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9:44 am, January 1st, 2026 - 7 comments
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Happy New Year to all the readers, commenters, and fellow authors/mods at The Standard. Special shout out to Lprent who keeps the site running, and Micky who does the heavy lifting on posts. Great to have some new authors on board in the past year, bringing in diverse perspectives and topics.
In an era of social media manipulation, lies, lies and more damn lies, fuck-you AI, and shit show argument culture online, I feel proud that The Standard is one of the places still holding a robust debate ethic. Truth, facts, evidence, and informed opinion matter more than ever. It’s not perfect, but we’re still here and that’s a lot.
2026 is election year. Let’s go get ’em 😈
Happy New Year!
I was thinking about the fewer comments being made especially on Open Mike recently, and the end of Weka's opinion piece fits in with what one question might engender some political debate and that's a question about what activism we might have made a New Year's resolution about amongst all the happy new year's wishes we were no doubt all making,
So, here's the question. What New Year resolution, if any, did we make at the beginning of this election year and what kind of a resolution would be our answer be were we asked?
I made a resolution to the secretary of our LEC just before Christmas that I would be involved at election time with what a older member in his Seventies can do to help, still having time, experience and a desire to live in a better society than what we are creating now.
As Weka ended, "It’s not perfect, but we’re still here and that’s a lot.
2026 is election year. Let’s go get ’em"
Main reason is probably the lack of a mobile version. Working on it again with a responsive theme.
Downloading the test site to my laptop so I can get better debugging in the PhpStorm. It is kind of annoying that I have to write one that is similar to our simple news format.
Most of the commercial themes around are targeted for sales, presenting artwork, or magazine formats.
Builders like Newspaper is too clumsy, cluttered, and just slow. If you blur out the advertising on The Daily Blog, you can see Newspaper toolkit under it. Same kind of stuff with most of the other toolkits, often with severe upgrade issues (I still shudder at the couple of Divi sites).
Thanks for everything you do, LP.
No Lyn, no Standard!
Thanks, lprent, for your reply and for your work here on the Standard over along time….
Happy New Year to everyone, especially the admins, moderators and authors.
I don't comment that often, but I always read The Standard. I am sure there are many like me and thanks to all for keeping it going.