LES Platform Updates - 28th June 2026

AnthonySmith

Bit of a fresh update.

All of this is in the dev version not here yet.

The support ticket system has been replaced, it is built into vanilla now.

When you open tickets, all mods/admins get a notification, you could get an answer from anyone.

Final tweaks done to the new themes, and now the framework for adding new themes is finished, which gives a lot more flexibility than the standard vanilla system, so I might do a phpBB-style view at some point, too.

Link sharing is almost done (Hacker News Style)

New user gate almost done, new users will have to do an intro post etc before they can see or access certain areas. I am making this deliciously tempting for spam bots. Negative karma in here from older accounts will auto-ban the users.

Cloudflare Turnstyle is replacing the user registration manual approval system.

I am targeting the end of next week to get V2 live.

somik

@AnthonySmith said:
Cloudflare Turnstyle is replacing the user registration manual approval system.

Huh? No KYC validations? No asking for personal details? Are we even a real hosting forum?

MichaelCee

Amazing. I always neglected the old ticket system. Will HESK be deleted? (For my autistic data tracking purposes)

Also it's still June not July! (RE: title)

AnthonySmith

@MichaelCee said:
Amazing. I always neglected the old ticket system. Will HESK be deleted? (For my autistic data tracking purposes)

Also it's still June not July! (RE: title)

Yeah it will be deleted pretty quickly after V2 goes live

2nd time I have made that mistake thanks haha

AnthonySmith

Karma gate plugin done, still testing end-to-end currently enabled for offers and sub categories in dev version of LES.

Poster side:

c1vhosting

@MichaelCee said: Amazing. I always neglected the old ticket system. Will HESK be deleted? (For my autistic data tracking purposes)

Why don't you like HESK?

c1vhosting

@AnthonySmith said: Karma gate plugin done, still testing end-to-end currently enabled for offers and sub categories in dev version of LES.

Is there a beta mode available for users ?

AnthonySmith

@c1vhosting said:

@AnthonySmith said: Karma gate plugin done, still testing end-to-end currently enabled for offers and sub categories in dev version of LES.

Is there a beta mode available for users ?

There was going to be, but I am just going to skip past that and save a few weeks of feedback I probably cant implement anyway and push it to live pretty quickly, hopefully Thursday if life allows it.

Then, if there are any big issues, I will deal with them

c1vhosting

@AnthonySmith said:

@c1vhosting said:

@AnthonySmith said: Karma gate plugin done, still testing end-to-end currently enabled for offers and sub categories in dev version of LES.

Is there a beta mode available for users ?

There was going to be, but I am just going to skip past that and save a few weeks of feedback I probably cant implement anyway and push it to live pretty quickly, hopefully Thursday if life allows it.

Then, if there are any big issues, I will deal with them

Seems reasonable

msatt

Sorry - I don't understand 'Upvote this post to reveal its contents' - so we are voting for something we can't see ?

AnthonySmith

@msatt said:
Sorry - I don't understand 'Upvote this post to reveal its contents' - so we are voting for something we can't see ?

there will be a ```karmagate tag for the content in the post you want hidden.

WSS

@AnthonySmith said:

@msatt said:
Sorry - I don't understand 'Upvote this post to reveal its contents' - so we are voting for something we can't see ?

there will be a ```karmagate tag for the content in the post you want hidden.

That's the most Reddit coded thing I've observed, and I don't mean that complementary.