Site updates

It’s been quite a while since the site was refreshed. I was forced into it by a PHP upgrade that rendered the old customizable theme I was using obsolete.

We’re now running a new theme that has been styled to match the old one pretty closely, but I did go ahead and do some streamlining: way less plugins (especially ancient ones), simpler layout in several places, much better handling of responsive layouts for mobile, down to a single sidebar, and so on.

All of this seems to have made the site quite a bit more performant, too.

One of the big things that got fixed along the way is that images in galleries had a habit of displaying oddly stretched on Chrome and Edge, but not in Firefox. No idea what it was, but it seems to be fixed now.

There are plenty of bits and bobs that still are not quite right. Keep an eye out and let me know if you see anything that looks egregiously wrong. Known issues: some of the lists of things, like presentations, essays, etc, are still funky. Breadcrumb styling seems to be inconsistent. The footer is a bit of a mess.

If you do need to log in to comment, the Meta links are all at the footer for now. Virtually no one uses those links anymore, so having them up top didn’t seem to make sense… How things have changed!

People tell me to move to Substack instead, but though I get the monetization factor, it rubs me wrong. I’d rather own my own site. Plus, it’s not like I am posting often enough to justify a ton of effort!