It's no secret that the Krystal Archive hasn't had a major change since 2012 when the site was taken offline due to a massive hack. Plus, I never got around to bringing all the historical content back online because that was right as I started having a real job for the first time. Things slipped.

So, I will occasionally make a post like this one to chronicle my process of restoring the site to better than its former glory, and reworking the technology to be much better, allowing for faster and more consistent posting of Krystal news and features.

Today, in addition to doing a real news post, I also did technical work:

• Made complete backup of the entire site and its data. (Always a good idea.)
• Updated the backend software and plugins.
• Fixed all of the YouTube embedded videos. (YouTube changed requirements for embeds and broke things.)
• Installed a new helper to simplify the prose-writing process. (No more directly editing HTML for me!)
• Updated my Gab account, which had lost my profile images somehow. (I dual-post on Twitter and Gab. Maybe soon I'll also add BlueSky to that list.)

Stay tuned for more updates like this. A lot of these will go under your radar, but I'm focusing on making the site easier to run, faster, and more easy to expand.