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CozyNet site updates 06/27/25

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In case you guys haven’t noticed, especially those of you reading from the news feed, I’ve made some changes to the site! As I’d already written on before in “So long cowpokes,” with my pulling out of internet web based communities and my involvement with them, this necessitated cleaning up around house as I refocus the site around just the blog.

I also figured it would make for a good opportunity to reconfigure a few things such as the color scheme, layout of the main page, the navigator buttons, and comment system. I especially like this steel blue color scheme, it sort of reminds me of the XP Longhorn theme. I was actually trying to make it similar to my cozy_steel qt color scheme from my Trinity desktop post.

The banner image by the way is a photo I took from a few years ago when I was moving back to my parents. I would often drive by this spot on the way home from work and one evening decided to take a picture because it was such a beautiful view. When I think of Texas, this is what comes to my mind with the freshly grown green field of wheat as summer approaches, a lone tree and old leaning phone poles in the distance, soft shades of pink purple and blue in both the clouds overhead and the wild flowers below (which unfortunately I couldn’t fit into the banner). It was a serene moment that I haven’t forgotten if you can imagine, so it’s why I chose it as my new banner image for the site. Although I can certainly be a worrisome nervous nelly, I would like to share those moments of serenity that can still be found in life if you were to just slow down, take a breath, and let go of the distractions.

Now if you’ve been wondering about the old blog posts, it’s all still there including pretty much everything else minus the forum and IRC. You can find them on the archived overview here. The comment database for those blog posts is locked so everything should remain as-is as if in a museum. I recommend keeping a note or a bookmark linking to it because I won’t be linking to it from anywhere else on the site.

I also put up a message indicating that its status is “archived” and that the comment system is locked and set to readonly. I’ve intentionally kept the theme of my previous blog posts static. I can easily change it from my master template configuration, but I like seeing the changes and progress that have occurred over time so that’s why I’m leaving it alone.

Of late, I’ve noticed a sudden jump in data usage with the server as people are archiving the site. If I were going to shut it down completely, then I’d at least try to give fair warning in advance unless something were to happen to me or the site, so you can calm down now – but keeping an archive of things isn’t ever a bad idea! :-D

Oh and I should also mention that I’ve setup a new comment database for the “New blog posts” if we want to call it that. Unlike before, I will moderate these comments so please be polite, mature, on-topic, and refrain from using vulgar and derogatory language, names, nick names, epithets, etc. I would like to setup a lockout policy as blog posts age so that I won’t have to forever moderate the comments on them, but I don’t yet have a system in place for that.

The comment section is also hidden by default behind a toggle switch because I don’t want it to become a primary focus of the blog. If you scroll to the bottom of a post, there’s a “[Toggle comments]” button you can click on to reveal the comment system. One irritant that I wasn’t able to resolve with this toggle however is that if you make a comment and the page is refreshed, you’ll have to click it again to reveal the comment system. Since I’m trying to keep it lean, I’m just going to leave it this way.

This is all for now, but if anything else comes up in regards to site changes and the like, then I’ll be sure to write about it.

Thanks for reading my blog!

Date: 2025-06-27