We're more than a single print brand

November 24, 2023/11.52

The next quarter-century for us, hopefully, will see a sustainable sister title to Lucire, writes Jack Yan […]

June 20, 2023/12.10

Jack Yan looks at the last five Lucire covers and how we went from a more traditional approach to a high-impact photograph with no cover lines at all […]

Reviving some of our 1998–9 articles

September 13, 2022/0.14

In the 1990s, storage space for websites was limited, and expensive. It was the norm for us, before the turn of the century (and occasionally afterwards) to remove articles to prioritize ones that were more popular or current. With one of our 25th anniversary articles being prepared for print, we dug out a handful of […]

Our search box is back in action, and continues to respect your privacy

July 18, 2022/12.10

Switching from Duck Duck Go, which appears to have lost thousands of our pages from its results, to Mojeek, means our search is now with an independent company that has had a longer history of not tracking its users […]

A 25th anniversary retrospective: leading up to Lucire’s launch in 1997

June 2, 2022/3.28

Above: Lucire’s holding page, as archived by the Internet Archive on October 17, 1997. There was no semicolon in JY&A Media; this appears to have been a bug from the Archive’s spider, as explained here. Normally, I wouldn’t be browsing the Internet Archive for old Lucire pages, especially as I have all of them […]

Technically, a big change behind the scenes

February 7, 2022/9.52

You may be wondering why there have been few updates from Lucire over the past week. It’s not because we’re observing the lunar New Year holiday, but because during January, we were hacked by two parties. One we traced to Los Angeles, California, but the other’s IP address wasn’t as clear. We had planned […]

Welcome to our 25th anniversary year

January 3, 2022/12.30

This year, 2022, marks our 25th anniversary. It is a landmark, and we’ve been incredibly blessed to have made it to a quarter-century. When I started Lucire I had hoped it would be around in 2022 and beyond, but I couldn’t have foreseen the many changes on our planet over the last 25 years. […]

Revamping Lucire to look sharper on mobile devices

October 10, 2021/9.48

The astute among you will have seen some changes taking place on a few pages in Lucire’s online edition. First one article was switched to a new template, then it was the home page (where there’s a slider with three stories), and now all the news pages (which are run on the Wordpress content management […]

Cover design notes on our 23rd birthday

October 20, 2020/10.25

We’ve happily been able to add a few more covers to the montage we published last year on the occasion of our 22nd anniversary. Now 23, we thought an update was in order, and we’ve included our latest issue, which you can order now. The story of Lucire’s founding has been covered elsewhere, during […]

Re-examining our mission as Lucire turns 22

October 21, 2019/11.43

Some of you may have seen the above montage (reproduced below for those who may be browsing on different devices) in our social media. These are our covers over the last 15 years—we branched out into print seven years after we started. Back then, it was unusual for a website to spawn print editions, and […]