What has happened

Fifteen years of radio silence, now in the logbook

A profile used to be a business card: name, picture, a few numbers. It said who you are, but not what you did here. On an archive that reaches back to 2006, that is roughly half the story.

The logbook tells it. A timeline, newest at the top, and everything in it is derived from your actual rows: the year you signed up, the strongest year with the figure behind it, the last sign of life before a pause, the pause itself, the return. On an account from 2006 it reads, five lines down, „2012 to 25: fifteen years of radio silence. The archive kept waiting.“ None of it is invented. A pause only counts from three silent years, or every quiet summer would be a comeback.

The LAN history gets a chart and a map. 21 columns from 2006 to today, the strongest year in gold, the empty years as a line rather than a gap. Beside it a map with one dot per town. Click one and the highlights below show only that town.

The head is new. A banner, a bigger avatar, your rank name under the nick, your links as a line of text instead of a row of buttons. The tab bar sticks while you scroll and carries its counts: how many articles, comments, forum posts, LANs and PLoints sit behind each tab.

ICQ, AIM and Skype have left the public profile. Not hidden, simply no longer sent. 746 profiles had an entry like that, and none of them belongs on the open web: the services are gone, the numbers from back then are not. Your old entries are still in „edit profile“, readable by you alone.

And pointing at a name opens a card. In the forum, under comments, in friend lists, in the guestbook. It holds rank, PLoints, posts, the year you joined, the three pinned trophies and two buttons. The name stays a link regardless; the card is an extra. Anyone tapping with a finger instead of pointing with a mouse still lands in the profile.

Two numbers got straightened out on the way. Austria was missing from the statistics at 29 venues, and Switzerland sat in the wrong place: Lausanne under Berlin/Brandenburg, Bern in Lower Saxony. A Swiss postcode has four digits and starts like a German five-digit one, so it looked plausible every time. The country is now read before the postcode, and 105 venues that had no region at all have one.

Your profile gets a banner and a guilty conscience

„Edit profile“ was a form with eight fields, three of them for services that no longer exist. Now it is a page with three columns: on the left what is still missing, in the middle the fields, on the right a card showing how everyone else sees you. You type on the left and save once at the end.

Top left tells you how full your profile is. Six steps: avatar, banner, bio, signature, town and at least one link. The open ones sit below as buttons, and a click jumps there. Complete all six and you get ten PLoints, once. Once means once; the ledger remembers.

The banner is new. Five colours, four patterns, and over them four animated effects from the points shop: Neon Scan, Grid Pulse, Archive Bars and Glitch. Trying one on is instant and free, and you see it in the preview on the right. You only buy when you want to keep it, and while something is merely tried on, the save button stays off.

We did the arithmetic on the prices instead of guessing. The first draft sat at 1,000 to 3,000 PLoints. 13 of 4,100 members can afford that, and only because their balance came from the archive import. Anyone starting today would need about three years at one point per login for the cheapest one. They now cost 150, 300, 600 and 1,000, and 433 people can reach the first instead of 13.

The links are Discord, Twitch, Instagram, Flickr and your website. Each with its own visibility: everyone, members only, only me. The server decides that, not the stylesheet, or a hidden field would still sit in the response. Paste your whole channel address and it gets trimmed rather than rejected, because copying the address is the obvious thing to do and not a mistake.

ICQ, AIM and Skype can no longer be entered. Whatever is in there stays: in a box of its own marked „archive, read only“, selectable and copyable, visible to you alone. The services shut down in 2017, 2024 and 2025. Deleting them would have been easier, but it tells no story either.

The preview on the right keeps up. Every keystroke lands in it, banner, effect and link line included. A bar rises at the bottom as soon as you change something, and it does not just say „unsaved“ but what is in the way: which link is wrong, or which effect is still only tried on.

You have been collecting since 2006, now something counts it

The archive holds 2,845 articles, 8,225 comments and 9,022 forum posts. Nobody wrote them for a medal; they wrote them because somebody was asking about a graphics driver. Even so: twenty years later that is an achievement, and until now it was recorded nowhere.

