Update "State of DTI" message copy & URL
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import StateOfDTI2022Page from "../src/app/StateOfDTI2022Page.js";
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import StateOfDTI2023Page from "../src/app/StateOfDTI2023Page.js";
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export default function StateOfDTI2022PageWrapper() {
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import Head from "next/head";
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import { Heading1 } from "./util";
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import TextContent from "./components/TextContent";
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import HomepageSplashImg from "./images/homepage-splash.png";
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import Image from "next/image";
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import { Box, useColorModeValue } from "@chakra-ui/react";
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import { FeedbackForm, FeedbackFormContainer } from "./HomePage";
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function StateOfDTI2022Page() {
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const formBorderColor = useColorModeValue("gray.300", "blue.400");
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return (
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<>
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<Head>
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<title>State of DTI: 2022 | Dress to Impress</title>
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</Head>
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<Box display="flex" justifyContent="center" marginBottom="3">
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<Image
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src={HomepageSplashImg}
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width={200}
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height={200}
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alt="Dress to Impress beach background"
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layout="fixed"
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/>
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</Box>
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<Heading1 marginBottom="4" textAlign="center">
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State of DTI: 2022
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</Heading1>
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<TextContent maxWidth="700px" marginX="auto">
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<p>
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Hello, dear friends! I'm Matchu (they/she), the coder-person of Dress
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to Impress! Here's a little note about like… why the site is stuck
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where it is rn, and what we're thinking of doing about that.
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</p>
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<p>
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Dress to Impress started back in 2010, when I was in high school! I
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ran it alone for most of that time, but recently Chips and Dice from
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the /r/Neopets community have been helping keep on top of things, and
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it's been a serious game changer for keeping all our customization
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data accurate and reliable, thank you!!!
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<p>
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I on the other hand have… <em>not</em> been on top of things 😅😖 My
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body has been uncooperative the past couple years (long covid seems
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likely, it's hard to say?), and about 70–80% of the way through
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development of the new site, my power just kinda… stopped. It's not a
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great situation for someone like that to be the only person holding
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the keys to the codebase, but, well, that's where we are.
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<p>
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DTI 2020 started with three big goals in mind: supporting the new
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HTML5 customization system, working well on phones, and replacing some
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of the needlessly-complex tech I built back when I was like literally
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a teenager 😳 The first two got done, but it's hard to say we ever
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"replaced" anything: now we just have uhh <em>two</em> sites. We
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wanted to make everyone fall in love with DTI 2020 and be happy to let
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it smoothly replace Classic DTI by the end of 2020… but work stopped,
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so it never did.
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<p>
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Not to mention that, since then, the world's been changing around us.
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As Neopets.com starts to maybe lose support from its parent company,
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and some of its technical infrastructure starts to become unstable,
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our top priority today is to make sure Neopets customization never
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becomes lost media. We used to depend on Neopets.com for hosting a LOT
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of the new HTML5 art, without keeping our own copy, but that's just
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not an option anymore—and I've put in a last big emergency oomph of
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effort to make sure we have everything we need, in case the site goes
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offline before anyone expects it to.
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</p>
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<p>
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And it's also all the more reason to move away from our complex
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Classic DTI tech, and onto something that's easy to distribute and run
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in the future, so the Neopets community isn't depending on our server
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and its old messy tech staying online for 20+ years. But that just
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never got done, and I wish it hadn't taken me two years to admit that
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I physically don't have the power to do it 😖
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<p>
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So… that's the way of things. We built some support tech for Chips and
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Dice over the years, and they've been doing a great job keeping
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everything working, and I try to stay on top of the bugs they run
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into… but that's just all the coding power DTI has right now.
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</p>
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If there's anyone out there who's had practice with React/Node apps,
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and is ready to spelunk into a codebase that was never really built
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for a team and try to finish up what's left, please send me a note at{" "}
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<a href="mailto:matchu@openneo.net">matchu@openneo.net</a> and I'd
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love to talk about it! 💜 It probably won't be easy work, but I know
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there's lots of folks who would be grateful.
