Thanks again to the potter who set this up and stopped it. This is my first exposure to a fundraiser; it is amazing what is possible. I was obviously excited about how it could accelerate my succession plan, but realized that Digitalfire has to remain completely a volunteer labour of love. I was worried about his reaction to cancelling this, but he is on board. The refund process began on June 27.
It is a code-museum (because I started around 1982 using dBase II). That being said, about 5 years ago I converted Digitalfire to an API fronted database that endpoint code calls to create pages on the fly. This is coupled with a backend custom content management system that interacts directly with the database; thus, no pages are edited, only DB records. But a lot of old code is still there. Here are the current priorities:
Other priorities that recent events indicate:
As noted above, at the beginning of Covid, I redesigned Digitalfire as a client/server page generation system. An API, fronting the database, can run on one server while the page-generator can run on another server (by querying the API). There is a lot of caching. The content management system is custom-written for the information hierarchy; it runs on the same server as the API.
Please don’t believe twisted interpretations of the events during the latter part of June. You have seen me share freely for well over 4 decades. Please rely on my record rather than misinformed recent postings. I don’t rebut or flame people on social. But it does hurt when they say things that are totally against my character. As soon as I learned a GoFundMe had been started, I posted the succession plan. But it was behind a disclosure triangle and people were not opening it (see above). I have been working on item 1 for a year already; hopefully, 6 more months will do it. It shocks me how big and complex Digitalfire has become!
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