What's happening, you guyses?
Just a quick note to let y'all know that the redesign is not at all going as planned and we are way, way behind schedule - so everything's going as well as it ever does.
Actually, we're moving right along and learning a whole shit-ton about coding that we're unlikely ever to use again - not because we won't need to but because it will be obsolete by the time I finish writing this post and we'll have to learn all new coding that we'll never use again because it is already obsolete. That's one of the reasons I always stuck to straight HTML as much as possible.
Unfortunately, we can no longer do that due to the type of content we now bring you, including audio/video, and the stuff we want to do that can only be accomplished through various scripts and coding. Another reason I always stuck to basic HTML is so that the site would not only load (quickly) in any browser on basically any operating system but that it would look the same under all of them. Again, that's simply no longer possible. When this site started, Chrome didn't even exist! (In fact, the original GeoCities site on which a lot of the content was first published was written in Netscape Composer.)
The new design uses everything from Java and JavaScript to embeds and all points between and we rarely have much choice as to that - for example, if Flash does what we need done, or another entity uses it and we wish to embed their content, then we have to use Flash. Depending on your browser, add-ons, security settings, and so forth, you're likely to get a lot of messages, errors, and/or warnings. This may not be the case by the time it all goes live but that's something I wanted to mention because we're kind of "soft-launching" some of the pages and you might come across them.
We're obviously not going to do anything to intentionally harm your computer, and I know this does nothing to improve our reputation by saying this, but DO NOT ADD US AS A TRUSTED SITE or drop your security settings just yet!
I don't mean to sound alarmist but we're still very much in beta and a lot of this is new to us (we even have new design software), so there's a very good chance that something on one or more of the pages will fuck something up on your end - probably just crash your browser or look all jumbled, but still. Of course we're going to test all of this before we release it but beware for now! Just know that should you encounter any of this stuff, the page probably does have some bug or another we've yet to work-out but it certainly isn't trying to infect you with an advertising beacon or phish your fucking Facebook password or whatever.
We're a very long way off from releasing the new design and all that but I wanted to let you know that it really is in full-swing - this isn't just a facelift or a little added functionality or whatever, it's a full-on redesign from the ground up. It's going to take quite some time and you're definitely going to encounter a lot of broken links and error pages along the way but we're working to contain those, as well.
Once everything is operational, there are almost certainly going to be certain browsers, OS, conditional settings, and so forth that will prevent the site from appearing correctly to everyone - some people may not be able to access some (or any) of it at all! - and that's a shame but some of the stuff we want to do and share simply requires more advanced technology and approaches.
Most of the stuff we're dealing with - coding, objects, all that - has been in use for several years now on many sites, so I don't really foresee any serious problems, I just wanted to mention this because we're starting to really move things around and you're going to start encountering new pages and content more and more in the coming weeks.
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