Given the millions of pages and hundreds of thousands of lines of code that operate the website, the project appeared so daunting at the beginning that I wondered if it would be possible to rebuild it all," Northrop explained. "After about 10 months enough was built that I could start to document all the parts that were remaining. It was a huge list, but at that point I could start to see that it was actually possible to finish the whole thing, and I could even start to estimate the number of months left to completion."
In June the new website was launched as a special preview, running in parallel to the old website so that people could try out the new website, while still having access to the one one.
In the time since that preview launch, Lottery Post members and visitors tried the new website and provided hundreds of items of feedback. As the feedback came in, the preview website was continually improved in response, documented on the website's What's New page.
Now, around two months after that first preview was introduced, the old desktop and mobile websites are retired — replaced by the new Lottery Post.
But the launch of the new website is not the end — it's actually a new beginning. Lottery Post will continue carefully monitoring feedback about the website, making changes and improvements where necessary. Also, the important technology advances in the new website create a much better platform for implementing new features, so Lottery Post members and visitors can expect new exciting things to be coming in the future.
"I want to thank all the loyal Lottery Post members who built such a vibrant and thriving community over the last 22 years," Northrop said. "The new website is an expression of my gratitude for their support, and my hope is that Lottery Post is better than ever as a home for every lottery player for far into the future."
This is going to be sweet!!!.
Houston, all systems are a go. We have lift off. Congrats Todd and team.
Very nice, congrats Todd .
old way better
l like it.
Todd, are you an Army of One, or did you have some help? Either way you're producing a nice product. G5
Nice website update. Indeed!
Great job guys...
I totally agree
Thank You Todd! Good Job.
Love the functionality of the new site. Very easy to maneuver, once you take a test run.
Great Improvement Todd. Thank You!
I like to see all results at one time otherwise this site is just like others searching each state individually wasting time and energy
very nice upgrade Todd ! easy for we with "much experience" to read. and GOOD LUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I agree old way better can't find the page with all states listed at one time
Thanks to those who posted such nice compliments! Much appreciated.
To those with a less-than-great reaction, that's fine too. I totally understand that change can be disruptive. But I assure you that everything you could do on the old website you can do on the new one — and most of the time it is better/more powerful on the new website. Take some time to use the new one for a while before you throw your hands in the air and give up.
Also, sorry for the approximate hour of downtime this afternoon. You can think of it as "growing pains" as we figure out the ins and outs of our new technology.
There may be another period of downtime later today, but I'm hoping it will only be the 10 seconds or so that should be a normal part of an update. If it's longer than that, we're definitely aware and we are trying to minimize downtime as much as possible. I appreciate your patience!
Thank you Todd. Great job! Loving it!
So i can't see all states at one time or the past results??
I still laugh about some of the " growing pains" hotmail.com had decades ago
but like all great forums, blogs and etc etc, thar'll be days and hair pulling moments
Thanks again 4 all you do
Sure you can. Everything from the old website is still there. Click the Results menu, then either choose a state from the grid, or scroll down below the grid to see links to the other results pages. (Or, on a computer you can see all the links when your mouse hovers over the Results menu.)
I gave the site a "WOW" when I first looked and it still is. Not having any problems finding all the features I've used for years. If anything, they are easier to find.
Nice job, Todd!!
Hey Todd,
How can I find the new website?
You're looking at it!
fantastic
I really like the new website! Thanks to Todd and team for a LOT of hard work!!!
Dk
The site is worse...whenever more steps are created to see the results, it is in no way better...I had preferred this site to my state's site, but not anymore...you ruined it...
I'm unable to veiw AllStates lottery results at one time like I use too that is an important feature I use daily for my group how do I get this feature back thanks
How do I find all states results at one time I don't see anything this is discouraging
That's what I'm trying to figure out to