h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Try calling yourself MrdotDreadful

What about me? I feel really silly without being able to use an apostrophe.

(Just bringing the "Where H2G2 went wrong" thread to Thee Eds' attention: F19585?thread=(Just bringing the "Where H2G2 went wrong" thread to Thee Eds' attention: F19585... some very good suggestions on how to improve the site there)

Come on Trillians's Child. Todays texting teenagers would miss it out anyway. . It's a price you have to pay in the digital world.

Hi all. As Ancient Brit has pointed out, the Beta has now been taken down. This has been done so we can do some much needed maintenance, ahead of the full launch of the redesigned site, which - you'll be pleased to hear - is very imminent indeed. Look out for more news on our <./>Announcements</.> page very soon...

Now is the time to enjoy all those skins we're about to lose...

I'm gonna miss Brunel.

ah, so these are the last days are they?
Time to get with the gnashing of teeth and such like?

I have my personal Index ready for the relaunch, but I will miss having my PS in goo.

I hope when they get the new site up the Smileys all work. those are a major part of hootoo.

I will miss Goo too,

I liked the blue peacefulness

Gah Heathens!

The real travesty is the loss of the classical beauty of Alabaster!

FB

I think Barlesque is just as nice as Alabaster.

I never liked Alabaster

It was the default skin when I joined h2g2, in Sep 2000. And since the only alternative was hard-to-see thin letters on a dark background, I soon got used to Alabaster.

I went for Brunel, as it was the first to have navigable back-buttons . . . soon this chat won't make much sense any more.

I'm feeling very Marvinesque about the new site. It's not going to work for the visually challenged. And such a boring ski8n!!

I've been holding my true feelings back a little but, now that the thing is up and sputtering, I'm going to be honest.


For what little my opinion is worth, I haven't yet found anything about the 'upgrade' that is an improvement on what we had before.

we've gone from a great deal of choice to none.

we've gone from a system wherein one click took us immediately to the latest posts of a conversation to a system where a multitude of clicks are needed and it isn't horribly obvious when new posts have arrived. Perhaps that will be fixed.

as has been pointed out elsewhere, apostrophes are catastrophes so far

the text is too big

the colour scheme is dull and too much like Dawkins.net.

etc.

Maybe the functionality will improve, but . . .

To be fair anhaga, you haven't tried the new site once it's up and running properly. Why not wait until it's all go, then give us a few days to sort out what works and doesn't?

I'm expecting there to be things I don't like (the most obvious for me currently is that threads are limited to 20 posts per page ), but until I get to try out the new site I won't know the balance of good and bad.


We have got our long taglines back (which I understand no-one else on the beeb has).

Anhaga, I don't think it was really meant to be an 'upgrade', it was a transition to fit the new BBC website design rules. Plus making it more modern looking and shiny.