It’s that time again where the clock ticks over and we start wondering what’s in store all again, the Ozzies report from the future, London gets its grand fireworks show with a painfully tacky soundtrack and Berlin turns into a warzone capable of rivalling 1945 (I’m only partly exaggerating).

After opening 2025 from the top deck of a warship I had a much more modest NYE this time around, after partying my way into near bankruptcy and knackering myself with an overnight gig I decided to stay home, sleeping through most of the day thanks to my room light crapping out leaving me at risk of eye strain if I got back to work, just a little nap and we can look into that I thought, then that nap took me to about 20 minutes to midnight.

But it wasn’t a misery guts time or anything, I had a comfy lie in, read some lovely messages of thanks from friends, then watched the fireworks tackfest cuddled up with my parents on the sofa, dancing the morning in with my earphones after they pottered off, looking forward with hope.

Now though it’s time to get back to work, since I want to continue my new tradition of the New Years Address, summing up and reflecting, this one will be a shorter one since I already gave you the history of this site last time and I don’t need to bang on about it twice, but what I can talk about is this year’s records.

2025 was another busy year for ED, as we released 19 new articles, totalling to 81,610 words and approximately 390 minutes of reading time, that’s around 6 hours and 30 minutes in normal people timing. That’s 16 original articles plus 3 written versions of videos from Massi’s Cheecken channel, making 2025’s content the second biggest batch for the site so far, bested only by our 2024 launch year.

However, that’s actually a massive undercount and 2025 really is in the lead, making another rise for ED, because last year we also launched Entropic Domain’s first sister site, The Ukrainian Divide Multimedial Article, at divide.entropicdomain.net.

The Divide MMA hosts the entire Ukrainian Divide documentary, by far our most extensive project to date and likely a project that will keep that mantle for a long time to come, although hosted via a different platform ( Quartz instead of Hugo) we definitely consider it a part of ED, with the separate hosting being used because of the sheer scale of the project, far more than even our biggest other articles, and so we could take advantage of Quartz’s graph navigation features.

Since it’s formatted differently to the main ED it’s harder to get a full word and time count, but I can tell you from looking at our original Google Doc of the project that just the main 4 episodes of Divide, not counting the extra research resources and bonus content the MMA also includes, totals to 109,892 words, nearly as much as all of 2024’s ED output just by itself.

As well as content, the site has experienced some notable backend changes courtesy of Massi, with a wholesale optimisation of assets like images and gifs that make the file sizes of the site smaller, page loading times quicker and data use lesser, so it’s less of a heavy fucker for us to have on our drives, easier for you to read and less costly to your internet plans, isn’t that nice?

Another major backend change Massi made was painstakingly removing all of the “forbidden characters”, no no symbols you’re not allowed to use in file or folder names on Windows, from the site’s file structure, making it finally possible to edit the site on Windows instead of being totally reliant on Linux, a major problem I ran into in the past.

This makes it much more convenient to edit my work since I can do all my work on my regular PC rather than digging out my geriatric laptop. After many years of service that laptop pretty much completely died, only being brought back to life when I replaced Windows with the Kubuntu Linux OS, originally something I did as just a little experiment but because of the file structure problem that laptop monopolised my work on ED for the last 2 years, a massive faff to deal with.

Being free of that is a convenience in itself, but has kept me out of the shit since about a week ago the laptop froze up and hasn’t recovered since, seemingly finally finding its time to die for real, and I haven’t actually gotten into obsessively editing pages now it’s more conveinently like I was worried I would, beavering away at new stuff while sometimes taking the time to put out corrections with it being a much less painful job to manage.

Lastly, another major experiment being tested on some videos has been torrent distribution, which if rolled out wider can be a massive boon to the side, one of the big motives we had with ED was having a platform on our own terms, where no outside provider can decide to limit or ban our content for whatever reasons they choose, but that only worked for written works, video content was still monopolised by YouTube.

With torrent hosting there’s a sense of confidence that a video won’t just go belly up because of outside meddling, and we can release content we know full well would never be allowed on YouTube, despite their ridiculous, arbitrary moderation system they tend to be more lax than people give them credit for in what’s allowed up, but they can get censor happy extremely quickly if you delve into subjects near their bottom line, just ask Louis Rossman.

Anyhow, more is in the works, we both have some projects that got very near the finish line last year but didn’t quite make it over, and plans for much more beyond that, you can read a bit more about mine in my 2025 Roundup article, another series of addendums looking back at stuff I’ve written on over last year.

The 2025 Roundup

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Elwood

That’s all for now, get drunk, whack on some tunes, have fun, or contemplate being a year closer to the inevitable heat death of the universe if that’s more your style, but we’ve all got time on our hands once again, make what you can of it, good night and good luck!