What's new

This release is about making the site talk back — every click and every action should tell you it heard you. What shipped: • Loading spinners on every action button — favourite, vote, comment, report, submit, suggest, and every moderator tool. • Toast notifications pop in the bottom-right whenever an action succeeds or fails, with human-readable error copy instead of silence. • Every route now has a proper loading skeleton when you navigate between pages — no more flashing blank screens. • The "Ratings: Site / Steam / Both" toggle self-hides on pages that don't actually display ratings. • The Browse dropdown no longer snaps shut when you move from the trigger to an item (reported as idea #8 on the Ideas board). • Captcha on sign-in now has a "Skip the puzzle" escape hatch that fades in after the first wrong answer. • Ingest pipeline no longer gets stuck with zero-new-items runs when the top of Workshop is all already-decided stuff. Daily cron now digs up to 5 pages per kind and stops early once it finds enough novel items. • New live progress bar on /admin/ingest so moderators can see which kind and which page the ingest is currently on. • Native window.alert() and window.confirm() dialogs are gone — replaced with styled in-page armed-click confirmations. Documentation: • /guide rewritten as a layered tutorial — a one-line summary per section with collapsible "More details", plus new "Roles on the site" and "Glossary" sections so nobody has to guess what a word means. • /admin/guide rewritten as per-role playbooks with "on a normal day you…" cards, "Common mistake" callouts, and a formal escalation ladder (warn → mute → temp ban → perma → hard ban). And this page: • You're reading it. The changelog now lives inside the site, with Updates (big stuff) and Patch notes (small stuff) tabs, and a "What's new" badge in the top bar that shows unread count for signed-in users. Rough edges still exist. Keep the reports and Ideas-board suggestions coming.