Over the past several weeks the tech team behind CTH 2.0 has been working on a test site to optimize the battle-tank known as The Last Refuge. This is phase-3 of the CTH anti-fragile system, know as the optimization phase.
The goal of optimization is to take the decades-old weight of our site, lighten the server load, increase the response time and simultaneously generate a site that optimizes based on the type of hardware being used by reader: desktops, laptops, tablets and mobile phones.
When CTH originally launched over a decade ago the theme was responsive to desktop and laptop computer users. Mobile platforms were in their infancy. Now more than half of website users are coming to sites from tablets or phones. The optimization phase will make those user experiences easier and more responsive.
The landing page of CTH will not change too much (example image on left). However, each of the top links “About Us”, “guidelines” etc will generate a different impression for the user. The right margin will be streamlined on the Main landing page, and we will be introducing an alliance of allies to replace the old-school blogroll.
Most of the decisions for the layout, font and navigability have been worked out; and now the coding is underway to generate the final product. Once that is established we will run it through the paces on the test site before switching over; much like the process we used when we switched from WordPress/Automattic to our own server network.
Several website operators have reached out asking us to provide details on the infrastructure being used to stay “anti-fragile”, meaning outside the reach of big tech. There may come a day when that information is possible to share, but it will not be in the near future. CTH is operating with an abundance of caution in the era of deplatforming and targeting.
We are aware the eye of sauron, ie Google, has already targeted CTH 2.0 to eliminate traffic and site visits. However, fortunately for us we have a long history of readership and only around 7 percent of total traffic was dependent on Google as a search value.
In what has been described as an “extraordinary situation” in the modern era, over 85 percent of CTH traffic is direct. Users and readers come directly to CTH from their browser. In the era of deplatforming this is a huge benefit.
CTH is a community of people; we take our responsibility for stewardship of our community very seriously. Privacy is the foundation of all systems we are using and no site features generates any data collection on any Treehouse guest.
This privacy approach is unique in the modern era of internet technology where data collection and cookies are now accepted practice. However, not only are we proud of the effort we are taking, I can also envision a place in the near future where any site gathering data will regret that flaw in privacy policy. CTH will lead the way on the creation of proprietary systems that protect our community; and we can see several states now considering legislation that will mandate a much more stringent view on privacy.
The optimization phase should be complete in the next two weeks. Readers will be kept aware of the countdown to the change-over. You won’t really notice too much difference from the front side, but there will be a noted faster response rate. Additionally, some of the bugs we encountered, literally because we had to move so fast to generate CTH 2.0 – and only had two weeks to move 10 years of massive files, will be worked out.
Again, I thank you for your continued support as we put the final touches on CTH 2.0 as a relaunched site outside the reach of the tech control agents. This entire move has been a painstaking time-suck to do it right. Everyone has reference points for places that did it wrong… we are blessed to have incredible assistance from people with buckets of foresight.
Remember, YOU are what matters. This community is what matters. Retaining our ability to connect in fellowship and discuss the issues in a respectful and honest manner is our priority. We are in the majority. They control the majority of systems that allow us to see the scale of our assembly. Tech’s control effort to remove voices is directly related to their need to retain the false impressions put forth by ideological comrades.
The truth has no agenda, and people are beginning to see now just how far ahead CTH was within our explanations of the people and institutional motives in the world of politics. Unfortunately, we have been very accurate with our predictions of “who”, “why”, “when and how”, the people and systems would activate against our constitutional republic. However, in the end they will fail and we, a freedom loving people, will succeed.
Don’t forget to live your best life. Nothing aggravates the totalitarian-left more than seeing joy amid the majority of people within a nation they are trying to destroy. Engage your family, friends and community with optimism – and prepare; because the best is yet to come.
Love to all,
Sundance
Thanks Sundance. I know it is a lot of hard work. Thanks to Ad REM and whole team as well. Looking forward to it! Gods blessings
Thank you so much Sundance for your prudence and wisdom of knowing what was to come. As you know, you are miles ahead of many others who are just recognizing the evils behind our battle. Keep up the great work. I must visit the several times daily just to see whats new. The Treehouse is one of my most important go to resources. I rely upon your insight and of the many others, like myself who reside in the branches of this great big tree.
Yes, again, many thanks!
I do miss the little bell in the top right-hand corner, which listed responses to a comment, and then took you directly to it: very convenient!
I miss that too. We hope it is a coming attraction.
Thank you! Connecting Conservatives in various ways, as mentioned below by “Lizzie in Texas“: that is the goal of all Conservative websites.
Thank you I really miss the bell Menagerie, and thanks to all who make the Treehouse work so well!
