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Welcome to ComputingStuff - we offer the very best in tutorials, reviews, articles and forums for everything computer related.

Our forums are the best place to hang out, ask questions, and find out more about the site. We have a collection of boards targeted at hardware, software, games, general computing and off-topic discussions as well as a marketplace for selling your second-hand computer goods and somewhere for discussions about this site. The forums boast an active community who have, to date, posted more than 10,000 articles.

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TestWiki

I've been toying with the idea of including a Wiki on the Computingstuff site, so I have setup a testwiki, to see if it contributes to the site's popularity/content in any way.
The Wiki can be accessed by this link.
Have a fiddle, see if you like the concept.

I've created a TestWiki discussion & feedback thread on the forums, and it can be found here.

Cheers,
Simon Harries

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Recent Downtime

Recently, our hosts suffered a few problems during migration to new servers, and the site inadvertently got deleted. Luckily...*Drum roll*...I had a backup!
I've really no idea why I had a backup, as that's far too organised, but anyway!
There are a few broken bits, but I'm sure the bugs will be sorted in the near future.
The link to the forums is currently broken, but you can still get to them via this link.
Apologies for the downtime, and I hope to see you on the messageboards soon!

LAN and site news

I'm pleased to announce that the write-up for the ninth ComputingStuff LAN Party, held on 13th April 2007 is now available to read.

I also have some site news for everybody: Simon has been working busily recently fixing the gallery while I've been on the forums, where I've added a new Windows Home Server board, put up lots of new items for sale in the Marketplace and got rid of a lot of spammers and spam messages.

A few issues

As some of you may have noticed, ComputingStuff has been experiencing a number of issues over the past few weeks due to a recent change of host. These issues were related to broken redirects as well as non-updating feeds and no access to ComputingStuff feeds.

I'm happy to say that the majority of problems have now been fixed, and the remaining ones will be fixed within the next hour or so.

Best wishes,
The ComputingStuff Team

A whole raft of updates

As Si posted a few days ago, the ComputingStuff team has been hard at work improving the site.

We're not fully ready with everything yet, but here are some things we've already done:

  • Updated all the LAN party stories to point at the new gallery and completed the last LAN party story (finally!)
  • Moved all the pictures to the new gallery
  • Added a feed of the current 5 posts from the forums and fixed all the feeds to be valid RSS 2
  • Moved to Feedburner
  • Fixed the feeds so that they actually update on time!
  • Updated all the back-end systems to the current versions
  • Re-organised the forums, adding new boards and combining some others
  • Completely re-did the about page with new contact information, server details and link graphics
  • Updated the terms of use with the new linking policy (simply: link to anything you want)
  • Fixed a number of small issues reported to us through the forums (thanks guys!)

That's just some of the thing's we've done so far - watch out for even more changes and improvements coming your way in the coming days and weeks - we'll keep you updated every stage of the way :)

Best wishes,
The ComputingStuff Team

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Updates

Hey guys,

We're in the process of making some design tweaks, adding some new features, and updating the server software.

New features to look out for:

  • Most recent forum posts on the main page
  • ComputingStuff merchandise - it's gonna be great!
  • Many more exciting new features!

We'll keep updating the news page as we implement new features, so watch this space!

Best wishes,
The ComputingStuff Team