- Hello, dear friends! I'm Matchu (they/she), the coder-person of Dress - to Impress! Here's a little note about like… why the site is stuck - where it is rn, and what we're thinking of doing about that. -
-- I started building DTI 2020 back when I was healthier, and was pretty - sure I could finish it all up and transfer everything to the new site - by the end of the year. The name made sense at the time! 😅 But, well, - now I'm too sick too often to finish 😖 (Long covid? It's hard to - say.) -
-- I'm happy we have a site that's much better on phones and works with - the new HTML5 systems! But Classic DTI still has a lot of the - essential item trading features and a few other nice things… so we're - kinda just stuck with the two sites for now, I think 😬 We won't be - making any improvements to Classic DTI anymore (changing it is a REAL - pain), but we also won't turn it off until the day it's no longer - needed, and that's… very far from today. -
-- For now, our technical focus is making sure all Neopets customization - data is archived, in case Neopets servers become spottier or go - offline. (We see the way the wind is blowing with the NFT Neopets - project, so we want to be ready if the executives shut down - Neopets.com, just in case.) And we have a small support team keeping - an eye on things—thank you Chips and Dice for all your help!! -
-- But yeah, we're open to having more hands help finish DTI 2020! If you - have practice with React/Node apps, and are eager to spelunk into a - codebase that was unfortunately never really built for a team, please - send me a note at{" "} - matchu@openneo.net and I'd - love to talk about it! 💜 I'm not ready to offer the kind of hands-on - support I normally would, so it's not really a fair ask on my part—but - I know there's lots of folks who would be grateful, if it's something - you can do. -
-- In the meantime, mostly just… thanks to everyone for being so kind to - me over these, gosh, 12 years now. The Neopets community is where I - grew up, and I'll do my best to help keep it alive in the coming - decades, whatever form it may take. We deserve that. -
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- Best wishes in all things, Neopians 💖
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