Good news! We have begun crafting a brand-new website engine—built entirely from scratch(!)—thanks to the generous sponsorship flowing from our software subscription sales.
Our new RIWEB engine is specifically tailored to the needs of RouletteIdeas.com, featuring deep integration for our core Roulette discussion and software offerings, from the database schema all the way to the fine details of the user interface.
This thread serves as both a changelog and a TODO list, with subsequent updates posted below and merged into this main entry to keep everything neat and centralized here.
While we continue active development throughout the rest of 2025, we'll keep our web engines separated at the server level. This ensures stability until the new RIWEB engine reaches a feature-rich state and is ready to become our primary public platform.
At that point, we'll gain a beautiful level of independence and enhanced security for our community—with some sweet benefits.
For example, we'll no longer be subject to rushed mandatory updates or vulnerable to the zero-day exploits that often affect traditional, widely-used web software.
At the same time, we gain the ability to develop Roulette-specific enhancements (such as [wheel] and [felt] tags for instance), designed to improve & enrich our community's discussion, to serve fellow members better.
Vic