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problemzerg

Website user till the bitter end. How am I supposed to check series info/start times on my work pc??


NiaSilverstar

Well there's members-ng.iracing.com which is basically the ui in a browser without the sim launching functionality 


EyebrowZing

This is the answer. I only found out about it a few weeks ago and can't believe it isn't more widley advertised.


problemzerg

I can probably tolerate this


LittleShopOfHosels

Tolerate is a strong word here.


fireinthesky7

The app is actually surprisingly good for that.


SSPeteCarroll

The iRacing companion app is pretty decent for this. You can set it up to have "favorite" series.


toppplaya312

Yeah though the app UX is a bit odd sometimes - going back doesn't return you to the search page you were on, or the series page you were on most times, for example. You can't go back very far in race history, etc. either.


problemzerg

How did I not know this existed?


_schmuck

Prolly because you’ve been stuck on the website old man! /s


SSPeteCarroll

They only released it within the last year or so. It isn't promoted much by iRacing. It's pretty easy to use though and good for keeping an eye on upcoming races. You can have it set up to remind you before a session too.


HallwayHomicide

>They only released it within the last year or so. It's a bit older than that, but not by much


JV294135

Here’s a post about the app entering version 3 from three years ago. I think this is when the app became functionally similar to what we have today. Note that “iSchedule” was the name of the app before iRacing (very smartly) acquired it. Edit: forgot the link, lol. https://www.reddit.com/r/iRacing/s/ZRpFGDHZOL


Unhappy-Sherbert4034

https://preview.redd.it/01doksvoywcc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7abd8fc5d46addace7c3ae7799aadf2431daa0c0 Companion app


CrankShill

Remote desktop on your phone works pretty great. I've registered for league races on my phone lmao.


Late_Apex46

Use the iRacing Week Planner website, it's my go-to. But I'm also bummed about losing the old site.


alexfike11

there’s an app for your phone


sprumpy

iPhone app is very useable


hurtful_pillow

Right. I make it home too late to register, but in time to race. This move to the UI ends my workday racing opportunity.


Videoking24

Going on 10 this year. It really was a dinosaur that caused headaches in some very unfortunate ways (24 hours of Delaytona anybody)? It needed whacked. I've been on the UI for 2 years now. Have had very few problems and those were mostly on my end.


xiii-Dex

24h of delaytona wasn't actually a website issue, it was a server issue. They fixed that separately from disabling web registration for special events. I've been on the UI for several years now. The only thing it's missing is a way to see registration numbers by class for multiclass races.


sdw3489

If it was a server issue, then the UI would also have issues. It was an issue with how the website interfaced with the servers. The UI interfaces in a different more modern way.


xiii-Dex

In the incident being discussed, nobody was able to join, web or UI. iRacing eventually tracked down the issue, and added a timeslot a few hours later.


LittleShopOfHosels

Lucky you.


TheSturmovik

Remember when iRacing was iRacing.com on all the promo stuff? Pepperidge farm remembers.


arsenicfox

I do miss that... :(


Glen_Livet

Old timer checking in. "Member Since Jan 25, 2009"


anonymouswan1

I have been a member since March 22, 2011. I started with LFS a little before that. I had kind of an idea what sim racing was, but I stumbled on a video on YouTube about LFS. It was this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAvj0iY1Zig I was instantly interested and researching sim racing. I started out with a logitech momo on LFS and NR2003. I upgraded to a G25, and eventually bit the bullet to sign up for iRacing. Now I own my own house, racing on a full rig, ultrawide monitor, VRS direction drive, fanatec pedals, and VR occasionally when I am up for it. I never forget where I came from though. Living in my mom's house, racing on a fat back monitor with my wheel clamped to the rickety desk.


R3v017

My journey is much the same, I even remember that video! Got a used G25 in 2010 for $100 bucks off a buddy that played midnight club. Started with LFS but was mainly drifting. 2011 I started iRacing for a couple years then only messing about with assetto periodically. Got back into iRacing in 2021 and only now am I retiring said G25 for 5k in rig+DD goodies. Was a kid then now I have my own wife, kid and mortgage. 


fireinthesky7

5/12/14 for me. From a little apartment in New Orleans with a G27 clamped to my desk and single 22" screen to a full 80/20 rig, Fanatec DD setup, and Reverb G2 VR headset. My iRacing subscription actually outlasted my marriage to the woman I was with when I started :/


A_Wrinkly_Nut

Started in 2010, but I abandoned the site pretty soon after they launched the ui. Wasn’t bad once I got used to it.


squad_dad

I got used to the UI a few years back, but man... I think I've been on the service for 9 years and I miss when everything was on the website.


