Site Priorities and Upcoming Improvements
Latency has improved lately (after router work*) and pages are served very fast by contemporary standards
TODAY the month finally ends. Good riddance, November, but not the cold snap.
In the past this meant that we would have quickly created video archive/s (Gemini also!) for the full month, but lately we've not made enough videos to make that worthwhile. So maybe by the end of next month (and end of year) I will have sorted out the new pipeline, something with the static page generator, for adding new videos and video pages, sans the manual intervention/work. In the past this task was relatively time-consuming, even with a degree of automation.
Truth be said, it's not urgent, I am in no rush to make more videos, and thus making index pages for videos isn't a top priority (we have more important task to prioritise, e.g. tidying up the wiki).
This month's main accomplishment was speed.
There are many changes happening in the site other than addition of new articles. Some will be made more visible over time or will be announced when they're sufficiently polished. We're trying to look decades ahead, not just months or years ahead. That's why we dumped PHP. █
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* As the host put it: "As part of equipment lifecycle management we will be upgrading a core router in our Reading datacentre which will allow us to retire end-of-life equipment and support faster network speeds. During this maintenance one of our core routers in Reading will be powered down and upgraded which will cause some customer traffic to flow through our network via different paths. There will be ample capacity elsewhere in the network during this time and customer service should not be interrupted, but we're announcing this as a network at risk period."
The change is good for IRC hosting. Low lag.