RaceDepartment New Website Released

Paul Jeffrey · Oct 24, 2019

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!

Shovas · Oct 31, 2019

Well done on the new design! I had my worries but they seem unfounded now!

HazelR · Oct 31, 2019

God it's terrible.
Worst fears confirmed.

Another good site ruined by mobile first attitude.

How do I delete my now useless account?

Balwerk · Oct 31, 2019

idk just hope itu too center like this somewhat feel to empty when I use maximize screen. I use 2K monitor anyway.

everything is good anyway outside this one.

EIF · Oct 31, 2019

If it aint broke dont fix it. So narrow with tons of wasted real estate. Who the heck sim races on a smart phone or tablet because that's clearly what this redesign is for. Its not as bad as the Nvidia redesign a few months back but wow, why does everything have to cater to the smart phone zombies?!

FinFan · Oct 31, 2019

It sure took a lot of time to put this up and I appreciate that in any case. But I have to admit I am not a fan of that tile design on the front page. The forum pages look alright, it will just take some time to get used to the new look.
I won't be leaving the side because the content and community here is still great.

Emery · Oct 31, 2019

Post-maintenance has "Mark Forums as Read" function being global only. Would really like to get back to having Subforum selection.

Dave Stephenson · Oct 31, 2019

Emery said:
Post-maintenance has "Mark Forums as Read" function being global only. Would really like to get back to having Subforum selection.

You can find it at the top of each forum index.

A3DR · Oct 31, 2019

I'm fine with the rearrange of things, but no more "agree", no more BEERS??????

randomcallsign · Oct 31, 2019

A3DR said:
I'm fine with the rearrange of things, but no more "agree", no more BEERS??????

What.... NO MORE BEER?

This is outrageous!

scottiedawg66 · Oct 31, 2019

beer, beer, beer beer!

Case_ · Oct 31, 2019

Well, it's a change for sure, but I think I quite like it. Looks nice and clean

But, as others have already mentioned, it would be great if some kind of "beer" or "thanks" (I used the beer response to basically say "cheers" like 99 percent of time, ever since the "thanks" was removed) could eventually make it back to responses to post.

And, on a more functional note, the page indicator on multiple pages of content needs to indicate the current page you're in more visibly. Right now, the number of the current page has almost white background (249,249,249), while the numbers of the other pages...have almost white background only very slightly darker (244,244,244).

But I absolutely understand things take time to tweak and it's to be expected after a big change like this.

Bram Hengeveld · Oct 31, 2019

Martin Fiala said:
the page indicator on multiple pages of content needs to indicate the current page you're in more visibly.

Jep, will put that on the list of things to fix. Thanks!

Bram Hengeveld · Oct 31, 2019

Added a teamspeak link to the navigation bar. We still need to figure out a better implementation. No priority atm.

Paul Glover · Oct 31, 2019

Eifion Evans said:
If it aint broke dont fix it. So narrow with tons of wasted real estate. Who the heck sim races on a smart phone or tablet because that's clearly what this redesign is for. Its not as bad as the Nvidia redesign a few months back but wow, why does everything have to cater to the smart phone zombies?!

Desktop is always number 1, this isn’t finished yet. Things will evolve.

boomn · Oct 31, 2019

Looks great guys. One comment I have is that on the main page, clicking the "# comments" on an article isn't jumping straight to the new comments like it was on the previous site

NtsParadize · Oct 31, 2019

A bit confusing atm but it's a nice change.

Lukasz Milewski · Oct 31, 2019

Haven't seen the desktop version yet but mobile one is great. So nice and clean. Great job guys.

melanieuk · Oct 31, 2019

Nice update Bram and all involved, I like the change, and it seems like Race Department isn't the only site that has gotten a new face lift, Steam has updated our Library of games to a new look as well.