I pushed out some fixes earlier today that I thought would address most of them, I'll check those out in particular!

I want to take a minute to explain what's actually going on with the site, because I think some of the context is getting lost.

For the last few years, the legacy Subeta codebase has been in a genuinely fragile state. I'm not exaggerating when I say that making almost any change risked taking down the site, sometimes for days. This is the main reason I built Kumos - not because I wanted to split the community or change what Subeta is, but because the foundation underneath the site we all love was quietly crumbling, and I needed a way to keep things running while I figured out how to fix it.

The good news, and it really is exciting news, is that after weeks of hard work, I've brought legacy Subeta up to PHP 8.4. That's a jump from PHP 7.2, which was end-of-life and was a significant part of why changes were so risky. I also rewrote the core layers that handle our database and caching. These aren't flashy, visible updates, but they're the kind of thing that means this site can keep running for another 20 years. That's the goal.

Now that the foundation is stable, I can actually make changes again. That's wonderful. What that also means is that I'm cleaning up years of accumulated frontend chaos — we're talking 5+ JavaScript libraries, hundreds of individually styled pages built across different eras with different frameworks, and (my personal favorite) over 500 places in the CSS where font-size is set. That last one is not a feature. That's years of band-aids. It needs to go.

While I do that cleanup, some pages are going to look a little off. Font sizes, spacing, layout... things may be temporarily weird. This is expected and normal, and it will get better. What would genuinely help me is knowing where you're seeing it. If something looks broken:

• Take a screenshot if you can (you can now drag and drop images directly into forum posts!)
• Note which page you're on
• Describe what looks wrong

That kind of specific feedback is what actually moves things forward. "This looks different from before" doesn't give me much to work with — a screenshot of the Forum Groups page with the font looking huge absolutely does.

I'm really glad to be here, still building this thing!