Since then very little has changed design wise, as most of the development time has been spent on optimizing hardware, the tracker software and the site’s backend. Most recently The Pirate Bay team has added IPv6 support. Great news for BitTorrent users, as it makes port forwarding a thing of the past, and just might prevent BitTorrent from succumbing to an early death.

While The Pirate Bay team has made much progress on the backend recently, these changes were pretty much invisible and only noticed by a few. This is about to change though. For the first time in almost four years, The Pirate Bay will completely redesign the site’s looks – according to a blog post from Marcink.

The Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde told TorrentFreak that change is indeed coming, but that the mockup posted is far from final version. Actually, they are open to suggestions from users. “We would love users to show us their suggestions, since we’re currently looking for someone to redo the whole site,” Peter said.

One thing is certain. The new design will be more colorful than the current one, and ideally it should load faster than it does now too. “We want xhtml and a focus on css,” Peter said, while encouraging people who want to help out to send links to their ready xhtml/css mockups via email to tpb.contact[at]gmail.com.

This February, the three Pirate Bay founders have to appear before Stockholm District Court. The three are charged with facilitating copyright infringement, and several anti-piracy outfits have claimed millions of dollars for damages they allegedly suffered. Judging by the plans the Pirate Bay team have for the future, they seem to be positive that the law is on their side.

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The new design is not complete yet, but a Beta version is up and running.

The new features include:

The purpose of the Beta site is to give an impression of what the new design will look like. Some sections, like the ‘advanced search’ are not working yet according to the Mininova Blog.

It will probably take a couple of weeks before the new design will go “live”.

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update:

For those who are interested. TorrentFreak is using wordpress. The current theme is a modification of the modification of the K2 theme by Ben Gray. Nen created the logo’s and did some of the coding as well. We use a bunch of plugins, but I’m too lazy to list them but the “Digg implementer” and “Extended live archives” plugin are two of them.

At the bottom of the frontpage you will see a link to the “not another tech podcast” podcast TorrentFreak supports. And for all music fans.. you can join the TorrentFreak group on last.fm if you like.

There might be a couple of changes in the near future, but nothing too serious…

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