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2026.05.01

Well, it's certainly been an interesting week...

I got it so that the media indexing and gallery system on the large file area now has complete feature parity with the main site.
So it can handle image galleries and whatever else we want.

The sidebar navigation for folders has also been implemented.

There was an issue on the main site with the header script that was preventing the paging from working on search results. Only the first page of results was being displayed properly.
That is now fixed.
Sphider shares a PHP variable with the news subsystem, which created a bit of a conflict, which I thought had been mitigated fully, but apparently hadn't.

At the moment, I'm cleaning up remaining dependencies on SLIR so I can shelve it completely and have just the one image cache on the site.

Update 2026.05.03
The SLIR image resizing engine has been removed from the site. It served the site well for a very long time: since long before I migrated the site away from Peter Lewis' Gibbering.net when it sadly closed its doors in 2014.

It feels a bit like the end of an era but the new method has its advantages and SLIR was throwing errors in the background, probably because it was running on new PHP versions that it was never intended to run on.

There were still quite a few dependencies on SLIR which I think I've taken care of.
If you see any images not displaying correctly, use Ctrl + F5 and see if it clears.
If there's still an issue after that, let me know where the problem is and I'll get it fixed.

Thanks to Joe Lencioni for SLIR and to Nathan Campos whose gallery script gave me inspiration and the determination to write my own resizing engine into the site.

Update 2026.05.06
A full site backup got downloaded and the forum has been updated to the latest 3.1.16 build.

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