There are rank badges now. Twelve disciplines, five tiers each, from bronze through silver, gold and platinum to neon. Writing news, commenting, answering in the forum, adding LANs, having been to them, uploading galleries, submitting tips, rating, showing up daily. Every tier has a name of its own, and the highest one in news is called Schreibmaschine, the typewriter.

None of it needs applying for. The badges are derived from rows that are there anyway, every night at 04:25. Anyone who wrote in 2008 has had them since this morning without lifting a finger.

The thresholds are measured against reality. The first draft wanted 5,000 comments for the top tier, against a record of 724 in the whole archive. A tier nobody can reach is not an award, it is decoration. The lower tiers now sit where active members actually are, and the upper ones stay distant goals within what the archive contains.

Your profile gets a shelf. You may pin three badges, with all the ones you hold below. On the fourth the oldest drops out rather than the click being refused. On your own profile the thing is called the swot shelf, on other people’s a showcase. That is deliberate: self-mockery is self-mockery as long as it is about yourself.

The name of your highest tier now sits on your nick. In the forum, under comments, in the ranking, everywhere your name appears. Anyone who bought a custom title in the shop keeps it: 600 PLoints went into that, and taking it away would be expropriation.

Under /abzeichen you will find the full list, with your standing per discipline and the number you still need for the next tier. When you unlock something, a window tells you on your next visit, and you can put it straight on the shelf from there.

One discipline is still missing. „Friends invited“ is waiting for invite links that do not exist yet. And the symbols are machine-upscaled for now; hand-drawn ones come later.

The organisers get a page

Behind every LAN there is a crew, and until now they showed up as a name under the date at best. The organisers have their own pages now.

A map shows where the scene lives. The darker a state, the more crews are at home there. Click one and the list follows. Plus a search across name, town and state, a switch for „has a date“ and a row from A to Z. All of it sits in the address, so you can link and pass on any view.

A crew’s page turns its archive into a chart. How many parties in which year, which year was the strongest, how many seats the individual events had. Click a bar and the list below shows only that year.

The team is new. Who was part of a crew, with role and years, and explicitly including the ones who left long ago. That is the point: who ran the parties of 2008 is in no archive so far.

Were you there? Say so. Below the team you can add yourself: role, from, to. The crew confirms the entry, and until they do it appears nowhere. You need an account for it, and we take your name from your sign-in.

And if this is your crew: you can take over the profile. That is a request with a short reason now, and we look at it. It sounds more awkward than it is, and it stops anyone taking someone else’s club profile with one click. After that the page is yours: logo, description, team, and you can backfill missing LANs directly.

There are hardly any pictures yet. Of 353 galleries in the archive, exactly eight belong to a LAN; the rest are game screenshots from the editors. Where something exists, it is on the crew’s page now. Where it does not, the spot is waiting for you.

You will find all of it in the menu under LAN-Partys.

Sign in with Discord

Getting an account here used to mean: think of a username, type your address, think of a password, wait for mail, click a link. Five steps before anyone has written so much as a comment.

From now on you can sign in with Discord instead. One click, no password, and you are in.

We ask Discord for two things: your name and your address. No posts, no friend lists, none of the servers you are on. Discord shows you the same list before you agree, and what is not on it never reaches us.

If you already have an account here, it links up when the Discord address is the same one and Discord has confirmed it. If it has not, you sign in with your password once as usual and attach Discord afterwards. That is deliberate: an unconfirmed address must never take over somebody else's account, or putting your address into a Discord profile would be enough. And if you still have a profile from the 2006 to 2011 archive, the same address brings it back, without the detour through a confirmation mail.

A new account through Discord asks for a username, an address and the checkbox. No password. If you want one later, "forgot password" gives you one.

Google and Twitch are built but not switched on yet: all that is missing is our credentials with those two. They appear on the sign-in page once they work, and not before. A button that ends in an error is worse than no button. Steam is missing entirely; it works differently and hands out no address at all.

