---
title: "Journal Update 017"
date: 2021-12-02T00:00:00
tags: ['journal updates']
draft: false
---
# 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 + 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.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_In_Our_Sites) See the [War on Sharing](https://stallman.org/articles/end-war-on-sharing.html). 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](mailto:nick@nicksphere.ch). 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](/about/). 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](https://archive.softwareheritage.org/swh:1:cnt:bca14b35aa1cbd9ef5abdea35e406248faddb24f;origin=https://git.nicholasjohnson.ch/nicksphere-gmi;visit=swh:1:snp:fb9bef300f9b939382f5656232d95377c8630a10;anchor=swh:1:rev:c77cc20bbeaf017b9426f2de548aefd20c8e4007;path=/scripts/find_broken_links.py). 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](/promoted/). 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](https://archive.softwareheritage.org/swh:1:cnt:fc325646b7c096fcd62a21dff2454632b54ff75e;origin=https://git.nicholasjohnson.ch/nicksphere-gmi;visit=swh:1:snp:fb9bef300f9b939382f5656232d95377c8630a10;anchor=swh:1:rev:c77cc20bbeaf017b9426f2de548aefd20c8e4007;path=/TODO.txt).

# 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.