From dd175b17278bb8c98a9853fac1112de77a4444bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bob Mottram <bob@libreserver.org>
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2025 13:36:55 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] More upbeat

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 website/EN/v1_7_0.html | 14 +++++++-------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/website/EN/v1_7_0.html b/website/EN/v1_7_0.html
index 280e9cf49..99481dc0d 100644
--- a/website/EN/v1_7_0.html
+++ b/website/EN/v1_7_0.html
@@ -1214,8 +1214,7 @@
             <p class="siteheader">"Courageous Corgi"</p>
             <p class="subheader">Jan 1st 2026</p>
         </center>
-        <p class="intro">Another year of unenshitified progress swimming against the tide of toxic sludge which the mainstream internet has become.</p>
-        <p class="intro">Changes in this version include:</p>
+        <p class="intro">It has been another year of highly exciting maintenance of the project, including the following changes:</p>
         <div class="flex-container">
 	          <ul>
                 <li>Option to block nostr bridges</li>
@@ -1236,14 +1235,14 @@
                 <li>Log media uploaded for each account</li>
                 <li>When an account is suspended or removed its media is also suspended or removed</li>
                 <li>Improve detection of whether the instance is online (internet available)</li>
-                <li>Don't send posts if the instance is not online</li>
+                <li>Do not send posts if the instance is not online</li>
                 <li>Improve handling of locations</li>
                 <li>Add address to a post (eg. for events)</li>
                 <li>Show address together with location map, when applicable</li>
                 <li>Addresses shown on calendar events</li>
                 <li>Ability to block nicknames with wildcards</li>
                 <li>Support for event categories, and display of category with map</li>
-                <li>Don't include seconds on event times</li>
+                <li>Do not include seconds on event times</li>
                 <li>Event categories treated the same as hashtags</li>
                 <li>Person options screen text santitsation</li>
                 <li>Current actor status shown on profile screen</li>
@@ -1269,9 +1268,10 @@
             <img src="v1_7_0.webp" alt="Epicyon logo of a running dog with paw prints in the background" />
         </center>
         <p class="intro">
-            Another year on an increasingly embattled and enshitified internet. The rising star of BlueSky has been somewhat tarnished as it becomes increasingly evident that its lack of decentralization and "big tent" approach has major governance shortcomings. So to anyone for whom decentralisation is more than a platitude it's gradually becoming clear that the fediverse and open web standards are the only genuine way forward.</p>
-        <p class="intro">Epicyon is designed for the expected long term future of the ActivityPub protocol. Written in the most boring trend-avoiding way possible, with few dependencies, no database to get corrupted, suitable for running on old hardware at minimum cost, and definitely with <b>no gratuitous "AI" features</b>. In tough environments, it can also run from an onion or i2p address and use text mode browsers with no risk from javascript exploits. While the silicon valley titans are busy pumping out toxic sludge and noxious clouds of brain-rotting information pollution, the small and meek gain advantage. Epicyon has no intention of supporting AI but does support anachronistic browsers, text to speech synthesisors and real web standards.</p>
-        <p class="intro">Epicyon can be downloaded as <a href="epicyon.tar.gz">a gzipped file</a>, or you can get the latest version from the <a href="https://gitlab.com/bashrc2/epicyon">git repo</a>. For installation instructions see <a href="index.html">the main page</a>. To upgrade an existing instance, make sure that you have the <i>python3-cryptography</i> package installed then do a git pull, chown and restart the daemon.</p>
+		  The open social web continues to evolve at a glacial pace, but at least this does make it fairly easy to keep up with. Web standards are still the best way to go, with other more adhoc ones running into difficulties. Anything which is too centralized or too under the control of a single company seems doomed. There is something to be said for being the last robust system standing after a bunch of hasty vibecoded crap has collapsed in a steaming heap.</p>
+        <p class="intro">Epicyon is designed for an anticipated glorious long term future of the ActivityPub protocol. It is written in the most tedious trend-avoiding way possible, with few dependencies, no database to get corrupted, suitable for running on old hardware at minimum cost, and definitely with <b>no "AI" features gratuitously foisted in</b>. In challenging environments, it can also run from an onion or i2p address and use text mode browsers with no risk from javascript exploits. While the industrial silicon valley behemoths are busy pumping out information pollution, and sinking into the swamp of <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/enshittification#English">enshitification</a>, the small and meek gain advantage.</p>
+		<p class="intro">Epicyon will always be AGPL licensed, to nark off the whingers.</p>
+        <p class="intro">It can be downloaded as <a href="epicyon.tar.gz">a gzipped file</a>, or you can get the latest version from the <a href="https://gitlab.com/bashrc2/epicyon">git repo</a>. For installation instructions see <a href="index.html">the main page</a>. To upgrade an existing instance, make sure that you have the <i>python3-cryptography</i> package installed then do a git pull, chown and restart the daemon.</p>
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         <p>By: Bob Mottram <a href="mailto:bob@libreserver.org">bob@libreserver.org</a>