Preview of new website available for use starting today
Complete makeover includes many new features and equal usability on phones, computers
By Kate Northrop
MARTINSVILLE, N.J. — Lottery Post Founder Todd Northrop today announced a complete rebuild of the popular lottery website, improving the experience for lottery players on all devices and creating a solid foundation for future growth.
After two years of design and development, the new Lottery Post website is available starting today as a special preview.
The new website brings the same experience and features to every device, including phones, tablets, and computers, which is particularly important given that more than 80 percent of traffic to Lottery Post comes from mobile devices.
In a video presentation, Northrop describes the history of Lottery Post, explains the importance of the new website, and demonstrates several groundbreaking new features.
"It has taken working every day for the past year and a half of intense programming effort to get from that first prototype design to the finished website that I'm unveiling today," Northrop said. "Everything you've come to know and love about Lottery Post has been carried over into the new website, with the benefit that now people using a phone are using exactly the same website that people on a computer are using. All the forums, lottery results, systems, private messaging, blogs — everything can be used on any device."
Given the long tradition of Lottery Post as staple in the lottery industry, one critical aspect of the new design was that it be instantly familiar to the many loyal members and visitors who have visited daily for years.
"Someone coming to the new Lottery Post website should instantly recognize it as Lottery Post and should be able to navigate through it just as easily as they can today," Northrop explained. "I did not set out to chase current design trends; I set out to take what people love and make it better and cleaner."
The new website is ready for anyone to try out right now. Because it is a preview, and not considered the "main" Lottery Post website yet, visitors are cautioned that the website may briefly go offline from time to time as updates are made.
To try out the new Lottery Post website, go to the address preview.lotterypost.com in your web browser. People trying the new website are encouraged to use it on their phone, computer, and tablet.
Importantly, Lottery Post is seeking feedback from anyone using the new website to understand what they like and don't like. A convenient Send us feedback link appears right at the top of the left-side menu to make sending feedback as quick and easy as possible.
Future videos are planned to go into more depth about individual features of the new website.
Watch the full video presentation for the full scoop on what's behind the new Lottery Post website, and be sure to leave your thoughts and feedback in the comments below or under the video on our YouTube channel.
Fantastic job Todd!!! Looks like your year and a half of hard work paid off. All of the improvements look great. I was particularly glad to hear that Kate will continue with her great collection of Lottery related videos, we love that.
Hey Todd, many years ago there was a cigarette commercial that said," you've come a long way baby to get where you get to today." Congratulations! Job well done! Looking forward to the new site :-)
On the current website you have the option to Change the STYLE and FONT in the Newsprint. The overall current website is EASIER to READ b/c of larger FONT SIZE across the entire website.
The FONT SIZE in the New Website is TOO SMALL. How do you increase the FONT SIZE from Small to MEDIUM across the ENTIRE NEW WEBSITE ?
All I want to know is where is the option to BLOCK ADS as a Platinum member, I don't want to see another ad. Used to be an option to disable them, even though it never works. I also see the ad space is even bigger on the new site (at least in Safari.
Looks the same to me menu wise, just not boxy anymore (does look cleaner). Asked for an option (many years ago) for saving settings (Sums, pairs, keys, etc) in D3 and nada came of it.
So what are the new options or systems other than D5 and I5?
please stop allowing advertisers to sell sexual toys, male enhancement or any demonstration using pic of sexual parts of the body. That is definitely not good business.
Quote: Originally posted by DatChik47 on Jun 25, 2022
please stop allowing advertisers to sell sexual toys, male enhancement or any demonstration using pic of sexual parts of the body. That is definitely not good business.
You are shown ads according to what you browse online. hehehe 🍆💦
Quote: Originally posted by itpmguru on Jun 25, 2022
All I want to know is where is the option to BLOCK ADS as a Platinum member, I don't want to see another ad. Used to be an option to disable them, even though it never works. I also see the ad space is even bigger on the new site (at least in Safari.
Looks the same to me menu wise, just not boxy anymore (does look cleaner). Asked for an option (many years ago) for saving settings (Sums, pairs, keys, etc) in D3 and nada came of it.
So what are the new options or systems other than D5 and I5?
Watch the video, 21:10 minute mark, Todd explains it. The ads are gone only on the new version of LP.
I wanted to take a minute to thank everyone for sharing their thoughts and feedback about the new website, whether it is a compliment, criticism, suggestion, or anything else. Please continue trying out the new website and sharing your feedback as it comes to you, as often as you like. It is incredibly helpful!
Yesterday was a big day, and getting to the point of being able to launch the new preview website was a huge milestone during this amazing and difficult two-year journey.
There are so many little (and big) changes that I wanted to discuss in the video, but there really was time for only a few. I'm going to try and create some additional shorter videos soon to highlight various specific areas of the website and walk through the changes from the old one. I think it can help to see the new changes in a video, as opposed to just reading about them.