Me too. It assisted in “conversations” between posters (IMO). It also helped me to locate comments (likes) that I wanted to read the links in or research.
I’ll join the me too bell-ringer crowd. Of the comments I’ve attempted to save to my favorites, I think I’ve managed to save the direct link, not just the post link, oh…maybe twice. I don’t know how I did it. Just a happy accident, I guess. I hope it’s a coming attraction too.
No matter what, thank you to Sundance and mods for your all you’ve done and are doing. “Anti-fragile” is a term I’d not seen prior to Sundance telling us about it. Recently, I’ve noticed it popping up a few times on other sites looking to do the same. Looks like Sundance started a wave that will hopefully turn the big tech pimps and their adulterous relationship with big totalitarian wannabe gov’t into a cautionary tale found only in the memories and textbooks of generations to come.
Thank you Sundance for this awesome sight, thank God for the vision He has given you and the empowerment of the Holy Spirit to accomplish that vision. It is exciting to be part of the cutting edge! It is wonderful to be part of a community of people who love this country and actually use their noodle. Continuing to pray God blesses this sight and all the people who are apart of it.
I search “the last refuge” on google and this site didn’t come out.
Soon … when you search Google for (or read “history” books about) “the 45th President” you will get only links to Hillary with rewritten “history” and all references to Trump scrubbed. 2 + 2 = 5, comrade!
Please don’t search with Google. You’ll just find what they want you to see.
Use DuckDuckGo as your search engine. There are a couple of other good search engines available, but DDG does it for me.
I just wanted to test it and it was conclusive!
I use DuckDuckGo, but just did a search for “the Last Refuge” on DDG as well as Google. TCTH came out at top of page on both browsers.
I’ve been using DDG practically since it was first introduced. It works great.
Came up first on Google for me.
Christian, I’m not sure that’s a bad thing.
I cannot tell you how much I appreciate your stewardship and all of the hard work you and your team have invested. I get so much from this website. Thank you. Who would have thought that in 2021 we would be worried about whether we can speak freely.
I did. On Nov. 5th, 2020. The war of words was just preparation for a dirtier, faster physical destruction of the nation at laser like speed. Think the worst and you won’t miss the reality coming like many of us missed the reality of the intensity of hatred and punitive abuses unleashed from so many directions at once: social sites, news stations, doxxing of conservatives, Mayors, Governors, Antifa, Obama’s BLM, Nancy Pelosi ripping up a President’s speech-on camera, 1500 days of non stop accusations and lies, a communicable disease, conditioning to cover your face and isolate families, shut down education and transportation, and more.
The election was convicting that we underestimated the enemies of the republic and they are stealing it. The election was practice. They know how to take their enemies by surprise. We must not underestimate opposition ever again. they’re in to win, not make a statement.
2021 and 2022 I fully expect will be shocking, destabilizing, and lawbreaking. Preparing for the worst; they’ve warned us. Who disbelieves them?
Thank You. Thank You. Thank You.
This is the new news, plus the extra.
PS… thank you for the edit button, like it was nuttin.
beachbum, the edit button was a great addition.
Our current comment system is lacking, or at least, I have no idea how to use any features.
There seems to be no way to get back to a post, or know if anyone has replied to a post.
Help me out if I’m wrong.
I have the same question. Is there a “how to guide?” I tried going to the “We get questions” section but I can’t see any comments.
Next to the little red flag on every comment, there is a little chain/link. Click on that and copy the comment link, then paste & go. Puts the comment in your history (if you save it) and you can go back into your history to return to the comment. That’s how I keep up with replies.
I agree. The best I can do is note the time of the original comment (not the replies), and then go back and search for it.
I would appreciate the page number links that appear at the bottom of the comments to appear at the top of the comments as well. I like to start on page one when I have time.
Sundance, you and your team are amazing. I am always thankful that I found this site several years ago. You and your team have built an incredible, unmatched site.
Thank you bunches!!!!
Thanks to you SD and crew. Your hard work and dedication to our little community are priceless. Kudos and may you all be richly blessed by Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
Thank you Sundance for all you do and have done. I just want to say I found CTH way back when through the wonderful Rush Limbaugh, RIP. He was and is a guiding light
Great job.
You are doing great work Sundance. I am sure other search engines will advance as G’s attempts to stifle free speech fail.
Keeping the faith.
When I read this I think of TreeBranch as future replacement for Facebook and Treeper as replacement for twitter
and privacy maintained too
Nice!
Organize the 75+ million into a consumers “Buying Block”. You have the technology.
Thank you for all your hard work.
