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Seeing the Horizon of Site Upgrades and Migrations

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 24, 2023,
updated Oct 24, 2023

Dusk And Camel: Dusk and camel drawing

Today was a very busy day, but not in the conventional sense*. It was a leap towards restoring some algorithmically-generated Gemini pages, which were moved to a faster host (that used to be running on a Raspberry Pi at home; it was under-provisioned and thus struggled 24/7). Many Gemini pages still need plenty of work. We want to ensure Gemini is as good as the Web (HTML) site. Those Gemini pages partly rely on some Web pages, including bulletins, video indexes etc. There's a chain of dependency/ies here, a cascading effect of sorts...

The plan is to enhance the site and the Gemini capsule (beyond what we had before), but that can take time. Potentially a lot of time. The approach to bulletins and IPFS, for example, may depend on whether we cluster many pages under one single file. There are pros and cons. It's time to reconsider and change to what best suits readers' needs/convenience. It's no longer 2020 (when bulletins started). We're almost in 2024 already.

Further to the wiki cleanup (re-adding images in it and adding proper introductions, not just sets of links) we'll restore some old WordPress "Pages" as static. Those too will need some tidying up, as some are so outdated that they assume the year is 2006. Redoing the actual content, not automated conversions, can take months or years, not days. We want to verify accuracy and concision of things. We're trying to look ahead in terms of decades; bulletins and IRC stuff (e.g. logs) will probably be around for much longer, as will the protocols (plain text and IRC predate the Web). The Gemini/Git portal needs further work, as do the video archives, but they're a low-priority task at this point.

Suffice to say, it's a high priority to write new articles and keep on top of the news. We try to juggle the present and the past. So expect further site announcements for months to come.

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* The plan for today included 1) a new RMS video 2) lots more on MSFT layoffs 3) work on videos (did a rewrite of refresh-video-gallery.sh and a rewrite of preview.sh for the static page/site generator) 4) video on Fedora, GNOME etc. (those are already appearing in this automatically-updated page.

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