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Moved again: end of an era
When CALS was first made publicly available in 2008, it ran on a funnily shaped beige minitower. Then it moved on to a retired 2U rack server with RAID and 6 GB of memory, and in December 2019 it moved to a retired 1U rack server with ZFS and 12 GB of memory. They were all named after femme fatales from Spirit.
Yesterday I started the move of the final bits and pieces to a VPS, a virtual private server, and CALS was up and running a few hours after midnight. There aren't enough conlangers on this planet that fancy hardware is actually needed, but it sure feels weird to have only 2 GB of memory and 32 GB of disk available... and no direct access to iron.
This does have some practical effects on the future of CALS. File upload suddenly became much harder, as they will have to be hosted elsewhere. Backups cannot accumulate locally either. The previous system was set up so airtight that it was hard to update, but it is easier now so maybe CALS will get more dev-time.
Pinned: 2022-01-30 15:21
Login with Twitter and Github works again
The problem with twitter and github logins have been fixed. It turned out to be the same underlying problem for both.
Pinned: 2020-01-07 20:45
2025-04-03 20:06 Changed language: Ackoya
2025-04-03 20:04 New language: Ackoya
What defines your conlang?
By adding your language here, and answering the questions by choosing a single value for each relevant WALS-feature (e.g. it's not a goal to answer every single one of them!), you might discover new things in your conlang, or grammar gaps that need to be filled somehow. By reading the descriptions of each feature at WALS, you also get a crash course in linguistic typology and universals – but be warned, some of those papers are overly scholarly...
CALS challenges
- Pick some features and values at random, then try to make a language out of that.
- What would the most average conlang look like? Should it be updated to stay the most average?
- Contrary, would a conlang with many rare and unusual features be usable at all?
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