Hey everyone, quick update on what's been fixed so far tonight:

Security

• Fixed a bug where all users could see edit/delete buttons on other people's forum posts. That's patched up.

Layout / CSS

• Forum reply box at the bottom of threads should be back to normal (horizontal layout, checkboxes working)
• Fixed checkboxes and labels across the site that were getting mangled by CSS collisions
• Battle challenge page cards should be readable again (stat bars, labels, dropdowns)
• Headings on pages that haven't been touched yet should be back to normal size

Battle Center

• Fixed the challenge page crashing when you don't have an active battle quest
• Fixed battle turns failing silently (PHP warnings were corrupting the data being sent back to your browser)
• Wrapped all the custom code weapons/spells so they don't blow up under PHP 8.4 — if you were having issues with specific weapons, they should work now

Jobs

• Fixed the "Collect All" button on the Job Agency page

Still working through more stuff, including some of the pet profile and other battle-related things people have reported. Keep the reports coming — they're genuinely helpful.

made some tweaks to shadowglen & morsotide to bring them back to their original colors!

first — the layout exploding on top of the sidebar, the event number flying off, the content covering the sidebar — that's 100% a bug and I'm sorry. I'll get it fixed. Thank you for the screenshot, that's genuinely the fastest way for me to see what's going on. if you could let me know what size your monitor or view port is (what kind of device you're browsing subeta with) that will go a long way.

I want to address the bigger thing you're raising though, because I think it's fair.

You're right that my last post made it sound like everything weird you were seeing was a glitch, when some of it isn't. The blue, the font sizes, the header styling — those are intentional changes in progress. I should've been clearer about what's a bug vs. what's a change I'm actively making, and I'm sorry for the confusion. That's on me. Here's the honest version of what's happening: I'm one person trying to keep a 20+ year old codebase alive. The site was running on PHP and libraries so old that I literally couldn't build new features anymore — the tooling wouldn't even run. So I've been doing the unglamorous work of updating everything underneath, and part of that means the 20-year-old CSS that was bolted onto every page for two decades has to get untangled. Some of that untangling is going to look weird while it's in progress. I'm not going to pretend otherwise.

I hear you that it feels like the layout keeps getting messed with. I'm not trying to redesign the site out from under everyone. I'm trying to get it into a state where it can run for another 20 years. But I can do a much better job of communicating that, and I will do my best. I'm a single person trying to keep this site alive, and what I said when "I can move back to Legacy" is that means that all of this code, that is 20 years old, needs to be uplifted.

I've also given the link now multiple times to remove the white background.

It's honestly a combination, but the need to remove the old code is what pushes the rest. I'll be entirely honest with you: I'm in my 30s, and the idea of going page by page just to rip out old bad code and rewrite everything to be exactly what it was when I first built it at 13 is not exciting to me. There are things I've wanted to do for 10+ years that I haven't had the time or ability to do, and when I'm already elbow-deep in thousands of lines of legacy code, I'm going to make those improvements while I'm in there.

What I'm hoping happens (and what has been happening!) is a feedback cycle. There are a ton of threads in the suggestions and bugs forums where folks are giving feedback on specific features, and this thread is the one for the layout as a whole. I'm really happy to keep responding to stuff inline here.

On the "one place for everything" idea, I hear you, and I wish I had a cleaner answer. The honest truth is that Subeta doesn't have the resources to hire someone for programming or for user communication, so it's just me trying to keep the interest up, respond to feedback, and do the actual work all at once. That's why things end up scattered across threads. I'll try to be better about cross-linking and pointing to a central place when I can.

Appreciate you sticking with it and trying to understand. The frustration is fair, and this kind of back-and-forth is genuinely useful to me. I know it feels miserable to have a broken layout while you're doing it, though, and I'm really sorry :(

And let me see what we can do about the dark/light mode stuff! And some questions:

1. Is that layout issue (where the layout is beneat the sidebar???) happening to you on every page, or just that shop one, or all of shops? That'll help too