The Victors

Sunday, September 27

• Subject field: back to the browser's own message
• "Please go blue." on hover too
• An empty subject says "Please go blue."
• Running log: stop shedding the first day's commits
• Two former handles can't be aliases
• Running log: date entries by when they shipped
• Alias posts: tap the name to see who
• Cards question: just main or Cards
• The Cards go-ahead says "Post to Cards", at full strength
• Ask before a new thread lands on Cards

Saturday, September 26

• Stats: members as people, and robots counted apart

Friday, September 25

• Stats: how many of the day's visitors are members

Monday, September 21

• The running log gets its own page, off Stats
• The running log, at the bottom of Stats
• Pick 'em gets its own admin page
• Record what ESPN actually said when a week comes back empty
• Pick 'em survives an empty ESPN week, and can be posted by hand
• A Monday with no pick 'em thread can now explain itself

Sunday, September 20

• The post warning is maize and blue, like everything else here
• Warn before posting a picture link that won't load
• A look before you post: warn on the accidents the board used to accept
• Members can delete their own posts, while nobody has replied

Tuesday, September 15

• The board as an MCP server, read-only, at /mcp

Monday, September 14

• Voice memos on the post form, admin only
• Pick 'em board: stop reading like an 0-2 record

Sunday, September 13

• Story: game day, the arcade, and the eggs are found
• Drop the footnote under the busiest day
• Stats: say what the busiest day has been

Thursday, September 10

• Pull the post form's fields in from the phone screen edge

Tuesday, September 8

• [fart] in a post, and a button that says Do not click
• Move the countdown to the bottom of the page
• A countdown clock in the header, per danny
• Stadium Guesser: tell four Memorial Stadiums apart
• Stadium Guesser: identify ourselves properly, and a way in when barred
• Games index: just the links
• Stadium Guesser: stop hammering Wikimedia
• Stadium Guesser: photos, and one admin page for both games
• Stadium Guesser: the game, the map, and the scoring
• Move Games back up to the links row, after HOF
• Call the nav link Games, not Victard Bowl
• Victard Bowl: an admin page for who is actually trying it
• Victard Bowl: move the link down beside Settings
• Victard Bowl: put it in the nav, and let Skeeps start the standings

Monday, September 7

• Victard Bowl: render at 4x so the movement stops stepping
• Victard Bowl: you can no longer play their offense, and your man can run
• Victard Bowl: playing defense is the default
• Victard Bowl: play defense, or keep simulating it
• Victard Bowl: fix the field-goal freeze
• Skeeps posts the Victard Bowl standings to Scores, monthly
• Victard Bowl: plain grass at midfield
• Victard Bowl: a leaderboard on the board
• Victard Bowl: block M in collegiate proportions
• Victard Bowl: season mode
• Victard Bowl: draw the midfield M as a real letterform
• Victard Bowl: rebuild the midfield Block M as a stroked path
• Victard Bowl: a proper art pass
• Victard Bowl: chasers close on a ball carrier
• Victard Bowl: corners' coverage priority applies to run plays only
• Victard Bowl: corners stay in coverage until the runner is near or loose
• Victard Bowl: real blocking; coverage back to eight yards
• Victard Bowl: 2x resolution, 16x26 sprites, a real gait, and a real defensive box
• Victard Bowl: record who made each tackle (diagnostic)
• Victard Bowl: pursuit can take an angle again
• Victard Bowl: corners trail behind, defense reads the throw late
• Victard Bowl: real route lines, ESPN short names, and a defense that doesn't swarm
• Victard Bowl: playbook, slower pace with aim-time bullet-time, aim assist
• Victard Bowl: real school colors for opponents, never navy
• Victard Bowl: first playable build at /bowl (members only)
• Admin subpages; feedback becomes plain email buttons
• Settings page grows: feedback, logout, and the big titties button
• Trim the settings page copy — the controls speak for themselves
• Add a settings page: per-device theme and text size
• Slim the hot page queries so gameday load fits in memory

Sunday, September 6

• Stop uploads from eating the instance's memory

Saturday, September 5

• Cache static files and uploads for 30 days (Cloudflare does the serving)
• Condense the page row — history is infinite, the link row is not
• Band pregame button in the GAME DAY banner
• Fight song in the GAME DAY banner (armed, awaiting the mp3)
• Fix the blinking GAME DAY flag

Wednesday, September 2

• Pod box anticipation actually works for scheduled streams
• Pod box goes up Wednesday morning again, scheduled streams included
• Admin pod-check: why is the pod box showing (or not) right now

Tuesday, September 1

• Form picks lock at kickoff, matching the thread's own rules
• Skeeps pins its thread for the week; consensus line on the pick page
• Skeeps counts old-fashioned picks too
• Embedded images load with no referrer

Monday, August 31

• Revert "Text size toggle for the old guys"
• Text size toggle for the old guys
• Scoreboard stops trusting games ESPN forgot to finish

Saturday, August 29

• Scoreboard carries all of FBS, and only today's games

Wednesday, August 26

• Pod box follows Michigan Weekly, not the whole channel
• Pod box only embeds videos that actually play