Because every single page you're seeing is completely rebuilt from the ground-up, it gave me an opportunity to make thousands of little tweaks and improvements. There is so much to talk about, and now that the preview is launched I'm finally able to talk about it all!
The preview website is not "just for show" — you can use it for real as your primary was to use Lottery Post. In fact, I have personally been using the new Lottery Post website about 90% of the time for the past 8 months or so, even as it has been under construction. For example, when I posted this reply back in December 2021, you can see my reply includes an emoji from the new website. The one thing that is a little annoying is that you can occasionally be directed back to the old website by clicking a "www" link, but other than that you can basically spend all or most of your time on the new site.
If you find yourself thrown back to the old website, you can just edit the URL in the address bar on your web browser and change the "www" to "preview" (and then press Enter) and you will be right back on the new site, in the same place you were expecting to be.
If there is interest I can also do a video that discusses some of the new technology being used to make everything work, which as a technical person myself, I enjoy talking about.
One thing I neglected to mention in the video is web browser support. Although Internet Explorer is now (as of June 15, 2022) officially retired by Microsoft, I did still go to great lengths to be sure that IE 11 would work and be compatible with the new website. Because many people are still using old computers with old web browsers, I did not want to leave them out in the cold, so to speak.
It is only IE 11 support — no versions less than that are supported — but it is a signal that every member and visitor is important to us. At some point, probably in a couple of years, we will eliminate IE 11 support in order to remove all the extra code in place that is necessary in order to support it, but until then most pages will work fine in Internet Explorer. (There are still some pages, like the Post Predictions page, that are not working properly in IE 11, but those will be fixed.)
There are very few things that did not carry over into the new website, but they are things that not used much (or at all) any more. Obvious removals are things like profile options for AOL, Yahoo, and MSN usernames, because literally nobody uses them anymore. Slightly less obvious is the removal of "All Results on One Page", as I realized that it was exactly the same thing as the Custom Lottery Results page with all games displayed. There's no reason to implement a redundant page, so now just the Custom Lottery Results page remains out of the two.
On mobile devices, one thing you'll notice is that the main menu options at the top do not use drop-down menus like they do when you're using a computer. That is purposeful. Trying to use drop-down menus on a phone can be a fairly horrific experience. Instead, you just tap the menu option and the page you see includes every option that you would have seen in the drop-down menu on a computer. So you still have access to every single thing that you can get to on a computer, but you just access it in a way that is more suitable to a phone.
Like I mentioned, there is so much to discuss, and I'm looking forward to sharing more details soon! In the meantime, I look forward to reading more of your feedback and answering questions.
P3: in Inspector, a tool to show the frequency/count of positional pairs, e.g., front, back and split.
P4: in Inspector, a tool to show the frequency/count of positional pairs and triads. e.g., front, middle, back and split permutations.
Also, it would be good to have an insight tool outside of the existing Combinations Analysis tool and Pairs Analysis tool for Pick 3 and Pick 4 for a game or set of games.
In the age of increasing computational power, AI and ML I would suggest this would not be extremely hard to implement. One should be able to screen or evaluate a game against a set of checks and have a "Game Report", if you will. For Example:
For Florida Pick 3 Midday:
The straight drawn Back Pair 81 has been missing for 8.45 times the expected frequency.
The straight drawn Front Pair 90 has been missing for 6.99 times the expected frequency.
As a group, the straight drawn numbers "291, 297, 301, 307, 361, 367, 381, 387, 391, 394, 397, 501, 507, 561, 567, 581, 587, 591, 594, 597" have been missing for 11.82 times their expected frequency.
As a group, the boxed drawn numbers with sums 6, 7 and 12 have been missing for 4.57 times their expected frequency. Those numbers are 006, 007, 015, 016, 024, 025, 029, 033, 034, 038, 047, 056, 114, 115, 119, 123, 124, 128, 133, 137, 146, 155, 222, 223, 227, 236, 245, 335, 344.
The straight drawn Split Pair 83 has been missing for 4.59 times the expected frequency. Those numbers are 803, 813, 823, 833, 843, 853, 863, 873, 883, 893.
As a group, these straight drawn Prime Numbers have been missing for 1.43 times the expected frequency: 743,401,859,839,331,677,761,229,313,599,569,947,239,571,827,887,137,829,191.
You get the gist.
Finally, I think you should consider creating a Diamond Level membership and allow Diamond Members to load their own custom Pick 3 and Pick 4 games that have access to all the site tools.
Quote: Originally posted by destinycreation on Jun 24, 2022
On the current website you have the option to Change the STYLE and FONT in the Newsprint. The overall current website is EASIER to READ b/c of larger FONT SIZE across the entire website.
The FONT SIZE in the New Website is TOO SMALL. How do you increase the FONT SIZE from Small to MEDIUM across the ENTIRE NEW WEBSITE ?
I love it.
To copy paste, so much more "easier."
and yes, I do agree, Destiny on that, is an issue, so I hope we can make bigger/larger fonts at times, yes.
Not too small. Having an option as to some things encompassing FONT is perfect. I hope we will have an option.
