Coming VERY soon: our all-new web site!

[RAY@HQ]

The full history of the last 12 years of the site was brought to the new site. It's being "indexed" tonight, which will make it show up in that Content tab search on the new PLink. That search should look a lot better tomorrow than it does today. Yes, it's an extra click to jump into the articles to find the player referenced, but the News tab was a manual paste job by our writers, and it was pretty haphazard what was in there and what wasn't. This search will catch every reference automatically.

[Whistler]

+1

[birddogs_d]

Yes, thank you. However - ALL the historical posts (hint: Nickrand comments, Chris Blessing comments, Eyes have It, the original player rating when they were brought up, facts & flukes columns, etc) - are not found.

Any idea / plans to bring these back?

Hear! Hear! Bill's comments.
The News tab was invaluable. Please resurrect it.

[Biff]

Go to Content. Then you have links to mentions of the player

Yes, thank you. However - ALL the historical posts (hint: Nickrand comments, Chris Blessing comments, Eyes have It, the original player rating when they were brought up, facts & flukes columns, etc) - are not found.

Any idea / plans to bring these back?

[Whistler]

Go to Content. Then you have links to mentions of the player

[Biff]

Ray (and Team) -- thank you for the site update. One of the tools I used (a lot) were the historical notes "news" on particular players.
The "News" tab was usually found to the right of "Historical" tab.
That seems to be gone, or at least moved to a place I can't find.

Can you please point me in the right direction to find all the historical notes/comments/mews on individual players? Here is a sample:

I guess what I am saying is, under "content" I see a few recent posts. But ALL the historical posts (hint: Nickrand comments, the original player rating when they were brought up, facts & flukes columns, etc are not found.

Thanks, in advance.





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[RAY@HQ]

LOL - Any chance you can get USAToday and the European Union to both buy into the new site?

Working on reuniting with the EU folks, actually. Won't happen immediately with the new site launch, but hopefully it will happen.

[tuna411]

Any chance you can get USAToday and the European Union to both buy into the new site?

the word is out: blue star loves european union

[bluester]

LOL - Any chance you can get USAToday and the European Union to both buy into the new site?

[Red]

That is good to hear!

[RAY@HQ]

I remember an upgrade here years ago that did not go so well. Are you testing the upgrade in a test environment? Please do!

Of course. I think you're remembering a forum upgrade, which was problematic because we didn't have a test version of the forums. But we've been testing the new site for weeks. I can't promise it's going to be 100% smooth... it's a major project. But we're confident any bumps will be short-term.

[Red]

I remember an upgrade here years ago that did not go so well. Are you testing the upgrade in a test environment? Please do!

[RAY@HQ]

thanks, Ray !

any chance that the mystifying separation of access and passwords for the HQ site and for the HQ Forums is now a thing of the past?

asking for a friend....

I mentioned that above, apparently just not clearly. Not touching the forums as part of this, but you are going to have to set up new site accounts. We will eventually be able to make the forums work off of those new site accounts. But we're going to wait a while before we get into that.

[Howie M]

thanks, Ray !

any chance that the mystifying separation of access and passwords for the HQ site and for the HQ Forums is now a thing of the past?

asking for a friend....

[RAY@HQ]

FYI, just sent the above email to all subscribers.... not everyone gets our emails, so wanted to post it here too.

The forums will not be changing as part of this upgrade. Down the road, we will likely be able to link forum accounts to site accounts, but we'll wait til things settle down before tackling that.

At the risk of raising expectations too high... the new site is really fantastic. You're going to love it.