What this update focuses on

• Letting the community participate in game rules decisions
• Keeping you informed with notifications and direct messages
• Making CRC accessible in Spanish (with more languages planned)

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Added

Spanish Language Support

• The site is now available in English and Spanish
• Language switcher added to the header — switch anytime without losing your place

Notifications

• New notification bell in the header with an unread count badge
• Get notified when your runs, games, or profile submissions are approved, rejected, or need changes
• Mark individual or all notifications as read

Messaging

• Send and receive messages with other community members
• Message panel accessible from the header, or visit the full messages page
• Threads keep conversations organized with subjects and unread indicators

My Submissions

• New submissions page (/profile/submissions) showing all your pending, rejected, and past submissions in one place
• View details for individual runs, games, and update suggestions
• Withdraw pending submissions if needed

Community Rules & Discussion

• Games under community review now have a Discussion tab
• Rules committee members can create proposals for the community to vote on
• Anyone can submit rule suggestions on game pages — staff will review and respond
• Rules changes are now versioned and tracked over time

Popup Sign-In

• Signing in now opens in a popup instead of navigating away from the page
• Falls back to the normal flow if your browser blocks popups

Reporting

• You can now report profiles in addition to runs and games
• New report reasons for inappropriate content, impersonation, and harassment

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Changed

• Game tab labels and most UI text now update when you switch languages
• Only one header dropdown opens at a time (notifications, language, and menu no longer overlap)
• YouTube embeds now use the privacy-enhanced player
• Various security improvements to the login flow, content rendering, and session handling

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Internal

• The platform's backend worker was restructured for easier maintenance
• Content sanitization upgraded for better compatibility with the hosting environment
• New internal systems for tracking rule changes, message threads, and notification state
• Content Security Policy upgraded from static headers to per-request nonce-based policies

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Upcoming

• Google Sheets doc to verify Spanish translation
• History tab with page changes, community achievements, and other milestones
• Additional language support
• Verifier CMS with inline editing
• Co-op and multi-runner support

This release introduces a full game editor, community game submissions, global search, a news CMS, runner profile theming, and a significantly expanded admin toolkit. The Cloudflare Worker has also been upgraded with KV-backed global rate limiting.

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Added

Core Platform

• Full SvelteKit 2 + Svelte 5 rebuild
• Complete TypeScript codebase
• SCSS styling system with reusable components and theme tokens
• CSS custom property theme system (--accent, --bg, --panel, etc.)

Game Management

• Full admin game editor (/admin/game-editor/[game_id])

  • Multi-tab editor (General, Categories, Rules, Challenges, Restrictions, Characters, Difficulties, History)
  • Cover image upload with crop tool
  • Slug generation with lock protection
  • Tag editors for platforms, genres, and aliases
  • Flexible Fixed Loadout system

• Community game submission wizard (/submit-game)

  • Multi-step form with category builder
  • Challenge and restriction editors
  • Character configuration
  • Glitch category configuration
  • Turnstile CAPTCHA and banned-term validation

Game Pages

• New tabbed layout:

  • Overview
  • Runs
  • Rules
  • History
  • Resources
  • Forum
  • Suggest an Update
  • Submit Run

• Advanced run filtering

  • multi-select challenge / restriction filters
  • character search
  • glitch category filtering
  • verified-only toggle
  • sortable tables
  • pagination

• Interactive Rules Builder

• Suggest Update page with screenshot uploads

Runner Profiles

• Fully redesigned runner pages with tabs:

  • Overview
  • Run Statistics
  • Achievements
  • Contributions
  • Activity

• Banner system with advanced display options

• Avatar crop tool

• Country flags and “Ally of” field

• Personal goals system

• Community achievements display

• Activity timeline

Profile Editing & Theming

• Complete profile editor (/profile/edit)
• Social links approval system
• Highlights editor with video validation
• Personal goals progress tracking
• Profile privacy toggle

Theme Customizer

• Color presets and custom colors
• Background image support
• Font family selection
• Text outline toggle
• Real-time preview

Theme presets:

• Default
• Pink
• Blue
• Purple
• Red
• Gold
• Cyan
• Lime

Global Search

• Unified search page (/search)
• Searches across:
  • games
  • runners
  • runs
  • teams
• Category filter tabs
• Header search integration

News System

• Admin news CMS (/admin/news)
• Markdown editor with preview
• Image uploads
• Tag system
• Featured posts
• Homepage news carousel

Admin Toolkit

Moderation Tools

• Runs management with bulk operations
• Profile approvals and change requests
• Game review interface
• Reports management
• Game update suggestion queue

Staff Tools

• Staff guides with in-app markdown
• User management with role assignment
• Per-game moderator / verifier assignments

System Tools

• Service health dashboard
• Debug tools (role simulation, session inspection)

Permissions System

• Role hierarchy:

  • super_admin
  • admin
  • moderator
  • verifier
  • user
  • non_user

• Route-level access control

• Role simulation tools for testing

Content Systems

• Report modal with CAPTCHA
• Markdown rendering across the platform
• Banned terms validation
• Country data module (236 countries)

