Release notes
The archive is alive, the forum is not being relaunched
New records, corrections, privacy decisions and design passes are logged here so former members can see the work without reading JSON manifests or internal dev notes.
Recent public changes
Replaces the rejected generated homepage stand-in with an actual January 12, 2006 Wayback-rendered TightBeatz frontpage crop.
- real frontpage crop
- Monthly Top10 rank table visible
- homepage paired with forum capture
- source-ledger provenance
Adds a curated Exhibits layer plus equal-weight member hubs so visitors can see the bedroom-studio, battle, graphics and lost-music stories without digging through the full catalog first.
- exhibit index and four theme rooms
- member hubs for Cappuchino and other high-signal veterans
- updated Start Here route
- static crawlable pages
- sitemap expansion
Adds Start Here, Find Yourself, Release Notes, a Sinful D hub model and the first thesis exhibit so visitors can understand the 817-record archive without reading a manifest.
- Guided first-visit tour
- former-member search surface
- human-readable release notes
- entity-style Sinful D hub
- What TightBeatz Was exhibit
Preserved the 760px portal shell while making the public entry more visual and unified across homepage, People and Catalog surfaces.
- forum-crop hero stage
- active-handle wall
- People intro metrics
- catalog styling refresh
- Cappuchino homepage search fix
Resolved additional active members, added fourteen veteran dossiers and rebuilt the public catalog to 817 records.
- RooK and Enuff Said account resolution
- Lace / J-X / aLiVe / Big Dee dossiers
- 13 alias trails
- two file fossils
- 817-record rebuild
Added Cappuchino plus eight high-activity veteran records while keeping Cappuchino separate from Capa.
- Cappuchino dossier
- Capa non-merge
- Cubis and Lo G expansion
- 801-record rebuild
Added a public Artifact Recovery section that separates recovered image payloads from path-only leads and blocked replay attempts.
- 19 public visual artifacts
- 29 path-only album-art leads
- 44 IPB GIF records
- external embed replay ledger
Disabled Cloudflare email obfuscation and RUM/Web Analytics injection, verified DNS and kept the archive email visible as plain text.
- plain contact address
- Email Routing verified at DNS/config level
- no beacon or email-rewrite scripts
- cache purge