With heavy heart and not without a few tears, I’ve updated House Rancourt’s front page with the news.

It was harder than I thought. Even with a dozen new sites in production and beta, I felt a sharp tug on my heartstrings and felt my hand hesitating to click “Save.” This has been my home — our home, for so many of us — for years. Yes, it’s clumsy and antiquated and dearly in need of an update. Yes, it’s impossible to maintain and yes, it’s a dinosaur. But somehow, even with the site itself offline, this change to the front page felt more like pulling the plug than making the decision not to revive it did.

So much so that I’ve decided to not only hold onto the domain name, but there might just be a House Rancourt branded product in the Bauhaus site family in the near future.

It will capture the spirit of House Rancourt nicely, I think. It will be a cathedral, not a bazaar. It will be a repository of creative work from many different contributors. It will be a successor to my favorite part of House Rancourt, the part of which I was the proudest, and yes, by God, I will work this background into its design. It has a name, but no, I’m not tellin’ yet.

Keep your eyes here, friends. It’s gonna be amazing.