THE publishing pace has gone up; that's owing to a number of factors. Among them are the office setup, less social control media, better collaboration, and priority changes. This week we passed the 28,000 posts milestone and we might also break our all-time record for traffic (we'll know on Sunday). The general impact and reach continue to grow, our cooperation with other groups is rising (and is largely fruitful) and we managed to average at over 10 posts per day in the months of June and July.

"We'd rather not be at the 'cutting edge' than lose anything published here in the past."It is possible but not assured yet that next week we'll carry out operating system upgrades, at least for the WordPress component of the site. Sooner or later we should be able to add HTTPS, even without downtime in the process. Due to the size of the site it's not a simple process and it requires testing. Lots and lots of testing. We don't want to lose anything published in the past. There's a lot of material here. The earlier days include lots of antitrust material, Novell articles, and in recent years we published a lot of leaks about the European Patent Office (EPO). We want to ensure the integrity of all this data. It is not a trivial task when so much software is changing so much (Linux, PHP, MySQL/MariaDB, CMS) and there's too much data whose preservation cannot be checked exhaustively, only assumed. We'd rather not be at the 'cutting edge' than lose anything published here in the past. ⬆