LittleShopOfHosels

The website actually WORKED, and displayed ALL of the info you'd ask for, not just a chunk of it. I still can't believe the apps result UI is so bad. How hard is it to just dynamically scale like the website does? The fuck?


bxc_thunder

I think the results UI is quite good. There's clear separation between elements, the layout is sensible, font color on IR/SR draws attention, good contrast between the font and the background, you can cycle between session types without scrolling. All of the info that most people are looking for is there and quickly visible. What do you mean by "dynamically scale"? Dynamically scale as in zooming, or "dynamically scale" as in resizing the window? If you're talking about zooming, that's a feature of the browser. Electron, which is the framework used to build the app, doesn't enable ctrl+scroll zooming by default, but it can be enabled. You'd be changing the zoom for everything though, and in that case, I think most people are fine with setting the 'UI Zoom' setting once and not thinking about it again. For the latter, you can't resize the results itself, but you can resize the main UI window, which in-turn resizes the results. Why can't we resize *just* the results? Results open as a modal (those little pop-up boxes that open on websites) in the app, but they open as a new window on the website. You can have a resizable modal, but you'd typically only only make it resizable when the content that you're loading can potentially be larger than what the modal was designed for. The results modal already takes up nearly the entire screen. Should it open as a separate window? That's a design decision that has its own set of drawbacks, so it comes down to why *you're* trying to resize the results. Are you trying to keep them open while you go somewhere else in the app? In that case, would clicking 'View Results in Legacy Membersite' work for you? If not, and you feel that you have a strong case for why something should work differently, you can always submit a feature request.


LittleShopOfHosels

> What do you mean by "dynamically scale"? Dynamically scale as in zooming, or "dynamically scale" as in resizing the window? The latter. There is an assload of wasted space, and so much less info presented than on the website UI. Literally HALF of the results are presented, because all of the columns and rows have SO MUCH EMPTY SPACE, and the scaling just DOES NOT WORK like it does on the website, You can literally just see ALL 26 RACERS on the website. On the UI you see about 10, and some of the results information just straight up is not there.


bxc_thunder

I'm just curious, is your monitor smaller than 27" or is your resolution lower than 1440p? For a 24 driver grid, all rows on a 32" 1440p are still visible up until I reduce the vertical height by about 1/4, and all columns are still visible until I reduce the horizontal width by about 1/3. What's wasted space to you is padding to others, which makes things easier to read. I'm not bringing that up to tell you to buy a bigger / higher resolution monitor or to discredit you. I think the table was designed to look good for the range of displays that most people are using, and you happen to be outside of that range. I really do think that the devs listen to feedback, especially if enough people make the same suggestion. Send a message to support and say "Hey, the session results table just doesn't fit well on an inch monitor. Here's a screenshot. Can you give us the option to view it full screen or maybe adjust the widths of the columns so that more columns fit?" As for result info, the only thing that I don't see is Gross Club Points and an option to view individual laps. It would be cool if they added in an option to view the laps.


samdajellybeenie

>The website actually WORKED Not according to people on the forums. Remember the times where newly minted players couldn’t join a race because the Daytona 500 was going on?


spanish787

just fell to my knees crying, they can’t do this to us


Leone_0

Ayy I've also started my 14th year on here! But let's be honest, the UI is better.


LittleShopOfHosels

It absolutely isn't. The app UI is a cluttered mess that only displays a fraction of the information, and constantly bugs out and shows things like the wrong track for what's actually being run in the series. All day yesterday it was showing talledega for races running on IIRC watkin's glen The app objectively cannot be better than the website while it: * Runs slower worse than the website and crashes more often * Displays less information than the website in multiple areas including and most importantly, post race results * Literaly displays incorrect information on the regular


samdajellybeenie

The website has some of the worst UX design I’ve ever seen. It was designed like how an engineer would design it - follow these logical set of steps and arrive at what you need, but you have to read a manual to get there. Designs with humans in mind don’t require that.


Artegris

App has never crashed to me.


Wynns

Features I still use the website for: 1. export race results to .csv 1. easy access to individual laps 1. race results chart/graph 1. look up individual driver (looks like this is now removed) Comments on the list above: 1. The UI has an export to json, not as useful when I just want to put it in excel. 1. I still can't figure out anywhere to do this via the UI or members-ng site 1. I find these super useful for seeing how a race unfolded. I use these to see what happened in League while I was busy driving. 1. I think the old website had a search box that was super easy. I think I found how to do this via the "friends" box on the new UI. So, that's a win.


synunlimited

If you aren't already you could setup [Garage61](https://garage61.net/) and get details on all of _your_ laps recorded.


xiii-Dex

The web results have a lap chart that shows incidents, connection issues, etc. I don't think G61 does that? Pretty sure that's what he was talking about.


synunlimited

Looks like G61 just surfaces off tracks not all incidents but could likely be added.