I can see it now in the year 3000 there will be a sorta Maxx Headroom version of Todd since computer ai will take over and con everyone into some sort of impression of themselves on a server some where :)
Quote: Originally posted by itpmguru on Jun 25, 2022
All I want to know is where is the option to BLOCK ADS as a Platinum member, I don't want to see another ad. Used to be an option to disable them, even though it never works. I also see the ad space is even bigger on the new site (at least in Safari.
Looks the same to me menu wise, just not boxy anymore (does look cleaner). Asked for an option (many years ago) for saving settings (Sums, pairs, keys, etc) in D3 and nada came of it.
So what are the new options or systems other than D5 and I5?
Todd- Congrats on the new site.
In addition to getting rid of ads COMPLETELY (not an option) for paid members, an option for "optional" cookies that are used for advertising. NUMEROUS websites now days give you an option to not be tracked and I think this should also be an option here, especially for paid members. Many people do not even realize they are being tracked by cookies across multiple sites everyday. You should have some sense of privacy , especially when when you pay to use the site.
like i said before, when i go missing and come back there's always something new! i stumbled through the new website and find it to be awesome!
remember you taught me to do this:
i do have a question, perhaps i just couldn't find it but on the advance tools & options will i be able to click on my state and have that drop down menu?
Quote: Originally posted by DatChik47 on Jun 25, 2022
please stop allowing advertisers to sell sexual toys, male enhancement or any demonstration using pic of sexual parts of the body. That is definitely not good business.
I'm so hating that. I know. lol no need for those. not over here at L Post. I agree, Dat Chik 47.
My hats off to you Todd. I can see there was a lot of work to get things organized for easier navigation. I especially like the configuration of past performances this way.
Todd congratulations and thank you for the update we truly appreciate you for creating this website for all of us and hope it continues to grow and improve....
Quote: Originally posted by destinycreation on Jun 24, 2022
On the current website you have the option to Change the STYLE and FONT in the Newsprint. The overall current website is EASIER to READ b/c of larger FONT SIZE across the entire website.
The FONT SIZE in the New Website is TOO SMALL. How do you increase the FONT SIZE from Small to MEDIUM across the ENTIRE NEW WEBSITE ?
To anyone running WINDOWS - You can hold down the "Ctrl" button and press the "+" and "-" buttons (no need to use shift) and the text will get bigger or smaller. This is a Windows feature so you may want to google windows shortcuts and features if you did not know they where "in there". Maybe other Op systems have similar features I don't know.
To anyone running WINDOWS - You can hold down the "Ctrl" button and press the "+" and "-" buttons (no need to use shift) and the text will get bigger or smaller. This is a Windows feature so you may want to google windows shortcuts and features if you did not know they where "in there". Maybe other Op systems have similar features I don't know.
I wanted to take a minute to thank everyone for sharing their thoughts and feedback about the new website, whether it is a compliment, criticism, suggestion, or anything else. Please continue trying out the new website and sharing your feedback as it comes to you, as often as you like. It is incredibly helpful!
Yesterday was a big day, and getting to the point of being able to launch the new preview website was a huge milestone during this amazing and difficult two-year journey.
There are so many little (and big) changes that I wanted to discuss in the video, but there really was time for only a few. I'm going to try and create some additional shorter videos soon to highlight various specific areas of the website and walk through the changes from the old one. I think it can help to see the new changes in a video, as opposed to just reading about them.
Because every single page you're seeing is completely rebuilt from the ground-up, it gave me an opportunity to make thousands of little tweaks and improvements. There is so much to talk about, and now that the preview is launched I'm finally able to talk about it all!
The preview website is not "just for show" — you can use it for real as your primary was to use Lottery Post. In fact, I have personally been using the new Lottery Post website about 90% of the time for the past 8 months or so, even as it has been under construction. For example, when I posted this reply back in December 2021, you can see my reply includes an emoji from the new website. The one thing that is a little annoying is that you can occasionally be directed back to the old website by clicking a "www" link, but other than that you can basically spend all or most of your time on the new site.
If you find yourself thrown back to the old website, you can just edit the URL in the address bar on your web browser and change the "www" to "preview" (and then press Enter) and you will be right back on the new site, in the same place you were expecting to be.
If there is interest I can also do a video that discusses some of the new technology being used to make everything work, which as a technical person myself, I enjoy talking about.
One thing I neglected to mention in the video is web browser support. Although Internet Explorer is now (as of June 15, 2022) officially retired by Microsoft, I did still go to great lengths to be sure that IE 11 would work and be compatible with the new website. Because many people are still using old computers with old web browsers, I did not want to leave them out in the cold, so to speak.
It is only IE 11 support — no versions less than that are supported — but it is a signal that every member and visitor is important to us. At some point, probably in a couple of years, we will eliminate IE 11 support in order to remove all the extra code in place that is necessary in order to support it, but until then most pages will work fine in Internet Explorer. (There are still some pages, like the Post Predictions page, that are not working properly in IE 11, but those will be fixed.)
