LSL.Dev / a Modern LSL Portal

[Martin-Pitt]

Welcome, scripter!

Several months back the idea had been floating around for a modern home of the LSL Portal after messing around with Astro.

Always been a huge fan of the LSL Portal, even as far back to its original home on the old WakkaWiki-based website.

I've seen the wiki grow and evolve over time, being a reliable partner to my scripting career always with some browser tab open to one of its pages next to my SL client. Even became part of its history by continuously trying to contribute back where I could, while also feeling intimidated by the complicated templates of the wiki.

My goal with a modernised home is to make a natural home dedicated to LSL.

To do that it should be fast and reliable.

• Fast — I specifically mean being able to continue to enjoy the dense, muscle-memory friendly navigation and exploration. From the dense dashboard page to drilling down the taxonomies such as the features and categories to the exact page you need. I do also want to also look at rewriting the Search bar component to be highly navigable (keyboard navigation) with instant results and richer snippets.
• Reliable — I want the wiki to continue on managed hosting (such as CDNs / Vercel / etc. -- not having to micromanage the server itself) and make use of service workers so that its truly offline capable -- always prioritising to giving you a page at all, even if it is out of date or there are network issues.

Additionally, the work will help to figure out what a home for SLua could look like as well, there will be a sister project over at Martin-Pitt/slua.dev based on the work in this project.

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Still trying to figure out the basics of the project by myself atm, coming up with templates, as well as a migration strategy of existing content from the existing LSL Wiki (which is all licensed CC BY-SA 3.0).

I'm using the Astro starter kit Starlight, which is documentation-focused and gave me a lot of confidence for this project.