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!

 

[Mascot]

The whole thing is a total disaster.

 

[Tom Neidher]

Awesom Simple layout

 

[Votr]

In dark mode it is difficult to distinguish the quality stars, maybe other colors for dark theme stars? The site isn't to bad, I'm on a 32" screen. It's manageable. Will wait and see what happens.

Edit: 19.02.2020
I'm a very regular browser & user of the RD website, I can confirm for myself only, I like the changes.
Back-end functionality is clearly changing from time to time. As a wp custom theme builder, I'm looking forward to the WordPress site. Good job! Good luck!

 

[philrob]

Terrible makeover, hard to read and Wasted space with the sidebar.It was easy to move around before, not anymore.I guess its just a site i wont visit as often.

 

[Monol]

I feel like I'm looking at the earliest draft of a website made by a 10-year old messing around with the tools for the first time.

You somehow got an even worse design out of nowhere. I think that's commendable at this point.

 

[Gerzson]

rF2 new UI reached RD...

 

[Tostiman]

So much wasted space! Please bring back the previous design.

 

[Spoderskrillex]

Yet another comment adressing the bad design: It looks and feels very rushed and unfinished. After all, it's not been too long since you switched to a new design, which was controversial, but it didn't loose much functionality - and it was relatively easy to accomodate to in my opinion, bar some quirks. Now this, this is just bad, even when you've figured out where things are. Apart from some flaws in the looks of the website (e.g. uneven borders of buttons, massive unused spaces that look empty, not clean, which is subjective, and subjectively worse ui in general), the practicality has decreased (e.g. expandable menus on desktop that were formerly permanent, independently scrolling columns).

If this website design is still worked on - that's fine by me, but don't make us all beta testers. Just use the "old" website until the new one is actually finished.

 

[Tassos]

have they run any users poll with mock ups of the new layout ? ....... I dont remember such a thing......

 

[Sylvain Mainville]

I taught there was something wrong with my browser for a while!!! The old site was great no need to change.

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

this is not what i would like to see from a website.....the left and right section is so exaggeratedly extended there aint enough space to even read properly....View attachment 350235

Please provide some more info. On which kind of device is this happening? Screensize etc?

Looks totally different here.

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

 

[frankonia]

Totally user unfriendly.
No download size
you don't see what sim the download is for.

Go back to the old user friendly design.

 

[Tassos]

pc. 24 and 27 inch monitor

 

[Tassos]

please roll back to the old one, so much waste of space for nothing...... the menus moved from top to left. What the benefit for this? probably nothing, usual trick of the web companies to renew a site, we move the menus and it is a new site.......

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

pc. 24 and 27 inch monitor

I am on a tiny laptop, how come it displays fine here. What resolution are you using?

I have explained already why these changes are made, we are preparing for a whole new frontpage with a full on news desk with wordpress and this framework is needed to do that.

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

No download size

This was a bug indeed, fixed now

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

you don't see what sim the download is for.

Also a bug, not fixed yet.

Thanks for reporting

 

[Mikko Martikainen]

Also a bug, not fixed yet.

Thanks for reporting

Thanks

 

[antonn]

After moving on to the dark theme I find these changes nice.