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!

 

[Neilski]

That's a real site by the way. They make amazing things that no human should wear!

That's the shirt equivalent of what happens when you start to run out of wrapping paper at Christmas and have to make do with a bunch of scrag ends

 

[alexSchmurtz]

Good lord this place is amazing. I'm so getting the wallet out when I'm home from my jollies... seriously. Me like

Oh no! Guys, what have you done!

Love this thread, must be one of the funniest we ever had!

 

[Ricoow]

Good lord this place is amazing. I'm so getting the wallet out when I'm home from my jollies... seriously. Me like

The worst thing is, he probably isn't even kidding around....

 

[Dave Stephenson]

That's the shirt equivalent of what happens when you start to run out of wrapping paper at Christmas and have to make do with a bunch of scrag ends

Firebox actually offer CrapWrap as an upsell that's exactly that

 

[BrainsBush]

Looking forward to it, and just in time for my return from holiday!

I have a few days away and look what happens... wholesale change

Suggestion for background:

Don't want to 'assume' anything but maybe Bram & Co waited on purpose for this moment .

Looking forward to admire the new RD look & feel*

Feel?! : A nice future feature to integrate e.g. the Manus VR glove. So we can virtually interact with the RD staff. Let imagination do the work.

PS The most constant factor in life is change. With that thought makes (my mid)life a lot easier

 

[Ghoults]

Nice website you have there. Would be shame if something happened to it.

 

[Alex Townsend]

at least your girlfriend/wife is aware now

Thankfully she does not visit these forums... Her interest in racing is in going to the actual events themselves, mainly to get away from the kids a d being Mommy for a few hours...

 

[Alex Townsend]

Personally, I absolutely hate the notion that people hate change that seems to be so prevalent on the internet lately. I don't think people hate change, not a meaningful group of them anyway. But people hate change for the worse, when things they were used to become needlessly complicated in favour of stylishness, or useful functionalities and features are removed for the sake of simplicity. Which has pretty much become synonymous with "redesign" in the past few years pretty much everywhere you look.

So when people say that "people hate change", they are basing that upon a skewed metric that means something else than they think it does (which, I guess, is also a common thing nowadays).

So I certainly hope RD is not going this route (and the above post by Bram - edit: and Dave now - certainly gives hope in that regard).

Not really a notion, but an actual thing. People, especially those that work out here, dont like change. Hating the idea of something that is very real wont help here.
Also, changing things for users, each user will have their own opinion about look and feel of something as its completely subjective.
What will be an awesome upgrade for some will not be so well received by others. And then some will just hate it because it is different. I see it every day where I work. Maybe its different where you are.

 

[Paul Glover]

Not really a notion, but an actual thing. People, especially those that work out here, dont like change. Hating the idea of something that is very real wont help here.
Also, changing things for users, each user will have their own opinion about look and feel of something as its completely subjective.
What will be an awesome upgrade for some will not be so well received by others. And then some will just hate it because it is different. I see it every day where I work. Maybe its different where you are.

I agree 100%.

It's a known fact majority or people do not accept or move with change well, they moan and grumble and miss the possibilities that come with change. I was one of those people until a couple of years back until I read the book that I have previously linked, I now follow the cheese!

 

[Phoenix77]

Looking forward to it, and just in time for my return from holiday!

I have a few days away and look what happens... wholesale change

They wait until you go away mate... And then they change all the locks
Come to think of it, I did see some very colourful shirts listed on Ebay

https://www.shiteshirts.com/

I think one of my ex Girlfriends bought me a shirt from there, needless to say the relationship didn't last long after that!

 

[Phoenix77]

Good luck with the upgrade RD, does this mean that Sim Racing will become self-aware like Skynet.... On Halloween 2019?

 

[Paul Jeffrey]

Good luck with the upgrade RD, does this mean that Sim Racing will become self-aware like Skynet.... On Halloween 2019?

RD is Legion. Arnie is coming to kick some ass.

I'll be back.

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

People, especially those that work out here, dont like change.

It's not always a choice unfortunately. In the early days of RD I (mea culpa) made a lot of changes on the design, layout etc too often and users have been rightfully pissed off. However for the last few years with Dave kicking my bum if I only attempted to change something D) changes have been extremely little (few pixels here and there on the design, some functionalities added etc).

However the main reason for us this time is that our forum software reaches end of life, by the end of December there will be no more patches coming for it by the developers and as we hold safety of our user's details and data in high regard we have to jump to the newest version of the software, which will happen today.

 

[FeltHat]

im ready

 

[Dave Stephenson]

However for the last few years with Dave kicking my bum if I only attempted to change something D)

Can confirm, this has 100% been a thing

 

[alexSchmurtz]

Can confirm, this has 100% been a thing

Good luck with the update Dave, see you on the other side!

 

[Deleted member 955978]

Not really a notion, but an actual thing. People, especially those that work out here, dont like change. Hating the idea of something that is very real wont help here.
Also, changing things for users, each user will have their own opinion about look and feel of something as its completely subjective.
What will be an awesome upgrade for some will not be so well received by others. And then some will just hate it because it is different. I see it every day where I work. Maybe its different where you are.

If you invest your personal strength in hating something not threatening you personally, you are out of your mind.
I prefer the term disliking.
I know, it’s Orwellian New Speak times...
Just a heads up.

 

[Atticvs]

This news didn't age well, haha!

Joking, of course, good luck with the move when (if) it comes eventually.

 

[Alex Townsend]

If you invest your personal strength in hating something not threatening you personally, you are out of your mind.
I prefer the term disliking.
I know, it’s Orwellian New Speak times...
Just a heads up.

Totally agree. I'm not the one hating anything here. Just to be clear.

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Video gallery will be added later this week in case you've noticed it's absence.