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<p>
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In the meantime, mostly just… thanks to everyone for being so kind to
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me over these, gosh, 12 years now. The Neopets community is where I
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grew up, and I'll do my best to help keep it alive in the coming
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decades, whatever form it may take! We deserve that.
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</p>
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<p>
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Best wishes in all things, Neopians,
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<br />—
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Matchu
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</Box>
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</p>
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<Box as="p" fontSize="sm">
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P.S. I've dropped the little feedback form element at the bottom of
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the page here too, so you can let me know if like… anything in here
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sounds especially right or wrong. I want to make sure I'm doing right
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by you, as best I can!
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</Box>
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</TextContent>
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<Box maxWidth="500px" marginX="auto" marginTop="6">
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<FeedbackFormContainer borderColor={formBorderColor}>
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<FeedbackForm contentPlaceholder="Anything come to mind?" />
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</FeedbackFormContainer>
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</Box>
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</>
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import HomepageSplashImg from "./images/homepage-splash.png";
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import Image from "next/image";
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import { Box, useColorModeValue } from "@chakra-ui/react";
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import { FeedbackForm, FeedbackFormContainer } from "./HomePage";
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function StateOfDTI2023Page() {
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<title>State of DTI: 2023 | Dress to Impress</title>
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<Box display="flex" justifyContent="center" marginBottom="3">
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<Image
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src={HomepageSplashImg}
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width={200}
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height={200}
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alt="Dress to Impress beach background"
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layout="fixed"
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/>
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State of DTI: 2023
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<TextContent maxWidth="700px" marginX="auto">
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Hello, dear friends! I'm Matchu (they/she), the coder-person of Dress
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where it is rn, and what we're thinking of doing about that.
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I started building DTI 2020 back when I was healthier, and was pretty
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sure I could finish it all up and transfer everything to the new site
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by the end of the year. The name made sense at the time! 😅 But, well,
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now I'm too sick too often to finish 😖 (Long covid? It's hard to
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say.)
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I'm happy we have a site that's much better on phones and works with
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the new HTML5 systems! But Classic DTI still has a lot of the
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essential item trading features and a few other nice things… so we're
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kinda just stuck with the two sites for now, I think 😬 We won't be
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making any improvements to Classic DTI anymore (changing it is a REAL
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pain), but we also won't turn it off until the day it's no longer
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needed, and that's… very far from today.
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For now, our technical focus is making sure all Neopets customization
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data is archived, in case Neopets servers become spottier or go
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offline. (We see the way the wind is blowing with the NFT Neopets
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project, so we want to be ready if the executives shut down
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Neopets.com, just in case.) And we have a small support team keeping
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an eye on things—thank you Chips and Dice for all your help!!
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</p>
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But yeah, we're open to having more hands help finish DTI 2020! If you
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have practice with React/Node apps, and are eager to spelunk into a
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codebase that was unfortunately never really built for a team, please
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send me a note at{" "}
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<a href="mailto:matchu@openneo.net">matchu@openneo.net</a> and I'd
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love to talk about it! 💜 I'm not ready to offer the kind of hands-on
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support I normally would, so it's not really a fair ask on my part—but
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I know there's lots of folks who would be grateful, if it's something
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you can do.
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me over these, gosh, 12 years now. The Neopets community is where I
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grew up, and I'll do my best to help keep it alive in the coming
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decades, whatever form it may take. We deserve that.
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Best wishes in all things, Neopians 💖
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<br />—
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Matchu
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P.S. I've dropped our little feedback form at the bottom of the page
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here too, so you can let me know if like… anything in here sounds
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especially right or wrong. I want to make sure I'm doing right by you,
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as best I can!
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</TextContent>
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<FeedbackFormContainer borderColor={formBorderColor}>
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<FeedbackForm contentPlaceholder="Anything come to mind?" />
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</>
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