There are very few things that did not carry over into the new website, but they are things that not used much (or at all) any more. Obvious removals are things like profile options for AOL, Yahoo, and MSN usernames, because literally nobody uses them anymore. Slightly less obvious is the removal of "All Results on One Page", as I realized that it was exactly the same thing as the Custom Lottery Results page with all games displayed. There's no reason to implement a redundant page, so now just the Custom Lottery Results page remains out of the two.
On mobile devices, one thing you'll notice is that the main menu options at the top do not use drop-down menus like they do when you're using a computer. That is purposeful. Trying to use drop-down menus on a phone can be a fairly horrific experience. Instead, you just tap the menu option and the page you see includes every option that you would have seen in the drop-down menu on a computer. So you still have access to every single thing that you can get to on a computer, but you just access it in a way that is more suitable to a phone.
Like I mentioned, there is so much to discuss, and I'm looking forward to sharing more details soon! In the meantime, I look forward to reading more of your feedback and answering questions.
Thank you Todd! And congratulations on this Big Job that has been so well done!
I really appreciate you and your wife's tireless commitment to the LP's continuous evolution and your consistent receptivity to member input. May the LP continue to "live long and prosper".
Thanks for continuing to post your feedback and well-wishes!
I wanted to address a few of the specific topics mentioned here:
Regarding font size, some of what you are experiencing is the fact that it is a different font, and it can definitely take some getting used to. In terms of its actual size, it is nearly identical to the old website. The font was chosen on the basis of its appearance being identical on every platform (every browser, device, etc.), its readability, and since numbers are such an important part of lottery games, the fact that its numeric characters are very clear and distinct.
That being said, I certainly understand that everyone will see it differently, and for some people it will appear too small. In this case, there is a short-term and a long-term solution. The short-term solution is exactly what others have said: use the built-in controls on your web browser to increase the size. Hold down the Ctrl key on your keyboard while pressing "+" and "-" to increase or decrease the font size, and then press Ctrl+0 (zero) to reset everything back to the default.
The long-term solution can only be accomplished once we drop IE11 support, which will probably be in a couple of years. Once that happens, there are a bunch of things I can do to put more control in your hands to adjust font sizes across the board. But because IE (and the early versions of Edge) do not support the technologies that make it happen, I need to wait.
Regarding the "Advanced Tools" links missing on the Daily Numbers Games History pages, that's just something I've overlooked, and I'll add them soon.
Regarding advertising, most website owners would shy away from discussing it, because ads are the primary means that a website is funded. However, I'm not shy about it, because I feel that the more people know about advertising and its importance, the more inclined people will be to allow the advertising and overlook its shortcomings.
Nobody goes to a website in order to see advertising, but it is essential for survival of this website. So when you see the ads (which I mainly try to keep separate from the main content, along the right side of the page), you are directly helping to keep Lottery Post "on the air".
Regarding inappropriate advertisements, I would encourage you any time you see an inappropriate ad to click the small "X" symbol that appears on the ad, and report it. In some cases the "X" menu will give you the option of never seeing the ad again.
With the way advertising works on the Internet, we rely on the big ad companies to self-police the ads, because most advertising is done in ad exchanges, where advertisers bid in real-time for ad space. So Lottery Post does not approve all the ads you see. In fact, because most of the advertising is served based on your personal interests and browsing history, I don't see the same ads you do. I personally see a lot of technical ads for computers, networking equipment, etc., because I spend a lot of time researching those kinds of things. You may never see such an ad, but that's because you may not spend a lot of time browsing the same things I do.
Honestly the #1 thing you can do to never see an ad you don't like is to upgrade to either Gold or Platinum membership, and select the option to remove all advertising. That helps us both!
Regarding the comment that premium members should automatically have ads removed, many people enjoy supporting Lottery Post both by purchasing a membership as well as allowing advertising. Both things help support the website, and both things are what helped me greatly during the past two years when I spent all my time rebuilding it. They also help support all of the video creation you have seen with Kate's videos over the past couple of years, which can be expensive to create and produce. If there were no memberships or no ads, there would be no Lottery Post, and there would be no lottery content coming from us. If you enjoy using Lottery Post, the best thing you could possibly do to support us would be to both purchase a membership and allow advertising.
Regarding ad cookies, if you purchase a membership and turn off advertising, then there are no ad cookies being used. You are not being tracked. Problem solved. One thing I will not do unless forced is to do one of those stupid and annoying "Allow Cookies" banners at the bottom of the screen that can be found on numerous other websites. If you don't want ad cookies we provide a way to accomplish it without having every visitor being nagged incessantly.
I want to thank every person who has posted feedback and such encouraging remarks here! I will continue monitoring your feedback, so keep passing along any thoughts you have as you use the new website.
As I mentioned in the video, I will be producing several videos in the coming weeks and months that go into a deep-dive of specific parts of the new website. I'm hoping that will not only be a good way to familiarize everyone with the new changes, but will also ensure you don't miss out on some really good stuff that you wouldn't have come across on your own.
