I've constructed a package system I **think** will be compatible with alacrity v2 (test.alacrity) and the v1(live www.alacrity this site)

I'm working through the forums to test it out. its already live and working on the news page.

what this means:
I will be able to renovate most pages in alacrity live, and transfer them to test. letting me bring test.alacrity to full functionality quicker.

what does the package manager do?

mostly it organizes the files, and employs my template system to separate the html from the backend code.

the re-packaged modules written are also far faster than the old code. file sizes are about 85% less. most of the duplicate code is split out into libraries (which dont exist in old alacrity)

why this is important:
it means I can develop features / renovate pages live and have them be compatible with v1/v2.

update
error on firefox has been fixed Firefox apparently doesn't follow the specification.

     as per catlover, there may still be an issue posting on firefox.
     I'll clean do some extra testing today. thanks for pointing this out!
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     any other bugs found post in chat or reply to this post so I can get them
     

chat should now be loading on safari / firefox.

a change was made to these browsers recently (over last 4 months) which made 'lazy loading' difficult .

They broke features working for well over 15 years.

anyhow I've set in a work around for it in the mean time. please refresh your browser cache.

re: firefox. the page alignment doesnt quite line up perfectly. I'll get to fixing that as well. probably not tonight tho.

update

work in progress, but the forums are MUCH better in the short term.

• I've cleaned up formatting a bit,


• limited the size of the avatar icons, many of which were dead and being redirected by virtue signaling image shack, and totally destroying our forums.



• sub categories show at the top,


• categories look a little cleaner
  

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I'm about halfway through the forum makeover.

what I am doing

• cleaning up/making compatible code in preparation for a move


• separating the html as much as possible from the logic

what I am not doing

• generally improving the logic of the forums, or rennovating


• * this is not to say it wont look better, but the internals will largely remain the same

you can go ahead and take a look. the categories page is now done, will try to get individual boards done next