it’s just all a huge mess i don’t enjoy dealing with.  the parts don’t fit together well, frontend is a mess and the cool new way to do it is different every year, testing is nigh impossible, and i just sort of hate writing significant quantities of javascript.

it’s about as much a clusterfuck as game development, except that game development has an excuse.  also game dev is fun and produces something fun.  websites are boring and identical.

beside the social concerns, this is why squiggle fell apart.  it’s also why veekun hasn’t seen much real change in years; i started on a big cool update to it but just ran out of steam.  whatever little webdev willpower i have is currently devoted to the floraverse website.