Aurora has grown a lot faster than we expected. In roughly two months we passed 40,000 downloads across GameBanana, NexusMods, AyakaMods and GitHub, and the Discord has turned into a genuinely useful place to get modding help.
What we haven't had is anywhere to write things down. So here it is.
What goes here#
This site has two halves:
- Posts — longer pieces. Technical write-ups, design decisions, community news, the occasional postmortem when we break something.
- Changelogs — every release, version by version, in a consistent format you can actually skim.
Both have RSS feeds if you'd rather not check manually.
Why a separate site#
The main site is a marketing page. It loads a background video, it has a parallax hero, and every page inlines its own copy of a thousand-line stylesheet. That's fine for five pages that change twice a year. It is not fine for something we want to add to every week.
So blogs.getaurora.moe is its own thing: markdown in, static HTML out, one shared stylesheet, no JavaScript beyond a header that fades in on scroll.
If a page doesn't need JavaScript to show its content, it shouldn't need JavaScript to show its content.
On the tooling#
Posts are markdown files with a small frontmatter block:
---
title: Introducing the Aurora blog
date: 2026-08-05
description: A place for release notes and technical write-ups.
tags: [news]
---
A build script turns those into HTML, regenerates the index pages, rebuilds both RSS feeds, and rewrites the sitemap. There's no database, no admin panel, and no login form — which also means there's nothing to break into.
Full GFM is supported, so tables work:
| Platform | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Windows | Native | Installer and portable |
| Linux | Unofficial | Needs Wine, Proton, Lutris or Heroic |
As do task lists:
- Set up the blog
- Write the first post
- Actually keep posting
What's next#
We're working on a proper write-up of how Everlight handles mod load ordering, which is the single most common thing people ask about in Discord. That should land in the next couple of weeks.
Until then — come say hi.