2020 – Year in Exploration

Other Years: 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023

Stats:

• 1 website complete crash
• 6 months rebuilding
• 99 locations explored
  • Coming back to update this with a breakdown
• 150,878 website views
• 1,017 hours of YouTube movies watched

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• exploreCT.org’s 2020 mirrored the tumultuousness of the real world. I had the stirrings of server problems at the end of 2019 continuing through January and February until [The Great Crash] came in March.
• I was forced to delete my site, lose my backups, and rebuild from square one
• Rebuilding was much slower than I expected taking a full six months to get [Back to 100%]. But, the site was stronger, faster, better; or so I thought.
• In the Fall, cleared from rebuilding the site, I had a list of changes accumulated that I was looking to fix. I would update one aspect, fix a gap, tweak and customize only to realize doing so had broken elements of my site and exposed weaknesses I didn’t know where there.
• These broken elements and weaknesses were technical jargon filled messes. But, I treated it like a puzzle in a video game. I had to solve this puzzle by reading notes left by others (questions in online forums) piecing the disparate information together while figuring out how it applied to the unfamiliar style of puzzle in front of me. Let me tell you, it was SO satisfying to finally unlock the puzzle and fix the issues.
• Heading into 2021, the site is (for now) at its best point ever and well positioned to in breadth, depth, and usefulness.

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