Cosmetic change coming next week

Well, that’s not what I said. :wink: Take the page jump issue you are experiencing. It boils down to some interactions with ads. Fixing that problem involves changing the way we acquire advertising. So it might seem like the person to solve the issue is a JavaScript developer, there are non-technical blockers.

I know that doesn’t make the interface issue any less frustrating. I can see how from the outside it looks like we are wasting time with changing the logo when we should be addressing other problems. Like any organization, we do have conflicts where we need to prioritize some work over others. Indeed the brand refresh is pretty high priority for business development. (Money, as Homer discovered can be pretty useful.)

For what it’s worth, we’re dedicating more resources to the CC forums in 2021 than we could in 2020. It might not be obvious externally, but the previous forum platform had a serious development bottleneck. We had to submit pull requests on our code with the vendor who might take a week or more to update the site. That meant we needed to sequence changes in a way that limited what we could do. (We also had several incidents where code changes were reverted by our vendor, which seriously disrupted our development process.)

Of course the downside has been learning to use new technology. For instance, scaling AWS for a site that gets millions of pageviews a day has been a challenge. (Our vendor took care of that for us in the past.) Not saying this to get sympathy or anything. Just trying to be transparent here.

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