Lots of sweat and perseverance went into this. Looks very good.
Todd, as someone who had to endure electronic medical records, you could make a killing with your IT expertise. EMR are a real pain, though the typical patient wouldn't realize it!
To anyone running WINDOWS - You can hold down the "Ctrl" button and press the "+" and "-" buttons (no need to use shift) and the text will get bigger or smaller. This is a Windows feature so you may want to google windows shortcuts and features if you did not know they where "in there". Maybe other Op systems have similar features I don't know.
Just to add, if you use Chrome you can click on the 3 vertical dots in the corner and Zoom up or down to make the print bigger. It's great when you're just past the range of your reading glasses.
I wanted to take a minute to thank everyone for sharing their thoughts and feedback about the new website, whether it is a compliment, criticism, suggestion, or anything else. Please continue trying out the new website and sharing your feedback as it comes to you, as often as you like. It is incredibly helpful!
Yesterday was a big day, and getting to the point of being able to launch the new preview website was a huge milestone during this amazing and difficult two-year journey.
There are so many little (and big) changes that I wanted to discuss in the video, but there really was time for only a few. I'm going to try and create some additional shorter videos soon to highlight various specific areas of the website and walk through the changes from the old one. I think it can help to see the new changes in a video, as opposed to just reading about them.
Because every single page you're seeing is completely rebuilt from the ground-up, it gave me an opportunity to make thousands of little tweaks and improvements. There is so much to talk about, and now that the preview is launched I'm finally able to talk about it all!
The preview website is not "just for show" — you can use it for real as your primary was to use Lottery Post. In fact, I have personally been using the new Lottery Post website about 90% of the time for the past 8 months or so, even as it has been under construction. For example, when I posted this reply back in December 2021, you can see my reply includes an emoji from the new website. The one thing that is a little annoying is that you can occasionally be directed back to the old website by clicking a "www" link, but other than that you can basically spend all or most of your time on the new site.
If you find yourself thrown back to the old website, you can just edit the URL in the address bar on your web browser and change the "www" to "preview" (and then press Enter) and you will be right back on the new site, in the same place you were expecting to be.
If there is interest I can also do a video that discusses some of the new technology being used to make everything work, which as a technical person myself, I enjoy talking about.
One thing I neglected to mention in the video is web browser support. Although Internet Explorer is now (as of June 15, 2022) officially retired by Microsoft, I did still go to great lengths to be sure that IE 11 would work and be compatible with the new website. Because many people are still using old computers with old web browsers, I did not want to leave them out in the cold, so to speak.
It is only IE 11 support — no versions less than that are supported — but it is a signal that every member and visitor is important to us. At some point, probably in a couple of years, we will eliminate IE 11 support in order to remove all the extra code in place that is necessary in order to support it, but until then most pages will work fine in Internet Explorer. (There are still some pages, like the Post Predictions page, that are not working properly in IE 11, but those will be fixed.)
There are very few things that did not carry over into the new website, but they are things that not used much (or at all) any more. Obvious removals are things like profile options for AOL, Yahoo, and MSN usernames, because literally nobody uses them anymore. Slightly less obvious is the removal of "All Results on One Page", as I realized that it was exactly the same thing as the Custom Lottery Results page with all games displayed. There's no reason to implement a redundant page, so now just the Custom Lottery Results page remains out of the two.
On mobile devices, one thing you'll notice is that the main menu options at the top do not use drop-down menus like they do when you're using a computer. That is purposeful. Trying to use drop-down menus on a phone can be a fairly horrific experience. Instead, you just tap the menu option and the page you see includes every option that you would have seen in the drop-down menu on a computer. So you still have access to every single thing that you can get to on a computer, but you just access it in a way that is more suitable to a phone.
Like I mentioned, there is so much to discuss, and I'm looking forward to sharing more details soon! In the meantime, I look forward to reading more of your feedback and answering questions.
Hi Todd,
Regarding our personal blogs, I'm aware that one can make a blog entry private just before posting it, can you also give members (or premium members) the ability to delete some of their old (or very oldest) blog entries or at least make them private?
I have been busy updating the new website based on feedback from members, as well as things discovered during testing. You can find a running list of changes on the What's New page, available from both the member slide-out menu on the right, or from the Resources > About Us > What's New menu option.
I have been busy updating the new website based on feedback from members, as well as things discovered during testing. You can find a running list of changes on the What's New page, available from both the member slide-out menu on the right, or from the Resources > About Us > What's New menu option.
Quote: Originally posted by jackpotismine on Jun 24, 2022
Great improvement. I like the fact that it's now cellphone and tablet friendly.
Yeah. I am sure you like CHINA tatooing a QR code on your forehead too and injecting nanoparticles of graphene into your blood too. Its all 5G friendly.
I have been busy updating the new website based on feedback from members, as well as things discovered during testing. You can find a running list of changes on the What's New page, available from both the member slide-out menu on the right, or from the Resources > About Us > What's New menu option.
