I've started working on a whole new version of 4um. The current software is about 23 years old -- well over the legal age for drinking alcohol. It is written in Perl (Practical Extraction & Reporting Language, if my memory serves), served up with Apache web serving software and MySQL database. which was very popular for a decade or two but which has largely fallen to newer software tech with the Python programming language and more advanced web software tools. The interface has a lot to be desired as we're all tired of seeing these huge youtube embeds appear at the bottom of the web page. My goal with the more advance software is to have those YT's scale properly to the web page/monitor of the reader. I'd like to support image uploads, reenable email signups, maybe allow the conventional text input interface that allows HTML markups like bold and underlining. All past content would be preserved (MySQL is still a mainstream DB software package so there'd be minimal changes with that). I'd make a separate interface for cell phone use stuff could be usable/readable with that. I also will have a dark/light theme selectable by users.
Initially, I hope to be able to make the current Perl interface and the new interface both run at the same time, using the same DB so you can choose, but eventually the current software I'll just switch off.
I'll be doing this with AI help. AI will do all the hard work of writing the code. I'll just tell it what is needed, one component at a time, and occasionally debug problems AI can't figure out. It's still an effort but with AI it will all come together much more quickly.