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MVP release is today

What this means is:
1. A tagged release will appear on GitHub, at some point.
2. An admin install guide will be available.
3. A few final changes will be pushed to https://ourchive.io

In coming weeks we will be opening up the Discord and contacting focus group signups as well. As always, a huge thank you to our beta testers, without whom this project would be moldering in a private GitHub repo.

Is the site broken? Probably! Can you install your own anyway? Yes! A release is tagged and getting started docs are available: https://docs.getourchive.io/admin-getting-started/
Thank you again to our lovely beta testers We're putting together tickets for v.05 now. Onward, upward, inward, etc.

The purpose of this software is to lower the barriers to entry for people wanting to host their own fandom archive by supplying a modern piece of software with user documentation.

I've helped with beta testing this software in the hope that it will be able to supply another option besides static sites for independent fan archives.

Sometime I really want to talk about how LibreOffice handles images, which reaches true heights of absurdity in that the default image handling is just--so bad. The good news is that the most egregrious image problems you encounter in LibreOffice are quite fixable. However, its lack of absolute precision can still be an issue for images in certain circumstances. The thing to keep in mind though is that no matter what contortions Writer subjects your images to, you can always undo the horrors because Writer never discards anything from the original image.

WYSIWYG (What You See is What You Get) is so very vital for making computers more widely accessible but also WYSIWYG was a mistake that can make troubleshooting and maintainability a nightmare which is why we will never all be able to just open an office software document for everything. Sometimes you just need to do things with more precision and reliability than that provides.

Sometimes it's a matter of tradeoffs--trading some things being easier for others being harder. What I want to explore is what those different tradeoffs specifically are, and what are better ways to make those tradeoffs.

Never thought a personal website would teach me so much about how to use LibreOffice. By the way, if you haven't updated your LibreOffice install in a while and have a version before 7.6, I highly recommend getting the latest version. I've found the new spotlight feature can be incredibly helpful for troubleshooting style issues.

So, today, I found out something extremely interesting: there's a free and open source Android and iOS office app! It's from Collabora office and you can read more about it from here:

Collabora Office Android and iOS app

Also, on desktop computers I use LibreOffice, which works very well for me, but recently found out that OpenOffice, the software it was forked from, despite receiving regular updates from the Apache Foundation, has been an essentially dead project for nearly a decade. The Tumblr thread below explains what happened in more detail:

https://www.tumblr.com/penrosesun/716612136959426560/github-apacheopenoffice-apache-openoffice?source=share

Basically, if you've found that OpenOffice doesn't adequately serve your office software needs but haven't tried LibreOffice, you may want to give LibreOffice a try since it's way better now than it's predecessor is.

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