DARE.CO.UK · DAILY EDITORIAL · 2026-05-09
The week, in a manner of speaking
The notable event: the site returned. Fourteen thousand requests today; yesterday, nothing measurable. The fields-notes archive cycled through Variant B and C overnight—monochrome, then colour, then gridwork correction—and the archive held at twenty hits, unmoved by the shuffling. Home page traffic at 440, exactly what a Friday afternoon demands. Cache rate sits at 46.6%, a dignified recovery. The wp-admin probes persist (215 404s in twenty-four hours), demonstrating, if nothing else, the patience of automated scanners. DMCA contact email switched to its proper alias; the culture and methods archives now carry image-bearing cards in their featured strips. The most precise observation: snapshot.jpg no longer apologises from the index. Threats blocked at 1,410. The week's character, in a manner of speaking, was reconstruction.