Added a news page describing recent updates for end-users.
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+<?php
+require('../config.php');
+
+?><html>
+ <head>
+ <title><?php echo $nick; ?> - updates</title>
+ <style type="text/css">
+ p.code {
+ font-family: monospace;
+ margin-left: 1.5em;
+ }
+ </style>
+ </head>
+ <body>
+ <h1>Updates and changes</h1>
+ <p>I've been updating <?php echo $nick; ?> recently with some really cool enhancements to the back-end. This is more technical stuff
+ so you might want to read on only if you're a geek.</p>
+ <p><?php echo $nick; ?> only stores info with MySQL now. All the stats go into a MySQL table that had an initial size of over 360,000
+ records after the import of the existing flat file database. This means that while querying can be slower (things aren't split up
+ like they were with the flatfile DB) it's a more portable programming technique and it means it can be easily expanded in the
+ future to include more data. The table's indexed so it should be decently fast.</p>
+ <p>In addition, smarter functionality is being included, plus a few bugs here and there have been fixed.</p>
+ </body>
+</head>