+
+ 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.
+
+
+ Best wishes in all things, Neopians 💖
+
—
+
+ Matchu
+
+
+
+ P.S. I've dropped our little feedback form at the bottom of the page
+ here too, so you can let me know if like… anything in here sounds
+ especially right or wrong. I want to make sure I'm doing right by you,
+ as best I can!
+
+
+