Changelog

Website changelog: 04/19/2025

April 19, 2025April 19, 2025 by S-Config

Wherein we changed the CMS.

Changing one's CMS (Content Management Software) is possibly one of the scariest things that a blogger with hundreds of comments, automations, and modifications can possibly do. Although it wasn't a far jump to go from WordPress to ClassicPress. We still took all the precautions and despite lots of warning messages. We're happy to report using the migration tool ran as good on the local beta-mirror as it did in our production site.

Special thank you to @colinstu@birdbutt.com on mastodon for showing me that there IS an option away from WordPress.

Read on if you wish to continue listening to us ranting into oblivion.

Site update: Deactivating Webrings Page.

November 29, 2024November 27, 2024 by S-Config

It was a fun experiment. But experiments can end.

We've made the decision to obliterate the Lainchan web ring button collection as a primary page on our site. There will be a handful of sites from there that will be transferred into our Cellar Door. In particular, sites where the web admin has reached out to us or because their site is just that well maintained to the level where it's worth revisiting. Those who are still actively maintaining their listing (those very few of you) wish to remove us because of this decision. Respect to you.

Website – Changelog 12/17/2023

October 29, 2024December 17, 2023 by S-Config

December is always crazy for us. Not because of the site, but because of the world of RL pulling us away from the site. But we think that's common practice for the age we live in. We live in a country that keeps us barely alive financially preventing us from actually thinking about what is ... Read more

Website – Changelog 11/06/2023

October 4, 2024November 6, 2023 by S-Config

Update time. This is where we tell you what has changed on the site. Last month, October, was rather quiet despite it being our 11th anniversary of being online. SSL was updated on 10/21/2023 a few days ahead of expiration. And we are still with Anubian Host. They've had some turbulent times with moving their ... Read more

RSS/Atom Update

October 4, 2024September 10, 2023 by S-Config

RSS and Atom feeds are back online.

Originally we thought RSS and ATOM feeds were a bit of a dead standard only used by bots to hijack articles (very badly) and post them on their own site as original content. However, a lot of people have moved beyond this method of theft and instead just let AI do it for them. We're turning it back on. Why? Because with the whole webring resurgence, there's also a bit of demand to have some level of interconnectivity.

Thus, it comes back online.

Website – Change Log 08/26/2023.

October 29, 2024August 26, 2023 by S-Config

Welcome to Change Log.

Where we make changes and log them. And pray we don't make changes again!

What's new?

Adjustments to CSS, webring updates, and the change log category itself to make it easier for people to see what changed! Would you like to know more? Read on!

Privacy Notice – Change Log 03/25/2023

August 29, 2023March 25, 2023 by S-Config

Don't worry kids. Unlike big companies, it's for the better!

Just to be transparent about my privacy notice here's an update on what is being changed.

I2P Service is online.

December 18, 2023October 28, 2022 by S-Config

Welcome to our site I2P protocol users.

In a similar vein to Tor; I2P (Invisible Internet Project) is another style of encrypted network designed to communicate between machines in a private and anonymous way. It was originally brought to our attention via the many sites within the webring folders that as many of them are running their webpage on raspberry pi's they too are also running their site with Tor and I2P protocols enabled. It was high time we got our shit together and did it too!

If you want to know more about I2P as a client you can always go to https://geti2p.net/ and go from there.

If interested in my own diatribes: Read on if you want to hear me ramble about our experiences with this.

AVIF and WEBP is now being hosted here.

December 18, 2023January 30, 2021 by S-Config

First there was AV1. Now there's AVIF

A while back during my video encoding sessions, I toyed with the concept of serving AV1 videos on my site. The results were not great out of respect that we could not find a great way of detecting the client's capabilities of video decoding without writing some shitty JavaScript system to snoop around and break privacy rights all the way. However, there's a branch of the Av1 system known as "AVIF" which is designed to use for still images. It boasts about getting better compression ratio's to that of even WebP images that we discussed a while back.

Why did we implement AVIF here? Read on if you want to know more.

Website cleanup.

August 26, 2023November 14, 2017 by S-Config

S-Config is undergoing a website cleanup!

It's time to do some website cleanup and maintenance for a few reasons.

Read on if you want to hear all of the details.