{"id":1372,"date":"2021-12-31T10:14:58","date_gmt":"2021-12-31T09:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.freesound.org\/?p=1372"},"modified":"2022-01-10T15:42:11","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T14:42:11","slug":"new-freesound-interface-public-beta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.freesound.org\/?p=1372","title":{"rendered":"New Freesound interface public beta!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hi everyone,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally! As some of you will know, we have been mostly silently working on a new UI for Freesound during the last years. Even though it is not completely finished yet, we are extremely happy to announce that, from today,&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>you can start using the new beta UI and give us some feedback<\/strong>&nbsp;so we can make it better, finish it, and eventually replace the current UI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just as a brief bit of context, in mid 2017 we contacted product designer Marc Ruaix and invited him to design a new Freesound UI to give it a fresher look. What initially was only going to be a small update of the UI, ended up becoming a full rebuild of the Freesound frontend and parts of the backend. We have now ported most of Freesound pages to the new UI and now ready to open it for for beta testing. While we call the current UI (now old!)\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/freesound.org\/people\/reinsamba\/sounds\/14854\/\">Nightingale (NG)<\/a><\/strong>, the new UI is called\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/freesound.org\/people\/martian\/sounds\/403973\/\">Beast Whoosh (BW)<\/a><\/strong>. We expect to continue working in the new UI during the first half of 2022, porting the missing pages and incorporating your feedback, and\u00a0<strong>we expect to completely replace NG with BW at some point in 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Do you want to participate in the beta?<\/strong> Everyone can do it, right now! You&#8217;ll find <a href=\"https:\/\/freesound.org\/forum\/beast_whoosh_beta_ui_feedback\/\">instructions in this forum post<\/a>. Please read the instructions carefully, and keep in mind that you&#8217;ll most likely find some things not working as expected. Please use <a href=\"https:\/\/freesound.org\/forum\/beast_whoosh_beta_ui_feedback\">this forum<\/a> to provide feedback.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We hope you enjoy Freesound with the new fresher look. I&#8217;ve been already using it for a while and I&#8217;m really enjoying it \ud83d\ude42 Also, let me take this opportunity to <strong>wish you all a happy new year!!!<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>frederic<br>on behalf of the Freesound Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi everyone, Finally! As some of you will know, we have been mostly silently working on a new UI for Freesound during the last years. Even though it is not completely finished yet, we are extremely happy to announce that, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.freesound.org\/?p=1372\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.freesound.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.freesound.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.freesound.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.freesound.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.freesound.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1372"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.freesound.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1377,"href":"https:\/\/blog.freesound.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372\/revisions\/1377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.freesound.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.freesound.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.freesound.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}