Version History

• 🎫 Membership is here: Yuvin's Test Services now has free Membership! Every account gets a personalized digital member card — with your name, member number, and join date — shown right on your profile.
• 🔓 Members Area: A brand-new members-only space with exclusive experiences, including a Daily Member Reward you can open once a day.
• New Membership page: One home for everything membership — what you get and a one-tap way to join — reachable from the top menu, the home page, and your profile.
• Always free: Membership costs nothing and never will. Just create an account and you're in.

• New Website Launched: A brand-new companion website is now live at yuvin.com.au with a clean, professional design — subtle textured background, refreshed typography, and full light/dark mode support.
• Daily Challenges: The new website introduces two daily games — Daily Word, a Wordle-style five-letter puzzle with six guesses, and Daily Maths, a five-question gauntlet against the clock. Everyone gets the same puzzle each day.
• Streaks & Sharing: Both daily games track your streak, win rate, and best run, with shareable emoji results you can copy and send to friends.
• New Homepage: Typing yuvin.com.au now opens the new website's homepage, with a "Go to Yuvin's Test Services" button to jump back to the classic site.
• New /home Address: The classic Yuvin's Test Services home page moved to yuvin.com.au/home — all its experiences, games, and tools remain unchanged.
• Announcement Card: Added a "Try out our new website!" card to the Test Services home page with a quick link to the new site.

• Website launched on custom domain! Now live at yuvin.com.au
• Deployed full-stack infrastructure with PostgreSQL database backend on Digital Ocean.
• Implemented user analytics tracking across all pages for engagement insights.
• Added Settings page with database persistence for user preferences.
• Enhanced experience cards with bigger text and buttons for better usability.
• Added full-width blue banner across all pages announcing website updates.
• Integrated Mood Checker as a full experience (removed beta status).
• Fixed responsive design and removed side padding for full-width layouts.
• Moved Personality Tester to main directory with updated navigation and styling.

Don't worry, more experiences are coming soon!

• Initial setup of the Age Tester experiment.
• Added primary sub-pages: About Us, Contact, and Experiences.

• 🎨 A whole new flat look: Every page across Yuvin's Test Services got a clean, modern flat redesign — crisp monospace headings, thin outlines instead of shadows, and colourful category accents. One consistent style, top to bottom.
• 🅰️ Brand-new logo: Say hello to the new yuvin.com.au wordmark, now in every header and footer — plus a matching new favicon (the little icon in your browser tab).
• 🧹 Cleaner navigation: Retired the old left sidebar — everything lives in the top menu now, giving pages the full width — and tidied up the header.
• ⌨️ Typing Speed Test returns: The classic Typing Speed Test is back on the Experiences page — race the clock and beat your best words-per-minute.
• Behind the scenes: Retired an old unused page and squashed a few bugs for a smoother ride.

• 🔄 Version Updater: A brand-new command-line tool! Run it and it checks your computer's operating system, then tells you exactly which Yuvin Terminal, Server Console, and website version you're certified for — and whether you're up to date or frozen on an older build.
• Knows every system: Works on Windows 7–11, macOS 10–27, and Ubuntu, Mint, Debian & Fedora — and handles the tricky bits, like Windows 11 that secretly reports itself as “10”.
• Safe by design: It's an advisor only — it reads your OS version and nothing else, and never downloads or changes a file. Grab it free from the Softwares page.

• ✨ A fresh, professional look for every experience: All six experiences — Ascender, Mood Checker, Math Games, Time Machine, Smart Test Arena, and Drawing Canvas — got a polished redesign that now matches beautifully across the whole site, with smoother animations and full light & dark mode support.
• 🔎 Ascender can search the web: Ask Ascender to look something up and it builds you a safe Google search — with SafeSearch switched on and a quick description of where the link goes, so there are no surprises.
• 📚 Ascender knows Wikipedia: Ask about a topic and Ascender fetches a short, plain-English summary straight from Wikipedia.
• Everything still works the same: This update is all about looks and polish — every experience behaves exactly as it did before, so nothing you loved has changed.

