Boost website refresh launched
The new boost.org is live. Same peer reviewed libraries trusted by planetary rovers and particle accelerators, now on a site rebuilt to help you find, learn, and ship them faster. What's new: • Refreshed look and easier navigation • New user profile pages • Badges for contribution and participation • Community posts filtered by page topic • Prominent site-wide search • Better library search and filtering Please take a look and we are happy to get any feedback!
On 9 Sep 2026 18:26, Rob Beeston via Boost wrote:
The new boost.org is live. Same peer reviewed libraries trusted by planetary rovers and particle accelerators, now on a site rebuilt to help you find, learn, and ship them faster.
What's new:
• Refreshed look and easier navigation • New user profile pages • Badges for contribution and participation • Community posts filtered by page topic • Prominent site-wide search • Better library search and filtering
Please take a look and we are happy to get any feedback!
Tools (i.e. b2, QuickBook, etc.) are still missing from the library list. The release notes are now a small frame that needs to be scrolled. Why? And it is followed by a huge tile with all the contributors. Library's readme is also a scrollable frame. It is the main piece of content on the page, why is it scrollable and not presented in full? Boost-wide documentation (user's guide, contributor's guide, ML posting policy, etc.) is nowhere to be found. At least, I couldn't find it from the main page. I'm sorry, but this is very much worse than before and is doing the wrong thing to begin with. The old (well, the previous-new) website hasn't even fixed all the functional issues that it had compared to the original website. This new iteration doesn't fix that, adds new issues and seemingly removes content, and in exchange adds just more useless bling. For example, the Community tab is now just a soup of unrelated tiles, from recent posts to installation commands. This page is useless. IMHO, first fix the website so that it provides usable information in a non-mangling and findable manner (i.e. no cut-off text, no weirdly working hotkeys, no missing documentation, etc.). At least reach functional parity with the original website. Then work on theming, improving ergonomics and other non-essential stuff.
On Wed, Sep 9, 2026 at 8:27 AM Rob Beeston via Boost <boost@lists.boost.org> wrote:
The new boost.org is live. Same peer reviewed libraries trusted by planetary rovers and particle accelerators, now on a site rebuilt to help you find, learn, and ship them faster.
What's new:
• Refreshed look and easier navigation • New user profile pages • Badges for contribution and participation • Community posts filtered by page topic • Prominent site-wide search • Better library search and filtering
Please take a look and we are happy to get any feedback!
The site is super duper inconsistent about displaying multiple authors for a given library. If someone is listed as an author, they deserve to be seen on the main libraries page. It looks to me like some `meta/libaries.json` just cram all the authors into a single line while others don't, which is probably the technical reason why. - Christian
On 9/9/26 17:26, Rob Beeston via Boost wrote: > The new boost.org is live. Same peer reviewed libraries trusted by planetary rovers and particle accelerators, now on a site rebuilt to help you find, learn, and ship them faster. > > What's new: > > • Refreshed look and easier navigation > • New user profile pages > • Badges for contribution and participation > • Community posts filtered by page topic > • Prominent site-wide search > • Better library search and filtering > > Please take a look and we are happy to get any feedback! I was able to find the parts I care about without too much trouble: * Documentation for individual libraries under Libraries. * Downloads under Downloads. * Instructions for building Boost under Learn -> Get Started with Boost -> From Source. * Calendar under View release calendar, farther down the front page. The calendar doesn't list upcoming reviews, only release-related activity. It's not clear if upcoming reviews are missing from the calendar or if there simply are no upcoming reviews. This is unfortunate but not a regression. Downloads still only include Boost-for-b2 source archives, not Boost-for-cmake. The cmake guide (https://www.boost.org/doc/user-guide/building-with-cmake.html) explains cmake in general terms, but not how to build Boost with cmake, which is the part I actually care about. The actual Boost-for-cmake archives are hidden on Github (https://github.com/boostorg/boost/releases/tag/boost-1.92.0). Again, unfortunate, but not a regression. (Why do I care about Boost-for-cmake? While I don't use cmake for my own projects, I do compile a lot of third-party libraries with cmake, so I have to know how to use cmake anyway. Compiling Boost with cmake means having to know one fewer build system.) In summary, while the new website has a lot of noise that I don't care about, I haven't noticed any actual regressions in functionality. From what I can see it's no worse than the previous website. -- Rainer Deyke - rainerd@eldwood.com
No dia 9 de set. de 2026, às 20:11, Rainer Deyke via Boost <boost@lists.boost.org> escreveu:
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The calendar doesn't list upcoming reviews, only release-related activity. It's not clear if upcoming reviews are missing from the calendar or if there simply are no upcoming reviews. This is unfortunate but not a regression.
There never were upcoming reviews in the calendar, but that would be a very interesting addition. Joaquín M López Muñoz
In article <178896759032.1273805.2734469429383885306@lists.boost.org> you write:
The new boost.org is live. Same peer reviewed libraries trusted by planetary rovers and particle accelerators, now on a site rebuilt to help you find, learn, and ship them faster.
I edited my user profile and it says "saved" and if I re-edit, I see the text I put in my bio, but it doesn't show. Is this normal? -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" free book <http://tinyurl.com/d3d-pipeline> The Terminals Wiki <http://terminals-wiki.org> The Computer Graphics Museum <http://computergraphicsmuseum.org> Legalize Adulthood! (my blog) <http://legalizeadulthood.wordpress.com>
Hi Richard, Thanks for the report. I have just modified the CDN settings so the URL /users/ won't be cached when logged-in. Otherwise 1 hour. Please wait up to an hour, and then, try again. I was able to modify a profile and set italics (which is markdown). It worked. Create github issues at https://github.com/boostorg/website-v2/issues
In article <178896759032.1273805.2734469429383885306@lists.boost.org> you write:
The new boost.org is live. Same peer reviewed libraries trusted by planetary rovers and particle accelerators, now on a site rebuilt to help you find, learn, and ship them faster.
Also: I entered the text as markdown but the editor keeps escaping my markdown turning it into not-markdown, which kinda defeats the purpose. -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" free book <http://tinyurl.com/d3d-pipeline> The Terminals Wiki <http://terminals-wiki.org> The Computer Graphics Museum <http://computergraphicsmuseum.org> Legalize Adulthood! (my blog) <http://legalizeadulthood.wordpress.com>
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