Argh! 😰

You’re right, I didn’t dig past a first glance, and I missed [counts fingers] some 60+ years worth of copy/pasting…

Looking good. I have to ask, considering what I have ahead of me — that newsblog going back to 2022, are those all Hubzilla-native posts, or did you import the older ones from another CMS?

Ooh, thanks! That didn’t turn up in my searches. Are you involved with this?

I’ll try to get by with my rusty schoolbook German, and browser translations if needed 👍

closer to Drupal than it is to WordPress

Ouch! Thanks for that assessment. As much as I’ve favoured Hubzilla in my considerations lately, I’ve gotten a similar impression going over their docs. I just needed someone else to put their finger on it.

Bonfire — yeah, our timing is off as far as their development goes 🙂 But I think/hope we have time to wait it out before Wordpress realises their “AI” plans(?)

I could reach out to Bonfire, but imagine someone like you would have more cachet with them? Plus, knowing open source development, users asking for/wanting a thing doesn’t necessarily translate into developers changing their focus to that. But it’s worth a try!

Yeah, Vitus is the masculine form of vita. It just isn’t a Latin word but a name formed from one. There are similar examples of modern names derived in the same way, which ancient Romans wouldn’t recognise as words, but might well interpret as descriptive adjective names.

I was hoping for advice on the list I’d gathered, but you’re not making it shorter, Julian 😄

Thanks for the heads up! It’s a rollercoaster with Classicpress, but good to have it back in the race.

Thanks for the offer! I’ll bookmark this and put it forward to my co-admins. I’ll have to look into Wagtail myself a bit, too. 👍

Okay, this just isn’t what I started the thread for, as I made quite clear in the text you claim to have read.

Our first priority will be to migrate the site as fluently as possible to whatever CMS we transition to. Archiving it as HTML and starting from scratch with a new platform — that’s a last ditch effort, I think.

[Edit: I tried to cover the WP fork subject here]

Hugo as a longterm solution isn’t going to float with some of our users, I’m afraid. I can vividly imagine somebody turning the old site into a single “Hello world!” page given that kind of permissions.

We will need strictly limited access for contributors, and a clear, friendly input field for text…

maybe go for a combination of them

This is a very practical solution… until somebody (I suspect me) has to maintain three or more installs instead of one 🙂 But you’re right, this could very well be a way to solve the “one size fits none” conundrum.

As for using a WP fork — the point about the ActivityPub plugin breaking compatibility with ClassicPress makes me wary of this approach. And AFAICT ClassicPress is one of the more reliable WP forks out there? In the long term, I mean.

I’m fine with switching my personal browsers if/when one or the other FF fork turns to the dark side, but I wouldn’t want to hop this site between different WP forks the same way…

Thanks for the suggestions! I realise preserving URLs is perhaps the tallest order here, and that we may have to set up redirection to the new ones.

Failing that, archiving (a static version of) the site could definitely be an option. Considering the long history of the site though, our first choice is continuity over an abrupt break.

Fine, cool. Now, clearly you didn’t read past the first paragraph or post title…

I enjoyed these more than I thought I would! Most of my own thoughts after watching have been broached here already, but there was one thing that interested me in SAM’s interactions with the EMH Doctor:

Didn’t he seem visibly shaken when asked about the Protostar crew, like he knew something SAM didn’t? I don’t recall the conversation exactly, but could this be a backdoor to giving the Prodigy storyline some closure down the line on Academy?

I’m theorising in part because after “Those old scientists” I could definitely imagine a similar animation-to-live-action crossover. We already had a Brikar walking around on campus, and I’m fairly sure Ella Purnell could pull off Gwyn on camera 🙂

Boosted because I’m curious about the same thing.

And here I thought this was a USpol comment.

The Czar family would have a word about that.

People who do calligraphy or draw (professionally as well as recreationally), you can also make your own pen nibs from soda or beer cans 👍

Granted, a mammoth’s tusk shoots out of your jaw, filling your mouth to the point of almost choking you. What kills you is the sudden weight of the giant ivory loop that snaps your neck.

Well, I couldn’t stay away from this, could I? I for one am quite happy that Disney cut the ties, finally. That means the Beeb are free to find a new funding partner going forward.

As for Davies, so far he’s only confirmed for that holiday special, and honestly I hope he signs off after that. His work has been uneven since he returned (with super high peaks, but cavernous troughs), and it’s probably time for new blood.

My suggested opening scene for that next special would be:

We revisit the last seconds of 15’s regeneration, standing in the open doorway of the TARDIS as he vanishes in an amber shimmer of light, and is replaced by a familiar blonde WOMAN IN WHITE.

WOMAN IN WHITE: (looks smiling into camera) Oh, hello!

The camera angle changes to a WIDE EXT shot of the TARDIS in space, showing us a figure standing in thin air, facing the WOMAN IN WHITE.

FUGITIVE DOCTOR: Huh. I guess you must be the last guy’s Watcher? Off you pop, I have work to do. A whole lotta running.

The WOMAN IN WHITE dematerialises, never to be seen again. Cue SERIES INTRO.