Neopets 2.0

Neopets 2.0 is a redesign of Neopets which took place on April 27, 2007. With it comes the ability to customise your own pets, more new basic site themes and several other features.

Criticism

The change caused much criticism. The sidebar was "taken down", and in its place was a header at the top of the page (there was a footer at the bottom). On the day of the release, the topic was unavoidable on the Neoboards, the main point being the inability to change pets to their old poses, as well as the fact that the new coding caused all layouts for Pet Pages, user lookups and similar to be broken. The latter happened not only due to significant changes to the Neopets layout, but also due to TNT implementing transitional standards on all their pages. 52 species got their poses changed. The ones who didn't were the Gnorbu and Poogle. But the only thing that changes is their face, though the mutant Ixi and some of the Maraquan pets changed their poses. But the two-legged species obtained fists for holding handheld wearables in, however the Koi obtained fists, even though it is not upright, and the Skeith became an upright species. Converting was introduced so users could transform their Neopets 1.0 pets into Neopets 2.0 pets.

Trivia

• The release of Neopets 2.0 was kept secret until the release, and was only hinted upon by a giant Meepit which replaced all of the news from the previous day.

External links

• Neopets FAQ: Neopets 2.0
• Editorial: 289