I agree with the sentiment of this thread. I know a lot of things have popped up and then seemingly been pushed to the side, and it's because we have this feeling on our end of just endlessly putting out fires. The forums had to be rewritten because they were taking up hundreds of GB of database space and costing us a fortune and also slowly wrecking the site. The rewrite solved the space problem completely, but obviously not the speed problem.

Solving that has been really difficult, and it's really unfortunate because it's the actual customer facing problem. You guys don't get to see how much space is saved, how much database resources are moved elsewhere, etc, when we make changes like that.

The same goes for the wardrobe. It's my project so I take full responsibility but during the time that I've been working on that I've had to significantly shift my focus to server related issues (which we've had FAR greater uptime because of) and security issues which is why I've been devoting my time to for the past week or so. There were multiple sites (if you google specific text on Subeta you might still be able to see them) that were basically ripping off all of the pages (first as a proxy, then actually just stealing content) of the site & putting in their own ads and tracking cookies (and possibly stealing information). Again, those are the kinds of things that are good if users don't see because it means I'm doing my job.

This isn't to post excuses or say that we're blameless. I take full responsibility that things seemingly never get done, and really hope that we can focus harder on very specific things going forward. Maybe the solution here is that instead of and I having separate projects, we both are dedicated to the same thing at the same time which will mean way faster production but also way faster bug fixing and attention while building the feature. We can try that with the remainder of the work on the wardrobe, maybe!

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Also, about minion battling. I appreciate if it's a feature that you don't think you'll use, but a lot of people participating in the beta, and have given good feedback and also enjoyed the feature. When we released HAs everyone on the site said that it was a useless feature that didn't need to be worked on, and now here we are. Same with just about any major system we've ever released.

The development is fractured between things like updating semantic-ui to 1.x which is a significant amount of work (because it doesn't play nice with Bootstrap, which is what we used to use), which is slowing down development a lot and the lead developer recently left the project, meaning we may need to switch BACK to bootstrap if we want any sort of legacy support.

I think that's the case with a lot of things. We've got more pots on the oven than we have burners, and it's really started to become too much.

I hope to have some more progress to show with the forums over the next few days. Memory leaks (what was causing your browser to lag) is what I'm working with now, and it's required a good amount of research.

My fault. Most of the changes I'm making on my dev to combat the lag is cache changes, and the way that certain queries are pulled and then cached. So if I'm using the same caching names as I am on the main site, it caches the new queries which the code on the main site can't interpret.

I just pushed a fix so that it doesn't happen anymore (our dev servers will now put a dev:keith: in front of our caching keys so they don't make it to the main site)

We're working on an in house animation for the loading circles, and should have it soon! I'll replace the ones we currently have displayed with something a little more pleasing to the eyes ASAP :)

Can you link me to those threads? It could be the posts in particular that are causing the problem :)

Yup! I just put it on the pets page (I imagined that is where you wanted it the most first :P) and I'll start replacing it elsewhere :)

It's a work in progress. I have a branch right now working on making the site more uniform here. It's a long process because I don't really want to push half of it at once, but it's also giving me a chance to create a more subeta-specific design philosophy taking into account how things like avatars show up in news comments, instead of just tossing them in a standard circle avatar position.

tldr; It's being worked on. We have like 60 css files, the layouts themselves are needlessly complicated, but is absolutely a focus for me.

Oh boo, I thought I fixed that. Just pushed a fix, you should see it in a few minutes :)