this is the Firefly base of the site – back when Wordpress was just another minor player in the CMS space rather than the only one.
And welcome to the new Clapboard.org!
There are so many new things to explore and test, but at the moment, all I care about is that the posts are back, legible and that I can start putting new posts up ASAP. Later, I’ll worry about what “Formats” are (an Aside? A “Quote” format? – really?) and such.
HTTPS is now enabled by default, too, thanks to Dreamhost and their partnership with LetsEncrypt. I’m sure there will be a page or two with issues, but I’m working on finding and fixing all the issues as quickly as I can. I’m happy to report that I’ve been using rel-links since almost the beginning of the site, so there are way fewer problems than there might have been otherwise, even with the very old content.
Anyway, lots of things are a little wonky, and I know older images don’t always work (some of them never will – a handful have been lost in translation over the years), but mostly, I’m happy with how we came over from Joomla (and how Joomla came from Firefly, and how Firefly came from my hand-coded wwweboard script and how THAT came from an all hand-done HTML site). The Web Board and all its amazing posts is gone (i’m especially sad because I’ll miss having Scott’s brilliant requiem for the house at Browns Terrace. I’m sure it’s in a SQL dump somewhere – maybe I can dredge that up and make it into its own post.
As always, let me know if there’s anything that’s not working and I’ll do my best to fix it. We’ll be doing some more social media sharing and cross posts, but generally, I expect more of the same drivel over the years.
