Penny Arcade 7.0!

Kethenn

Most of you probably don't know me - I'm the new tech guy at PA. For the last little while, Erika and I have been toiling away on...

http://beta.penny-arcade.com

This is a soft launch; I'm posting it here first to slowly ramp up the load before Mike and Jerry announce it tomorrow. Please don't tweet about it or tell folks outside the forum until tomorrow. We're aware of a bunch of small issues and will be hammering away at them before we flip the big switch, but if you find anything, display issues, performance issues, content, whatever, please post it here!

Squall

whoa whoa way neat

Antimatter

another new site? i'm shocked.

Dark Raven X

I see... suspicious. Where's you Staff icon!?

I don't trust you! This is internet town, after all.

Spoiler:

Looks awesome though.

Houk

holy cow

Beasteh

this is cool

i like it

Bogey

Finally! :o

Baidol

I like how I refresh the page and the thread goes from zero to six posts.

JayKaos

I thought the buttons on the top of the new forum seemed more like a site design than a forum design. Looking good!

Squall

i noticed on the bottom of the main site the text on the fleshreaper ad is cut off

Edcrab

Huh! Well that's looking pretty neat

Speed Racer

I think for some reason my favorite part about the site being updated is seeing the new avatars for gabe and tycho

Squall

i love that child's play is right up there in your face, not hidden off to the side

Baroque And Roll

Glorious new homepage.

Squall

oh when you click on a tag in the archive with punctuation (i.e. "you're"), it loads a white page with the following error:

The URI you submitted has disallowed characters.

Hunter

Dark Raven X wrote:

I see... suspicious. Where's you Staff icon!?

I don't trust you! This is internet town, after all.

Spoiler:

Looks awesome though.

ultimakay

Oh sweet this looks awesome!

edit: oh god that 404 page

Speed Racer

oh my god the new 404 page

http://beta.penny-arcade.com/404

Squall

@speed racer ahaha

Knob

Speed Racer wrote:

oh my god the new 404 page

http://beta.penny-arcade.com/404

this is terrific

Rolo

noice

Thetheroo

Hmm, I don't know what I think of this. Seems a little cluttered and it's a bit difficult to navigate to the comic.

Besides that, it seems alright.

redfenix

very nice

this random dude approves

QuestionMarkMan

Personally, I'd rather have the comic up above the newspost but other than that it's great!

Langly

This looks real cool

Fandeathis

I've been waiting forever for this! It's terrific.

Zek

Looks cool but I don't like the background color of the news text, it's too bright. The old darker blue is much more pleasant to read.

Also the buttons on the comic page are poorly laid out, why do Facebook and Twitter integration have the spot of honor right in the middle? They're distracting from the buttons that matter. The Back and Forward buttons in particular should be much more prominent.

redfenix

Langly wrote:

This looks real cool

:^:

Avraham

Looks slick and terrific! My one is crit is that the slideshow is annoying (and it goes too fast, interrupting my focus). When I go to PA, the first thing I'm looking for is the news post plus a link to the comic, so it's disorienting that something else is front and center.

Thetheroo

Yeah, I really don't like the Twitter and FB integration buttons. Stupid Web 2.0.

Fandeathis

Where is the Google+ love?

Mortal Sky

Glad to see the forums are getting a matching homepage.
Well done.

End

oh my god yes that 404 page

good work

ronzo

I like this more than the current design, and it's also pretty nice to boot

mensch-o-matic

Looks very lovely and clean, good job.

End

heh

Server: everpony/2.718

(the current main site returns Server: magic_ponies/2.718)

(edit: I'm pretty sure the magic_ponies bit predates any of the current mlp stuff. maybe a django reference? dunno)

Zonugal

The first thing that jumped out at me was it is very hard to locate any buttons/links to PAX upon the initial website.

Centipede Damascus

Fandeathis wrote:

Where is the Google+ love?

this

joshua1

Dark Raven X wrote:

I see... suspicious. Where's you Staff icon!?

I don't trust you! This is internet town, after all.

Spoiler:

Looks awesome though.

Duh, he fights for the users!?

(that was better in my head)

Melding

Yeah i guess it's pretty neat.

jackal

Fandeathis wrote:

Where is the Google+ love?

In my opinion the fewer social media icons the better.