A satisfying round of updates!

Normally I copy/paste the changelog here and in the forums, but before the big pile of pastespam, I just wanted to say: I'm honestly really pleased with this round of updates. Rambling to follow:

I've been busy with fun projects at work and lots of crafting and costume making, but have still been grinding away at the website hoping to get some big change done that makes the rest of development easier, and it wasn't until I stepped back and looked at what I had done that I realized I might be there.

The hurdles I was stuck behind for V2 profiles are gone, several performance and optimization issues I was pretending weren't a thing were solved, and I even fixed image fuzzy matching so I can start setting up duplication detection (which was a huge blocker after the move to Google cloud).

In this recent update, I found one silly configuration issue on my end that caused the website to be somewhat slow to load ever since we moved over to Google cloud, and that one fix alone I think made a difference (~80% smaller app code to download). I still have a ways to go in optimizing my database queries, etc, but speed is now back on the roadmap.

I've also been noodling at a public API so other apps/services/telegram bots can integrate with the website, but that's a zombie-like programming project to do when I wanna do something but I'm tired of Javascript.

In terms of things you directly see as users, the V2 forums are about 80% done, and the V2 profiles are actually seeing progress. Right now I'm just getting all the UI built out for them, which is usually the forever-taking part. The next step is getting that hooked up to the app, and that's easy.

If you want to read the full list of things I did since the last update, that's here:  https://refsheet.net/v2/forums/support/site-changelog---01-25-2020

As always, thank you for your support, and please, provide feedback!

- That Developer with a Name that Sounds Like A Cat