Posted on 03/18/2019 at 07:41 AM
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Totally! I'm actually completely rewriting it. New technology and everything.
Most importantly, it'll be responsive, meaning it'll format nicely for all screen sizes, whether that's your phone, tablet, or PC at any resolution. I'm also changing a whole bunch of core concepts about how the site works. Going to mesh together the staff tools and the user tools, allowing anyone to effectively create content for the site, which can be promoted to an official article if it's nominated by the community or the staff.
I'm also thinking of changing some other stuff and moving to a purely tag-based system, but I'm still working through the details of that. I'm going to be moving image hosting to imgur, authentication/login is moving to Auth0 and I'll be using OAuth 2.0, which should allow you to sign in with your Google or Facebook account (you'll have to do a data conversion after login to associate all your old content with your new account).
The new tech I'm using should also make the site a lot faster to navigate and I can do a lot more fancy stuff. I built an open source framework for building stuff on Angular and REST, which I'm using to do the rewrite, so it should make it much much easier for me to be able to leverage everything I've done.