Why haven’t I been updating lately? It goes something like this: This past weekend, the creator of Monaural Jerk announced a new version release, the first in about two years. So of course I couldn’t resist the temptation to… upgrade!

On the upside: The code is cleaner and neater, the admin interface is vastly improved, the stylesheets are more a part of the core layout engine, the channel management is not only more intuitive but also more useful and… did I mention the admin interface is vastly improved? Good.

On the downside: There’s a bit of a learning curve to figure out the best way to integrate additions, and upgrading from an earlier version still has some kinks to iron out. No, really, those are the only downsides.

I’m nearly ready (minus some stylesheet tinkering and a couple of can’t-live-without features) to replace the “main” site code with the new codebase… which will probably already have occurred if you’re reading this and didn’t come here from a link I personally sent you. Some of the old features and subsections may take a few days to bring back online, but now I know how it’s done so it won’t be a big hassle.

Wow. This is cool. Damned cool.