Like most 'true' fans of the game, we at footytube have never forgotten the simple pleasure derived from having a kick-around with your mates in the park. And it was always with this in the forefront of our minds that we set about to work on creating the new footytube.

Our mission - to create the worlds greatest online football community

footytube 2.0 isn't just a place for watching football videos, it's a place for really connecting with fans from around the world and sharing your passion. Creating the worlds best anything, is a a tall order, but we think we have the right ingredients to pull it off - there are no suits beholden to shareholders here at footytube, there's no maximum EU regulated working hours, and there are definitely no rigid programming specs that need to be cross-checked and rubber stamped by the 'management' before a new idea can be put into action.

All of this means we are able to develop new features as and when we (and people like you), come up with them, and because we're doing this out of our passion for the game, you can bet your bottom dollar, we know exactly what creating the ultimate football community entails.

Out with the old, in with the beta

It has been a long, arduous task migrating from the old blog that used to be footytube to the site you see before you now.

Indeed, we have endured many sleepless nights crunching code and drinking coffee to get the new footytube to where it is right now... and although there's still many features yet to come, we hope that you enjoy this beta release as much as we've enjoyed putting it together. If you knew all the hours we've spent getting this to where it is now - without being paid a single penny - you would be in no doubt when we tell you that we really are only passionate about two things in life: football, and building kick-ass websites.

Most all, we hope that footytube is a site that brings fans together from all over the world, no matter which team they may support, to share their opinions, to laugh, to cry, (and argue!) with other supporters, who share the same passion for football as we do.

Beta Release Schedule

Current Version: 1.4.0 'Floodlight'
Released: May 23rd, 2009

'Floodlight', is our first major release in awhile. It reveals many new features, such as live meebo instant messaging, early facebook connect integration (including the ability to inject facebook photos, profile data, and friend connections right into your footyube profile).

Floodlight also features a complete overhaul of the team pages, featuring full content from the outstanding guardian open platform API, as well as a sexy news crawler of our own which brings together the latest team news, blogs and podcasts from around the web all into one page, in real-time.

Add to this all the complex behind-the-scenes shizzle, and you can see why it's taken us a whole 2 MONTHS to get this release out ;)

Version: 1.3.9 'Acorn 2'
Released: March 22nd, 2009

Having squished most of the bugs in 1.3.8, this version sees us inviting another 10,000 users in to try the beta. We also see an early roll-out of some of the forthcoming 1.4 features, including the addition of user profile pages, activity feeds, photo uploads, and video sharing. Behind the scenes, we did some work improving bot functionality, and also began full load testing, as well as load testing the real-time chat / instant messaging and facebook connect functionality. We are also adding forum moderation, ban lists and spam protection, in anticipation for a full roll-out to the public. Scary!

Version: 1.3.8 'Acorn'
Released: Feb 2nd, 2009

Acorn went into private beta at the start of february. We initially invited a meager 500 users to try out the new version. A harrowing month of rigorous bug fixing, feature shizzling and coffee drinking followed.


If you have any ideas or feature requests for subsequent releases, be sure to let us know in the forums

Interested in helping out?

We're currently on the lookout for a few people to help us out with further features we have planned, so do get in touch if you think you may be able to give us a hand in some way.

PHP developers
We're currently looking for PHP developers to help us build some widgets and wordpress plugins
Toolbar programmers
If you have experience building toolbars, we want to hear from you
Flash animation guru
We are looking for someone experienced with sprite animation to put together a few fun things we have planned
Moderators
We are always on the lookout for forum moderators

If you are interested in getting involved, contact us here


The footytube team

Vlad (Gunners), Ben (Gunners), Lee (Harriers), Matt (Saints), Nathan (Forest)