2/19/2023 0 Comments Filemaker server pluginI’ve spent far too much of my life fighting with email - it’s time to let experts deal with it.īecause of being written in custom Perl code, our content management system is brittle and difficult to tweak, improve, or explain to another developer. On the email side, a redesign would have been more straightforward, but we’ve struggled with deliverability problems over the years, so we’re looking forward to reworking our email system so we can outsource it to a company like SendGrid that specializes in sending massive amounts of email. Why not update just the site design? Because of how it’s integrated into our Perl-based homegrown content management system, redesigning only the site would have been extremely difficult - it’s all intertwingled. Our current Web site design looks and feels like it’s a decade old, and instead of seeming ironically retro, it makes the site hard to read on an iPhone and hurts our Google search rankings. I suspect that why we’re doing this is clear to most people, though perhaps not so painfully obvious as from our perspective. Special thanks to our TidBITS members, whose contributions are making this transition possible! We’ll be switching Web and email hosts too. That includes the Web site and email issue design, along with our systems for article creation, content management, membership coordination, commenting and community discussion, account handling, email delivery, and more. We’re currently working at full speed with our developer, Eli Van Zoeren, to rebuild nearly everything about our Internet presence with the goal of launching in early 2018. But at its core, the site has remained largely the same for a long time. We’ve moved the site from an Xserve to Rackspace to Linode and continually refined our tools and publishing practices. Has it really been a decade since the last redesign of the TidBITS Web site? (See “ Designing a Modern Web Site for TidBITS,” 10 September 2007.) In fact, not everything has remained static over the past 10 years. #1624: Important OS security updates, rescuing QuickTake 150 photos, AirTag alerts while traveling.#1625: Apple's "Far Out" event, the future of FileMaker, free NMUG membership, Quick Note and tags in Notes, Plex suffers data breach.#1626: AirTag replacement battery gotcha, Kindle Kids software flaws, iOS 12.5.6 security fix. #1627: iPhone 14 lineup, Apple Watch SE/Series 8/Ultra, new AirPods Pro, iOS 16 and watchOS 9 released, Steve Jobs Archive.#1628: iPhone 14 impressions, Dark Sky end-of-life, tales from Rogue Amoeba.
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