So the community is aware, we will not be replacing the existing website with the new website tomorrow. Yes, we will be making the new website publicly accessible in its current form for the community to review where the development will continue, but not replacing the existing evergreencoin.org until it is in a more complete state.
I do not want the first impression new-comers see to be something that is incomplete and I regret to inform the community, it is much further from complete then we all had hoped. David of Sci Fi Domain cited problematic migration of certain modules from his staff's development servers to the EGC servers as a big loss of time. This loss of time has translated into less development time. David also cited that migrating a client's website prior to completion is not normal operation, though we had agreed on this approach previously and I had upgraded and provided access to the appropriate servers long ago.
In David's defense, and as I have previously stated, we did spend much time discussing the technical advantages and underlining motives of EGC. Communicating this clearly and fully to David did give him, and myself even after verbalizing, a better idea of the presentation we sought in our aim to make something more inviting to non-technical people. Though communication was 'reset' a few times due to communication gaps resulting from issues, both professional and personal, on both mine and David's end. I do have to accept blame for letting this phase drag out much longer than I should have in hindsight and not taken a hard-line approach to the timeline, certainly after the original contracted date estimation passed. The enormous time difference was also a hindrance to communications that needed to be verbal. Written communication would never have sufficed.
To be perfectly honest, and many of you that have talked with me might already know, it would seem my kind-hardheartedness has failed me to be able to play the hard-line role strong enough. I apologize for that, but it is my nature. My only defense, I still can't find "hard-line" in the contract. At any rate, the community will be able to view the new website tomorrow as promised but again, its form at that time might be less than the expectations I have raised. I did not intend to mislead. I only made pertaining post after communicating with Sci Fi Domains. Nothing I ever said in any posts, including this one, came as a surprise to them. The new site will not replace evergreencoin.org until it is all that myself, the community, and David have imagined.
No worries, good to be transparent - there are always niggles with the release of a new site.
And sorry, I don't think that I'll be around for the community hangout today - I made commitments to take my wife shopping...