cr3's recent changes
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Grouped approximately by coding session. Newest stuff at the top.

- reCaptcha on login
- Added spotify URI autolink and api lookup to common.php (it only looks up on message submit, nice)
- Changed pagination style for the inbreds on QOTW offtopic
- Added search links to QOTW
- Changed lib/classes/b3taPostsView.php getQuestion() to perform lookup as it should - strange logic was preventing correct linkage
- Banned user profiles do not show to stop google spam
- Shitloads of spam account filter changes, huge cleanup
- Youtube fullscreen on the links board
- Fixed QOTW search results not working
- Made a best of 2008 feature
- New new front page
	- Now works in IE8, FF, Safari, Opera.
	- IE 6 and 7 get bumped down to 3 columns with no really terrible side effects; this seems good.
	- TODO: change images/more.jpg for IE users with one less column. done
	- b3ta image host changed slightly; made much less robust but much more functional. next version: distribute to s3.
	- New FAQ with new image sizes and dimensions and the suchlike; hoster changed in leiu
	- FP tweaked in case of no active question (now no longer barfs SQL on FP)
	- Alerted robt to slightly bad Paypal issue which he beautifully and heroicly fixed
- New front page
	- Button to /links
	- Best of the board now 400px, up from 280
	- Weblog now fluidly resizes horizontally
	- Weblog entries now have number of entries
	- FP'd messages (best of board) now has reply count instead of email to a friend
	- "Archive" buttons now "See All" buttons
	- "Also Open" feature for Image Challenge and QOTW
	- Column change for sick joke and search boxes
	- More gradients because the web demands that shit
	- Partially improved CSS to allow fluidity
	- Added 10px jog to bottom of weblog
	- Still all fits on screen if you are at 1280 or wider screen res, which 90% of people are.
- Blacklisted many spam or troll email addresses
- Media RSS for /board
	- PicLens/Cooliris compatible 
	- Doesn't increase system load as only compatible browsers will request the XML
	- Active on /board only
- Considerable overhaul of signup and login processes
- Brought admin pages out of the 16th century
- Removed redundant database tables
- Moderation interface and arsenal upgraded substantially
- Small profile id addition to help people CSSise their profile a bit more effectively
- Emails no longer send out passwords in plain text (this was bad policy.)
- Users can now request a password reset by email, and it's dead simple.
- Everything is more hunky-dory and lovely-secury.
- Updated all user passwords to salted variant.
- Backed up old user table if need be. Will be gone soon when robtoo confirms functionality. Always good to have a second opinion. gone.