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Our New Web Client, Sander, is Live | Are.na Editorial

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There’s a performance piece by Kristin Lucas called “Refresh,” staged (if you could call it that) in 2007 at a courthouse in California. In this piece, Lucas legally changes her name from “Kristin Sue Lucas” to “Kristin Sue Lucas.” In a statement to the judge who was deciding whether to grant this “change,” Lucas claimed that she wished to “be born again as myself, or at the very least, the most current version of myself.” Lucas explained that changing her name to the same name would be like refreshing a webpage. I mention this because Are.na's new web client, which we’ve been calling Sander, is going live today for everyone. When I tell people about Sander, I’ve found myself thinking about Lucas’s piece and others like it. It's weird to talk about Sander because, although we’ve (literally) rewritten the entirety of the front-end of Are.na, there isn’t anything super flashy or obvious we can point to as a change. We are simply now the most current version of ourselves. Sander replaces

Our New Web Client, Sander, is Live | Are.na Editorial References: CHANGELOG , Damon Zucconi , Yuli Serfaty , Morgan Mansour , Jon-Kyle Mohr , and Meg Miller Category: Hello World All Editorial Our New Web Client, Sander, is Live February 8, 2024 — by Charles Broskoski Are.na Profile [Five chairs standing before an empty stage.] There’s a performance piece by Kristin Lucas called “Refresh,” staged (if you could call it that) in 2007 at a courthouse in California. In this piece, Lucas legally changes her name from “Kristin Sue Lucas” to “Kristin Sue Lucas.” In a statement to the judge who was d

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