Dear Arvid,

Thank you very much for your kind words—and, above all, for everything you have done for FlatPress over the past almost eight years.

You have not only advanced the project technically, but also given it a face through your open, friendly, and dependable manner. You brought people from all over the world together, reviewed contributions, fixed bugs, prepared releases, answered questions, and ensured that FlatPress remained alive after all these years. You can truly be proud of that.

I would also like to thank you for the great trust you have placed in me by officially handing over responsibility for the entire project. It is a great honour for me—and, at the same time, a responsibility that I approach with deep respect.

I will continue to lead FlatPress with the same enthusiasm that I have brought to the project over the past months: preserving what has proven valuable, implementing necessary modernisations with care, and always ensuring that FlatPress remains what makes it special—a lightweight, independent, and user-friendly flat-file CMS.

FlatPress, however, is much more than its code. The project lives through the people who report bugs, contribute translations, develop plugins and themes, help others in the forum, or simply share their experiences. I would therefore like to extend the same invitation to everyone: anyone who would like to support FlatPress or actively contribute to its future is always very welcome.

Dear Arvid, I wish you all the very best as you enjoy your newly gained free time. I sincerely hope that you will remain connected to FlatPress and visit us from time to time. The door will, of course, always be open to you.

Thank you for everything you have built and for making the future of FlatPress possible. I will do my very best to continue this special project in the spirit in which you have led it—and together with the community.

All the best, and see you soon!

Frank / Fraenkiman

Hey folks,

this may come surprising: Here’s my farewell.
I finally accept that I currently just don’t find sufficient spare time for my beloved little blogging engine anymore. From now on, Fraenkiman is head of the FlatPress project. Looking at the development history of the last months, this actually isn’t that surprising: He did basically all the work lately.

How can this farewell possibly be good news? Well, I was lucky enough to spend almost eight years with this neat little Open Source project. After taking it over from NoWhereMan in 2018, I had the best times developing this little gem further. People from all over the world sent me emails, bug reports, pull requests and translated language files. Such a joy to see you helping each other on the support forum, to visit the blog sites you built with FlatPress, to read into the plugins you coded! Aren’t this enough reasons to feel grateful and happy? :)

But what does it mean for the FlatPress project, and for my FlatPress blog?, I hear you ask. No need to worry at all, Fraenkiman has got you covered! He’ll simply carry on with the brilliant work he’s been doing so far - thanks a lot for officially taking over, mate!

I will pass everything to Frank: Website, Forum, Wiki, Mastodon, GitHub, … well, the whole project.
Please support him on his mission, just like you supported me the last years - so he can feel the proudness and joy I did.
And maybe one of you wants to take this opportunity to step forward and join him in becoming a part of FlatPress? I’m sure Frank could use companions on his mission!

It was such a pleasure - see you around, folks!
All the best,
Arvid :)

Image: “goodbye” by woodleywonderworks - licensed under CC BY 2.0