RaceDepartment New Website Released

[Paul Jeffrey]

RaceDepartment.com will be down on Wednesday 30th October, as we look to bring a fresh new image to the largest sim racing website in the world.

Having undergone considerable growth and change in the last decade and a bit, we feel the time is right to take our website to the next level of presentation and functionality. On the evening of Wednesday 30th October (approx 22:00 UTC) we will close access to www.racedepartment.com for much of the night, as we upload and launch our brand new website!

We anticipate access will be restricted for around 12 hours, but if you still need that essential sim racing fix, take the opportunity to check us out on our various Social Media platforms, which can be accessed via the below links.

See you all on the other side!

 

[Ghoults]

I may not be understanding you correctly, but why don't you simply click into the Downloads list directly, instead of going via the discussion threads?
If you use that and choose the AC stuff, for example, you'll find yourself on this page and you can select directly which category you want (see screenshot).
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I am not looking for downloads. Just to read any recent posts in that sub forum and on the old forum I found the easily accessible tags useful. It feels a bit like missed opportunity to have those tags but then hide them away.

 

[tibi]

What is this new design??????????????

I'm not from a smartphone. I don't want hamburger menu. etc.......

 

[Slapped]

This new thing is not good - it took me a good few seconds to find anything else other than the front page.

We're not all from the smartphone generation - some of us can handle, and appreciate, a bit of complexity and don't need or want this dumbing down.

 

[CC]

This is a very bad way of placing the website please place it back normal.

 

[welshy46]

There's an old saying. if it's not broke then don't try to fix it.

 

[Slapped]

OK, now that I've found my way around I'm even more convinced that this is a terrible design idea.

That "hamburger" menu does nothing other that take up space - those categories, as before could be listed in a line at the top of the page.

I'm sick and tired of change purely for the sake of change - when change doesn't bring anything to the table, or in fact takes from the table, then it's a fundamentally wrong approach.

 

[CC]

There's an old saying. if it's not broke then don't try to fix it.

Was perfect before was very nice.

 

[krissboo]

Oh dear. Any chance of having the old site back as this new one is horrible.

 

[Bjay_23]

Jesus that update really is horrible. Its not about getting used to it, its just bad. The old one was good, why change it???

 

[destinationriver]

Just got used to the thing before and now you change it all again? Please no...
Don't fix it if it ain't broken.

 

[xJesBe]

I prefer the old design... Everything was working fine

 

[destinationriver]

There is NO GODDAMN reason to change it. Just for the sake of changing? Thats just as stupid as keeping Grosjean whilst Hülkenberg is avaivable.

 

[Jebus]

Well I'm mostly on tablet and I like the new layout. Haven't tried with PC browser yet but can't see having much problems with it either.

Was nothing wrong with the old layout though. But either way, no problems.

 

[Seelenkrank]

*wth*? horrible chaos

 

[CC]

*wth*? horrible chaos

On my phone its perfect, here its too much.

 

[Ghoults]

I like this new one. It feels more pc, less mobile. Only thing I don't like is that threads with new replies and threads with no new replies look very much alike and are harder to distinguish at a glance.

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

There has been some changes in the backend mostly. We are on a new framework which we needed to roll out as a first step towards a brand new frontpage powered by WordPress.

This meant a few style changes as well to accommodate advertisements better and more screen width for content as people wanted more real estate.

in the coming weeks you'll see a full blown website appearing with new editors to help out creating top content about simracing, esports and motorsports and... a massive announcement.

stay tuned

 

[CC]

There has been some changes in the backend mostly. We are on a new framework which we needed to roll out as a first step towards a brand new frontpage powered by WordPress.

This meant a few style changes as well to accommodate advertisements better and more screen width for content as people wanted more real estate.

in the coming weeks you'll see a full blown website appearing with new editors to help out creating top content about simracing, esports and motorsports and... a massive announcement.

stay tuned

I go to my bookmarks now and loose the website everytime my eyes dont pick up on that logo,
I am sure ill get used to it hopefully.

 

[krissboo]

I like this new one. It feels more pc, less mobile. Only thing I don't like is that threads with new replies and threads with no new replies look very much alike and are harder to distinguish at a glance.

This feels like the complete opposite to me...Looks far more like a mobile website now. On a 32" screen there's just too much wasted space either side. Ah well.

 

[gamer19]