This work happened behind the scenes. The new site was not yet live.
During this period, the new website was gaining much stronger foundations. Public pages, maps, blog content, and contribution tools were coming together into something more coherent, even though the overall experience still felt experimental.
What's new
- Large parts of the future public website had been rebuilt around stronger events, venues, map, and blog experiences
- Event discovery was getting stronger across list, map, and calendar-style views
- Contribution tools were broadening for venue edits, new venues, event reports, and recurring karaoke night submissions
- Contributor and profile surfaces were getting clearer, including signed-in navigation and manage-entry work
- Event and location search was getting stronger because of server-side city lookup and better state-name matching
- Contributor flows were getting more stable, with duplicate checks, better logout behavior, and fewer dark-mode gaps
- Sign-in security was tightening through cookie-backed auth flows and stronger session handling
- Map and events pages were getting stronger XSS protection and better resilience under bad input
Why it matters
This was the stage where the new site still felt experimental, but much more solid foundations had been established.