Updated site with a news entry and service url for fossil scm hosting.

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                 <h1>News</h1>
+                <h2>November 2022: Phasing out Gitea and introducing Fossil SCM</h2>
+                <p>
+                    Recently it has come to my attention that the owners of Gitea have been making some changes
+                    in their project management, mainly in the form of providing support to businesses. For more
+                    information, view
+                    <a href="https://blog.gitea.io/2022/10/open-source-sustainment-and-the-future-of-gitea/">the Gitea blog</a>.
+                </p>
+                <p>
+                    Unfortunately, with the way things have gone, the community seems to be weary and distrustful of a
+                    number of moves made by the current owners. My personal concerns are about one of the owners using
+                    Gitea is a lucrative money-making scheme. To me, that's a deal breaker, as I don't know if I can
+                    still trust the project after this. Unfortunate, since I know Gitea is supposed to be a community-run
+                    effort.
+                </p>
+                <p>
+                    As such, I have decided to deprecate the Gitea service on Subcon Town. It will no longer be updated,
+                    but will be kept alive for a while until all projects have been migrated. I am additionally looking
+                    into migrating the data to a Gogs installation, continuing a git hosting service that way. Meanwhile,
+                    I have opted to set up Fossil as an alternative. Fossil SCM is a slightly different VCS, similar to git,
+                    but more geared towards tightly nit development groups that work closer together.
+                </p>
+                <p>
+                    While fossil may feel a bit more old-fashioned, I think it's also a bit more of a fit with Subcon's
+                    pubnix feel. Users will be able to set up and manage their fossil repositories from their home
+                    directories, in the new "public_fossil" directory. To create new repositories, you can use the
+                    "mkfossil &lt;filename&gt;" command. This is a wrapper around "fossil init" that helps set the
+                    correct file permissions. If done right, your new repo will pop up at <a href="https://museum.subcon.town">museum.subcon.town</a>
+                    from where you'll be able to administrate it.
+                </p>
+                <p>
+                    With the introduction of new commands and functions for users, I plan on writing a wiki article
+                    that lists all available functions and how to use them. This should help new users settle in.
+                    Note that the README files in your home directories will be kept updated as well.
+                </p>
+                <p>
+                    Hope to see you soon on Subcon Town!
+                </p>
+
                 <h2>October 2022: Finalizing stuff</h2>
                 <p>
                     It has been quite a while, but slowly the server has been getting ready to start functioning
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                     <tr> <td>Gemini:</td>           <td><a href="gemini://subcon.town">gemini://subcon.town</a></td> </tr>
                     <tr> <td>Gopher:</td>           <td><a href="gopher://subcon.town">gopher://subcon.town</a></td> </tr>
                     <tr> <td>Gitea:</td>            <td><a href="https://vcs.subcon.town">vcs.subcon.town</a></td> </tr>
+                    <tr> <td>Fossil SCM:</td>       <td><a href="https://museum.subcon.town">museum.subcon.town</a></td> </tr>
                     <tr> <td>Nextcloud:</td>        <td><a href="https://cloud.subcon.town">cloud.subcon.town</a></td> </tr>
                     </tbody>
                 </table>