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
Bring Betslips back
Bring Betslips back
Todd the goat 🐐
Great job Todd!! Love the option to add P5 results!
All state results: Go to results, then scroll down to Daily number games to get all state results.
Yes I have come on for years and off and on my first hit was 139
I totally agree. If it ain't broke don't fix it.😩
Yep
There seems to be alot of confusion about the "all results" on one page but it is there and easier to read! Just click on "Results" and scroll down to "Daily Numbers Games". Click on that and you get the midday and evening results as they come in.
The site is definitely alot faster and smoother. Great job Todd! I love it!
Chris
Thank you Chris.
The other confusion is that the page is not called "all results on one page". It is called "Daily Numbers Games".
There actually was a page called All Results on One Page, but that has been eliminated because it was redundant. Custom Lottery Results can do the same thing.
So early on when people were looking for "all results on one page" I thought they were looking for the eliminated page. Turns out they were looking for Daily Numbers Games.
Because phone users now use the main section pages instead of drop-down menus, they did not know to scroll down below the grid to find the links. I think I may move those links up to the top so they are easier to find.
When using Lottery Post on a phone:
The drop-down menus are for use with a mouse only. If you are using a touch screen, the pages themselves become the "menus", because touch screens are not very good with drop-down menus. So you tap the menu and select the link of the page you want. That is two taps (one for the menu and one for the link), which is the same or fewer number of "taps" required on the old desktop website when using a phone. (One tap to open the menu, then another tap to select them menu item — or additional taps if there is a submenu required.)
Can you bring Betslips back ?
is this the new sight?
site?
Yes.
Todd, are you planning to bring Betslips back. Would be nice
It would be nice to have an option to go back and use the old site. Or some kind of condensed version. This new site seems like everything is hidden. I like the old site much better. I ran into a friend at the store and he said the same thing.
Betslips was not mine. It went out of business long ago and I have no idea how to contact whoever was in charge.
The old site is gone and will not be coming back, for the many reasons I explained in numerous news stories and forum posts.
I agree, there are people who won't like the new website right away. One thing I have learned over the 22 years I have run this website is that some people will hate whatever changes I make. Small or big changes, there will always be haters.
However, many of the people wishing desperately for the website to remain on the old one are the same people who expressed hatred for it when it was new.
Lesser spam, better productive, this site will take a little bit of time to get used too. I honestly like the other way on the site. But we shall see.
I can no longer see all P3 and P4 results on same screen without scrolling right on my mobile. This is what many people are upset about.
You can always turn your phone to the side if you have a small phone screen and want to see a complete chart left-to-right without scrolling. Making the text even smaller would upset all the people who already say the text is too small. So turning your phone to the side to see a wide chart on the page all at once is the solution.
What I like so far about the new site is the header up top. I go straight to the Forums. I'm an Android user. Being able to see "Messages" on my mobile device is nice. That's about all at this point. On my 2nd day so might observe another function after I use this version more.
The old site was more readable than this one.
I could see it before without scrolling or turning my phone on the side. I appreciate the updates you've made and understand change is difficult. However, this is a very important feature.....so many people in the lottery groups I am in on FaceBook are complaining about this one feature. I believe it has to do with Desktop view. So, I googled that and tried making lottery post desktop view in my Chrome browser on my mobile phone. That worked although the change wasn't permanent and I will have to do that every time I open the LP icon which is multiple times a day. This truly is something that needs to be addressed. Thank you for understanding.
thanks Todd,works for me.
Also, in the lottery groups I'm in, members take screenshots of the board after mid and after all draws (see attached for reference). This is not possible any longer from a phone.
Congratulations to you and your team on the great upgrade! Thank you.
Hi Todd, I like how neat and orderly everything looks and am so glad to see all the blue dots gone, just because it's easier to look at the page.
It stinks some what...its too big for the phones to see everything all at once...I have to see it in its entirety from my laptop
I didnt say I hated it I just like the old site.
Great job Todd am loving the new site.
Why fix something that isn't broken?? I don't like the new site. Period.
I do not like the new update it doesn't fit my phones screen change it back to the old version
This new layout is the worst! Bring back the old.
Very horrible I don't like this new website..why can't we see up to 30days on one page ugh Todd you got to fix this .
I am so lost. How do I get to the posts by certain members? On the old one you typed in the members name and their latest posts would pop up but not in this one.
I don't either
I don't either.
Instead of complaining, why don't you just ask the question?
"Very horrible I don't like this new website..why can't we see up to 30days on one page ugh Todd you got to fix this ."
For example ask:
How can we see up to 30 days on one page?
Perhaps there is a way and you just haven't discovered how to do it yet. Stop complaining!!! I challenge you to find a better lottery website.
I know people hate change and I'm like that too but this new site is FANTASTIC! The old site was super slow at times---------the new one is so much faster. Thanks Again Todd!
Chris
The ONLY Problem I HAD was on the First day Aside from LP Not coming up @ All when I 1st Tried was when i CLICKED ON Resources at the top then Scrolled down to Mega/Power at the bottom was the Lottery Chart Pg came up and It wouldn't Let me Open or go to anything Past that?? === Yeah I'm OLD & OLD School don't LIKE CHANGE and If it ain't broke don't fix it all that BS TOO!
But THIS Morning when I TRIED It AGAIN and IT WORKED a second or 2 after waiting=== I AM NOW BACK to HAPPY CAMPER...
IDC what Ya do as long as I can GO To the few little Places on LP I DO want to go TOO, Bcuz I DON'T Like Reading the Comments on the Story's ON HERE! Y Cause bunch of WHINEBAGS and or HATERS For the Most part and I DON'T Want Ruin my Day or Start it Off that way!!!
Can't see the entire board like the old one!
