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+[meta]: <title> (Connect 4 beta!)
+
+This project will from now on be hosted here as a beta until the website has
+enough features to 'go live'. There are a lot of known bugs that need fixing.
+If you encounter any bugs that aren't listed here, please open a <a
+href="https://github.com/lonkaars/connect-4/issues/new" target="_blank">new
+GitHub issue</a>.
+
+- Voerbak's (connect 4 engine) win checking algorithm is broken, this causes
+  some games to finish when no one has won. If this happens to you, please open
+  a new issue on GitHub and link the game id (the `?id=...` part in your adress
+  bar).
+- The settings page is empty. Non working settings are hidden, these include
+  settings for custom themes, changing your username, email and password, and
+  deleting your account.
+- The buttons and timer aren't implemented (except for the resign/leave game
+  button) in the bottom bar when playing a game.
+- Editing the game rules isn't implemented.
+- There aren't any mobile stylesheets. I (Loek) am still working on the mobile
+  layouts in <a
+  href="https://www.figma.com/file/rTciVQApAe6cwrH1Prl5Wn/4-op-een-rij?node-id=7%3A452"
+  target="_blank">Figma</a>, when they're finished I'll start writing mobile
+  stylesheets.
+- The website's only in Dutch. I have no idea how to handle translations so the
+  website will remain mostly in Dutch while I worry about implementing missing
+  functionality.
+- Games don't work when not logged in. This is because the game is bound to two
+  user-id's instead of socket id's. This also means one user can't play two
+  games at the same time.
+- User presence and country don't fetch any data from the api on the `/user*`
+  pages.
+- The search feature is very janky. I'm currently still adding/removing columns
+  from the database pretty often, but there are plans to move the sqlite3
+  database to postgres, which has built in search functionality that doesn't
+  suck (I hope).
+
+I'm working as hard as I can on this website, but I have school exams coming up
+so I don't think development will be very active the coming month.
+