@Eldest-God-andrew health_and_safety flash_onAdmin
First off: you might've just gotten logged out (sorry!). I'll explain why in a moment; in the meantime, don't worry – nothing has changed. You can log back in and nothing will be different.
Both the language (Ruby) and the framework (Rails) that Notebook.ai runs off of have been modernized to recent versions, and bring a host of under-the-hood improvements, security fixes, and additional capabilities. Now that this (large) upgrade is in place, I plan on returning fully to feature development. You can expect more page types (for both free and premium accounts!), much-needed form improvements (like autosave and reordering fields), and more ways to worldbuild around the site. More news on that coming soon! :)
Much of what's "new" is included in that new engine of Rails (and will manifest as features soon), but some notable mentions are:
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Much-improved execution time and memory usage of the language, meaning all pages will load faster and faster.
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Your session is now encoded more securely into a cookie (which is what keeps you logged in). Since this new system isn't compatible with the old format, most existing cookies are now invalid and we'll need to log back in again (which will generate one with the new system). Very sorry for any inconvenience here, but your accounts will be safer in the long term!
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It's now much easier to have the page you load talk directly with the server without you needing to reload it, making autosave and similar improvements a must-do (soon).
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Almost all of the libraries we use can now be updated to their latest versions, also bringing features and security updates.