• 🤖 Ascender: A brand-new chatbot experience! Chat with Ascender, our friendly built-in bot — ask about the site, hear a joke, do quick maths, or reflect on how you're feeling. It's the first card on the Experiences page.
• Always free: Ascender runs entirely in your browser — no AI bills, no API key, and no data ever leaves the page.
• Everywhere you look: Added a shiny NEW card on the home page and put Ascender front and centre in the Experiences grid.

• 🖥️ Yuvin Terminal (Terminal Edition v.1.0.0): Yuvin's Test Services returns to where it all began — the command line! A brand-new cross-platform app for macOS, Linux, and Windows with the /home experience rebuilt for the terminal: Age Tester, Maths Games, Mood Checker, Personality Tester, and the Smart Test Arena with XP and saved personal bests. It even appears live in the developers' Live Tabs console while it's running. Available now on the Softwares page.
• Dev Program Applications: "Apply to Join" now opens a real application form with coding and tech questions. Every application is personally reviewed by yuvin (usually within 2–3 days) — and an accepted application automatically unlocks developer access on your account.
• 🌱 Origins Page: A new public page telling the true story of how YTS began in September 2024 as five Python scripts in a command prompt — with the original 2024 scripts preserved for everyone to see.
• Profile Upgrades: Change Username and Change Password buttons are now right on your profile, and developers get a shortcut to review Dev Program applications.
• About Page: The origin story was rewritten to include the full journey — from command-line scripts in 2024 to the website you're on today.

• 🎨 A colourful new look: Yuvin's Test Services got a vibrant blue-and-violet redesign with gradient accents across every experience.
• 🌙 Dark Mode: Flip the whole site into a comfy dark theme, easy on the eyes.
• 🧭 Sidebar navigation: A handy icon sidebar for hopping around the site.
• 🏆 Achievements & XP: Earn XP and unlock achievements as you play, tracked in the Smart Test Arena.

• Homepage Layout: Fixed gap issues in full-screen view by reducing section spacing and optimizing margins throughout the hero section.
• Content Boxes: Added professional white card container around "Fresh Experiences" and "Completely Free" sections with border, shadow, and dark mode support.
• Latest Updates Card: New feature card added to homepage linking to changelog with matching design system.
• Image Assets: Uploaded missing laptop and ChatGPT images to production server to fix broken image placeholders.
• Spacing Improvements: Optimized margins between hero content, info boxes, and images for better visual flow.
• Dark Mode: Extended dark mode styling to new homepage boxes and Latest Updates card.

• Dark Mode: Added comprehensive dark mode support to all 41 HTML pages with localStorage persistence.
• Settings: Dark mode toggle now syncs across the entire website; preference saved and loaded automatically on every page.
• Personality Tester: Redesigned with modern gradient border card, improved spacing, emoji icons in labels, and enhanced result display with gradient background.
• Age Tester (index.html): Updated with modern card design featuring gradient border and improved dark mode styling.
• Dark Theme Styling: Dark backgrounds (#0f172a, #1e293b), purple/blue accent colors (#8b5cf6, #60a5fa), adjusted text colors, and smooth transitions.
• Bug Fix: Fixed name capitalization in Personality Tester to properly handle multi-word names (e.g., "Biltmore Technology Solutions").
• User Experience: All form inputs, buttons, cards, headers, and footers now support both light and dark themes with proper hover states.

• YuvinOS: Fixed taskbar icon visibility bug for Files, Settings, and Browser apps; corrected z-index layering and display state checks.
• Calculator App: Added Windows-style Calculator with dark theme, full button layout, and working arithmetic operations.
• Notepad App: Renamed Editor to Notepad; implemented dark theme with monospace Consolas font for a classic text editor experience.
• Community Forum: Created forum.html with categories (General Discussion, Feature Requests, Bug Reports, Off-Topic), thread listings, reply/view counts, and community engagement features.
• Navigation Update: Replaced all "Tutorial" references with "Forums" across site-wide navigation in headers and footers (33+ pages updated).

