Getmonero.org to switch to Astro with fresh design by rehrar

The Monero community has apparently finally reached consensus¹ in today’s Monero Website Workgroup meeting² to migrate the official Getmonero.org website from Jekyll to Astro³ and task rehrar⁴ with creating the new design:

In short, unless there are EXTREMELY compelling reasons given now or after the fact (and they should be very very very compelling, not just “I wasn’t there”, we are now, definitively, moving forward with a plan of Astro, and a design that I will make (that can be tweaked by the community later, of course) (rehrar)

The new website will not ship any JavaScript⁵ despite concerns⁶ about using a JS framework.

Visit SyntheticBird45’s monero-site-astro⁷ repository and the associated onion⁸ for a rough prototype of the current website’s Astro port. The initial version of rehrar’s design is available on Figma⁹.

It is worth noting that Getmonero.org was completely redesigned and restructured by rehrar in 2017¹⁰ and the community has been considering potential website redesigns and Jekyll alternatives for a while now¹¹.

This is an ongoing story and the report will be updated when new information is available.