💔 A rough update about Stride

I messed up. Badly.

I accidentally deleted the source code for several of my major projects, including Stride, and I’ve lost a huge amount of the work and project data with it.

I spent several hours trying to recover everything, tried different recovery methods, and even left my PC running overnight hoping something could be restored.

Nothing came back.

That honestly made it hit even harder.

I still don’t fully know how I’m going to rebuild Stride yet. I was hoping to ship the next update this week, but that’s almost certainly not happening now. I’m trying to recreate everything from notes, screenshots, old builds, and whatever I still remember, but rebuilding it from scratch could take days or longer.

There’s also another issue: I still remember the signing key details, but I may have lost the actual key file.

If that file is really gone, there’s a possibility the rebuilt Stride won’t be able to update over the current version. In the worst case, the next build may need to be installed as a fresh app, which could mean uninstalling the current Stride and reinstalling the rebuilt version.

I’ll do everything I can to avoid that. I really don’t want anyone to lose their setup, history, or have to reinstall unnecessarily, but right now I have to be honest that it’s still a possibility.

And since I’m rebuilding so much from memory, the next update may also look or behave a little different from the Stride you’re using right now.

I’m frustrated, exhausted, and honestly pretty sad about all of this.

But I’m not giving up on Stride.

Please bear with me while I try to figure this out, and seriously, thank you for all the support. It means a lot right now. 💚