ACCORDING TO ICANN, our "Creation Date" is "2006-11-07T14:21:12Z (i.e. a fortnight from now, minus 14 years) and, as we've already noted here very recently, we want to do something special in spite of the regional lock-downs (maybe national some time soon, with growing levels of restrictions intended to contain the pandemic). We've bought a number of cakes, but that's a superficiality. We want to do something more meaningful for this birthday, knowing that a record number of people are nowadays involved with the site (e.g. as guest writers or admins), lurk along or mingle with the site's IRC community, and join its growing readers base (this past year has seen the highest readership ever and in Tux Machines this past week was also an all-time record).

"Changes and upgrades need to be justified based on practical grounds."A geeky sort of anniversary would involve not gifts and cakes; our collaboration tools need to be improved and IRC had has its limitations, alongside the old limitations associated with encrypted E-mail (while E-mail is standardised it was never designed for truly anonymous usage). The Wiki was recently used for some internal collaborations, mostly collaborative editing, and we don't wish to replace what works fine just for the sake of 'novelty'. Changes and upgrades need to be justified based on practical grounds.

This morning we started implementing some changes to the site and over the coming days we expect to carry on. The changes aren't much beyond structural and cosmetic, at least for now. We're exploring all sorts of improvements which can and perhaps will be incorporated. ⬆