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Dev here again.
Rolling out the thread top/bottom nav links. Necrobump fixes are incoming, along with a new search page and some performance gains.
A later update will lock threads automatically after a given amount amount of time, or a certain number of posts. Site admins will provide more details on this when it's rolled out. Post editing and other JS-related features have been fixed, and I've removed a bunch of old JS that the site doesn't actually use, and updated what it does to something that's not dated 2008. Most of the work I've been doing on the site has been backend focused, but once it's to what we feel is satisfactory, we will not leave the frontend neglected. However I do want to emphasize that I have no intention to start tossing JS everywhere, the site will only use it where it's truly needed.
A good example case here is the ZIP download function. For years, the server handled the process of zipping up the thread's uploads, and we eventually replaced it with a JS equivalent. Why? Because it was being used so often that it would fill up the same temporary directory that incoming user uploads depend on. You might remember a couple years ago where users couldn't upload files every now and then - that was why.
The gist is, I think the primary objective of the work being done should be something that everyone can generally agree is a benefit to the site experience.
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