The new Glitch community site is separate work, but the team should have an update for you on the new containers soon!
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All looks great 
Will you be updating the paid plans? I would love a plan that has 10 or 20 boosted projects
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Two suggestions:
First, It is right now having issues…
But second, I think you should make this a GitHub Repository so people can create pull requests for it and make suggested edits! If that is possible…
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i like the vibe of the new website, it reminds me of the old Glitch.
very unlikely. Glitch hasn’t made their website open-source and they probably won’t soon. It’s a bit ironic since they require us to open-source our projects unless we pay, but keep their own website closed-source
yeah it’s still a preview after all
Yeah, I agree, 5 boosted projects is nowhere near enough.
Even with more boosted projects:
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Hetzner Cloud gives you double the RAM, 40GB storage, full root access for ~$4.70/month. You can even increase your storage for $0.05/GB per month
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DigitalOcean Basic Droplets give you same ram, 25GB storage for $6/month
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Glitch Pro only gives you 2GB ram and 400MB of storage for $8/month . Both of the options above offer much more storage and more ram for much cheaper prices.
(per boosted project, although combining multiple boosted project’s size and ram is basically impossible)
You even have more access to the projects themselves, since getting anything like Bun on Glitch is a hassle without relying on community projects, and a bunch of stuff is banned.
That being said, the free Glitch plan is amazing and I highly recommend it for anyone starting with programming. Glitch is easy to use, and deploying projects is fast, you just don’t get the control you would with a VPS.
I’m not saying not to buy Glitch Pro, since it also helps keep the great free version of Glitch alive. I am just suggesting improving some stuff to make it look more appealing.
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What if we did? Curious what folks think would be the potential there if this new version of the community-facing site were open sourced and took pull requests.
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I think it would be cool to have bits of the website having a mark by someone. If the staff likes one of the changes, they can merge it and boom. Now the website is not JUST made by the staff but it is also by the community. I was thinking about a catch-phrase (not that it would be used of course):
“A website for the community by the community…”
I would love to help with the making.
Who knows, it could speed things up!
the community could then continue to look at how it makes API calls. current community site makes this possible, because Glitch API requests come from the client. preview site does API requests from the server.
but going back to the concept of taking pull requests, that would be a neat way to open up some of the “email support” kind of workflows for maintaining the current site, e.g. submitting app of the week nominations. imagine doing that by opening a PR that adds it to a file full of submissions or something. people have discussed having community submitted starter projects displayed too etc
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Back in the days (2019), it was open-source! The homepage back then had a small section at the end linking to the Glitch project with the source of the website, and if you were lucky enough you could see the Glitch devs online and messing around with the files.
The project used to exist at ~community, but if you’re curious, the old source still exists on GitHub. I tried setting it up for fun, but I couldn’t get the pages to render content, probably due to how I had to use Node v16 because v8 (its that old!) simply refuses to run on Windows 11 or the fact that I don’t know how CoffeeScript works.
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yeah, I still have a remix of that one that still works! see https://old-glitch-restored.glitch.me/ (note: it takes a while to load)
This would actually be pretty neat!
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Will it support github auth?
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probably by the time they release it. I’m guessing they don’t want to add the preview site to their GitHub auth settings until it’s more stable
Sorry I didn’t reply immediately. Had issues signing in via GitHub bc of my two-step verification being outdated.
On mobile, if I try to program a website through Glitch on my phone, if code is already there, I cannot delete it, even if it is my project. If it’s empty, I cannot copy and paste code there as it will delete immediately. And if I try to save the modified version, it will only save if I turn on Desktop Mode on my phone.
I would send a screenshot but it wouldn’t show the issue, and I can’t send videos either as the site I used to compress the videos is acting up rn.
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It errored for me, too.
I prefer the transparent black background.
Suggestion!
Can you please make rounded corners for the website? In my opinion, I think that would be pretty cool! Right?
personally I like the sharp corners, it’s pretty unique
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Thats okay, we have our opinions 
You should add a leather switch on the top where the account and the “new project” button is to where the user can just press that switch and it will switch from light and dark mode, also a setting in the account settings under a section called “display” which they can in there choose a color palette or a background for that user.