A few news to keep you in the loop. After quite a few hours of work, we’ve just rolled out the first changes of version 9 of the site. There’s still work ahead, but while it’s wrapping up, we’re going to walk you through the broad strokes of what’s being put in place.

First decision, we’re refocusing everything on our core activity. NovaMag and the knowledge base. And from now on Novaland, which is taking up more and more space in our minds. Anything drifting away from those axes is meant to disappear.

As part of this move, we’ve definitively shut down the free blog hosting service. It was a feature that demanded a lot of time to maintain and secure properly. Whereas in the end, not many people were actually using it. So we’d rather focus our energy where we genuinely bring something to the table.

Good news for many of you who’d been asking for it for a long time, dark mode is finally available across all NovaMag articles and technical sheets. It’ll also roll out on certain pages soon. Simple to announce, but it actually took several days of work to do it properly. Your preference is remembered from one article to the next without using a cookie. We’re pretty happy with the result. Let us know what you think 🙂

We’ve also made solid progress on the new engine, but most of what’s left to do isn’t the kind of work you can see on screen. It’s deep improvements on the code and performance side. @Debugman is going at it hard locally and we should have something presentable by July.

You might find that we publish a bit less over the coming weeks. That’s normal, because we’re laser-focused on getting Novaland off the ground and it takes a huge amount of energy. New technical sheets are still planned and NovaMag will keep publishing in-depth articles. But we’re not going to pretend we can keep up the same pace as before. We’d rather explain it to you straight than churn out content just for the sake of it.

Running the site requires a budget every month. And launching Novaland is going to require a lot more. If the fund doesn’t pick up in the coming weeks, we won’t be able to keep going at this pace. It’s just the result of an equation. So we’re hoping that generosity will show up and that we’ll be able to keep going together for a long time.

There you go, it felt important to take a few minutes to lay this out. Pushing NovaFuture forward is no walk in the park, it’s seven-day-a-week work. But when we look at certain results, we tell ourselves it’s truly worth it. Thanks for being here and see you very soon for the rest of the adventure.