Hello and welcome to the new LambdaGeneration!
It’s been a while since LambdaGeneration was last on your screens, but the good news is we’re back and ready to re-serve the Valve Community with a whole line of new features and fresh content.
You maybe asking: Why did LambdaGeneration go offline for so long?
Well the answer to that lies between two factors, one being our hosting expired, which would have cost a lot of money and time to renew and restore the previous site. The other, being that the site was already in a poor state due to the departure of Vic and the general lack of content at the time. It was therefore decided to hold the site and focus all efforts on creating the new one.
You may also be wondering: How come it took so long?
The answer to that is of course, Valve Time. (Or that making a bespoke WordPress theme from scratch is pretty damn hard!)
Excellent revamp, and excellent orientation article. Good luck in the future!
One thing I didn’t miss though are these spam bots that keep flooding the comment sections.
Can only assume the one who posted then was a human, we no longer accept comments unless they are posted right from this form (WordPress allows comments posted to the page from external servers by default for trackbacks/ping backs). Will re-install a spam filtering system we used to have if it gets bad.
Fantastic website redesign! Glad to see LG back online.
Nice to see it returning in a new, slick design
Rise and shine, LambdaGen!
The site looks amazing, Alex! It’s great to see LG up again, and I look forward to contributing to it.
Thanks for all your feedback, guys! 😀
I have to agree with you guys regarding the spectrum. We’ll fix this soon in a little update!
Good job guys!
λwesome d3sign!
The new site really looks amazing, and I am personally amazed by how fast it loads up every page (sidenote: I have a really poor mobile internet stick right now so surfing the web is a huge pain.).
So far haven’t encountered any major problems, but I second the bouncing issue Amy pointed out.
Good pump?
The new site is so awesome.
Only thing that bugs me is the sliding text animation of the categories previews. I think it’s be nicer if when it goes up it wouldnt bounce like that.
The new site looks fantastic.
The main navigation (spectrum) has a few problems: can’t command-click to open in new tab. The animated effect IS ANNOYING! It’s too slow and erratic.
Are you sure separating content into the different categories so strictly is a good choice? You say it will help against content getting “buried and forgotten” but I imagine the opposite can happen if now we have to check 6 different pages to stay fully up-to-date.
Hi,
Thanks for the comment 🙂
The slider seems to have some problems in some versions of Firefox or on machines with very low graphical capabilities. I will try to improve its compatibility in the future but unfortunately I’m not a great coder and everything has been made from scratch and I have no doubt that there maybe better methods.
To stay up to date, you just need to visit the homepage, it lists everything from all categories. The sections are an optional feature for people who may have a keen interest in a certain area.
Hi,
If you have a clickable mouse wheel, it can be used as an alternative to cmd-clicking to open the spectrum articles in a new tab.
Thanks. I do have a mouse with clickable mouse wheel but I don’t always have it with me (laptop). Actually, I use side-buttons to open links in tabs and I have noticed that with certain sites it works or doesn’t work while command-clicking does/doesn’t. I can get used to using one or the other but without my mouse I really can’t work around this unless I right-click the “read more” text and choose “open in new tab” which isn’t very fast.