LES - Progress Update - 19th June 2026

AnthonySmith

Thought I would provide another update.

The PHP and MariaDB conversion is complete, I now have a fully functional vanilla 3.x (if you can still call it that) running on PHP 8.4.22 and MariaDB 11.8.8, even the polls plugin works

All the plugins are now going to be written in the development version and tested there. Once it is done, I will schedule some downtime and move LES to the new server with the new code base, but I will continue to provide updates anyway so you know what's coming when the switch is made.

Doing it this way to save having to make a 7.x version and an 8.x version then change after.

Plugin: Necro Post Gate done in dev version

Before necro

After

When done, negative karma will count x2 for necro posting.

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Plugin: Flagged posts

This one will show you if a post has already been flagged and how many times, you can add weight to it by also flagging or you can just see it has already been reported and ignore it.

A mod/admin can take whatever action, and then this indicator will clear.

If a threshold is hit the post will be automatically hidden. This threshold is set lower for <XX day accounts, so for example, if someone signs up from PurplePeopleHost and immediately starts advertising, ignoring the rules, 5 flags would basically remove the post, so only mod/admins can see it.

somik

@AnthonySmith said:
someone signs up from PurplePeopleHost

Wont that be being racist towards purple people?

AnthonySmith

The admin side pattern automod plugin has also been done (a basic version)

Simple text replace on post or URL, auto block for known spammers and new accounts>

Nothing added yet, it won't be used lightly, but essentially if you write #dicks it will say #donkey when you post or if you create a link for https://hammertime.com when posted it will be https://www.colocrossing.com/ when posted etc etc.

AnthonySmith

@somik said: Wont that be being racist towards purple people?

I did not really want to admit this so publicly, but I am a racist against purple people specifically, sorry if that disappoints anyone.

ahnlak

@AnthonySmith said:
A mod/admin can take whatever action, and then this indicator will clear.

Is it worth leaving some sort of "mod checked" indicator, to avoid it getting re-flagged every time the indicator is cleared?

AnthonySmith

@ahnlak said:

@AnthonySmith said:
A mod/admin can take whatever action, and then this indicator will clear.

Is it worth leaving some sort of "mod checked" indicator, to avoid it getting re-flagged every time the indicator is cleared?

Well the theory was that the mods or admin resolves the issue it was flagged for so it shouldn't need to be flagged again.

I guess leaving some small indicators behind can't hurt.

SocksAreComfortable

LES quite literally operating in the future!

AnthonySmith

@SocksAreComfortable said:
LES quite literally operating in the future!

Ha ... Well spotted

stupidgenius

@AnthonySmith Would the eventual migration/update add the ability to click on a quoted username's and jump/go to the quoted post rather that user's profile?

I wasn't sure if this was intentional behavior or not, but I found it helpful on the other site when following active discussions with nested quotes.

AnthonySmith

@stupidgenius said: @AnthonySmith Would the eventual migration/update add the ability to click on a quoted username's and jump/go to the quoted post rather that user's profile?

Thats probably a really good thing to have, I dont really use the other site much so if there is anything there that is cool let me know we will add it.

I would be tempted to leave the users name as a link to the user and add a "view quoted post" button

stupidgenius

@AnthonySmith said:

@stupidgenius said: @AnthonySmith Would the eventual migration/update add the ability to click on a quoted username's and jump/go to the quoted post rather that user's profile?

Thats probably a really good thing to have, I dont really use the other site much so if there is anything there that is cool let me know we will add it.

I would be tempted to leave the users name as a link to the user and add a "view quoted post" button

Thanks, testing it on this post right here it looks like it adds the link to the usename in the nested quote, but not the top level username.

Not sure if I've ever paid enough attention to notice before now. So its partially there.

Mason

Amazing to see LES getting the breath of fresh air it deparately needed. Great to have you back at the helm, Ant!