I guess I'll start things off, as it was my idea.

One of the great things this year has seen for me is the amazing amount I've learned about web programming. Even what I just did over the past few days would have been impossible for me a year ago. Between this site, little projects with Beck, the websites we've built for Clever Name, and the work I did for Streetprint, I like my knowledge base has grown to dwarf what I thought I knew even just last year.

At the same time, I've found out a lot about my own ability to manage time, and to motivate myself to getting stuff done. (For example, forcing myself to meet a deadline by making public that I'm working on something... brilliant.)

A lot has happened over the last year, and developing as a developer, as it were, probably isn't the biggest thing, but it's definitely one of the most dramatic changes I can point to over the course of a year.

Ok, folks, my project, as it were, is ready to go. I've copied over the files, and, hopefully, I haven't broken anything.

So the first part of it is best explained by earlier-in-the-afternoon Paras, who was a lot more coherent. So just go here. If you want to write one, there's a little checkbox in the post form that you tick off to indicate your intentions.

The second part is a comment system. Right now, it's not on all posts, just the "best-of" ones. But, assuming it passes this initial bug-checking phase, I'll make it so that you can choose to make your posts commentable. I don't really know how it'll affect conversation, but it's a tool that may provide an new dynamic. It is the most complicated part of this upgrade, and, as such, may run into the most bugs. I had some inexplicable 'crashing-IE' problems, so, please, let me know if this happens to you.

As you may find out, you can't comment without logging in. I don't really have a single strong reason for it, just that it seems like a good way to keep it clean. As I say in my log-in-to-comment error message, I'm open to being convinced to not require the login.

So that's all I've got cooking now. Most major changes to the board in the next few months will be me cleaning up code and making it easier to add features and fix bugs without pulling out much hair.

As always, yell at me about bugs.

Agreed, being "immersed" in natural gas sounds very bad.

Posting about the smell of natural gas and then no longer posting is unnerving...

so, um, benders, smell anything funny outside?

we're immersed in natural gas over here...

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uhh you're blackiechan123?

Bluh?

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