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title: "Journal Update 017"
date: 2021-12-02T00:00:00
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# What's New
* IPv6 support is back! I don't plan on removing it again. This site needs to be present on the modern internet.
* Migrate from Gitea to Cgit[1] + Gitolite3. Gitea is much more than I need. Cgit is lightweight and it loads faster.
* Change top-level domain from .com to .ch. Operation Not in Your Sites.[2] See the War on Sharing.[3] Nicksphere.com will redirect for about a year until it expires. So readers have a year to update their bookmarks/links.
* New self-hosted email.[4] Posteo is great and I've no complaints about it. I still recommend Posteo to others. I just wanted more control over my email and it seemed silly not to self-host where I could. My PGP key has also been updated to reflect my new email.
* Remove corrections page. I have no motivation to write corrections. I don't think anybody would read them anyway and it's probably best to just make new entries to self-correct.
* Remove hosted services on the about page.[5] My new VPS doesn't have the resources for them. I still have the old VPS and domain name rented out for a year in advance. If anybody reading this needs a hosted service for a use case, just let me know. Otherwise I'll dedicate those resources elsewhere.
* Website redesign! I changed the font to sans-serif which is much easier and more enjoyable to read than monospace. I also squashed the text to 780 pixels so less horizontal eye scanning is required. This is irrelevant to readers coming from Gemini and Atom/RSS.
* Remove dead links. I wrote a Python script to crawl the journal and detect all the dead links.[6] Running this periodically should be sufficient to prevent link rot on Nicksphere. I may automate the process in the future.
* Remove articles and books from the promoted page.[7] I've struggled with how to promote others' work for a while. For now I've settled on promoting more general links on the promoted page, while writing individual entries to promote more specific things.

# Future Plans
* Everything in the TODO.[8]

# Final Note
A while back I said I don't wish for my entries related to spirituality to be interpreted as truth-apt. I've complained about the difficulty in explaining spiritual concepts. But I think I've finally reached a point where I can explain myself better. So I'm retracting my previous stance. Please do interpret future entries related to spirituality as literally true.


Link(s):
[1: Cgit](https://git.nicksphere.ch)
[2: Operation In Our Sites](https://wikiless.org/wiki/Operation_In_Our_Sites)
[3: War on Sharing](https://stallman.org/articles/end-war-on-sharing.html)
[4: Email](mailto:nick@nicksphere.ch)
[5: About Page](/about/)
[6: find_broken_links.py](https://git.nicksphere.ch/nicksphere-gmi/tree/scripts/find_broken_links.py?id=71745f114a2ec7fa32a23e7dfe92506b9c778b90)
[5: Promoted Page](/promoted/)
[8: TODO.txt](https://git.nicksphere.ch/nicksphere-gmi/tree/TODO.txt?id=71745f114a2ec7fa32a23e7dfe92506b9c778b90)