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Yeah, my guess is the team vibe-coded it because wow is does it have poor performance /is difficult to use. A few links didn’t even work for me…

The server appears to be down right now too :/

If so that means they asked the AI to use PHP. Which is even more horrifying.

Half the web uses PHP. Nothing wrong with PHP for web work, and absolutely nothing bad about the site is related to its use of PHP.

PHP is fine. If the site sucks it’s not because of the language.

yeah, a lot of frontend/styling choices are pretty non-asthetic other than the suboptimal performance.

>brx_pyuqqz

That's certainly an array name.

While PHP is not my goto language.. and the language has likely changed a fair bit when I last used it.. I don't think the issue is PHP.