Tedious Site Update

As anybody who has followed either me or this site knows by now, I have a rather nasty habit of deciding one thing on here, only to do the exact opposite. This reached its ultimate expression last year, where the site went on hiatus in January… only to give up two weeks later and then have the busiest and most prolific year in the site’s history.

Therefore, despite having plans, I was wary of promising exactly where the site was going at the start of this year, lest I completely change my mind as per fucking usual. But a month in, it’s become rather clearer what’s actually happening. So, in the spirit of actually wanting to communicate with you all properly, here’s the deal.¹

1) The big news is that after years of promises, I’m finally in the middle of a proper redesign of this place. In fact, the main part of it is actually finished, and I’m currently picking away at fixing all the annoying little corners. I’m not going to give a launch date – I’ve learnt my lesson on that one at least – but it’ll probably be in the next few weeks.

2) While this redesign takes place, Dirty Feed is on Reduced Power. There might be the odd post here and there, but nothing in-depth. Don’t worry, there’s plenty of fun stuff planned as soon as the redesign is complete. I’m itching to get started on them already.

3) Some of you will have noticed that I’m not currently on Twitter. I always planned to take a bit of a break at the start of the year, but I’m usually desperate to get back on there after a month away. I’m really, really not feeling like that at the moment. In fact, I’m happier than I’ve been for some considerable time as a direct result of not being there, and I’m getting more things done into the bargain.²

When Dirty Feed relaunches, I’ll end up reactivating my account, in order to catch up with various people, and let everyone know about updates on here. I’ll probably end up tweeting various silly things as well. But after years of trying, I’ve finally managed to break the habit of checking Twitter as soon as I wake up and getting into a spiral of feeling terrible for the whole day, and I don’t intend to go back to that.

TL;DR: Redesign coming, no in-depth posts until that happens, and Twitter is a fucking nightmare. See you soon.

1. At this point, I like to think of a certain site who welcomed aboard a new writer, had them post for a couple of years, until they went on hiatus… and never returned. And never told their audience where they had gone, or what they were doing. And to top it off, silently deleted their last few posts. That is called treating your readers with contempt. ↩

2. Fifty hours and counting on a replay of Final Fantasy XII qualifies as “getting things done”, right? ↩