Grid Motorsports goes public!

We're proud to announce the release of the first publicly available version of the Grid Motorsports software.  To coincide with that, we're officially unveiling our new website and would like to cordially invite all of our drivers to come over and check out the new digs.  Register a login for yourself, you'll soon be putting it to good use, and make yourself at home.  Once you've registered, check out the survey that we've prepared, for the express purpose of soliciting your opinion on nearly everything regarding the league and its operations.  Take your time, though, you don't have to fill it out all at once -- we're more interested in quality feedback than quick feedback (the survey will save your progress and you can submit it whenever you're done).

Perhaps the most utilitarian part of the website right now is the forum, so be sure to visit that and get comfortable with it.  Due to the increased feature set available with a forum, we'd like to have the majority of league discussions occur inside the forum.  That's not to say we're discouraging use of our reliable google list, just that we think everyone will appreciate the effect that the forums will have on our ability to collaborate and have fun.  In particular, it makes a perfect host for team-based discussions that have had the tendency to fall off the google list because of the recognition that not everybody cares to hear the day-to-day chatting of the various team members amongst themselves.  To facilitate this, we've already established dedicated forum sections for each team.  The forum fully supports attachments, so it's the perfect place to stash setups and motec files, etc..  A really neat feature of the forum is that it will notify anyone who's already participated in a thread whenever a new reply is posted to the thread.  Also, new threads will trigger an email notification to the google list, so we'll all easily get exposure to thread activity without having to manually babysit it on a regular basis.  The notification system that we have available is very powerful, and we'll continue to tweak our usage of it over time, based on feedback and as we discover how we all tend to use the website.

Having said this, however, please recognize that there is a tremendous amount of new systems and configuration involved in the website and we're bound to have gotten any number of things setup incorrectly or inadequately.  Please notify us immediately if something doesn't work for you, either at all or in the manner that you expect.  In all likelihood we'll be able to remedy it quickly.

We sincerely hope that this is the beginning of a very enjoyable and productive internet presence for our league, and we look forward to providing more and better services for our members and in establishing a premiere destination for friendly sim-racing enthusiasts like those that are already part of the Grid Motorsports family.

- The GM Admin Team