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New art.gnome.org released

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As you may have noticed, art.gnome.org as recently undergone a major reworking. Some of the new features you can now find here include:

  • New website design
  • New User system
  • Comments system
  • Rating system
  • Variants, license and version options for themes and backgrounds
  • Background resolution submission

I would like to thank all those involved in these improvements, with special mention to Michael Gebhart who helped with the coding, and to Eric Bobbitt and Marco Bonomo who helped with the new site design. And of course Ross Golder who validated the code for release onto the gnome.org servers, and to the all the people who helped test the site and provide the all important suggestions and comments!

With these new upgrades however, we have had to let go all our old content because the task of migration would have been near impossible to do properly. For the moment, the old content can still be found on the ftp at http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/teams/art.gnome.org/archive. If any artists wish to have their art included on art.gnome.org then please register an account and use the submit options available from the account page.

Any problems or suggestions for the site can be filed in the art component of the website product on GNOME bugzilla, as well as discussed on the forums.

To celebrate the new release, Radel has done some excellent backgrounds for art.gnome.org:
AGO-Cirlces
AGO-Clean
AGO-Digital-1
AGO-Digital-2
AGO-GreenBlue

This totally sucks; please migrate old content into new site

Is it just me or is this really absurd? I mean, putting up a new art website *without* migrating the users and content that was there on the previous site? Have they gone mad?

And what do we get back for it? A dumb-ass rating system that nobody will probably use. Who has time for that?

A much better idea would have been to integrate art.gnome.org into the gnome theme picker or something like that. At least, that would have made *some* sense.

Anyhow, I urge the maintainers of art.gnome.org to migrate old content into the new website.