A year ago, we announced the start of a new era for SMW Central: the Open Beta for SMWC2.
Today, SMWC2 enters its Public Beta stage. Now anyone can use SMWC2 - and in just a few months, it will replace the outdated site design entirely. Today marks the beginning of the end of the legacy theme!
So, to recap
SMWC2 is a complete overhaul of SMW Central's codebase. For us, this makes it far easier to create new features. For you, it comes with a modern redesign of the entire website. SMWC2 remains faithful to the classic look of SMW Central, but at the same time provides first-class mobile support and revises some of the more confusing design choices of the legacy site.
If you're still uncertain about SMWC2, you can look at the interactive demos of the Main Page and the Forum Index.
Like last time, I want to thank wye for creating the design, as well as Kieran Menor, p4plus2, and Ersanio for organizing SMWC2 in the first place. I also want to thank all of our Beta Testers for their invaluable feedback during the Open Beta phase.
What does this mean for me?
If you've never used SMWC2 before, welcome aboard! You can now select SMWC2 as a Theme from your Edit Profile page. In our Discord server, you will also find a new channel named #smwc2-beta, where you can discuss SMWC2.
Not all pages are converted to SMWC2. The ones that aren't will use the current site design, called the "legacy theme". The remaining pages are currently being converted internally and will all become available at once in the near future.
If you're one of our Beta Testers, not much will change for you at this point. You can still use SMWC2 as before.
Once again, I would like to remind everyone that SMWC2 will very soon replace the legacy theme. It, alongside every old scheme, will not be available again. This is a massive change and we want the new design to be perfect. So, I urge you to try it now and give feedback.
One more thing...
As you will see (or already know), SMWC2 offers 3 schemes to choose from - Default, Rust, and 2006 Nostalgia. As of now, these SMWC2 schemes, as well as the template for creating new schemes, are open source on GitHub.
During the next few weeks, we will look into creating a light scheme, as well as providing SMWC2 ports of the popular Rain and Super Mario All-Stars schemes from the legacy design.
Anyone is free to design and contribute an SMWC2 scheme - check out the GitHub page for more information! And, as you might expect, we have rewards ready for those who help us expand SMWC2's scheme collection.
That's all for now. Thank you for the continued support over the years!
Today, SMWC2 enters its Public Beta stage. Now anyone can use SMWC2 - and in just a few months, it will replace the outdated site design entirely. Today marks the beginning of the end of the legacy theme!
So, to recap
SMWC2 is a complete overhaul of SMW Central's codebase. For us, this makes it far easier to create new features. For you, it comes with a modern redesign of the entire website. SMWC2 remains faithful to the classic look of SMW Central, but at the same time provides first-class mobile support and revises some of the more confusing design choices of the legacy site.
If you're still uncertain about SMWC2, you can look at the interactive demos of the Main Page and the Forum Index.
Like last time, I want to thank wye for creating the design, as well as Kieran Menor, p4plus2, and Ersanio for organizing SMWC2 in the first place. I also want to thank all of our Beta Testers for their invaluable feedback during the Open Beta phase.
What does this mean for me?
If you've never used SMWC2 before, welcome aboard! You can now select SMWC2 as a Theme from your Edit Profile page. In our Discord server, you will also find a new channel named #smwc2-beta, where you can discuss SMWC2.
Not all pages are converted to SMWC2. The ones that aren't will use the current site design, called the "legacy theme". The remaining pages are currently being converted internally and will all become available at once in the near future.
If you're one of our Beta Testers, not much will change for you at this point. You can still use SMWC2 as before.
Once again, I would like to remind everyone that SMWC2 will very soon replace the legacy theme. It, alongside every old scheme, will not be available again. This is a massive change and we want the new design to be perfect. So, I urge you to try it now and give feedback.
One more thing...
As you will see (or already know), SMWC2 offers 3 schemes to choose from - Default, Rust, and 2006 Nostalgia. As of now, these SMWC2 schemes, as well as the template for creating new schemes, are open source on GitHub.
During the next few weeks, we will look into creating a light scheme, as well as providing SMWC2 ports of the popular Rain and Super Mario All-Stars schemes from the legacy design.
Anyone is free to design and contribute an SMWC2 scheme - check out the GitHub page for more information! And, as you might expect, we have rewards ready for those who help us expand SMWC2's scheme collection.
That's all for now. Thank you for the continued support over the years!
