Thank you for doing all of this. Damn, a lot of work man.
it's a lot like working on my boat or building an engine to me... it's relaxing in that it takes focus and your mind off any intrusions. so, i don't mind one bit. i got demons, yo...
now comes the hard part, though.... which is locking it down and leaving it alone. the page is exactly as it should be right now as far as the back end of it. i guess the presentation could use some tweaking still- but as far as function goes (server side), it is rocking.
I installed yesterday afternoon and last night the latest and greatest ciphers- which means we scored a straight up A on the validation (which will boost rankings tremendously, and provide the cutting edge security for users). that is quite an accomplishment, believe it or not. the only drawback to it is some users using old machines/browsers are going to find they'll have to update to use the forum.
we received a high B on speed tests- which could obviously be improved, but the weight of the page is over 2 megabytes, and to score a B with that kind of heft? pretty damn good.
over on the publisher, which i am preparing for actual writers, i dumped over 12 thousand posts- all aggregated in from various places... i kept only the last 7 days, and will try to keep no more than 30 days from here out... that heft dropped from the database also kicked the site up a gear.
what this all means: we're getting there... slowly but surely we're getting this place squared away.
