Appreciate this update. I don't envy Aldie's difficult decisions... On Sunday, January 13, 2013 6:39:05 PM UTC-7, Maarten wrote: > > Yes, the team was working on a new design, and some could even test > the beta. However, at some point news and updates simply stopped > appearing, and development seemed to stall. It wasn't until a week or > two ago that Aldie in a casual and off-hand manner described what had > happened: the site design would simply have tacked a different skin > onto a MVC-style code base which Aldie had literally grown fed up > with. (MVC is ICT-jargon, being an abbreviation for 'model view > controller', meaning that you have a DB full of data, and then program > various shells which retrieve, modify and present this same data in > various ways, depending on the needs of the user and he wants to > achieve.) It was not true MVC, it was old, it was grown organically, > it was quirky, and it would not have solved what he perceived to be > fundamental issues, like for example having crappy support for mobile > access to the DB. He was currently in the process of reviewing some > 3rd party alternatives to his own MVC-code base so that he would be > freed from programming and maintaining the bare MVC-basics, focussing > instead on the implementation specifics which would make BGG BGG. And > not just on a computer or laptop, but also on a tablet or smartphone > or app or whatever. He was also studying ways to offload the > generation of the HTML necessary for the user to interact with the > website to yet another 3rd party framework, again with the intent of > not being burdened (as much) with the basics of this process. Some > geeks offered brief suggestions for these quite specialist packages, > highlighting various strengths and weaknesses. And that was basically > all. > > So, summarising: the redesign we've been hearing about for the better > part of two years has been effectively shelved. Aldie is curently > looking at a far more radical and fundamental redesign of the website > than he had ever planned or envisaged. There is, for the time being, > also no longer a date when the job will be finished: there are too > many variables and uncertainties to consider, and a lot depends on how > easy it is to move important subsystems (like for example the > notifications) to these new frameworks. One advantage, though: when > Aldie's done, the website will probably be a lot less quirky, and have > a lot more consistent interface no matter how you access it. > > > Maarten > > On Jan 14, 12:26 am, Crokinole Dundee <[email protected]> > wrote: > > It seems like a while ago, there was talk of a new site redesign. Is > this > > something in the works? It sure needs it badly. Not to look a gift horse > in > > the mouth or anything. >
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