Although it still looks roughly the same, I just installed completely rewritten message forum code. Hopefully, I tested the new code enough to have gotten all the bugs out, but it's possible some still linger. So, if any of you notices any strange behavior*, please let me know about it.

Most of what the new code does over the old is provide me with increased flexibility to manipulate the data. I can now delete posts from the middle of threads without deleting entire subthreads along with it. I can move subthreads around, which helps when someone double posts, and I want to delete the duplicate, but people have already responded to both of them. I'm also using far less disk space than I was before.

However, there are a few minor user-visible changes, too:

- Better error checking on posts. For example, no more will the forum quietly eat your links if you happen to swap the URL and the link title by mistake.
- You can post HTML tags in messages, and they'll be displayed literally instead of being removed.
- The page that confirms the posting of your messages now links to the recent messages page.
- Date/time formats are now more intuitive and more consistent.
- Data corruption has been fixed. This includes a few scattered posts whose "parent post" links pointed to the wrong place and messed up message hierarchies on the "All Messages" pages.

AN IMPORTANT CHANGE:

The URLs to view various forum pages have changed! This means that you should update any links/bookmarks to posts that you may have! For a while, I'll have the old URLs forward to the new ones, but I'll have to stop doing that eventually. So update your bookmarks/links as soon as possible.

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