2026
The rewrite. Lucee and CFML went in the bin.
August 2026 — The Rewrite
- + Whole site rebuilt. It was Lucee and CFML held together with cfquery. Now it is not.
- + Works on a phone. The category bar used to just vanish below 400px wide. It scrolls now.
- + Pages load in one database query instead of a hundred. The old front page ran four separate queries for every single row it showed you.
- + Dumped jQuery, Bootstrap, timeago, emojione and video.js. That is about 1.2MB of junk that no longer has to download before you can read anything.
- + You cannot upvote your own submissions anymore. Sorry.
- + Likes and STFUs toggle off. Clicking twice used to just inflate the number.
- + Search actually uses an index, so it no longer reads the entire submissions table to find one word.
- + The Top List works again, and pages through every submission ever posted instead of stopping at 25.
- + The whole change log came back. 2017 through 2020 were sitting in the old source the entire time.
- - Uploads are off while the S3 side gets rebuilt. New posts get a placeholder image.
- - Chat, the games, and Pro subscriptions did not come across.