Recent content by Matt Derrick

the majority of the most glaring website design issues have been fixed, I'll be tweaking the smaller things over the next few days.

the email system was not sending emails correctly, this has been fixed.

reaction images are back in place and should be working normally now.

Hey folks, I'll keep this short and expand on it later, but the current plan is to keep everything here with the StP name, and keep the community open. So pretty much as it stands now, but there will be some re-arranging of the forums as described in my OP. Also there will probably be some rules...

hey folks, i owe everyone an apology for this announcement in general. i literally found out this morning about some health stuff i need to take care of. nothing serious (im not dying) but it could become serious if I don't make a pretty monumental shift in where I am spending my time, so i have...

hmmm just a quick update before i go to work, but thank you for your very detailed responses! you've given me a lot to think about. i want to emphasize that I am not 100% set on the name change and going private idea; especially @ali @Glass Roads @MetalBryan have made some very convincing...

Hey folks, it's been a minute since I've posted an announcement here... I've been taking a lot of time off from StP to adjust to a post-traveler lifestyle, and I've spent the past two to three years experimenting with various projects; most of which are things I've always wanted to do but...

Hey folks, just a quick post to let you know that the website forum software has been updated to the latest version. This reset the website design so that's why the website looks so different right now. I'll be working on rebuilding it over the next few days, and making some important...

Caught some of the lights outside of Portland, Oregon last night!

Hey folks, just a quick message to let everyone know that I'm cancelling all future plans I've posted here for the StP website. The etsy store has been closed, and the donations have been disabled. The website will continue on in a kind of 'maintenance mode' where it will go on 'as-is' for the...

we have a megathread for the van dwelling section here: https://squattheplanet.com/threads/van-dwelling-rubber-tramping-megathread.18655/ it's been a mess forever. if you want to help me re-organize it, please let me know and i'll give you write access. thanks!

A new outlook, deteriorating state of social media I've been thinking a lot lately about what an unmitigated fucking disaster social media has become in the past ten years or so. While I'm sure there will be some folks that will say 'I told you so', I don't think any of us really knew how bad...

Hey folks, just a quick update to let you know that I've changed the forum settings so that at least three tags are required when creating a new thread. Since we will eventually be moving to a tag-centric forum software, it's important that we start correctly tagging threads in order to make...