Replying to vocalon…
let's just look at the threads though. these are mostly keysmashes because i simply didn't think to ask for it to seed the database* with anything interesting. you'll note that every topic is by Anonymous A. this is because the creator of every thread is Anonymous A, obviously**, but the board is forced anon for now, until i decide it's not, so every OP is always Anon A. there are no namefags allowed. it also displays recent activity twice - once with the date in its own column, and once hanging on by a little thread in the namefag column.
the topics list is rendered client-side, so that selector on the right actually just fetches entirely new data like it's the modern era. i fucking hate this. i grew up with server-side rendering and the brainrotted zoomers don't know just how good SSR really is. and you may look at that selector and the links in the header, and think "wow, so the links to view both popular posts and recent bumps must work, right?" and the answer is of course no.
i actually quite like the topic preview beneath the topic headline, it makes everything feel just a little bit more alive, IMO, and less like it's just displaying raw data from an SQL query.
* the database is SQLite, also. i love SQLite so much.
** stay tuned