Show HN: basement community, an early-web inspired forum, 6 months later

6 months of running my home-rolled web forum, basement community, and now with Reddit going apeshit, I'd like to take a minute to share recent enhancements to the site.

Highlights include:

* user count has gotten to over 350!! this is huge!!!!

* added more user settings (bionic reading mode, avatars disabled, auto-bookmarking threads, toggle posting hints)

* shows latest posts on homepage for easier parsing for new content

* posts are saved locally so they are not lost upon page refresh or browser closing

* DARK MODE!!!

* quality-of-life improvements, such as auto-focusing on form-fields and auto-scrolling to form errors

* privacy and FAQ page

* joined some more webrings because fuck yeah webrings

* adds a bunch of moderation tools for mods and admins

* revamps some of the homepage and thread landing page UIs

this project makes me happy and i encourage everyone to just start on a project they've been thinking about!!!

also the API is free to use unlike some other sites