Todd...
There is an all adage...
If it aint broke...dont fix it...
Anyway....
Good Luck with the changes...
And if we can Implent some GAIL HOWARD modifications, that would be GREAT!!!1
Looks really great!
I'm liking what I see do far!
Congratulations and continue being successful!
Team Lottery Post<====
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I Am SCREAMING for Joy!!!!! Thank You for adding all my Pick5 Search options!!! AMAZING!!!!
Congrats Todd and thank you.
When I used Inspector 5 for the first time.
The new site is really awesome Todd and your team! Party duckie says great job!!!
Love being able to copy and paste pics and emojis!!! Woo hoo!
Dk
Awesome changes. Thank you for all the well thought out improvements.
Fantastic job Todd!!! Looks like your year and a half of hard work paid off. All of the improvements look great. I was particularly glad to hear that Kate will continue with her great collection of Lottery related videos, we love that.
Great improvement. I like the fact that it's now cellphone and tablet friendly.
Great job!
Hey Todd, many years ago there was a cigarette commercial that said," you've come a long way baby to get where you get to today." Congratulations! Job well done! Looking forward to the new site :-)
On the current website you have the option to Change the STYLE and FONT in the Newsprint. The overall current website is EASIER to READ b/c of larger FONT SIZE across the entire website.
The FONT SIZE in the New Website is TOO SMALL. How do you increase the FONT SIZE from Small to MEDIUM across the ENTIRE NEW WEBSITE ?
Great News Todd.
I can't wait to try out the new features!!
All I want to know is where is the option to BLOCK ADS as a Platinum member, I don't want to see another ad. Used to be an option to disable them, even though it never works. I also see the ad space is even bigger on the new site (at least in Safari.
Looks the same to me menu wise, just not boxy anymore (does look cleaner). Asked for an option (many years ago) for saving settings (Sums, pairs, keys, etc) in D3 and nada came of it.
So what are the new options or systems other than D5 and I5?
please stop allowing advertisers to sell sexual toys, male enhancement or any demonstration using pic of sexual parts of the body. That is definitely not good business.
You are shown ads according to what you browse online. hehehe 🍆💦
Watch the video, 21:10 minute mark, Todd explains it. The ads are gone only on the new version of LP.
I wanted to take a minute to thank everyone for sharing their thoughts and feedback about the new website, whether it is a compliment, criticism, suggestion, or anything else. Please continue trying out the new website and sharing your feedback as it comes to you, as often as you like. It is incredibly helpful!
Yesterday was a big day, and getting to the point of being able to launch the new preview website was a huge milestone during this amazing and difficult two-year journey.
There are so many little (and big) changes that I wanted to discuss in the video, but there really was time for only a few. I'm going to try and create some additional shorter videos soon to highlight various specific areas of the website and walk through the changes from the old one. I think it can help to see the new changes in a video, as opposed to just reading about them.
Because every single page you're seeing is completely rebuilt from the ground-up, it gave me an opportunity to make thousands of little tweaks and improvements. There is so much to talk about, and now that the preview is launched I'm finally able to talk about it all!
The preview website is not "just for show" — you can use it for real as your primary was to use Lottery Post. In fact, I have personally been using the new Lottery Post website about 90% of the time for the past 8 months or so, even as it has been under construction. For example, when I posted this reply back in December 2021, you can see my reply includes an emoji from the new website. The one thing that is a little annoying is that you can occasionally be directed back to the old website by clicking a "www" link, but other than that you can basically spend all or most of your time on the new site.
If you find yourself thrown back to the old website, you can just edit the URL in the address bar on your web browser and change the "www" to "preview" (and then press Enter) and you will be right back on the new site, in the same place you were expecting to be.
If there is interest I can also do a video that discusses some of the new technology being used to make everything work, which as a technical person myself, I enjoy talking about.
One thing I neglected to mention in the video is web browser support. Although Internet Explorer is now (as of June 15, 2022) officially retired by Microsoft, I did still go to great lengths to be sure that IE 11 would work and be compatible with the new website. Because many people are still using old computers with old web browsers, I did not want to leave them out in the cold, so to speak.
It is only IE 11 support — no versions less than that are supported — but it is a signal that every member and visitor is important to us. At some point, probably in a couple of years, we will eliminate IE 11 support in order to remove all the extra code in place that is necessary in order to support it, but until then most pages will work fine in Internet Explorer. (There are still some pages, like the Post Predictions page, that are not working properly in IE 11, but those will be fixed.)
There are very few things that did not carry over into the new website, but they are things that not used much (or at all) any more. Obvious removals are things like profile options for AOL, Yahoo, and MSN usernames, because literally nobody uses them anymore. Slightly less obvious is the removal of "All Results on One Page", as I realized that it was exactly the same thing as the Custom Lottery Results page with all games displayed. There's no reason to implement a redundant page, so now just the Custom Lottery Results page remains out of the two.
