Austin

I’m doing a complete redesign of the website right now, adding new features and installing a brand new theme! New community features will be added that will allow members to create and join groups and have their own group forums. The private message system is being completely rewritten and there’s a new sitewide activity feed […]

Sorry for the recent malware redirect script that had made its way onto the site.  The malware had been injected through the image upload system and was quite ingenious in an insidious kind of way.  There was no actual malware involved that could jump onto your computer.  The main goal of this script was to […]

So, I’m still going at it working to improve and update many different things on the site. One of the most glaring problems was the HORRIBLE mobile navigation menu. It was very difficult to comfortably navigate the forums and the main menu while on a smartphone. I’m happy to report that this issue has been […]

I’ve added so many improvements to the forum lately it’s hard to keep track. Avatars are now round with a nice border, and I’ve increased the size of user avatars across the entire forum. The emoticons have been fixed, and the layout of the entire forum has been greatly improved. I’m working on creating new […]

In the past the only way to get to your user account settings or to log out was via the sidebar. I’ve added these functions to the navigation header now. When you’re logged in, you’ll see your avatar in the upper navigation menu. When you hover over it you’ll see the following options: View Profile […]

TheLandBeforeTime.org is officially back up! We had some issues with a recent migration to a faster server and the website went down for a while. Thankfully we were able to restore from backup and get everything running again. Unfortunately we had to restore to a backup from a few months ago, so some content was […]

I’m moving the website to a new host.  This new server will be able to handle over 500,000 visitors per month and uses an SSD drive for lightning fast site performance!  Expect some minor downtimes and erratic site behavior while I get the kinks worked out over the next week or so.  But once we […]

My new anti-spam system is hard as nails.  This website gets over 200 spam bot attacks every single day, but my new “I’m Not a Robot” integration from Google makes it absolutely impossible for spambots to register on the site (and without registration, you can’t post or upload anything).  I’m very glad to say that […]

I’ve updated the photo gallery with new features. Now any photos you upload will be attributed to you, and anyone that looks at the photo gallery can see who has uploaded each photo. I’ve also added a lightbox effect, but unfortunately it makes it difficult to save the images as the right-click “Save Image As” […]