Sunday, August 23

• Pick 'em opens Monday, not game morning
• GAME DAY banner and Skeeps pick 'em are football-only
• Trim the seeded pick 'em subject — the [PICK 'EM] tag already says it
• Rename the reserved scorekeeping account to Skeeps
• Game-day Pick 'em engine: auto-seeded, auto-scored, on the banner
• External links open in a new tab; board links never do

Friday, August 21

• File the Hall of Fame by year past the newest three

Wednesday, August 19

• Drop the LIVE dot from the game day banner
• Fly the waving M on the game day banner
• Game day banner can fly a waving flag
• Game day LIVE dot goes blue
• Put SQLite in WAL mode for game-day write load
• Game day banner no longer funnels to chat
• Show the Slippery Rock line any day they play
• Fix Slippery Rock line: ESPN abbreviates them SLI, not SRU
• Edit page takes multiple pictures too
• Make pasted images work on iPhones
• Carry the Slippery Rock score on Saturdays
• Fix pasting multiple images

Tuesday, August 18

• Rate-limit login attempts
• Multiple pictures per post

Sunday, August 16

• Resolve Reddit mobile share links at post time so they embed
• Embed Reddit posts, TikToks, and bare image/GIF links in post bodies

Saturday, August 15

• Story footer: easter egg joke as a live day counter
• Story: Nick was a poster, not the admin — the title came from the build
• Story copy: date consistency in the crash lede
• Web app manifest with display:browser
• Story footer: no easter eggs found yet
• Grow the story page; remove its admin link entirely
• Unlisted /story page: the rescue case study with live numbers
• Goblue theme: links in maize, visited links in antique gold
• Hidden maize-and-blue theme behind the footer 'by'
• Drop the ephemerality copy from the chat page
• Fix chat double-draw; mention highlight; unread tab counter
• Chat is ROCKING banner when the room is genuinely lively
• GAME DAY banner on the homepage whenever Michigan plays

Thursday, August 13

• Trim form hints further
• Trim form hint copy; size radios on one line
• Picture display size: small / medium / large / full
• Big maize-and-blue poll widget
• Admin user actions back inline, one tidy line per row
• Clean up the admin Users table
• Tuck the rename control behind a click in the user table
• Allow & in handles; admins can rename members

Wednesday, August 12

• Backups: nightly snapshots, admin download, tested restore path
• Refresh the pod feed every 15 minutes on pod day
• Keep board links together when the links row wraps

Sunday, August 9

• Wednesday pod box: newest Blue By Ninety episode on the homepage
• Admin can clear the chat room without a restart

Saturday, August 8

• Inline action buttons back to normal weight
• Maize and blue buttons
• Tidy mobile header wrapping and unify action buttons as links
• Collapse the live scoreboard by default
• Sync read links across devices; make scoreboard 3-4 columns
• Add live CFB/CBB scoreboard to Scores board, rename Scores Only to Scores
• Record real client IPs behind Cloudflare
• Drop the HOF subtitle blurb
• Add the Hall of Fame with democratic enshrinement
• Password reset signs the user out everywhere
• Forward video uploads to Streamable
• Allow short video clip uploads
• Keep portrait photos upright through compression
• Rename card board to Cards
• Add Lods' Card Site as a third board

Friday, August 7

• Align chat roster and message box bottoms
• Show who's in the chat room
• University seal watermark on the chat page
• Use the official Block M artwork for all icons and the banner
• Block M bookends on the Go Blue splash
• Calibrate block M favicon to the official mark
• Upgrade favicon to serif block M geometry
• Replace emoji favicon with a maize-on-blue block M
• Move traffic section to the bottom of the stats page
• Add daily traffic counter to the Stats page

Thursday, August 6

• Restore Enter-to-post in post forms
• Move pinned threads into the header notice area
• Posted banner in maize and blue
• Stray Enter in a post form no longer submits it
• Board-voice banner copy
• Show a green confirmation banner after posting

Wednesday, August 5

• Add pinned threads
• Prevent accidental double posts
• Remove the 3 AM Club from stats
• Add public board stats page and clipboard image paste

Tuesday, August 4

• Serve PNG/ICO icons so the M-flag shows on mobile
• Even out header row spacing
• Give Post a New Message its own nav line
• Drop the In-response-to line, superseded by the full thread tree
• Show the full thread tree on every message page
• Repeat the page links below the thread list
• Compress uploaded images and show disk usage in Admin
• Add ephemeral members-only chat
• Update default board rules and staff roster
• Back link preserves scroll; nav and banner tweaks
• Fix title and redirect links resolving to /scores
• Add Pick 'em: auto-scored prediction games on the Scores board
• Display board times in Eastern

Monday, August 3

• Keep members logged in for a year
• Add polls, Scores Only board, RSS feed, media embeds, and image uploads
• Add dark mode toggle
• Allow safe HTML in post bodies
• Record poster IPs, visible to admins only
• 80 threads per page, matching the old board's density
• Longer front page and admin account management
• Sort replies newest-first to match the old board
• Add vb redirect service for a short parallel URL
• Match the old board's message page layout
• Add post editing
• Credit Nick Coston in the footer
• Add M-flag favicon and Home nav link
• Simplify to a clean board: drop Boards2Go scraper and importer
• Add Boards2Go migration kit: scraper, importer, and self-hosted Victors board