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

Well, nearly. Because we're delighted to announce that we're hoping to present the full version of the new H2G2 site tomorrow.

We'll be putting in a redirect, which means that at some stage in the next 24 hours the existing address will automatically redirect to the fully-functioning, fully redesigned version of the site, the version that we gave you a preview of in our Read Only Beta back in November.

You should be able to sign in and go about your H2G2 business in the normal way. Some things will have changed slightly, some areas have been renamed and the buttons will be in a slightly different place, but it is fundamentally the same site with the same functions - plus some shiny new ones - and the same community, you know and love, and in some cases, frequented for close to a decade. (A full list of the changes in terminology, etc, on the new site can be found in this announcement F77636?thread=7874423 also from November.)

But don't panic, the old site will still be accessible for a period of time at a designated address.

But we would ask you to do please try and use the new site as much as you can, so you can get a feel for its navigation. We also want you to do this as, although we're hoping that the new site will be working perfectly, there are bound to be some bugs waiting to be discovered, so - as always - we would appreciate your help in finding them and letting us know. We'll be setting up a New H2G2 Feedback page precisely for this purpose once the new site is live.

If that wasn't exciting enough, we'll also be unveiling our new H2G2 Site Suffix functionality, which will allow you to add an extension of up to 100 characters - including special characters - to your existing BBC iD Display name.

Between now and the launch we'll also be doing a bit of onsite housekeeping, to change the current site in line with the new pages. The site will be in a little bit of flux for the next 24 hours, so don't be alarmed if you see some changes on existing pages, titles, terminology, images and branding, etc.

This redesign marks the end of months of hard work from lots of dedicated people, so we thank you all for your patience and hope you are pleased with the end result as we are.

Regards
Sam and Chris
The H2G2 Editors

You did it!

Wow.

For BoB's sake, please don't let Lil near the new shiney buttons!

Yay! I have the bubbly on ice

I resemble that remark, 2legs

Now, what does this button do?


lil xx

Some are more than a decade old, my User number was born 11 years ago in May!

GB

I reach the ten-year mark a few months from now, but I'm just as crazy now as I was then.

I look forward to the new design....

to us all - we'll have to get in there and learn.



I'm not sure I could think of a 100-character name for myself...oh, wait, didn't James Joyce...?

"Some are more than a decade old, my User number was born 11 years ago in May!"

Ditto. Although the new layout erroneously asserts I didn't join until June. I hope that is fixed too.

"I'm not sure I could think of a 100-character name for myself..."

I'll still be truncated. (My old name was 128 characters long...)

*battens down the hatches*

Lil, any room under the by chance?

"allow you to add an extension of up to 100 characters"

by my reading that's in addition to what we currently have so you should be able to make up the 128 chars, although quite how it will display we shall find out.

But my name was "Peet (the Pedantic...", which means I only get five characters before I'm forced to use the "extensions" to insert a parenthesis. I'll still be truncated.

well, more interrupted than truncated, depending on how it displays?

Yay!
Thanks and well done!