December is always crazy for us.
Not because of the site, but because of the world of RL pulling us away from the site. But we think that's common practice for the age we live in. We live in a country that keeps us barely alive financially preventing us from actually thinking about what is going on in the world around us. Now that those happy thoughts are aside. Let us get down to the change log.
Website activity:
Here we report some of the changes that we made throughout the site.
Menu button animations.
Animation inside a website is always a balancing game as you do it too much you're transmitting more media than you are actual content. However, at its very worst, one of the buttons is 42Kb in size. Which is rather acceptable for something that exists in the background of a site.
Inline persistent object cache - REROUTED.
Even though it pisses off WordPress for not using one of the only two plugins that satisfy their requirements in some bizarre quasi-monopoly. Like a lot of plugins we used to have. Nginx now handles all caching functionality which is far more efficient than doing it on the level of PHP. Thus, there is no need to have the plugin anymore.
Also, we had the "Redis object cache" plugin going and as the versions went by there was more self-advertisement the developers were embedded in our code. Luckily it was just comments in which my Minify tool would have removed it however we didn't put up with this shit from Yoast. Plugins need to be removed so that they know their fucking place in the food chain. If you want 'some' money for their work that's understandable. However, Redis wanted $80 USD a month for their 'pro' version with no guarantee they'll stop advertising for themselves.
Open Graph and Twitter Card Tags - DISABLED
Open Graph (made by Facebook) and Twitter/X Card Tags are standard for social network sites to allow users within those gated domains to 'take a peek' into a link without actually clicking on it. They even took the stance of security saying if a site doesn't have an Open Graph of Twitter Cards then they're suspicious. In the vein of a lot of things we do here.
GOOD! Be suspicious of EVERY link you click on!
Trusted links within Twitter/X timeline are for the most part ads to scam you of money. These social networks tell webmasters that they must do all of the legwork and insist on conformity to their standards and their world while offering webmasters fuck all. In many cases, it's worse than that because you could use one of their standards for tagging and buried in their ToS they could simply say they reserve the rights to all of your content for scraping that data you easily handed over to them. Given the state of the internet where the top internet companies are thirsty bitches. We wouldn't put it past them.
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