Skyward Summer 2025 Sitrep

A Slew of Website, Social Media Updates to Prep for Future Content

As we begin making moves towards the next wave of more complex content, we also must make sure to take care of the "less sexy" side of managing our various online points of presence and the website itself. Of course, there are always so many notes in our changelog for things like this they are only really interesting to a few of our staff members. However, we want to point out the big stuff that will improve our user's experiences.

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Website Content Numbers

During the updates some great numbers were revealed within concerning the content on our website. Here are two big juicy factoids we would like to share. As of the time of this posting, Skyward Flight Media has posted:

483 website releases about 83 flight games and simulators.

As we near the milestone of 500 releases, we begin to wonder what we should do to celebrate.

Desktop and Mobile Website Improvements

Key changes to the main menus of the website have happened in the past few weeks, but we have not pointed them out.

• Front page now has a scrolling banner which will have certain types of content or flight sim related ad rotated over time.

• On Mobile view, the main menu has been decluttered and organized for efficiency.

• On Desktop view, the main menu uses more image-based menus to visualize choices while incorporating buttons to reach specific parts of our catalog.

• Many dead webpages were removed with further pages trimmed.

• Dead hyperlinks in older parts of the websites removed.

Tabs Added to Select Pages

Certain webpages are now gaining tabbed interfaces to expand on content available while remaining on the same webpage. Examples can be seen at the following places: front page, indie flight, VRChat aviation. Over time we will be adding more of these tabbed menus to larger sections of the website.

Indie Highlight Series Gets Formal Page

The signature series for the website right now is undoubtedly the recent Indie Highlight Series. To further support the series and concentrate its content, it now has its own area on our website with quick access added to the existing Indie Fight Games section of our website and banners in certain high traffic areas. See it yourself: https://www.skywardfm.com/indie-highlight-series

Link In Bio Section Title

Our social media channels are gradually being updated with a link in bio style aggregator like Linktree or Cardd. However, this is a webpage on our website simply designed to match that style of rapid access to our many links and certain parts of our content. Check it out: https://www.skywardfm.com/bio

Social Media Updates

Cross posting for Skyward Flight Media has become slightly more complicated with the addition of our long-lost Facebook page. The mismatches between Bluesky, Facebook and X.com (Twitter!) are more prevalent than ever, even with the use of the very handy Fedica service. We continue to explore options to keep posting consistent across all platforms while avoiding media incompatibilities.