The state of Plasma
Iian Kehn
We launched the new CMS called Plasma at the beginning of March and have been working on and off on the development of the platform. We've made great progress on the frontend UI but are still working deeply on the backend integrations.
Focusing on stability
Effective April 11, 2026, we will be focusing our efforts on building the core of Plasma to be more stable and agile so that we can move the application in the event of a future failure. The events of the last outage has given us an opportunity to shift our focus and develop an overall better product.
Feature drops
We still plan on dropping new features as time progresses as they become available. Because this release is primarily focused on stability, we also want to ensure that any features that we scheduled to launch with the 18.0 release are also stable and ready for general use. This may delay the public release from it's originally scheduled timeframe to a more reasonable summer timeframe.
What about videos?
In a post that was publishjed before the server outage, we mentioned that we were working on a platform to host our own content. We are still working on the backend for that. As of right now, it is not yet available for use, we are working with our CDN, CacheFly to tie up some loose ends and hope to make an announcement soon regarding the public beta.