youtube links now show a preview image first, until you click on them, at which point the embed is shown. The embed is preloaded in this time, so it reduced perceived delay.

There is no visual indication currently when an image is actually a youtube link, the user must click first. I need to think about a good way to indicate that...
quick fix for image enlarging, still fixing other things about youtube links~
hotfix didn't work too well, this is a bit better
accidentally showed debug stuffs
It's a dirty fix, but youtube embeds in the op will display at a more reasonable size once the user clicks the preview image
I don't know why the youtube embeds in the op temporarily disappear, but clicking any other media fixes it. I can't seem to trigger the same thing with $apply(), so oh well
gonna start on a proper debug system
Yeah, I just dunno what's up
hide post icon not correctly changing depending on stage of post.nodehidden; fixed, single character was missing
found a better way of parsing youtube preview image links
Removed the soundcloud embed at the top of the page

fixed the disappearing op youtube embed issue; apparently it was caused by the CSS 'float: left' attribute. By applying it to the parent div instead, whose state isn't changed by the 'embed_hide' variable, it's apparently no longer an issue. Hoorah!
experimented a bit with different resolutions for youtube preview images. The only one guaranteed to exist is 'default', so I'm going to stick with that. Any more is unnecessary, clicking the preview gives the full video, someone can take a screencap if they want a nice highest res image.
Added a primitive loading screen, hides content until thread list is done being updated. This will be useful when the server slows down in the future with more activity...
'Hide reply form' button now correctly displays in thread view mode; already displayed correctly in other modes, error was caused as a side effect of quick copy/pasting from elsewhere in the project

"View Thread" text returned to the button for that purpose, button moved back to the bottom of the OP

Groundwork laid in the interface for showing the number of hidden replies in a thread
'>>op' formatted post links now corrected are formatted to create a hyperlink to the op
Linking to posts in-thread works now, hoorah for ragex
Thread pages now load correctly from direct links again (temporary breakage due to the new 'loading icon' placeholder system)

Improved comment linking system
fixed skyjacker's spam from being interpreted as quicklinks to posts
Youtube video preview images are now marked with an icon in front
Put in a better "view thread" icon