Flarestamina has a new look — and your results are exactly where you left them
The short version
- Every page except the practice tests has a new design
- Your account, your scores and your history are untouched
- Every test link you have saved still works
- Light and dark, English and Uzbek — one switch each, remembered everywhere
If you opened Flarestamina this week, it looks different. White paper instead of black, one typeface instead of three, and the same four-point mark on every page. This post is the honest changelog: what moved, what did not, and the things I fixed while I was in there.
Nothing happened to your results
This is the part that matters, so it goes first. The redesign did not touch how results are stored or read. Your band scores, your test history, the streak on your results page, the sign-in you already have — all of it is the same data in the same place. If you finished a test in June, it is still there.
The same is true of every link. If you bookmarked a Listening paper, sent a Reading test to a friend, or a teacher shared a set of papers with a class, those URLs are unchanged and still open the same test.
One switch for language, one for theme
Before, the converter had its own Uzbek/English toggle, the deadlines page had another, and the hub had none. Pick Uzbek on one page and the next page would still be in English. Now there is a single toggle in the header, and your choice follows you across the whole site.
Dark mode had the same problem — three different pages remembered it under three different names, so the theme would flip as you moved around. That is fixed too.
The practice tests deliberately did not change
Every Listening, Reading, Cambridge and mock paper still looks and behaves exactly as it did. That is on purpose. You should be able to sit a test the same way every time; an exam paper that redesigns itself between sessions is a bad exam paper. The redesign stops at the door of the test.
What I fixed while I was in there
- Three source links were dead. Every news post here promises to cite its official source. Three of those sources had moved and were returning 404 — the El-Yurt Umidi page and two IELTS pages. They now point at the live official pages.
- Small text was too faint. The lightest grey on the site — used for dates, captions and table headers — did not meet the WCAG AA contrast minimum, and in dark mode it was well under. It is darker now in light mode and lighter in dark mode.
- The "Writing Lab" links went to the wrong page. They pointed at the form for submitting an article instead of the Writing Lab. Fixed.
- A second, forgotten sign-in page. An old email sign-in page was still live, and a session created there was not recognised by the rest of the site. It now redirects to your FS Account.
- Assorted structural fixes: a duplicated heading on generated pages, an article whose layout leaked into the footer, and the author pages that had no main heading at all.
Why the home page is plain HTML again
The design arrived as a compiled app bundle. Shipping it as-is would have meant a home page that could not be edited again without the original project, and a page that arrives empty until a 300 KB script finishes. Search engines see an empty document in that moment, and so does anyone on a slow connection in a regional town. The home page is now a single hand-written HTML file — same design, a fifth of the weight, and I can change a sentence in ten seconds.
If something looks wrong
The most likely thing you will see is an old icon or an old link preview — browsers and messengers cache those hard. It sorts itself out. If you find something actually broken, tell me on Telegram and I will fix it the same day.
Written by Maqsudjon Polatov, who builds and runs Flarestamina from Tashkent. The full commit history is public on GitHub.