Hi all!
It’s been a month since we wrote our previous blog post about redesigning Mininova. We got an enormous amount of feedback (thanks everyone!), and incorporated much of this in our ongoing redesigning process. We’re happy to announce that a new version of our redesign is ready for beta testing at http://beta.mininova.org/.
A lot has been changed since the previous beta version, the main differences are a new color scheme, the navigation menu (back and improved at the top) and the advertisement spot (switched back from left to right).
Of course we would still like to hear your opinions on the redesign. If you spot any bugs, please let us know! Constructive criticism is always welcome 
On another note, many users asked us why the site is so slow lately. The answer is simple: the site grew very big last months (both in amount of torrents and popularity) and we couldn’t add more server power. But no worries: we decided to switch large parts of Mininova to another hosting provider. The new server farm will be opened early December, so stay tuned for a blazing fast Mininova soon!
Thanks guys, I haven’t had that buzzy ad for a day (very unusual. lol.). So it would seem that you’ve ditched it.
I like the new design for the site, I also imagine that it’ll speed things up in general.
Good job, keep it up.
A potential bug that the beta site seems to share with the current site: if I type “grey” in the search box, it suggests me “grey\’s anatomy” (with a backquote before the ‘). Sounds like a case of double addslashes, possibly because of magic_quotes_gpc?
Looks more like a downgrade then an upgrade
. Maybe I’m just not a big fan of big fonts.
It looks good and clear at least more than the older one, but in my opinion it would look even better if you round all the corners of the categories.
i’d like it better if you increase the most downloaded for film. because there is not enough slot for the main page to fit all popular download in movie/film
Forget my last couple of posts about the ads overlapping.
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Discovered my mum’s laptop has Ad-Block-Plus installed and the top adframe was removed, all was ok when I disabled it.
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CA.
Hi, like the new design,
couple of small things,
the mouse over color seems quite bright now. I’ve been up all night and it hurts my eyes
. can you tone it down a bit ?
my resolution is 1024 by 768 and the rows seem quite a bit thicker than on the normal mininova. can you reduce the font by 1 maybe ?
Thanks, looks nice apart from that.
Hey Jos, how about adding this link to the upload page, its full of public trackers that doesn’t require registration and has been updated every week for almost a year now.
http://www.openlitebt.com/trackerlist/
Like the new layout by the way. Keep up the great work.
Really good jobs guys. keep up the great work! I don’t think anyone can thank you designers enough.
Just a quick thingie here. The Beta version looks really good and the original has turned into c.r.a.p. and most of all I don’t know wether it’s my connection or what but cannot download from either site. Page not found 404 is all I get. Have used mininova.org a lot and I’ve been very pleased with it as it seems to be the best torrent site ever!
Its really slow at times,hope u guys sort it soon..
I’m new with bittorent and mini nova I dont know how all this work where can I have all the info.
thanks you for your help
Hello!
Unfortunately your current “Sponsored Link” contains code that makes my browser crash, each time I open mininova. Could you please tell your sponsor to correct the code within the add? This would be greatly appreciated!
Greetings
Another Doctor
@superdes
I don’t know… how about you check out the faq.
http://beta.mininova.org/faq
Somehow, people always seem to post the weirdest stuff in the weirdest spots…
please tell me the password for the movie harry potter5.
Its the best torrent web site,good an thks
I would love to see mininova as it is now. the new design aint that particularly great nor any unique from any many others.
mininova is a class download site , but why do u keep that flashing advert saying people have won a laptop , theres allways a catch , like the phonecall costs £100 quid or something , its annoying , please take it off ur site ur better than that . otherwise ive not got a bad word to say , your a top site ,,,,, madness of mac
whats wrong with the site, takes forever to come up now?