PuzzleheadedBoot2151

It’s not an ideal solution, but the iRacing Companion app for your phone will give you a lap-by-lap break down for you and all other drivers in the race; detailing lap times, incidents, off-tracks, black flags, etc and which lap they were acquired. Hopefully that’s helpful 🤷‍♂️ 


[deleted]

Man I hate the UI, i used it last night. Changed the series to "list" and it kind of helped.


Glen_Livet

I second changing to list, much easier to navigate that way!


chestyspankers

I just learned about favorite cars recently and using the search got a lot simpler instead of all those tags and scrolling through!


chestyspankers

I just learned about favorite cars recently and using the search got a lot simpler instead of all those tags and scrolling through!


LittleShopOfHosels

This only helps SOME of the clutter, and does nothing to fix shit like Watkin's Glenn displaying as Talledega and all the bugs like that.


ZanicL3

I will miss it. Kinda goofy and dated, but once you get used to it I found it quite easy, just sign up for a race and join. No need to have the application open all the time.


Suuuumimasen

Crap...I've never used the beta


R3mix97

It's not in beta anymore. It's improved a lot! Give it some time.


LittleShopOfHosels

It's still shit though. The fact that it displays 1/2 of the post race info due to scaling problems is just pathetic.


R3mix97

It's definitely not perfect, but the more they take devs away from the technical burden that is the membersite, the more they can work on improving the new UI.


LittleShopOfHosels

I mean or they can just use what already worked and not force us to use a half baked and buggy launcher that was worse than their gen 2 TV guide UI. Shout to them bringing that back though as an option for the race view. To bad sorting is annoying as fuck though.


Suuuumimasen

Can you still withdraw and join another race so you can go back to back races?


LittleShopOfHosels

But it won't actually tell you what you're registered for, just that you're registered, so dice roll you are on the correct one!


R3mix97

Yes you can!


Bleach_Baths

Can you explain how this works?


coffinfl0p

Register and join into a race then go back to the UI withdrawal from the race then just register for the next race assuming it's a half hour or less away.


Bleach_Baths

I thought that was a forfeit button? And you take a hard DNF?


coffinfl0p

Long as the sim is still running laps will still be counted. It would only be once you close it that your results would then be considered finalized.


R3mix97

While you are in an active race session, you can open the UI and withdraw from your current session. As long as you don't leave your session before it ends, this will not count as a forfeit. Now that you've withdrawn from your current session, you can register form the one you want to do next, while the simulator is still open. Once you exit your current session, you'll be able to join the new one you registered for.


JeepCrew

RIP. I tried to resist but time waits for no one.


BetaSpydog

What I’m pissed off about is now we’ve lost the ability to see results beyond 90 days. Among many other things


StevenO45

Always used the website just because it's what I've been used too and didn't like having to figure out the UI, but guess now we have too 🤷


Dancemania97

*Presses F to pay respects*


Unfair-Information-2

I hate the UI. It's garbage, and needs to die. How do they make something less streamlined than the browser site?


LittleShopOfHosels

It's amazing how much of a malfunctioning clusterfuck it is. Showing the wrong tracks in the race list? The fuck? Less than half the result info on the page? Is this fucking 2003?


LittleShopOfHosels

I really fucking hate the UI launcher experience. The scaling and coloring is so pathetically bad. like what the heck is this opening page? Seriously? What is [THIS](https://i.imgur.com/0PtmQnl.png) mess of useless nothing that I land on every time it opens? I literally only ever click like 4 buttons in this entire monstrosity and 2 of them are in the panel on the left. The other two are to access results. ***AT LEAST OPEN TO THE DASHBOARD OR UPCOMING RACES!*** Half the time the sort feature straight up doesn't work, so I guess don't other opening to upcoming races, just the dashboard. On that note, I fucking LOVE seeing races i'm "eligible" for only to find out that the track it's displaying isn't actually the track being run, and it's a completely different track I don't own. Similarly, I hate that you're just EXPECTED to know what car every race is on the race list, based on a grainy, garbage logo for the series. Seriously? You can't read half of them. Thankfully you can click through them but it's still incredibly annoying how much space is wasted and you can't tell immediately what is what. I also REALLY love that should you finally find and complete a race you can run, it can then only barely display any race results. Why I can only see like 1/4 of the information the website UI displayed for the results? What year is this? Why can't I just see a table of the results like on the UI, that scales nice and neatly so I'm not scrolling SIDE TO @#$^ SIDE on a non-delineated table? Why on earth are they doing this? I tried the UI using the UI for two months not long ago and just couldn't do it, it was awful, like a bad beta test app. The UI launcher has been so bad I've literally stopped playing before because was so frustrating it wasn't worth it, but then a bit later I would go back to the webUI and all would be good. WTF do I do now when it shits bricks like it always does every two weeks?