“Over the past several weeks the tech team behind CTH 2.0 has been working on a test site”
What a novel idea! I thought that idea had been abandoned. Let the users be the 2nd wave of “beta” testers! (Sarcasm)
FYI, I wrote my 1st computer program on an Olivetti Programa 101 in my Senior year High School Physics class in 1969.
Thanks Sundance. God bless! Keep up the good work.
For me, it is very heartening to find you here, the same, every day.
I switched to Duckduckgo 11 years ago and might have used Google a few times when I briefly triggered some traps when initializing new computers.
To CTH tech team: I’m not a great computer savvy person so there may already be an answer to my plea that I’m not aware of. My plea: when I post a comment, I have no idea if anyone responds to it. Impossible for me to have a blog discussion with any others. Is there a way to get notification when someone responds to my post? So on this post, I’ll have to write down the subject and then the eastern time that shows on my post. I’ll come back to my post as I have time today and scroll down the times until I hopefully find this post and see if I get an answer. Surely I’m not doing this the best way possible–
I have the same question.
tktk…. See my reply to Cavt (above).
Previously there was a bell at the top of one’s screen that would indicate a reply had come in to one’s comment. Tapping that bell would open up the reply without taking one away from whatever site one was on.
Also, once the bell “opened,” one could tap again and would be taken directly to the reply. It was wonderful!
See comments regarding the bell (above). Apparently it was a very popular feature and I trust eventually we will see it again.
I am guessing that the bell was a feature of wordpress.com, which is why we got cancelled in the first place.
This is now a hosted wordpress site, which gives us more privacy and more control of our destiny.
I may be wrong, and am certainly not technical enough to explain it properly. But, I do know the difference in “WordPress” and “WordPress.com.”
Next to the little red flag on every comment, there is a little chain/link. Click on that and copy the comment link, then paste & go. Puts the comment in your history (if you save it) and you can go back into your history to return to the comment. That’s how I keep up with replies.
Alternately, use your browser’s “Find in page” function (in Firefox it’s Ctrl+G) to search for your name. It’s a lot easier than looking manually.
Cool trick! The chain link dealie works perfectly for me.
Thanks!
blue bell next to post comment.
Psalm 34. They that seek the Lord will lack no good thing. It has been very hard forme to focus on this psalm while watching th ingress already struggling get flattened even more. I’m a pastor and mental health professional. Gratutude is key and when it takes root in your heart help others reframe their lives until they also get it
Nonessential, so true, gratitude for what you have is the key to being at peace. Sometimes I get angry and frustrated, and all l have to do is stop and think of what I have to be grateful for and I’m fine again.
All in. Much appreciation, Sundance.
The Truth and The Tree will set us Free! Full speed ahead Sundance.
Thanks Sundance and your entire team for your recent history of tech miracles transporting the site to safety. And thanks now as you folks work to make it more and more secure and more and more user friendly. First place I go every day.
What a blessing to have news that is reliable and well written.
I was lead here by a poster at Lucianne who talked about what a great site and source of truth CTH was. That was many years ago. I believe it was in the Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman era. CTH has been one of my first “stops” every morning since then, and I have posted links to many CTH articles elsewhere. I’ve also gotten friends and family visiting here and spreading the word to their circles. I am incredibly grateful to Sundance for providing this excellent site and to those like Ad Rem and Sharon and Menagerie and others who keep it sane…Thank you and God bless…
“The truth has no agenda, and people are beginning to see now just how far ahead CTH was within our explanations of the people and institutional motives in the world of politics. “
Knowledge is power and knowledge of the Elites, the Uniparty, etc. is the key to victory. Spread that knowledge. They hate sunlight.
WellDone Sundance! Thanks for working so hard to keep this site secure and honest!
AND thanks to The Crew too.
Now just make sure the links in your stories are not just Youtube videos and diversify your platform to links on other more conservative friendly platforms like Rumble. Link to RSBN streams instead of Cspan and PBS.
Thank you Sundance we matter to you, you Sir matter to US and thank you for this amazing platform we us to communicate. Is is possible for CTH to reach out to President Trump with advice on how to start a platform that you have and use. I understand President Trump is thinking of starting his own media company to communicate with his supporters and this would be a tremendous plus for the nation if you can guide him and assist him in any way.
God Bless CTH and all its users.
I too start the morning with the CTH and The Lord’s Prayer. It gives me insight that I do not get at other sites. Thank you very much for your perseverance, faith and guidance.
Well done. Thank you.
Do not understand the techie stuff… but do understand how important Sundance thinks we treepers are… DONATING today to help the cause
I just set up a small monthly recurring charge. It will be easily affordable to me, and yet add up to more than what I pay for many other online subscriptions I read.
