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Announcing the development of Shiftine, the Content Multiplexing System.
In the coming months, we decided to completely replace 90% of our websites, either powered by:
- Google Sites
- HAM (like our digital garden)
- Odoo (as currently used in Shiftine)
- T-3000 (our latest reinhart1010.id source code)
into a single, custom-made content management system (CMS) to standardize the look, feel, and features to our websites.
Our general purpose is to let future website improvements to be shipped as quick as possible, and to let ourselves build even faster microsites and content, combining the simplicity of text-based content (like Markdown and YAML) with rich-layout editing.
What does this mean…
For most users
Most users will see significant changes to our website appearance, which will become more unifed than ever.
And most users should benefit from our official support for older web browsers, from the latest browsers down to KaiOS and Opera Mini. We are also planning to add non-HTTPS mode for WAP browsers, as well as support for Gemini Protocol.
Note that in order to continue accessing our site from HTTPS, your browser and/or operating system needs to meet the minimum system requirements for Let's Encrypt ISRG Root X1 to work.
Expect new features carried from our main WordPress instance to the non-WordPress ones, such as a dedicated Category and Tag page, all with necessary RSS/Atom feeds.
Internally, we would like to completely break up with WordPress. No, not because of the political movements that hit WPEngine over the last months, but to have a state-of-the-art version of Block Editor that allows us to adjust certain content for different protocol targets (which include HTTPS, HTTP/WAP, and Gemini).
For users with JavaScript disabled
Even though we are interested in adopting a reactive-style as a whole, we do understand the needs of certain users who have JavaScript disabled. And in fact, this is why we decided to remade our website to serve high-quality features even with JavaScript disabled.
For the HAM website framework
We will still develop and support HAM in the near future, but for our HAM websites like our digital garden, we will introduce two additional features to ease the transition to our Content Multiplexing System:
- Raw Markdown access in the published site
- Custom canonical HTML meta tag so search engine would preferably use the links hosted by our new CMS
For the fans of Shiftine
We want to import some easter eggs that make Shiftine, Shiftine. But for the lore, hmm… it's the moment where she floats over the clouds to send a smiling 200 OK to serve people across worlds and nations.