Spokes and Better Streets NZ - now combined as spokes.nz

Any updates here? It would be nice to get it going and then move on to the next steps.

I’ve recently spoken with @frstep and @jon.dean about this again.

For technical reasons involving the DNS management, it would be much more straightforward to rebrand this whole site ‘Spokes’ and deprecate the existing Spokes website. The issue is that spokes.nz must resolve to a specific IP address (not a link).

The other alternative is to have a simple static page at spokes.nz which links to the spokes bit here. But that would require more maintenance / cost for dubious benefit. There might also be a clever IT solution to handle the redirect, but I’ll leave @jon.dean to comment on that.

@jon.dean and I have put our heads together, and done it!

We have a merged site, at here at spokes.nz!!!

It will take a while to restyle things and adjust to the new ‘normal’.

Please give your thoughts / suggestions, and if anyone would like to muck in then put your hand up!

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Nice job!! Trickiest thing:remembering what userid/password combo I was using.

You shouldn’t need to - just get it to email you a link:

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The social logins (google / facebook / linkedin) are turned off until I reconfigure them sorry.

There are still teething problems, and I’ve had to disable a few things to get the site working properly. But it seems basically okay now.

Not complaining - just my technique of creating long passwords based on the email address & site (with variations), and saved in the browser’s vault based on site address. Site name change meant I had to rely on the wetware to get it right, and keep the password same :grin:

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No action here for a month. Any Spokes folk out there who are keen on using this site?

The sites were successfully combined into spokes.nz in November 2023