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Did you consider just making it a list of links? If you want to hide the link targets you can do that with JS. Dropdown list is kind of unnecessary, I think.

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If I recall, I think the over-styled but less-usable drop-down list was a deliberate decision, much like the call to setTimeout.

(I'm a housemate of StuieK and Firehed, and also contributed to the page)

Yeah you're right, that would be a lot better. To be honest we kinda just threw it together in a couple hrs and forgot about it.

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