I was able to 503 the site in a few different ways. Like adding limit=1000 to a big thread.

A few notes that I can't be bothered to report as bugs.

• Breadcrumbs at the top should not be capitalized or truncated. I don't understand what the possible reason for this could be. The last breadcrumb should be a link. Again, no plausible reason for it to not be.
• Same with thread titles of recent threads on the front page. The blobs have a massive top margin and then a truncated thread title. Why? And the recent threads block itself should be collapsible. Not everyone will like it taking up most of the front page.
• No merits on user profile. Or anywhere else.
• Not a fan of squished and rounded avatars in thread lists etc. They're unreadable/unrecognizable. Just don't show anything.
• Full-size avatars in threads seem to be smaller than on Bitcointalk, causing some to be mangled when scaled down.
• Asynchronous loads should be more obvious, especially because browser rendering is very slow in some cases. You click something, indicator at the top stops spinning and nothing is happening for a while. It should be indicating something until it stops rendering. Ideally blanking out the area of the page it is reloading.
• There is something odd going on with line breaks. Some posts are rendering differently between bitcointalk and epochtalk. I don't have an example right now but I've seen words squished together as if there was a line break missing between them.
• Board links don't have board id in them. This could break links if the board name is ever changed.
  e.g. https://demo.epochtalk.com/boards/Development-&-Technical-Discussion

And just an illustration on how uncooked the whole thing is in general and why it shouldn't have been made public in this condition. Just opening any random thread you see this:



The user is "user" and... "User". Why?
Default avatar... may be a matter of opinion, but I think it should just show nothing instead.
Missing date in quote - I reported that one.
Mangled signatures mentioned earlier.

That literally takes seconds to notice. Am I the only one seeing it?

And that's before you start clicking on things and quote links are broken, thread sorting is broken, etc. And that's before opening other pages and seeing duplicated username on user profile page, mangled upper/lower case texts etc.

Not sure why theymos is allergic to doing this the right way but this is a waste of time for everyone involved. Users will report the same bugs multiple times. Shit, I may report the same bug multiple times myself because I will forget which ones I already reported and I can't see what I reported. This should be sorted out internally. Then put out a public test when you can't find any bugs to fix anymore in an internal alpha.

Sorry for ranting, I've spent too many years dealing with stuff like that in my day job and it raises my blood pressure