The sign-in page got tidied up along the way. If you have been here on this machine before, your name and picture sit at the top and only the password is asked for; "not you?" turns it back into the full form. Errors sit at the field they belong to, not collected at the top.

The room plan in 3D: stand in the middle of your hall

A top-down plan tells you where things are. It does not tell you how tall they are, whether you can see over them, or whether the way to the emergency exit is actually clear. Those are exactly the questions that turn up three days before the build.

So the room plan has a fourth mode: 3D. Turn it, zoom it, and stand at eye level in the middle of your hall. It is the same plan and not a second file: every chair, every cable and every door is drawn from the same calculation the top-down view and the check work from. What you see in the room is what the check tests.

What you can see now that you could not before. Tables stand on legs, chairs have backs, and there are flat screens with a keyboard and a mouse on the tops. Doors are openings in the wall with a leaf swung into the room, so you can see where an escape route leads. The main distributors are red and stand against the outer walls, their supply climbs the case to the socket panel, and extension leads run from there to the power cubes on the tables. The backbone stands as a rack in the cordoned technical area, with the game servers in it.

Four things got corrected on the way, because they were obvious the moment you stood in the room.

The main distributors sat in the middle of the aisle. On a LAN they go against an outer wall, or into a corner if there are tables along it. A 70 by 50 centimetre case in the aisle is an obstacle during the build and a trip hazard during the event. Two findings disappeared from the example plan because of it: those distributors were standing in the escape route.

The network cables hung overhead. That is the exception and needs a truss in the hall. Normally they run across the hall floor, beside the power with a few centimetres between them against interference. If your hall has a truss, there is a tick box for it in the outline now.

A fresh plan had no backbone at all. It only appeared when the table switches ran short of ports, and from 80 seats up they did not. Every plan gets one now, in the technical area where no attendees walk.

The game servers were invisible. They sat silently inside "ports for the crew" and "infrastructure", where nobody could check them. They are two figures of their own now: five servers at 300 W each, editable like every other value in the planner.

That moves your numbers. A new plan with 80 seats now needs 101 ports instead of 96, and 38.0 kW instead of 36.5. The servers were always there, just uncounted.

New in the check: the backbone run from the technical area to the table rows crosses the main escape route, because that aisle spans the whole hall. It is listed as an open point rather than a warning, because it is not a planning error you could move away, it is a job for the build. That spot needs a heavy-duty cable ramp, not a mat and not tape, since pallet trucks go over it too. Once it is down, you tick the box on the switch.

Two fields are new. The clear height of your hall, and whether the network cables run overhead. Only the people who rented the hall know either. If you leave the height empty, the view works with 4 m and says so rather than inventing a figure.

What it is not. You stand and turn, you do not walk yet. Arranging still happens in the top-down view; in the room you look and click. The selection holds across both: what you pick in the top-down view sits outlined in the room.

The view follows your colour scheme, light or dark. It only loads when you open it, so nobody who never opens it pays for it.

And as always: this has been tested against a single hall. Whatever does not work for yours belongs in the forum or in our Discord.

The LAN planner: will your hall take what you have in mind?

"Will 80 people fit in the hall?" is currently answered with a tape measure, a spreadsheet and three people who disagree. The hall is in one file, the power in a second, the budget in a third. Add a block of tables and none of them knows.

The LAN planner is one plan instead of three spreadsheets. You trace the outline of your hall, place entrances and emergency exits, drop in tables and zones, and everything else follows: seats, escape routes, circuits, ports, costs. Six views onto the same LAN, from the floor plan to the finished event page.

The floor plan has five layers: outline, layout, power, network and cable runs. Escape routes end at the emergency exits, distribution boxes sit where the ends of two tables meet, and cable runs never cross an escape route. None of that is a picture; it is drawn from what you actually placed.

