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i've come to accept and almost like how shit default is/was, makes me wonder how kitsch and retro the inside of benji's house is

Theme 2 best of the new ones but we need the delicious features

The original intent for the default was mostly to just copy the OG, it was supposed to be better on mobile than that was. I didn't plan on too many upgrades of the design, only the features, because there was supposed to be this massive upgrade with all kinds of new mobile improvements coming. At the time it sounded like this would be sometime in early 2024. Obviously this wasn't the case. Most of the "mobile friendly" themes that existed until recently were like Emerald and just me looking at them on my phone could tell people wouldn't like them. This group seemed to finally actually make things better.

The "default" was not necessarily supposed to always be it, I just didn't want to bother with anything if that update was going to give us a good design automatically. Mobile Test 2 is similar to what that update was/is supposed to be like.

These tests I just added to the site and didn't mess with anything other than a couple simple attempts to get the likes to at least display, I didn't want to start mucking with them if everybody hated them. Since people are overall favorable to at least two I probably will put a little more effort into that just so I know what to do when making them official.

some weird stuff going on with recent changes online...

do we use cloudflare or something? I assume so, by default, like a ton of the web does?

I always tend to use a VPN, and earlier on here imgur pics were coming up dead, and just now so was the whole site, connection refused

I had to disable it just to post this message so benji now has my IP

I heard about some new anti-AI thing cloudflare was rolling out, everyone enrolled by default in anti-scraping countermeasures or something, maybe it's that?

I don't think we use Cloudflare, at least I don't pay for it, the host may have it on their backends or something. There are also other things that kind of do what Cloudflare do. I don't think VPN's should cause any problem, I do not have any of the possible IP blocks and stuff on for either the server or the forum. After simply adding the free CAPTCHA killed off the spam bots I didn't think it was necessary. Even when there's like 200 guests we barely do any traffic, the forum is mostly all text.

I'm not sure off the top of my head what this could be but I haven't really looked into some of the extra crap our host provides, they've added a lot of new AI tools that talk about stuff like marketing and selling which we obviously don't do. If you have issues again I could poke around and see if we have any settings that talk about VPN or scraping. I don't think our database is even 200MB yet so I imagine even scrapers wouldn't use much bandwidth.