Website Update Announcements (Updated: February 19, 2025) • Page 12

Release Notes • chorus.fm

• I fixed a few issues related to legacy code on memberships expiring and how that’s handled when someone tries to login on the main website.
• I re-factored the main website code to load faster and now serve a better cached version for logged out, regular, users, as well as logged in supporting members. The pages for supporters should be significantly faster.
• I cleaned up some redundant code for how the main website and forum talk to each other to be more secure, faster, and handle the new caching system for members.
• I sped up how the main website sees and handles “dark mode,” for users that have it selected, so that it will load much faster and avoid any white flashes. It also now works far faster when swapping between themes. If you currently have “automatic” selected, you may want to select a different theme (light or dark) and then go back to automatic if you’re seeing any issues.
• I removed Google Analytics on the main website. I stopped looking at those stats a long time ago and I’m having second thoughts about just how much “tracking” I want on the website in general. I’m going to see how I feel, or if I miss it, and might end up removing Google Analytics entirely from the website in the future.
• I made a few tweaks to how videos are displayed and loaded in news posts.

Please let me know if you see any issues. This was one of the bigger code changes I've done on the main website in a while.