In the example plan everything hangs off one chain: a 404 m2 sports hall, 232 m2 left for seats once aisles and function areas are taken out, 80 seats from that, 36.5 kW of load, 13 final circuits, 9 RCDs, 96 ports, 4,140 EUR of cost and break-even at 64 tickets sold. Pull the hall in and all eight figures move. There is no second place where any of them is typed again.

The power defaults are deliberately uncomfortable. A gaming PC draws 400 to 500 W, not 250. So there are three tiers (office 120 W, everyday 250 W, gaming 400 W), and at 400 W a 16 A circuit carries five seats, not eight. If you think that is too cautious, change it: every safety figure in the planner is a field, not a law buried in the code.

The check runs 22 tests and tells you what is open. What it never tells you is that something is safe. The figures are German figures: 230 V, CEE distribution, 30 mA, minimum widths from the German assembly venue regulations. They replace nobody. For escape routes, electrics and fire safety, what counts is what the authority where you are says.

The budget works off the same plan. A line can be a flat amount, the hall rent say, or it can hang off a quantity: per seat, per switch, per port, per kWh, a percentage of the remaining costs. Add a block of tables and the chair hire goes up by itself. Beside it sits how many tickets you need to sell at which price, and what is missing if you sell five fewer. That is the number you take to a sponsor.

You can try it without an account. Under "LAN parties" there is a finished example plan you can change in every direction. Nothing is saved; the state lives in your browser. With an account the plan stays put, and it can later become a LAN party on ploynt, with date, venue, tickets and seating.

One request. The planner is new and has been tested against a single example. What is missing, what it gets wrong, what does not work for your hall: write it in the forum or in our Discord. Saying it once helps everyone who plans a hall after you.

The figures behind it are German figures, whichever language you read them in. German numbers in an English interface would look like universal engineering. They are not.

Off to your Discord with it

Until now, throwing a LAN party from here into a chat got you a bare link. No picture, no date, nothing. 657 of the 872 entries in the archive had no preview image at all, because nobody ever uploaded one.

That is over. Every LAN party now has a preview card, drawn from the entry itself: name, date, town. If there is artwork, it becomes the background. Drop the link into Discord, WhatsApp or Mastodon and the card comes with it.

Organisers get a new section on their own event page. In it sits a finished Discord post, built from your own details. Copy, paste, send. Nobody has to write anything, you wrote it when you listed the LAN without noticing.

Plus a QR code. A vector, not a little bitmap, so it stays sharp on an A1 poster and on a table stand alike. Flyers, the entrance, the projector, the info board. And the preview image comes as a file too, in case you want to post it yourself.

Before and after the LAN the post asks different things. Before: “Who’s coming?” After: “Who was there? Photos and stories welcome.” Because once a LAN is over you do not need sign-ups any more, you need pictures.

All of it appears once your LAN is approved, and the approval mail tells you where. Not before: a link to a LAN still waiting for review goes nowhere for everyone else.

One number to close on. 271 organisers are in the archive, eight of them have an account here. If you run a LAN, list it. The event page, the attendee list, the gallery and all of this sharing material cost you nothing beyond the five minutes for the form.

Your profile is a LAN biography now

Until now your profile answered one question: what has this person posted? Articles, comments, forum, done. For a forum that is enough. For a site about LAN parties it is the wrong question.

So there is a new LANs tab, right at the front. It keeps two things apart, because they say different things: where you were there, and what you added to the archive. Grouped by year, with bars that double as filters, and a map showing only your LANs. Hover a card in the list and its dot lights up. And the other way round.

Your profile now opens on an overview instead of redirecting to your posts. At the top, the run of it: a horizontal timeline with speech bubbles above the years, spaced by the real gaps between them.

On an account from 2006 it reads: joined in 2006, strongest year 2007, then it went quiet in 2011, back after fifteen years in 2026. The long empty stretch in between is the pause itself. None of it is invented; it all comes from rows that are actually there.

Below that your LAN history, a strip of gallery covers, and what you last posted. In the sidebar: since when you have been here, your last trace, your PLoints, your friends and your ploynt DNA as bars across the five kinds of contribution.

