There are some minor changes and new features as well.

- Most dates don't display seconds anymore to save space
- Some table headers use abbreviations now (also to save space), hovering reveals the full text
- Shortened most texts to make it less cluttered
- Some spam cooldowns and limitations are slightly less annoying now (lower cooldowns / higher limits)
- Screenshots can now have an upload size of up to 5 mb (was 3 mb) and are only compressed when larger than 300 kb (was 200 kb)
- Avatar images can now have an upload size of up to 5 mb (was 1 mb) and are only compressed when larger than 30 kb (was 20 kb)
- More automatic attempts to find optimal screenshot and avatar compression (should result in better looking compressed images)
- Discord is now linked on the website
- You can now provide more contact details / social media links in your profile (e.g. Instagram, tiktok, LinkedIn, GitHub...)
- You can now forward PMs (which is equal to quote/reply but doesn't pre-fill the target user and adds "Fwd: " instead of "Re: " to the title)
- File archive contents: You now also see the compressed/uncompressed total size and the average compression of all files
- Improved usability of "mark as unread from..." by using HTML5 datetime picker and extra +/- buttons
- Now using my own CAPTCHA solution due to GDPR. Also added audio reading support (audio files & generation code from here. Thanks fellow Peter!).
- Stats page has more details and the old live Flash stats have been replaced with a JavaScript solution
- Improved, more slim "tag pad" (the thing that contains smileys and tags). Now above text area instead of left to it.
- Tabbing when writing/editing posts now skips all tag pad elements.
- many other small things

Backend
I invested a lot of time cleaning up and refactoring my old PHP code. I made things follow the PSR-12 coding style.
Also reduced code nesting a lot (nice video about that), split some bigger files into multiple ones and introduced more methods for features which are used in multiple places (DRY).
The SQL database structure is still the same. I had plans to optimize it as well but I don't think it's worth my time right now.

Frontend
Since modern browsers have great JavaScript APIs I decided to remove jQuery entirely. I'm only using vanilla JavaScript now. The benefit of this is that browsers have to download, parse and run less JavaScript.
I implemented my own super basic and leightweight animation tweening library as a replacement for jQuery animation methods.
I'm also using nearly no images for the website style anymore. Instead I'm using a lot of CSS features like gradients and rounded borders. CSS animations are used as well.
Moreover I'm no longer using the XHTML standard anymore. XHTML is nice because it's more strict than HTML (thus enforcing cleaner HTML) but the downside is that it also forces you to use closing slashes for ALL tags. e.g. "<br />" instead of just "<br>". This adds extra useless characters to HTML pages. I don't want those anymore so: Gooodbye XHTML!

Nobody cares about the website! Can't you work on Stranded III or CS2D instead?
I wanted to rework the website and that's why I did it. I sometimes need breaks from projects.

I hate it! Can you change it back?
I'm sorry but this won't happen. Please give it some time. I know that changes are difficult.
If you have constructive feedback, please share it in the forum!

What to do when I find security issues with the new website?
Please send me a mail or a private message so I can take care of it ASAP!

Something is broken / worse than before. What should I do?
Your support is highly appreciated! Please report the problem! You can post it in this thread:
Unreal Software bugs and errors thread
Or create a new thread in the Unreal Software section.
If it's a visual problem please also share which browser you're using. Note that old browsers like Internet Explorer are NOT supported anymore.

I have a great idea for the website! Where to post it?
Please use this thread:
Ideas For UnrealSoftware Site