New YTMND Loader/Player is live! (Patreon)

Hey Patrons,

Just wanted to drop an update with the latest progress. After a good deal of work on the native HTML5 loader/player, it is now live on all subdomains. Flash is no longer being used in any capacity on the subdomains, and we have a pretty new animation for the loader. Further work needs to be done for a responsive design, and better support for autoplay. As it is the player appears to work well on most modern mobile phones. If you notice any bugs or odd behavior, please let me know here or on Discord.  Big thanks to Kremlin and David for all their help.

The other piece of big news is that I've purchased some new virtualization hardware for YTMND, out of pocket for the time being. This will allow us to replace a bunch of servers, some of which are over 10 years old, with new VMs that will be much more fault tolerant and easier to manage.   

There are a lot of pieces that need attention, but the focus for the next couple weeks will be a lot of system administration and setup. Development work is hampered right now by how fragile the whole setup is, and once the new servers are in place it opens up a lot of possibilities. 

I also want to give Patrons some more rewards, so I have some other things I'm trying to get going as well, like merch and a system to transfer your patreon donations to YTMND sponsorship credit once the site is back up. Once the new development server is up and running, you patrons will have early access so you can provide feedback. 

There are lots of juicy technical details I'm leaving out, but if you're interested the YTMND Discord has a full-time development channel now, so stop on by.