I come to this site every day.
Just to point out. The paragraph break function is weird and needs fixing. That said, great job on the transition to the new platform. And thank you for keeping it up and running without any interrptions. I am sure it was a lot of work, costly and stressful on all.
I always found it difficult to locate Big Ugly articles.
Sundance; the 85% / 15% numbers pose a question regarding a safe method of reaching Patriots and future Patriots blocked by Google and other Search Engines. If the big picture goal of the CTH community site includes reaching Patriots without the gaming of people for profit and expose’, could you build into the platform a secured direct link of site “referral”? Perhaps that’s already done.
The mechanism used by social sites is by direct link secured to the site. They never allow ‘sharing’ the page by email or indirectly through the server. We use those middlemen to share the CTH site.
Social sites operate as pirates raiding Users info for Narcissic use and abuse selling it secretly, reporting it to Govt. agencies and dangerously suggesting direct contact with strangers by posting photos of them on “your” page so you can peek into their stats. I’m not suggesting this evil intent.
Merely pointing out I’m aware of the evil intent and that my suggestion should not be construed to imitate any social site but is solely for safety when sharing CTH by transmitting the link by eliminating as many middlemen as possible, diminishing the pillaging of the CTH community connections and ideas.
The mechanism of storing what people say can be used for good or evil. Agreeing your motivations and goals are for good; would an on site link to share direct to Patriots we know help distribute the CTH site?
I copy and paste the CTH link to friends in my email program. I also use the “share” icon at the top corner of the Safari server + Duck Duck Go Search Engine; particularly if I’m using my phone. Hadn’t thought about this decades old habit compromising the very security of confidentiality you’re addressing.
Can you suggest or address specifically blind breeches of security, information gathering by Tech firms, government, saboteurs, when forwarding / sharing CTH via a third party server, email?
Thanks Sundance!
Nothing aggravates the totalitarian-left more than seeing joy amid the majority of people within a nation they are trying to destroy. (Sundance quote) How true that is,the liberals we know never smile,let alone laugh.
Columnist Kurt Schlicter calls us the “normals”
The totalitarian left hates us normals
Is Sundance Paul Revere?
Answer:
Yes. But even better.
Hey Sundance, I have a good idea fairy. Take Rush’s Spot. I use the optical scanner to read CTH, instead of listening to talk radio or watching TV. CTH is much better content. I love “listening” to this site while driving, walking about etc.
It’s easy and great way to get informed without having to waste time reading at the computer. It’s just a two finger swipe down on the phone and you push play. Done. The downside is, I have to choose if I want the scanner to read down the main page to hear your commentary or to click the individual links.
If I opt for the sanner to read the main page, I have to risk death or wait for a traffic light to click on the “read more” to finish the individual articles. Or, if I click on the link for each individual article, it will read the article and the comments for the page that is up (which is nice for longer trips about town) but it won’t read all pages of comments, just the one currently up when I swipe down. It has made me like red lights.
CTH would be almost like a broadcast feed, only waaaay better if it was possible to create a format where there was a way to just choose a button to have the scanner keep reading everything. I know it may be a ridiculous request, but if it’s not, I think you could garner a huge audience of followers who listen to your “show”.
I really feel you are at the cutting edge of trend that cannot be stopped. Newscasts and corporate programming will not die, but they are undead dinosaurs. They are boring, unimaginative and appeal only to the those profiting from the purchase of air time. Their format is akin to a bunch of old ladies preening and wagging their fingers at the young folk, thinking everyone is both influenced and awed by their brilliance.
I see the ability to use modern technology for individuals who are strong and capable to rise to the top of current communication as being akin to Westward expansion. LIke the printing press did to the Clergy. Individuals can be stopped, battles will be won and lost, but in the end, resistance is futile. The movement is too great…a tusnami. You are at the tip of the wave.
God bless this battle tank/ dreadnaught/A10 of the internet!
Since I have removed myself from twitter and most tv news, the TCT is where I’m getting most of my information, and it quite sufficient. I appreciate the work Sundance has done to keep this site out of the clutches of Big Tech.
Love Sundance and Treepers!!! Thankful for authentic Patriots with a Biblical World View. God Bless America!!!
This really is the one place a feel like I am having a safe coversation.
Thanks for all you have done and are doing on everyone’s behalf. May God richly bless you and the whole team.
Thank you… thank you to all of you.
Hey guys….. we know its a tough deal….. But it really is appreciated….
I just can’t fathom how you, Sundance and the CTH team, have taken your mission to heart. I never thought anyone would ever succeed in this endeavor. You will never be forgotten. The Lord has blessed you beyond belief. Love you all.