On mobile devices, one thing you'll notice is that the main menu options at the top do not use drop-down menus like they do when you're using a computer. That is purposeful. Trying to use drop-down menus on a phone can be a fairly horrific experience. Instead, you just tap the menu option and the page you see includes every option that you would have seen in the drop-down menu on a computer. So you still have access to every single thing that you can get to on a computer, but you just access it in a way that is more suitable to a phone.
Like I mentioned, there is so much to discuss, and I'm looking forward to sharing more details soon! In the meantime, I look forward to reading more of your feedback and answering questions.
Thanks I've been waiting for an updated version
Hi Todd
Some things to ponder...
We need a few improvements for P3 and P4 games:
P3: in Inspector, a tool to show the frequency/count of positional pairs, e.g., front, back and split.
P4: in Inspector, a tool to show the frequency/count of positional pairs and triads. e.g., front, middle, back and split permutations.
Also, it would be good to have an insight tool outside of the existing Combinations Analysis tool and Pairs Analysis tool for Pick 3 and Pick 4 for a game or set of games.
In the age of increasing computational power, AI and ML I would suggest this would not be extremely hard to implement. One should be able to screen or evaluate a game against a set of checks and have a "Game Report", if you will. For Example:
For Florida Pick 3 Midday:
You get the gist.
Finally, I think you should consider creating a Diamond Level membership and allow Diamond Members to load their own custom Pick 3 and Pick 4 games that have access to all the site tools.
Just something to consider.
Thanks
Also, it could be someone else in the household as ads are linked to IP addresses too.
I love it.
To copy paste, so much more "easier."
and yes, I do agree, Destiny on that, is an issue, so I hope we can make bigger/larger fonts at times, yes.
Not too small. Having an option as to some things encompassing FONT is perfect. I hope we will have an option.
Hi Todd
Thank you so much for the great updates.
Another option to add is to be able to export the drawings list to desktop in Excel or Notepad format.
Thank you,
I can see it now in the year 3000 there will be a sorta Maxx Headroom version of Todd since computer ai will take over and con everyone into some sort of impression of themselves on a server some where :)
Yep or whomever else used their computer!
Todd- Congrats on the new site.
In addition to getting rid of ads COMPLETELY (not an option) for paid members, an option for "optional" cookies that are used for advertising. NUMEROUS websites now days give you an option to not be tracked and I think this should also be an option here, especially for paid members. Many people do not even realize they are being tracked by cookies across multiple sites everyday. You should have some sense of privacy , especially when when you pay to use the site.
Nice changes so far I'd like to see more advanced wheels added but so far newer website looks great. BTw I'll never leave the dancing bananas lol
Really like what you've done can't wait to dig into new design checked out you on YouTube a lot of info. Congratulations
Hey Todd,
like i said before, when i go missing and come back there's always something new! i stumbled through the new website and find it to be awesome!
remember you taught me to do this:
i do have a question, perhaps i just couldn't find it but on the advance tools & options will i be able to click on my state and have that drop down menu?
so much, i thank you for all your hard work!
👌🏼
Great job Todd!
And you'll be glad to know that I've cancelled all plans for a hostile takeover.
I'm so hating that. I know. lol no need for those. not over here at L Post. I agree, Dat Chik 47.
Beside that, it looks great! Sure does.
Congratulations Todd!
Great Job as usual Todd and staff !! Thanks for taking so much time over the past yr and 1/2 to bring this to us !!
Thanks for the announcement. Some of these changes are SWEET! Thanks.
My hats off to you Todd. I can see there was a lot of work to get things organized for easier navigation. I especially like the configuration of past performances this way.
Thank you!
Todd congratulations and thank you for the update we truly appreciate you for creating this website for all of us and hope it continues to grow and improve....
To anyone running WINDOWS - You can hold down the "Ctrl" button and press the "+" and "-" buttons (no need to use shift) and the text will get bigger or smaller. This is a Windows feature so you may want to google windows shortcuts and features if you did not know they where "in there". Maybe other Op systems have similar features I don't know.
Thank you @ Think!
Todd, Now its time for a Lottery Post Convention finally. 🎰
Thank you Todd! And congratulations on this Big Job that has been so well done!
I really appreciate you and your wife's tireless commitment to the LP's continuous evolution and your consistent receptivity to member input. May the LP continue to "live long and prosper".
Hi Everyone,
Thanks for continuing to post your feedback and well-wishes!
I wanted to address a few of the specific topics mentioned here:
Regarding font size, some of what you are experiencing is the fact that it is a different font, and it can definitely take some getting used to. In terms of its actual size, it is nearly identical to the old website. The font was chosen on the basis of its appearance being identical on every platform (every browser, device, etc.), its readability, and since numbers are such an important part of lottery games, the fact that its numeric characters are very clear and distinct.
That being said, I certainly understand that everyone will see it differently, and for some people it will appear too small. In this case, there is a short-term and a long-term solution. The short-term solution is exactly what others have said: use the built-in controls on your web browser to increase the size. Hold down the Ctrl key on your keyboard while pressing "+" and "-" to increase or decrease the font size, and then press Ctrl+0 (zero) to reset everything back to the default.
