If you accessed Atarashiki in the past few hours, you were likely met with a page informing you that we were making some changes to the website. Now that we're back, you're probably wondering what even changed... I mean, this place (if I did everything correctly) still looks fundamentally the same, so what was the point?There's this really terrible thing called "technical debt." It refers to the accumulated cost of compromises or shortcuts made during the development process, such as quick fixes, outdated technologies, or poorly designed code. These may save time initially but create future challenges in maintenance, scalability, or performance. Atarashiki was, behind the scenes, a one-weekend project by a web-development amateur, so it had a LOT of technical debt.
I'm not a significantly better web developer since I started this project two or three months ago, but I am at least more careful now.
Anyway, Atarashiki now has a more organized architecture, which makes it easier for me to fix bugs and implement new features as I keep figuring out what I want to do with this place.
At first glance, the website should look the same (let's hope I didn't screw anything up), but behind the scenes, it has changed a lot. You could say she (yes, it's a she) had a glow-up. This is especially true for my admin view. I can track everyone now. Your actions are being fed to my personal LLM. Her name is Tomoyo.
The plan to host it on a Raspberry Pi is still ongoing, though delayed. I plan to use my Raspberry Pi for some illegal stuff I can't discuss—it sounds more fun. NFShosting has been a great platform, so I don't plan on changing it for now. They do have a policy against imageboards and open forums, so I'll likely keep Atarashiki as this closed blog-SNS amorphous blob for as long as we stay here.
You'll see a more effective CAPTCHA in the next few days and a novel registration process. I'll also work on SEO to make the website look prettier when linked elsewhere. But after working a lot on this today, I might take some time off from web application development. I really—and I mean it—hate working on web applications.
Some questions I'd like to ask:
Would you like:
1. Reactions? If yes, what kind (do not mention "upvotes")?
2. A catalog view, like on imageboards or Tumblr's "archive"?
3. Profile pages? If so, what information should they include? I don't want to implement friendships, mutes, blocks, or anything like that, so it would just be an extra page for you to decorate (very important if you're a little girl).
4. What should our 404 page be like? I'll implement the coolest idea.
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