History

Originally it started after I downloaded 6717, 9199, 13604, and some other dashboard (15574 I think?) for myself, saw how annoying it was and thought to myself "it would be cool if I collected all the dashboards I can find".

A few dashboards in, I also thought I should make this public, and started forming plans. I considered GitHub (and there is an outdated repo there), but there was no easy way to let people download specific dashboards. There also came worries about a DMCA, though I seem to have luck so far.

Only 22 dashboards so far... Very little compared to today's collection. The homebrew dashes were scrapped because some still receive updates, and are easy to find and install.

There was also some vibecoding to speed the extracting and renaming (the AI f🐬ed up most of it anyways).

I decided to originally upload it to mega.nz, categorized only accross revisions and not type (ie. Blades, NXE without the Retail, Beta). As the number of dashboards grew, so did my

I had the initial archive ready, with 98 dashboards (95 excluding duplicates), and sent it to a person to betatest. It proved a success.

I made a quick mockup on Google Sites with the general layout.

At first, I wanted to make the site on Google Sites (that is the current place), but somebody offered to make a subdomain on their site for the dashes. I ended up sticking with uploading the site myself, to have total control over it.

I had a website ready, and ended up going with Framer, another website builder, as I wanted to make it look like the NXE dashboard.

Still accessible to this day under https://360dashes.framer.website !

Seems like I had a proper .org URL at one point? Weird as I definitely didn't ever pay for one. Could be a Framer thing I forgot.

I realized that work on the Framer site was going slow, and I was slow in adding information. I also realized that I should probably ditch the Framer site, and moved to Google Sites.

I dust out the old barebones mockup I made mentioned earlier (below) and got to work.

The website you're on gets created, with an entirely different look than the current one, and much less content – pretty much only being the links to the GDrive.

Registered 360dashes.xo.je on InfinityFree (I'm in no way sponsored by them), and had to do a workaround involving adding extra to the beginning of the domain, hence the "ww1." part.

I start the medium redesign of the archive, beginning with the colors, then the text and some layouts, ending with the site that's available today.

A shower thought made me realize that I can use the required extra beginning part to my advantage. I registered https://dashes.xo.je and added 360 as the beginning part, to form https://360.dashes.xo.je. Still won't do anything about the xo.je part, though. I don't want to spend money on a domain.

I notice the redirect page errors out. Upon further checking I messed up the folder tree... oops.