Been a year and ten months since the last blog post about the site itself. You may have noticed it already, but Avencius is in a maintenance mode. I still try to keep you posted about the latest releases and technologies, but it also means that no theme or feature work is being done.

First of all I would like to welcome all the spam sites that have been hammering on the servers, filling up the comments and increasing the user account database with numerous accounts (85 pages with 20 accounts per page in the last weeks). The Drupal spam module has been replaced by Mollom. Hopefully this free (and paid) service can help reduce this, while also helping Mollom to keep up their database on hostiles. Anonymous comments have been re-enabled now that the module is active, but I'll keep an eye out in case things turn nasty.

So what will the future bring for Avencius? Obviously the site has been slowing down for the last year(s) now, and several other sites have emerged who offer better and more intense coverage. Possible directions are: a generic technology web site (think Engadget, Gizmodo) with a taste of gaming (like Joystiq and Kotaku), and the occasional nerdy accent (much like Lifehacker and Slashdot).

Whether it will be based on Drupal, Wordpress, or custom made remains to be seen. But I just want to let you know I'm not letting this location become a post-apocalyptic era of the browser war =)