Captain's Log: Stardate 78080.5

Today I pushed out the new version of the website that has the two blogs available (news and devlog). In addition to importing all of my old devlog entries from Discord, I also imported the newsletter entries from the Substack. This week I will be shutting down the Substack, because I am migrating the newsletter distribution to be fully controlled via the website. New newsletter entries will go on the blog and be emailed out to subscribes directly, rather than via Substack. (If you're wondering why, it's because I want that content hosted on anukari.com, not substack.com.)

Part of this new website push includes the new mechanism for launching the pre-alpha (NOT STARTED YET). I have some admin forms I can use to invite people to the pre-alpha when it starts, and they'll automatically get a license key emailed to them. It will also add them to the invite-list that allows them to register on the website. Anyone who's not on the list will be blocked.

I'm very close to wrapping up work on the website, and really hoping to do so this week. The big remaining TODO is to set up the infrastructure for downloading the installer. Other than that, there are a few small cleanups here and there, some updates to the legal docs, stuff like that.

We're getting much closer to a pre-alpha! I plan to wrap website work and immediately move on to the c++ registration code and installer. It's conceivable that the earliest pre-alpha testers could be invited within a few weeks. No guarantees, though.