Completed a dedicated polish and quality-of-life pass on the in-browser game pages.

• eternal: improved control stability and responsiveness by moving to cleaner input-state handling, plus safer mobile touch behavior and stuck-input prevention on focus loss
• eternal: updated creator/profile link references to the current GTS profile
• emojilife: fixed drag/placement edge cases, prevented accidental decoration drops on furniture clicks, and improved drag cleanup for touch/blur scenarios
• emojilife: completed a full UI polish pass (cohesive palette, cleaner panel/button system, improved mobile consistency)
• emojilife: added a first-run onboarding overlay plus a reusable in-game Help action to reopen guidance on demand
• hardcore_flappy: fixed duplicated input triggering by consolidating interaction handling and adding debounce protection
• hardcore_flappy: made win/start/game-over overlays reliably interactive so links and controls work as expected
• hardcore_flappy: added an in-game help overlay, improved mobile readability, and refined status copy
• hardcore_flappy: reduced win condition from 1000 to 50 for a more realistic challenge target

This pass keeps game mechanics intact while improving usability, consistency, and cross-device interaction quality.

Completed a broad site refresh pass focused on consistency, readability, and interaction polish across key pages.

• refined homepage and linkgarden presentation details, including spacing and button consistency updates
• fixed and standardized modal behavior across image-heavy pages (gallery, haxpunks, about), including close controls and keyboard navigation support
• polished major static content pages with clearer structure, sectioned layouts, and scoped styling: about, bookmarks, discography, blogroll, podroll, books, the_sims, second_life, install_debian, join_activitypub, fediverse_tips, build_a_website, and howtoSL
• removed redundant /vamphouse item from main nav (still linked from /the_sims)
• resolved books cover border clipping by adjusting cover wrappers and image sizing constraints
• temporarily disabled light mode to maintain visual consistency during this redesign cycle
• updated outdated support and profile links: /build_a_website now points to /support/, and /fediverse_tips uses the current GTS profile URL
• ran internal link integrity checks for the new hub pages and confirmed guide routes resolve correctly

This pass brings most core pages into a more unified visual system and leaves the heavier in-browser game pages for a later dedicated refactor stage.

Made a full pass on homepage styling and layout behavior, plus replaced the old Notes panel with a generated widget:

• cleaned up assets/main.scss (fixed variable typos, removed redundancies, and consolidated repeated @media (max-width: 768px) blocks)
• adjusted desktop alignment so the site stays left-snapped on smaller desktop widths and only centers on large screens
• fixed mobile/tablet offset by switching body flow back to block layout at <=768px
• centered the Popular Tags section in the right sidebar
• replaced the Notes block in home.html with a new Transmission panel that randomly chooses between:
  • Fortune Terminal
  • Netrunner Prompt
• added a reroll action for the transmission panel and constrained its content so it stays inside the old Note box dimensions without stretching the neighboring Log card

Small but meaningful quality-of-life update overall: better responsive alignment, cleaner CSS behavior, and a more personality-driven homepage block.

Made some new updates to the backend of the website:

• notes and logs now auto-share to my main Akkoma account via my own instance
• blog posts now also auto-share to my dormant Bluesky account that is effectively acting as a moderation list maintainer

Been a while since I post in the logs, mostly because I forgot to! But, here are some additions I’ve made since the last changelog:

• added a payment system via Stripe in order to allow people to subscribe right here on mkultra.monster
• added an admin front-end that I can use to monitor and moderate guestbook comments
• added a tag cloud to the left sidebar
• added an api and sidebar element that displays realtime visitor counts to my actual store *in* Second Life
• added a summary to the right sidebar depicting how many different kinds of posts I've made in a constant 7 day period
• updated the social counts at the top of the website to reflect my *real* social metrics from my akkoma instance
• added a live updating listenbrainz widget to the bottom of the page
• removed references to the melonland webring, as the owner is a centrist who stands for nothing
• removed references to wafrn, since their moderation philosophy is heavily influenced by transmisogynists

Made a minor addition today, along with unifying the random image puller into one space, I’ve put the guestbook back with a simple sqlite flask server. Enjoy!

Altered the RSS feed on the site (and created a brand new one) to include everything that was already include from the website, and also forum topics created by me, on my forum!

Updated the site with a new “back to the top” button that appears only via mobile view, strengthening the experience users have on their phones, since that’s what most people are using to read my site.

Due to Reddit’s continued push into the AI bubble, and pushing this grift upon its users (especially in ads, as seen below) …

I’ve removed references to Reddit from the website, switched the content box at the bottom of the homepage to only display content from Lemmy, and changed the random calendar image in the left sidebar to display images from Gelbooru rather than Reddit (despite Geblooru being host to some weirdo content, they seem to have very little, if any generative slop).

Migrated the website to its own server, installed Anubis 1.18.0