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

The Tech Team launched an early release of Pliny late Sunday evening. Pliny immediately got to work, shouldering the heavy load that had grown too arduous for Ripley.

A few glitches appeared, and bug-squashing volunteers immediately sprang into action. The site is growing more stable as the Tech Team eradicates pesky software bugs. If you discover a bug lurking on h2g2, please report it here: A87753135.

The early release of Pliny is just that - early. Parts of Pliny were released ahead of schedule in order to carry the burden that was crushing Ripley and preventing Researchers and Readers alike from using The Guide. As soon as the most troublesome bugs have been eradicated, the Tech Team will return to building more functionality into Pliny's next release. In the meantime, , you can still use functions supported under Ripley. When you are logged in, select one of the older skins.

In other tech news, Tufty's Raspberry Pi university project has drawn over six thousand unique page views since its Front Page debut. Congratulations, Tufty!

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Thanks for that statistic! It's made a long night in A+E a little more bearable.

The Bug Basher Gang are 's

Elmer Fudd has always been adwoit at chasing Bugs.

Maybe, but he's been wediculously ineffective at catching bugs.

I wasn't aware our volunteer bug wranglers included Elmer Fudd, Baron Grim

He wasn't and isn't, Happy Nerd. I was trying to inject some humor into the works. Wile E Coyote wouldn't have been as a propos.

to all the team and please leave a few bugs and glitches as the whole HooToo experience would be spoilt by a nice shiney completely working Hootoo

"please leave a few bugs and glitches as the whole HooToo experience would be spoilt by a nice shiney completely working Hootoo" [JackRuss]

I don'tthink we're likely to ever see such perfection.

I never moved out of classic goo - what are the 'other' skins you refer to?

I have a question: I use to read in the early mornings without being signed in. Unfortunately, this only works in Pliny. Yes, I can go to a bookmarked page in the skin of my choice, but the moment I click on a link from there I get the *page cannot be found* message, and I have to manually insert brunel into the URL to be able to open the page. So either I read in Pliny, or I sign in. Will the links work in other skins at some point 8speaking from a 'not signed in' perspective?

Great work, btw. to all involved.

Hi Bel,

I didn't know about this bug. But I know what'll be causing it. The default skin under Ripley was Brunel, so all links to /dna/h2g2/ went to brunel. To make Pliny work as the default skin, we have to point /dna/h2g2/ to Pliny too.

I'm afraid that unfortunately this can't be changed otherwise all the images won't display right in Pliny, amongst other weirdness.

I thought so. I guess I'll have to sign in then, even if I only read.

Thanks for the new button Pastey!

I'm learning more and more about this. Pastey, you are a .

I could be moved to an isolation ward

just got in from a night out with the lads, and the new golf course has a few new rude drawing in the bunkers and the flag is now upside down on the flag pole but the pist de resistance is the 22' diameter white plastic golf ball, placed just outside the club house on the putting practice lawn

A golf ball that large will only be suitable for someone very large, like Paul Bunyan or the Jolly Green Giant. The Incredible Hulk would be large enough, but I doubt he'd want to play golf.

its a fake one init! it was place there for comic effect, and they have the grump about too which is what we went for, the last time we done it it was on the old golf course and that was a right giggle