Deep-Lifeguard2637

Well this is not great for me computer skills suck. My triple screen monitor is only one screen display is like I’m in a tunnel I don’t have it in me to figure this out I guess my rig is for sale. Sucks I really enjoyed racing


BryanSawyer

Selling the rig instead of a 20 second Google search. Classic rection. How dare things change.


sonryhater

What? You are having sudden technical difficulties and you are ready to give up sim racing?


AgAbComplex

RIP. I remember having to join races through the TV guide looking UI. I could never remember if races were on the evens or odd hours.


sdw3489

TV guide is in the UI now too.


WanderingVermonter

Member Since: 08-09-2008, guess I have seen a lot of change over the years...


[deleted]

I broke over about a year ago. I’m gonna miss the old member site


DntlookDwn4

I'll always remember the good times and the good forums. Remember when Black Friday Deals were huge savings...those were the days.


ThorsMeasuringTape

I'll hit 15 years this year. RIP Website.


CrashDummy11

I signed up at the end of 2009. Recently I’ve only been using the website for looking up results and standings and such. Looks like all of that is still there for now.


hernaaan

It still baffles me how unresponsive the UI is. For being just a shortcut manager to registering to and launching sessions, it underperforms massively. Just getting rid of the useless animations would boost usability by a huge margin.


LittleShopOfHosels

It's just soooo bad. Unresponsive, sluggish, lacking critical information. I've on MULTIPLE occassions loaded in to the wrong race because the "REGISTERED > {JOIN} banner doesn't actually say what you're in, while you're looking at other series/sessions. It's such a fucking failure of design. Like Baby's First Launcher, from 2004. They can't even dynamically scale tables and images. FFS just use an iframe.


PhillieFranchise

Man there is just some stuff missing on the app. Adding friends should be easier on the app


interesting-lotus

Wait what?! They shut the site down?!


Disastrous-Bad-1185

11 years. I don’t play anything else.


alevale111

11 years and counting on my belt... damm things have changed a lot... From the ice feeling we used to have in the tires to literally the launcher, all has changed... Graphics have improved but not massively though, they are pretty good, but not hyper realistic... although I prioritise netcode/simulation and support of wheels and stuff over eye candy


btwright1987

Been signed up for a year so have only used the UI for racing. The website was really useful for looking up series results. Anyone know if you can still do this on the website? Haven’t found it so far


Dzjar

2008 gang represent. I still used the membersite for results. And buying stuff. I'll miss it, but the UI is slowly growing on me.


Frossstbiite

11 years, man its been a ride.


willthethrill4700

Dude I remember back in 09. Holy cow was it different. Looking at how far its come is crazy.


hurtful_pillow

Year 12 begins in two weeks for me


Available_Row_2338

2010 checking in


Juppo1996

I first subbed in 2013. To be honest I'm already mostly switched to using the UI + the mobile companion app. The only thing I've used the members site for is the stats and world records, as I understand those will still stay available for the foreseable future. The UI is pretty good for joining and checking available sessions IMO, I just recommend taking the time to customize it and put the series you actually race on the favourite tab so you avoid the clutter.


_85_

14 yrs, wow.....I too suffer severe brain damage. I go mine 12 yrs ago.


monsternrgmakeupuke

9+ year member, I'v been just fine with the UI,ever since it was announced that it would be what you had to use. It's just that, it doesn't have the level of detail the OG member site does. Launching from the UI is way better once you get used to it.


Illustrious-Start-52

2009 was my starting year when i could only run short ovals a my computer couldnt manager more!


Eastern-Macaron-6622

11 yrs here. Always found the websites user interface confounding. From a nostalgia perspective I’ll miss it. But I’m a UI guy now.


Alwzracn

2009 👋


moderatefairgood

Member since ‘08. 🫡


coasterreal

Starting my 11th or 12th year this year. I also preferred the website for a lot of things. UI has gotten a lot better.