• Your Info: Added "Change your username" and "Change password" links; backend /api/change-password and /api/change-username; eye icon to show/hide stored password (stored on login, cleared on sign out).
• API config: Single api-config.js for backend URL; auto localhost when testing locally; api-test.html to verify backend connection; connection check and clearer errors on change password/username pages.
• Smart Test Arena (new_game.html): Header and footer from Experiences; "Explain this to me" button with hints (no answer given); hide question, progress bar, and Skip/End/Explain when report is shown; red "Exit Game" button; Restart and Exit same font; removed "Maths Game:" from title (now "Smart Test Arena"); layout padding removed.
• Experiences: New card "Smart Test Arena – Mathematics" with description and Launch Experience → new_game.html.
• Sign up: T&C popup before sign-up: "By creating an account, you agree to the Terms & Conditions." with "View it here" (blue, underlined) linking to tc_policy.html; I agree / Cancel.
• tc_policy.html: Removed padding from header and footer.
• Deploy: deploy-config and deploy-scp.sh for SCP to server; rule to push after every change.

• Added Developer Program page (dev_program.html); profile "Developer Program" button now links to it.
• Removed page-level padding site-wide so main, body, and content wrappers use no horizontal or outer padding across all HTML pages.
• Removed Age Tester entry from the menu; menu now goes from Home Hub to Experiences.

• Added stopwatch to Addition and Multiplication maths games with Start (green), Stop (red; grey when not started), and Reset (grey) buttons.
• Stopwatch displays as Stopwatch: 00:00:00 (minutes:seconds:centiseconds) and is center-aligned with the controls.
• Restored missing Start, Stop, and Reset buttons on the Addition page so both maths game pages match.

• Integrated new Personality Tester experience with logic and UI.
• Restyled Homepage and Personality page for standard 100% zoom scaling.
• Added new "Personality Tester" entry to Experiences page.
• Standardized Header and Footer sizes across new pages.

• Added "Post-Teen" age group (18-24) to the Age Tester logic.
• Updated UI labels on Home page to match code logic.
• Synchronized age descriptors across documentation and application.

• Refined brand logo assets and site-wide positioning.
• Standardized professional settings icons.
• Improved navigation header and footer layouts for mobile and desktop.
• Removed duplicate hero logos for a cleaner look.

• Server Security Updates Applied: A long queue of pending operating-system security updates (including 15 kernel updates) has been fully applied to the server powering yuvin.com.au.
• Automatic Security Restarts: The server now installs security updates every day and automatically restarts itself when one requires it — roughly every two weeks, around 3:00 am Sydney time. The site is back within about a minute.
• Restart Notice on the Home Page: A new "Scheduled Server Restarts" card on the home page explains the restart schedule, so nobody is surprised if the site is briefly unreachable.

• Secure Connection (HTTPS): The entire site is now served over HTTPS with a trusted certificate — the padlock now shows in your browser, logins and sign-ups are encrypted, and old http:// links redirect automatically.
• Full-Width Layout: Every page now stretches to use the full width of your screen for a more spacious, consistent feel across the whole site.
• Drawing Canvas Restored: The Drawing Canvas experience is back on the Experiences page, alongside the Smart Test Arena and the rest.
• Server Console (Developers Only): The homepage announcement card is now a gateway to the new Server Console — a private management area for developers and administrators. Regular visitors are politely redirected, with an invitation to join the Dev Program.
• Live Tabs: Developers can now see every open Yuvin's Test Services tab worldwide in real time, including which page each visitor is on.
• Faster Updates: Pages now always load their newest version, so changes appear instantly without needing a hard refresh.