New (old?) look

For about a year now, the HandBrake blog/front page/RSS feed have been provided via WordPress, an open-source blog tool that provides amazing ease-of-use and fresh appearance at the expense of very high RAM and CPU requirements on busy sites.

As a result of this, many of you have noticed that especially during release periods, the site gets painfully slow (and occasionally goes down altogether).

In an attempt to combat this, we have redesigned the news portion of the site using an infrastructure called hlscript that provides much of the same functionality with far less resource requirements.

We hope that you like the new look - it is something of a blend of the "classic" HandBrake blog look (from over a year ago) and the WordPress K2 theme that was graciously provided to us by Hawkman.

The most critical elements of the old site - the Downloads page, the Documentation page, and the RSS feeds - have had redirects set up so that the old links should still work on the new site. If you discover anything broken or any often-used links that still need to be redirected, please let us know on the General discussion forum.

Thank you for your continued support and interest in HandBrake!