I'm not sure what that means. Can you send me a PM with a screenshot showing the problem? (At at least a detailed description of the problem.)
Dartiger 👉click Lottery results then scroll down past all the State Canada/Europe then the Link is👉 DAILY NUMBER GAME 👁️👍
If you want to take a screenshot on a phone that includes an entire scrolling page, use an app designed to do that.
Here's the first result I found when I googled for such a thing. Both Android and iOS.
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/scrolling-screenshots-android-ios/
I don't think this is going to solve the issue of the evening P4 column not being displayed to screenshot with the P3 mid/eve and P4 mid draws. This is the issue so many are complaining about. We will be happy to join a Zoom with you to discuss. There are 130+ members in one lottery group I'm in and so many are very frustrated with this change.
You can turn your phone sideways when you take the screenshot and there should be no width problems on the screenshot.
I understand what you're trying to do, and I'm willing to help figure it out, but I can't understand why anyone would want to do that on a phone. An iPad or laptop would be much better for it.
Edit: I think I may have a fairly easy solution but it might take me a day to implement. Let's reconnect on this tomorrow (or maybe later tonight). I'll let you know.
OK, so I added a new feature to the Daily Numbers Games page called "Compact table". See if that solves the problem of trying to fit the screenshot on your phone screen.
YES!!!!! It fixed it. Thank you SO MUCH. I will share in the groups now.
Thanks Todd. I also click pick 5 and it all fits.
Glad to hear it helps!
I agree. The old site was much better. This new one is 🤮
Don't like the new format. Will not be renewing my subscription!!
Numerous people in the lottery group said to thank you for adding the Compact Table function. Much appreciated.
I am relieved I could find a solution that works. Please say hi to your group members for me.
Todd, I gotta tell you, I wouldn't want to be in your shoes right now. The site is 100% better yet people here are complaining like heck. To those that are complaining, try using windows 98 or windows 7 now. See how slow and ineffective those operating systems are now. It's the same with websites. You have to adapt not the other way around. Let's go back to the horse and buggy or the Model T ford why don't we.
Jackpotismine, thank you. You're right that we have to keep up with what's happening with technology, which is one of the really important reasons for this rebuild.
Regarding a lot of negative feedback, I have some thoughts.
First, the negative stuff stands out, but I have to acknowledge that there is a ton of really positive feedback, and that is really great to see. So even though the negative reactions kind of hit you in the face, there has been so much more positive reaction, and I'm grateful for that.
The comments like "this sucks now" are fairly useless because that's just someone who hates change and it provides absolutely no actionable feedback. There's not much I can do about that because this website WILL change over time — it will keep getting better and adapting to the ways people use it.
However, specific feedback like Dlovely888's is very important to me and is totally valid because it relates to usage patterns that people have developed over the years. The last thing I want to do is change the website and suddenly content that people have been using in a very specific way is no longer possible. So even though I personally would use a different device to capture screenshots, if many people are using that page in that manner, I will jump through hoops to make it work for them.
Over the next few weeks I'll continue making adjustments to things to accommodate the feedback that is coming in. So to anyone reading this, don't be afraid to send me comments about things you'd like to see differently, or something that has changed that affects the way you use Lottery Post. Like the way Dlovely888 did it, if you can provide a description of the problem, screenshots, and anything else that would help me understand the difficulty you're having, I will do my best to help figure it out.
I just pushed out some more updates.
You can read about them (as well as all the previous updates) on the What's New page.
I love the upgrade.
I am loving the new look. Congrats Todd and staff all the best....
In the old format when you had a question about someone thread you would click a check mark to the top left of the subject. Then the subject would re appear along with the question a member has for the post. I've tried this with this new site and it's just says above the post in response to the thread starter.
I think you're talking about "quoting" someone's message in your own reply, just like I've done here with your post. The checkmark is right there above the text editor, as I'm showing in this screen capture below.
If you're trying to reply to someone's post, you need to click the Reply button directly on their post. Do not click the "Post a Reply" button that appears on the top or bottom of the thread, because that is replying to the thread itself, not a specific post within the thread.
I'll try it.
The old site you checked the post and it showed along with a members questions or reply. Now it says in response to thread with no picture of the post you are referring to.
No, it works the same as the old website. If you click Reply on a person's post you can quote their text. If you click the general "Post a Reply" at the top or bottom of the screen you don;t get that option because you're replying to a specific person.
I would like to see one change to the new format.
The Predictions Page use to reflect the Posted date instead of Last Posted. Can we go back to the Posted date on this page instead of Last Posted?
It's actually the same thing. Because people can post predictions for a game/date in multiple sessions, the date shown for when they posted it is always the last date. So if I post NJ Pick 3 Midday predictions for today, and then 5 minutes later post more predictions for the same game, the post date shown will be the one when I posted 5 minutes later.
If I am misunderstanding your request, please include a little more info. Maybe a screenshot showing exactly where you're referring.
I clicked reply and clicked the box and it doesn't work like the old site. It doesn't show the post you are trying to show. There is no other options?
You already see the other person's post because the reply box appears right under their post.
North Carolina Daily Numbers Games Results
Games:Pick 3Pick 4
There are no results to display.
Why am I now getting this no results to display when trying to view NC Daily Numbers Results? It worked 30 minutes ago?
It was a bug that should now be fixed. The bug was triggered due to it being the first time we hit the first of the month since the new website was launched, and the bug only happens on the first of the month.
There's bound to be some 'bugs' when doing an overhaul. The amazing thing about the Lotterypost staff is how quickly they find a way to 'squash' those suckers. Thanks Todd. It's not easy being you.
WHEW! Thanks!
I just clicked on more than one thread and tried to show a hit and it doesn't work like the old site. Can this be fixed?