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I think back to all those times on 2018 HvH. I don’t think I’ll ever forget. I had big dreams as a 14 year old… and that’s all they were. Dreams. I’m 19 now and I feel as if it’s time to move on from grey market programming.

If any new comments are posted to a post you have already viewed, both in user profiles and general post listings, the comment count will now show the amount of new comments. You could always view new comments in the dedicated comments tabs for post-list pages, but it was kind of hard to tell visually whenever any new comments were posted without using that tab.

I've updated a ton of random things in the ui, focusing primarily on the elements which are most visible (posts, comments, navbar, ...). The navbar styling and icons are now entirely consistent, and many random element spacing/styling issues have been fixed or refactored.

I combined the hot/new/top buttons into a single dropdown, gaining some more horizontal space on the sub pages near where the order/past/comments buttons are now. I still have about half of the possible horizontal space left, but I'm not sure what I want to use it for.

Originally I was planning on using the space above sub posts on individual subs to add elements which were allow subs to more easily distinguish themselves, such as a short title or something similar at the top. Maybe an icon? Things like that. I'm actually reasonably happy with how it looks now - one of the changes I made was to the sub name text that appears when you view a specific sub to increase visibility, but I feel like there are potentially way more options here from a ui perspective.

I'm not sure what I should address next. Some possibilities include: everything to do with sub information pages, user profiles (including adding user icons), expanding the api, specific object caching (right now everything is cached but whenever anything in the site updates the entire cache is cleared which obviously isnt ideal but since 99.999% of site requests are read only it works ok), changing the project over to a different name (literally anything but this one), ... the list is endless honestly.

With that being said, since the site is dead, many of these things will take a ton of time and will probably not ever be used, so I'm going to avoid anything heavily time consuming and try to focus on things which are visually obvious (like all the various style improvements I've added over the last month or so). The caching, for example, at this point will most likely not be relevant at all and any improvements in this area will be completely invisible to the end user, and would be kind of pointless to focus on currently.

Several new features have been added to user pages/preferences, I was cleaning up that code/styling and found myself wishing for last-online functionality.

Last-online is updated based on login/logout/comments/posts/votes. I could make more activities actively update the last-online time, but I want to be careful to not potentially violate privacy.

Of course: in user preferences, there is an option to hide your last-online time, if you so desire.

Other than the crappy drop-down I'm overall pretty happy with the newly styled preference page. Before it was a mess of random bootstrap elements, with random arbitrary styling that made the elements look awful. It's much improved now, even though the appearance is similar I basically had to re-do most of the page with consistent element patterns/styling.

I have big plans for the user pages too, right now the most awful area of the site style wise remains sub information/mod page. I basically intend on fully overhauling that entire part of the site, the backend pretty much already exists so thankfully I can overhaul the entire design without having to implement all the backend endpoints again.

While there is quite a lot to do, I've started working on this site again, even if its dead it's good practice.

I've been mainly focusing on improving the styling (you should notice some improvements already), code cleanup, and improving the user interface. Before, my front-end skills were not as honed as my backend, but I basically spent over an entire year doing mostly front-end work. You should see some improvements already.

While I need to catchup on github issues, I think the most important thing to focus on is user-interface improvements. I was thinking about how to improve the design for sub information, having it appear as a button on the top is horrible UI, but the issue is I didn't have enough horizontal space on small resolutions. The idea I came up with is a sort of a tab system, with the link to sub information being where the "last online" text used to be.

It's honestly incredible just how much work went into this site, but everything still looks like ASS because almost all the work went into the backend (I also didn't have great design/frontend fundamentals whenever I started this project).

Anyway, I would type more, but I doubt anybody will even read this. lol

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This site looks quite nice I have to admit, love the work, although I think the name is a huge letdown, along with the unoriginal format. I think some cool new versions of a community, a tor domain, and a new original name would fire this website off!

How is everyone / Where is everyone