… I will learn to not, under any circumstances, commit any code to the trunk which is not ready for immediate deployment.

Because when I do, I inevitably do “just a quick deploy to fix up that unrelated mistake” and then, boom, the lightbox on the front page silently fails for three days.

SIGH.

On the plus side, I once again have experimental confirmation that functional lightboxes beat the stuffing out of direct links to images!