The long-term solution can only be accomplished once we drop IE11 support, which will probably be in a couple of years. Once that happens, there are a bunch of things I can do to put more control in your hands to adjust font sizes across the board. But because IE (and the early versions of Edge) do not support the technologies that make it happen, I need to wait.
Regarding the "Advanced Tools" links missing on the Daily Numbers Games History pages, that's just something I've overlooked, and I'll add them soon.
Regarding advertising, most website owners would shy away from discussing it, because ads are the primary means that a website is funded. However, I'm not shy about it, because I feel that the more people know about advertising and its importance, the more inclined people will be to allow the advertising and overlook its shortcomings.
Nobody goes to a website in order to see advertising, but it is essential for survival of this website. So when you see the ads (which I mainly try to keep separate from the main content, along the right side of the page), you are directly helping to keep Lottery Post "on the air".
Regarding inappropriate advertisements, I would encourage you any time you see an inappropriate ad to click the small "X" symbol that appears on the ad, and report it. In some cases the "X" menu will give you the option of never seeing the ad again.
With the way advertising works on the Internet, we rely on the big ad companies to self-police the ads, because most advertising is done in ad exchanges, where advertisers bid in real-time for ad space. So Lottery Post does not approve all the ads you see. In fact, because most of the advertising is served based on your personal interests and browsing history, I don't see the same ads you do. I personally see a lot of technical ads for computers, networking equipment, etc., because I spend a lot of time researching those kinds of things. You may never see such an ad, but that's because you may not spend a lot of time browsing the same things I do.
Honestly the #1 thing you can do to never see an ad you don't like is to upgrade to either Gold or Platinum membership, and select the option to remove all advertising. That helps us both!
Regarding the comment that premium members should automatically have ads removed, many people enjoy supporting Lottery Post both by purchasing a membership as well as allowing advertising. Both things help support the website, and both things are what helped me greatly during the past two years when I spent all my time rebuilding it. They also help support all of the video creation you have seen with Kate's videos over the past couple of years, which can be expensive to create and produce. If there were no memberships or no ads, there would be no Lottery Post, and there would be no lottery content coming from us. If you enjoy using Lottery Post, the best thing you could possibly do to support us would be to both purchase a membership and allow advertising.
Regarding ad cookies, if you purchase a membership and turn off advertising, then there are no ad cookies being used. You are not being tracked. Problem solved. One thing I will not do unless forced is to do one of those stupid and annoying "Allow Cookies" banners at the bottom of the screen that can be found on numerous other websites. If you don't want ad cookies we provide a way to accomplish it without having every visitor being nagged incessantly.
I want to thank every person who has posted feedback and such encouraging remarks here! I will continue monitoring your feedback, so keep passing along any thoughts you have as you use the new website.
As I mentioned in the video, I will be producing several videos in the coming weeks and months that go into a deep-dive of specific parts of the new website. I'm hoping that will not only be a good way to familiarize everyone with the new changes, but will also ensure you don't miss out on some really good stuff that you wouldn't have come across on your own.
Just watched the video and everything sounds great! Looking forward to easily uploading pictures of winning tickets
Thank you so much Todd and Staff!!
New site looks great! Can't wait to be able to utilize all the new features!
Lots of sweat and perseverance went into this. Looks very good.
Todd, as someone who had to endure electronic medical records, you could make a killing with your IT expertise. EMR are a real pain, though the typical patient wouldn't realize it!
Just to add, if you use Chrome you can click on the 3 vertical dots in the corner and Zoom up or down to make the print bigger. It's great when you're just past the range of your reading glasses.
Hi Todd,
Regarding our personal blogs, I'm aware that one can make a blog entry private just before posting it, can you also give members (or premium members) the ability to delete some of their old (or very oldest) blog entries or at least make them private?
Thank you!
I have been busy updating the new website based on feedback from members, as well as things discovered during testing. You can find a running list of changes on the What's New page, available from both the member slide-out menu on the right, or from the Resources > About Us > What's New menu option.
Thank you Todd for all
you do . It does not go unnoticed
even when your a mediator and a ref
we love you , your staff and Lottery Post congrats
Improvements continue to be implemented, based on feedback from members, as well as stuff I find myself in ongoing testing.
At this point I'm thinking that the old desktop and mobile websites will be retired (with the new website taking their place) at some point in August.
Yeah. I am sure you like CHINA tatooing a QR code on your forehead too and injecting nanoparticles of graphene into your blood too. Its all 5G friendly.
Todd...
There is an all adage...
If it aint broke...dont fix it...
Anyway....
Good Luck with the changes...
And if we can Implent some GAIL HOWARD modifications, that would be GREAT!!!1
It's broke, so I'm fixing it. 🙂
I really like the new design! Thanks for all the hard work and improvements!
Dk
Aww, come on. Dont be so hard on yourself!
Its not broke...
Its just, slightly impaired.