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Salute, dear subscribers. Today is the 13th - time for monthly dev blog.

@fertern here, and while main team is busy with game (detalising locations with props and visual effects), I decided to make our own blog in a form of website.

With it's help, it will be easier to present project to new people, and it will be easier for you to track development.

Old ones still remember that we had a simple website with information. And as you remember, it was compromised by one bad man in his personal goals, but it was long ago.

Now, as I am working more than half a year as full stack web dev, I decided to make something better for our website. Not just blog on some ready platform, but full independent web-app. I made frontend and backend, and our designer Anton were busy with layout.

Website development stack - JAM. Front is written on GatsbyJS (React).

Why do I make front with my own hands using React, not using ready-made solutions, like Tilda or Wix? Because you will never achieve such flexibility and work speed in site constuctor, IMHO. Ofc, they do have some features, that I've written below, but it's better to have your own.

Pros of that approach: -Blog will load really fast, as it's pre-made on server and user is getting site with content, without unnecessary requests. -Ability to change language, that will be instant. -Improved indexation in search, because of react-helmet and Gatsby features. Also, it will index on english too, since Gatsby is creating page for every language with it's own SEO data. -If you've ever loaded blog, it's cached version will be available to you in future for reading without internet (Progressive Web App). -Since I'm the dev, I will be able to change it in any direction. Even adding commentaries with accounts, but later. -Instant redirect between routes without page reloading and other nice lil things. -Sorting, search by articles and tags for convenience..

That's why in mobile version design we made it imitating VK a little, since I personally liked the idea of navigating at the bottom of the screen. Shovel owners will like it.

Also we borrowed article reader from Telegraph, and article preview from Telegram. As I think, it will be much more familiar to read articles, and you probably can't make a better design (it's hard).

Our website will start hosting in this month, I will publish article about this. For now I will give you some screenshots of layout. Attention! Some things in layout might be changed later.