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!

 

[emarchena]

New design looks nice and clean. It's very refreshing. Thanks for the hard work keeping this community running

 

[Eckhart von Glan]

Looking good on my smallish PC screen, hope everyone involved is happy with the results. Miss the beer button already ...

 

[melanieuk]

Your news page looks somewhat like my new steam library UI....i quite like it.

Exactly what I thought when I first ran Steam & checked out the new library gui this morning, I like how Valve is incrementally rolling out updates to Steam, the News page and Steam chat client is looking more like Discord.

 

[CrimsonEminence]

Looking good on my smallish PC screen, hope everyone involved is happy with the results. Miss the beer button already ...

Yeah, this is a lost indeed, i find it quite funny, how much a beer rating can be missed, after it's gone

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

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

@Martin Fiala how about the current solution? Seems to look a bit slicker?

 

[Case_]

@Bram Hengeveld I just noticed and was about to comment that this also works I guess

 

[cerebralvortex]

I really have to get used to the new design on PC I guess. Feels a bit cramped to me.

 

[Paul Glover]

ok...call me stupid but i can't find the calender ??

so tempting....

 

[Jebus]

Are resources posted to downloads page only? Assetto Corsa mods page (for example) says 'You have insufficient privileges to post threads here.'

 

[Stereo]

I have this vague memory that there used to be a button in my preferences to disable the fancy-text-editor, but it's been a few years so I'm not sure if I'm just not finding it or it's gone. I dunno I'm not that weird for preferring to just type[img][/img] am I?

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

I have this vague memory that there used to be a button in my preferences to disable the fancy-text-editor, but it's been a few years so I'm not sure if I'm just not finding it or it's gone. I dunno I'm not that weird for preferring to just type[img][/img] am I?

Click the gear icon in the editor to go full nerd mode with bbcode . Click it again to go back to normal view.

 

[Pierre Hox]

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

Yes, I miss that feature too

 

[Koen Verlinde]

Not a fan of this new lay-out that clearly caters even more to smartphone users and not to people actually checking stuff from their simracing PC. Half of the screen is now empty with the content smashed down in the middle.

Waste of space and effort imo.

 

[boomn]

Not a fan of this new lay-out that clearly caters even more to smartphone users and not to people actually checking stuff from their simracing PC. Half of the screen is now empty with the content smashed down in the middle.

Waste of space and effort imo.

I would like to see it expand more to fit larger browser windows too, but that seems to be a style setting that is not related to smartphones. The mobile version of the site displays differently from the desktop site, like it did with the old site too

 

[Case_]

Not a fan of this new lay-out that clearly caters even more to smartphone users and not to people actually checking stuff from their simracing PC. Half of the screen is now empty with the content smashed down in the middle.

Oh, I didn't realize the design is not responsive. In that case, that's not good.

 

[Koen Verlinde]

I would like to see it expand more to fit larger browser windows too, but that seems to be a style setting that is not related to smartphones. The mobile version of the site displays differently from the desktop site, like it did with the old site too

Just not a fan of so much internet sites catering to smartphones their resolution, it just is a backwards step in an environment that is supposed to be progressive and innovating.

 

[kamackeris]

so tempting....

I was waiting for this comment from you Glover....

 

[Dux]

Very nice update! Well done to all at RaceDepartment for the effort, dedication and their passion for blurring the lines between real racing and sim racing. Bravo!

PS. Im having troubles, where is the video section?

 

[boomn]

Just not a fan of so much internet sites catering to smartphones their resolution, it just is a backwards step in an environment that is supposed to be progressive and innovating.

My point was the desktop site does not cater to smartphones. Smartphones get a very different version of the site that is catered to their size with a different layout, different menu setup, etc

 

[alexSchmurtz]

PS. Im having troubles, where is the video section?

Video gallery and race calendar will be added during the weekend, there are still fixes and tweaks to do after the upgrade.