Sunsetting The 512kb Club
All good things must come to an end, and today is that day for one of my projects, the 512kb Club.
I started the 512kb Club back in November 2020, so it's been around 5.5 years. It's become a drain and I'm ready to move on. As of today I won't be accepting any new submissions to the project. At the time of writing this, there are 25 PRs open for new submissions, I'll work through them, then will disable the ability to submit pull requests.
Over the years there have been nearly 2,000 pull requests, and there are currently around 950 sites listed on the 512kb Club. Pretty cool, but it's a lot of work to manage - there's reviewing new submissions (which is a steady stream of pull requests), cleaning up old sites, updating sites, etc. It's more than I have time to do.
I'm also trying to focus my time on other projects, like Pure Commons.
Want to take over?
It's sad to see this kind of project fall by the wayside, but life moves on. Having said that, if you think you want to take over 512kb Club, let's have a chat, there are some pre-requisites though:
- We need to know each other. I'm not going to hand the project over to someone I don't know, sorry.
- You probably need to be familiar with Jekyll and Git.
I'm probably going to get a lot of emails with offers to help (which is fantastic), but if we've never interacted before, I won't be moving forward with your kind offer.
After reading the above, if we know each other, and you're still interested, use the email button below and we can have a chat about you potentially taking over. By taking over, I will expect you to:
- Take ownership of the
512kb.clubdomain, so you will be financially responsible for renewals. - Take ownership of the GitHub repo, so you will be responsible for all pull requests, issues and anything else Git related.
- Be responsible for all hosting and maintenance of the project - the site is currently hosted on my personal Vercel account, which I will be deleting after handing off.
- Be a good custodian of the 512kb Club and continue to maintain it in its current form.
If you're just looking to take over and use it as a means to slap ads on it, and live off the land, I'd rather it go to landfill, and will just take the site down. That's why I only want someone I know and trust to take it over.
I think I've made my point now. 🙃
What will happen if someone doesn't take over?
If there's no-one prepared to take over, I plan to do one final export of the source from Jekyll, then upload that to my web server, where it will live until I decide to no longer renew the domain.
I'll also update the site with a message stating that the project has been sunset and there will be no more submissions.
If you don't wanna see that happen, please get in touch.