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When using the new Search, in the results the main Title of the thread works but when you click on the body of the result, it takes you to a dead page. It's innocently misleading.
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This thread is just the tip of the iceberg.The people ahead of the curve aren't Googling for answers — they're already in here, having the conversations you haven't found yet. DealerRefresh is free.Get the full picture →
Changes to DealerRefresh
- Thread starter Alex Snyder
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Be on the lookout for some highlights of this week's top posters and the top most liked member of the week in tomorrow's newsletter.
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DealerRefresh is faster 
We just did a number of upgrades. The slowness came from a PHP vulnerability we were susceptible to. After making a ton of changes to move to a newer version of PHP, we hit max disk limits on what is now our old AWS instance. The changes needed to sit for about a week before we knew everything was good to go. That week is done, and I upgraded the disks this morning.
Hopefully, it wasn't too annoying over the last week. Apologies if it was. Until the next crisis... enjoy some faster DealerRefresh.
We just did a number of upgrades. The slowness came from a PHP vulnerability we were susceptible to. After making a ton of changes to move to a newer version of PHP, we hit max disk limits on what is now our old AWS instance. The changes needed to sit for about a week before we knew everything was good to go. That week is done, and I upgraded the disks this morning.
Hopefully, it wasn't too annoying over the last week. Apologies if it was. Until the next crisis... enjoy some faster DealerRefresh.
- May 1, 2006
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More editing buttons are exposed. You should more easily find the media and smiley buttons now.
And Loom is now a supported media on DealerRefresh.
✨ AI Highlights
- Alex replaced a broken plugin generating 656,267 errors using Claude Code
- Mobile display and post timestamp bugs were identified and fixed
- Site outage occurred when Claude's code conflicted with hacked ad positions
Alex Snyder outlines a series of technical and feature upgrades to DealerRefresh, including replacing a broken plugin (responsible for 656,267 errors) with a Claude-built native posts widget, SEO restructuring, a PHP upgrade for speed, and an upcoming vendor solutions library seeded with 1,000+ entries. Bot traffic surged unexpectedly to 16,000+ concurrent visitors following the SEO changes, causing a brief crash, while community members flagged smaller UX bugs like oversized image upload limits and a broken search result link. The thread serves as an ongoing changelog where Snyder responds to feedback in real time, with additions like Loom embed support and exposed editor buttons rounding out the improvements.
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