And, if you go back far enough, your profile from back then. 565 accounts still carry an ICQ number or a Skype name. None of it gets deleted.

New accounts do not get five boxes with a zero in them. They get a sentence: your ploynt story starts here. The profile builds itself from what you do, not from a form.

One request. Of 4,100 members, 199 have ticked a single LAN as attended so far. Every past LAN party has an "I was there" button. One click and it shows up in your history. Twenty years are sitting there waiting.

The map: the next LAN first, then twenty years

The LAN party map could already do a lot, you just had to understand it first. Pick a year, drag the timeline, hit play, read the marker sizes, fan out the towns, check the hotspots: nine concepts on one surface, all at once. Now the page asks what you actually want.

Upcoming LANs is the default and answers the question most people arrive with. Seven dates are coming up, each with a countdown badge: "in 6 days", "this weekend". Map and list are one thing rather than two: hover a card in the list and its dot lights up on the map, and the other way round as well. Click a dot and a preview gives you the date, the town, the seats.

Time travel 2006-2026 is the other mode, one click away. That is where the 730 events live. The histogram in the timeline shows without a word of explanation that 2007 and 2008 were out of control, and the button above it plays them back month by month, 2006 to 2026. The map moves with it: every month one drops off the back and one arrives at the front, markers grow, vanish, and the centre of gravity visibly shifts across the country. 1x, 2x, 4x, whatever suits you.

Between 2011 and 2025 we have nothing. Fifteen years, more than half the timeline, and there is no hiding it. Drag the slider there and you get the explanation rather than an empty surface, plus a request: were you at a LAN back then, or did you run one? Add it. Name, year and town will do for now.

Search and the advanced filters are still there, with the date range, minimum seats and the features. What is new is that they no longer leave you staring at nothing: if a search finds nothing in the year you are on, the page tells you how many hits there are overall and takes you to the right month in one click.

Upload your photos without asking the organisers

There are 8,305 photos in the archive, uploaded by 15 people. Two of them account for 88 percent. Not because nobody else brought a camera, but because there was exactly one way in: create a gallery and file it under the LAN party, which in practice is something organisers do and almost nobody else. Everyone else's photos have been sitting on hard drives for fifteen years.

Now it works straight from the LAN party page. If you were on the attendee list, you will find „Du warst dabei. Hast du Fotos?" there and can upload. They go into a gallery of your own, under your name, not into the organisers' album: „Invite 87, Fotos von Paul". One per person per LAN, whether you upload everything in one evening or add more in January.

The organisers take one look before anything goes public. They can pull individual photos, and doing so requires a reason, which reaches you by mail. One mail for the whole thing, not one per photo: how many are online, what is missing and why. Someone who never learns why a photo is missing does not upload a second time.

You get 2 PLoints per photo taken, for the first 20 per LAN party. All of them are still uploaded and published; the limit is only on the payout. And the shrinking happens on your device before anything is sent: a phone photo today weighs 4 to 8 MB, and a tenth of that afterwards. That is the difference between "I'll upload those later" and "already up". 208 past LAN parties have an attendee list, and the section is there for all of them as of now.

Editing without side effects: approved once is enough

An organiser correcting a typo in the door price took their own LAN party out of the calendar and the list. Every edit sent the entry back to the queue, even one approved months ago, and nothing on screen said so. You found out when your own party stopped showing up anywhere. Approved now stays approved, for LAN parties and galleries alike. Entries not yet approved still go for review, and the save message now says which of the two happened.

Second, the LAN party overview has stopped jumping. Dragging the timeline, picking a town or switching the year used to slide the map out from under your finger, up to 1,500 pixels off screen in the worst case. Map and timeline now stay where they are, even when 243 results turn into six.

