Official Updates

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Phrase no_prefix: Changed '(no prefix) to (Add prefix).

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Teal Style: Made a number of diy styling adjustments to address some of the more glaring styling discrepancies.

 

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BB Code Tag Spoiler: Removed default 'Spoiler' phrase. | Modified behavior to show only entered title text, or a 'see more' phrase if no title entered.

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Prefixing TFSF's Uncategorized Threads: 1000+ done so far. | Roughly 12,000 to go.

 

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BB Code Media Sites: Set-up a suno.com media embed template. (*it works but suno.com links are tricky to embed properly apparently)

How-to guide found here

 

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diem.io (Tank Warfare mini game): Set-up embed HTML Page Node. | Set-up Public Nav 'Games' + Sub Nav 'Tank Warfare' tabs. | Added a bunch of logic that includes a custom 'Fullscreen' & 'Close Game' button to resolve mobile scroll/pan annoyance.

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*Budget as fuck, butt still..... something different for a forum. It's optionally solo or multiplayer by invite too.

 

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Public Navigation: Reorganization. | Set-up nav tabs linked to dedicated thread lists for each thread prefix category.

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Note: Need to resolve:
•file path issue between categories. Done✓
•quirk with FA icons on desktop. Done✓

 

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Board Title & Meta Description Tags: Updated both to within the optimal SEO min/max character recommendation thresholds of 50–60 for the title and 120–160 for the meta. (*increased on-page SEO from B to A- as a result)

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•Was: The Free Speech Forum (21 char)​

•Now: The Free Speech Forum - Open & Uncensored Social Discussion (56 char)​

Board meta description

•Was: A place for free and open speech (32 char)​

•Now: Join The Free Speech Forum for uncensored news, politics, and social debate. A global community where your voice is heard without censorship. Join us today! (156 char)​

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TECHNICAL HIATUS & QUANTUM DISPLACEMENT

Please be advised that active technical updates to the Change Log are temporarily suspended effective immediately due to a sudden onset of spontaneous quantum macro superpositioning causing TheFiend to phase between adjacent dimensions at random.

UPDATE: Back at it (Thursday, 16 April 2026NZT)

Current site issues:

1. Cloudflare storage link broken; Resolved ✓​

2. [DohTheme] add-on version outdated;​

Current site status: Stable

 

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Community Notice: Disabled 'Dance Your Cares Away/Law Abiding Citizens' > 'New Fraqqle Rock' update/redirect notification. | Temporarily disabled Community Notices system to reduce unnecessary session queries since no notices are currently active.

 

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Widgets: 4 Redundancies removed - [TH] Donate Campaign, Share Page, Featured Content, and Forum Statistics. | Started reorganizing the rest.

 

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Custom User Fields: Set-up 2 additional Identities options (for Bitchute & Telegram) in the user Account area (directly below the 'About you' section).

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Member Stats Widgets: Set-up 1. Message Count 2. Reaction Score, 3. Trophy Points, and 4. Total Donations (all linked to the Notable Members page). | Set-up and wrapped all 4 within an advanced HTML widget to create a single Leaderboard widget. (*located on the Forum View: Sidebar for desktop & below the Forum View list for mobile).

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Note: Need to fine-tune it some more and will also have to work on adding new Trophies too since it appears most OG members already acquired all the defaults years ago. Done✓

 

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User Trophies: Set-up a whole bunch more.

Note: the stock XF user Trophy system has retardedly limited options (~75% pedantically relating to donations) and uses ultra nerdy (underwhelming yet wildly overcomplicated, extremely vague, and highly temperamental/unreliable) boolean configured variables.

TLDR: Basically, it's a pain in the ass, can't really do fuck all with them.

 

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Custom User Fields: Set-up another 3 (Rumble, Odysee, and Truth Social). | Disabled 3 of the defaults (Parler, Skype, and Facebook). | Updated default Twitter title > X/Twitter + added basic description.

Note: These are located in the user account section.

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Note 2: Adding your handles to these creates a small clickable text link under 'Contacts' in the 'About' section of the user profile page.

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Note 3: Have confirmed Bitchute & Telegram Custom User Fields work using my own channels, (*Telegram still seems a little tweaky though), butt I don't use the other 4 platforms so haven't been able to confirm if they're working yet.

Hit me up if there's any issues with them.

 

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Widget Minor Headers: All of them | Optimized styling (adding linear-gradient backgrounds, font colors/weights, borders, icons, margins, padding, etcetera) more consistently in line with the major headers.

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Notable Members Sidenav Blocks: FA icons.

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Attachment Storage: Cleared out around 20 (very large 50—200MB) broken vids from years ago that were hogging up (~1GB) of our limited/expensive data storage allowance.

This should free up enough space to store roughly 5,000 to 10,000 "normal" forum images (assuming a more reasonable average of 100–200KB per image).