News bit-tech redesign: New website and forum coming soon!

I look forward to the new look, dare I say long overdue.

 

Inevitable reaction ^^

Getting it in early!

GLHF. Having launched a few now it's all stress and no appreciation but give it 3 months and everyone can't live without it.

 

Bring back the Beta Forum!

And don't you dear Skimlink us.

 

Huzzah chaps, good luck! I can't wait to see how it looks/feels.

Cheesecake all round

 

I hope you're joking...

 

Unfortunately as it's running on a very outdated version of vbulletin it's very behind on updates (security updates etc) and can't be updated due to the tweaks made many moons ago. Either way (stick with, but update vbulletin or switch to something else) it would have required lots of work behind the scenes.

 

Sometimes binning it and starting over is more time efficient than fixing any/all problems with what's already there.

 

The only thing that is missing from a functionality point of view is a good way to deal with pictures...

Relying on 3rd party sites like imgur and tinypic is dangerous as they could shutdown with zero warning and the auto resizer has been broken for ages.

Don't need to change anything on the normal site any way to please mobile users, all the mobile phone browsers attempt to load the mobile specific version of a website automatically (provided one exists).

 

Yeah this...

But i still want the ability to just [/Stuff in] rather than relying on buttons for everything

 

I hope he is too. Since it's woefully insecure and we can't even attach images to posts ffs.

Here we go, it's started. Give it a chance at least.

 

You know this is the internet, right?

 

You changed it?!!



In all srsnss though, it's long... long overdue. I can appreciate the massive amount of work involved, so here's hoping implementation day goes smoothly for you!

Adaptive/responsive web design does not necessarily mean degrading the experience for one set of users in order to improve it for another. What you're talking about there is bad web design.

Ignore jrs77, he's a grumpy stick-in-the-mud

 

It should default to comic sans font for the first day, just for a laugh.
Yeah, as long as you don't pull a Dennis, we should be good.

Tell that to Microsoft.

 

Ohgodyes. PLEASE DO THIS .

 

+1 for comic sans

 

If there is a poll, I'm voting wingdings, but you guys also have to develop a chrome browser plugin that translates wingdings and we have to hit the 'translate' button every time we load a new page. Also, the plugin requires all users to link their facebook and linkedin profiles, completely pointlessly.

 

I'll get in trouble as anyone with access to the dev instance was sworn to secrecy, but what the hell... sneak peek, you saw it here first...