Ratings: what the guests say, not what the flyer promises

If you do not know a LAN party, you decide whether to go by the announcement and the flyer, which is the organiser's own material. Now there is a view from the inside as well. Once an event is over, everyone who was on the ploynt attendee list gets a short form: five marks for organisation, network and tech, catering, atmosphere and value for money, the question „go again?" and, if you like, a few sentences. Two minutes, and it earns 5 PLoints.

What happens to it is fixed. Marks only ever appear as the edition's average, from five ratings up, and never individually beside a name. Below five ratings the section does not exist at all, rather than sitting there empty. Quotes start at ten. Your free text is yours to make public or to send to the organisers alone, though with your name attached either way: staying unidentified means leaving the text blank and giving marks only. And there is no ranking between organisers, no leaderboard, no badge. A number always sits with the edition it belongs to.

You are reminded exactly once, three days after the LAN. Never again after that.

Organiser handbook: rules, not click paths

Organiser teams had exactly one page, and it only answered why you should list your LAN here. Everything after that you had to work out yourself. The handbook under "Für Orga-Teams" is the answer: rules and decisions rather than click-by-click instructions, one chapter per topic, each carrying the date it was last checked. The first chapter covers the planned ratings. Who may leave one, what becomes public, what only the organiser sees, and when anything shows up at all. You can switch it between 48, 8 and 3 ratings to see what the section actually looks like, because under five it shows nothing.

"Ich bin dabei" now earns PLoints as well. They are credited after the LAN, to everyone still on the list by then, rather than on the click. Otherwise it would be a button for points instead of an attendee list. Behind the scenes, 95 events from the archive have been filed under their series, so an upcoming edition can later show how the last one went.

New home page: the fresh stuff first, the archive as an archive

The home page opened with "Aktuelle News" whose newest post was from 2011, while last week's galleries sat right at the bottom. "Upcoming LAN parties" was a heading with no dates under it, and "Gewusst wie" did not appear at all. Now the fresh material is on top: a lead that rotates between news, the tip of the week, a gallery and the next event, followed by the newest posts, freshly uploaded galleries and the threads someone last wrote in. "LAN-Party, gewusst wie" got a band of its own, upcoming LAN parties wear a "only X days to go" sticker, and the archive is now labelled as an archive instead of "Aktuelle News". Four concrete ways to join in close the page. The top of every page got tidied too: eight buttons side by side have become four — search, notifications, language, theme. Messages, friend requests and the mod queue now sit with their counts inside a single bell, and the admin area moved into the name menu. The tabs measure themselves as well, tucking whatever does not fit under "Mehr", so the user plate on the right no longer gets cut off.

LAN party pages: the decision up front, not the fine print

LAN party pages used to be a flat list of equal-weight sections, price and registration buried somewhere below, occupancy just a lone bar under the banner. Now date, town, seats and price sit right at the top, with the registration button and occupancy bar next to them. Linked games show up as real cover cards, gallery/article/participants live together in one archive block, and the page closes with links to the organizer, the town, and the strongest linked game, all derived from real data.

Game search: if it is missing, the site fetches it itself

The games database had gotten pretty stale, plenty of LAN parties wanted to list games that simply were not in here yet. Submitting a LAN party now has an "search online" option next to the local search: a query to IGDB pulls in cover art, description, genre, platform, developer, and release year, all editable before saving. Newly created games land in the moderation queue for review first, same as everything else submitted here.

Multiple roles: organizer and editor at once

Anyone organizing a LAN party who also wanted to write news used to have to pick one, "Veranstalter" or "Redakteur", one role per account. Now any number of roles can be held at once, shown as separate badges in the menu, on profiles, under forum posts, and on the leaderboard. Changing someone's role now sends them an email about it, too.

"My Contributions": one page for everything you have submitted

Submitting a LAN party used to dump you straight on its (not yet approved) detail page, a 404 for anyone but a moderator. Now there is "My Contributions": LAN parties, news, tips, and polls in one place, with status, rejection reason, and its own line in the main menu that shows only what is actually still waiting on review.

