FreeSO.org Makeover
Hello, and welcome to our new website!
As part of the work on the Archive client, we’re introducing a shiny new website and blog that can stand the test of time. This was originally designed by dotequals to integrate the FreeSO dashboard into the main site years ago, but has been retooled into a both a way to keep our old blog posts around for historical interest, and provide resources for FreeSO and the new Archive Client into the foreseeable future.
The old Wordpress blog was a poor fit for FreeSO, as it was filled with unnecessary features like user accounts and comments that demanded attention for handling user data, and used too many resources to serve what amounts to hundreds of malicious bots blasting the website looking for security holes in our plugins. These bots would very quickly overload the server with bogus requests and crash it, so it’s a relief that we’re now serving a static site that it’s a billion times harder to do that with. It’ll also be a relief not having to update it quite so much for security patches…
We do unfortunately lose the comments on blog posts and pages, though I might consider copying the existing ones over to complete the archive. Reading them occasionally made my day, so it is an important part of the development history of FreeSO. I currently have bigger fish to fry, though…
Pictured: dotequals receiving thanks for his amazing work on the new website.
Some design elements may change over the next few weeks - the landing and download pages especially when the Archive Client is released. Look forward to the most exciting 3 second click through to a download link that you’ll ever experience.
As you might have guessed, this means that the Archive Client is getting closer to completion. Don’t get too excited though, I’m not quite ready to put a date on it. Just know that the scope of the project has expanded massively, and you’ll be finding a few surprises ingame when you try it out! It’s all for a good reason, trust me…
Rhys