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re. changing colors: it shouldn't o.o happened to me a couple times too, but i'm like 99% sure that was just my mouse being dumb and clicking twice
and yeah the old smog forum was canned, the one above social media is the flying press forum (which you shouldn't have access to), so just lmk if you want access to that one
any idea why changing colors loses my cursor place in the text? more of a minor annoyance than anything
also i think i still have access to the smog from way back