LAN map: timeline and map in one panel

The timeline and the map used to be two separate boxes with duplicated numbers and a duplicated legend, now it is one panel: the scrubber sits flush under the map, there are month arrows to click instead of only drag, and the grouping switch is gone, nobody needed to tune that anyway.

Avatar upload: crop it in your browser

A user tried to upload a 3.4MB avatar photo and the server said no. Rather than just raising the limit, there is now an actual crop tool built into the page: pick your circle, drag, zoom, done, and it never ships bigger than it needs to. Animated GIFs (for the Animated Avatar trinket) still pass straight through untouched.

Articles rewired: LAN parties, organizers, and a full redesign

Articles now know what they are actually about: 11 old organizer links were recovered from dead permalinks buried in the article text, new ones get added by hand from here on. Old interview-format pieces get their own proper Q&A layout, and the whole detail page was rebuilt: title block, byline, an archive-age note on older pieces, and a sidebar that surfaces the LAN party an article covers, when it has one.

"Gewusst wie": tips, FAQ, checklist, and a new LAN-party header

A whole new section for anyone stemming their first LAN party: 24 organizer tips dug out of the archive, 19 FAQ questions with real answers, and a 39-item checklist to tick off. The LAN-party overview gets a header pointing straight at it, plus a rebuilt FAQ page to match.

Registration reworked, Discord on profiles, a sitemap for Google

Registration got tidied up, Discord handle is now its own profile field, and a real sitemap means search engines can actually find the archive.

LAN-party import by link, seat occupancy

A new LAN party can now be imported straight from a link instead of retyping everything by hand, with a teaser image and seat occupancy tracked alongside it.

Article thumbnails, toast notifications

Article images get real thumbnails instead of serving the full-size original everywhere, and small toast notifications now confirm when something happened in the background.

Faster loading: edge caching and SWR

Public API responses are now edge-cacheable, and stale-while-revalidate means pages feel instant while fresh data loads in behind the scenes.

Admin: managing galleries and LAN parties

The admin panel can now manage galleries and news/articles, and LAN parties can be reassigned to a different user when the organizer changes.

Polls, comment-vote notifications, unified filter bars

A full poll system, a notification when someone votes on your comment, and every filter bar on the site now looks the same instead of each page doing its own thing.

Mailbox expanded: emails, login history

The email system was extended, login history moved into the admin panel, and a bug is fixed where unconfirmed email addresses could not request a password reset.

Ploinmark, profile header, and the friend graph

Ploinmark launched, the profile header got an uplift, and the friend graph can now be zoomed and panned instead of just sitting there rigid.

The site now speaks English too

A full pass translating the member-facing parts of the site into English, DE/EN can now be switched up top.

Registration, login, ranking, terms

Registration and login flow rebuilt, the ranking updated, and the site now has proper terms and conditions, because even an archive needs the fine print.

Previews everywhere, plus moderation tools

Articles, games, galleries, and events can now be previewed as drafts before going live, with the moderation tools that need alongside.

The admin panel arrives

User and article management, mascot control, network roles, and the ability to pin forum posts, all landing at once.

One composer for everything

The separate comment editor is gone, one composer now handles every post type on the site, and venues finally have a region.

Profile editing, avatar, login streaks

A profile editing page, avatar upload, and login streaks all land, every day you show up counts now.

Galleries, mailbox, networks, polls, downloads

Five areas in one day: photo galleries, a full mailbox with folders, search, replies and a trash bin, networks, an early pass at polls, and the downloads section. Guestbook, shop, and social components followed right behind.

LAN parties, venues, organizers, games

The whole foundation for the LAN-party archive: events, venues, organizers, and a games database, with the API and frontend to match.

Article components polished up

The article components got redesigned, with structured bylines and section tags, plus a homepage layout update and some theme polish.

Forum and comments go live

The forum is back: threads, posts, BBCode, pagination, and likes, plus a comment voting system, imported with the API and frontend behind it.

The dig begins

First commit: the Laravel API and Nuxt frontend everything else here grew out of. ProjectLAN.de starts becoming ploynt again.