Infrastructure

• Profile onboarding flow
• Auth callback with redirect logic
• Scroll position preservation
• Toast notification system
• Debug bar component

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Changed

UI

• Redesigned tab system
• Unified button styles
• Improved spacing and layout
• Game hero layout improvements
• Footer redesigned with 4-column grid

Auth

• Auth system now uses unified profiles table
• Header profile detection logic improved
• Supabase browser client hydration fixed
• Admin requests use explicit bearer tokens

Worker

• Cloudflare Worker expanded with:
  • server-side run validation
  • Turnstile verification
  • KV-backed global rate limiting

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Internal

Architecture

• Full Svelte 5 rune syntax ($state, $derived, $effect)
• Server data layer split between dynamic Supabase data and repo-based static content
• Centralized store architecture for auth, theme, scroll, debug, and notifications
• Standardized path aliases ($lib, $stores, $components, $types)

Configuration

• YAML configuration system for:
  • admin config
  • banned terms
  • default rules
  • platforms
  • genres
  • moderators
  • game history

Security

• Hardened CSP headers
• Strict cache policy
• Admin/profile routes marked no-store

CI

• Type checking via svelte-check
• ESLint validation

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Upcoming

• Notification system
• Messaging system
• Spanish language support
• Verifier CMS with inline editing
• Achievements/badges UI
• Per-game leaderboards
• Co-op run support
• Server-side pagination
• Accessibility pass (~142 a11y warnings)

Added

• Full authentication system using Discord and Twitch OAuth (Supabase-backed)
• Runner profile creation, editing, account linking, and status tracking
• Role-based access control (Super Admin, Admin, Verifier, User)
• Complete admin dashboard with moderation queues for profiles, games, and runs
• Cloudflare Worker API layer replacing Google Form workflow
• JWT-protected admin approval endpoints
• Supabase database schema for profiles, runs, games, and moderation tracking
• Modded game support with base-game linking
• Community achievements system (game-defined, community-tracked)
• Personal goals system (runner-defined, profile-integrated)
• Legal infrastructure:
  • Terms of Service
  • Privacy Policy (GDPR + CCPA)
  • Cookie Policy
  • Community Guidelines
• Cookie consent banner with granular controls
• Automated user data export (self-service)
• Turnstile captcha on all public submission forms
• Security header hardening and strict SSL configuration
• Consolidated CI workflow and expanded validation checks

Changed

• Submission pipeline replaced:
  • Google Form → GitHub PR
  • Now: Worker → Supabase (pending) → Admin approval → GitHub file creation
• Supabase now acts as source of truth for pending content
• Game pages restructured into clearer tab sections
• Header updated with authenticated user dropdown and admin access
• Footer updated with legal links and privacy controls
• JavaScript modularized into separate functional modules
• CSS standardized for layout consistency across authenticated and admin views

Internal

• Shared admin.js module for role detection and approval actions
• Worker consolidated into a single API layer with rate limiting and sanitization
• Row Level Security optimized across all Supabase tables
• Standardized three-tier run system across games:
  • Full Runs
  • Mini-Challenges
  • Player-Made Challenges
• Architecture and migration documentation added for future frontend transition

Upcoming

• Frontend framework migration planning
• Support Page updates
• Glossary Page updates
• History Tab refinement
• End-to-end submission pipeline testing
• Spanish language support
• Verifier CMS tools

Added

• Advanced Search on the /runs/ page, matching Rule Builder behavior on /rules/
• Single-select controls for Run Type, Category, Character, and Glitches Used in both Advanced Search and Rule Builder
• Global rule definitions with support for game-specific overrides
• Run classification into three types:
  • Full Runs
  • Mini-Challenges
  • Player-Made Challenges
• Credits section added to the Overview tab, displayed even when empty
• Brief first-view session highlight for the Rule Builder
• Submit a Run page now pulls game-specific data to populate relevant options
• Submit a Run page displays the Video URL when pasted
• Cloudflare verification added to Submit a Run
• Return to Top button appears after scrolling 75% of a page

Changed

• Game pages now include separate Runs, Rules, and Submit a Run sections
• Run listings updated to reflect new run type separation
• Game navigation standardized across all pages
• CSS updated to improve layout consistency, spacing, and readability

Internal

• Site structure updated to support scalable rule resolution between global and game-specific definitions
• Submission flow refactored for future verification and moderation workflows

Upcoming

Planned

• Minor Submit a Run consistency updates
  • Hide non-relevant variables
  • Possible reordering of fields
• Runner Profile sign-in verification via Discord and or Twitch
• Major Runner Profile redesign and data model overhaul

What is available in this release

• Game pages with structured information and a consistent layout
• Challenge categories organized per game
• Review and verification process before games appear publicly
• Consistent navigation across all game pages

What this release focuses on

• Accuracy over speed
• Structure over scale
• Systems designed to grow without breaking

What this is not yet

• A public submission platform
• A complete or final feature set
• A replacement for existing challenge run sites

Feedback from private testers will help shape the next phase of development.