OK. I take it back. I'm 100% positive that the pre-upgrade site updated the "images" stats in real time. The only thing it did on a daily basis was assign trophies to the leaderboard (which had nothing to do with any stat other than "likes.") All stats accessible via the "top members" tab were updated instantly. I remembered how when I hit 5000 and 6000 images, I checked the stats beforehand so I could upload the precise number I needed to hit those numbers so I could take a screenshot. I didn't have to wait a day for the stat number to update - it was instantaneous.
Yet now, for some reason, even though other things like "likes" --sorry-- "points" and "content count" are updated instantly, "images" only updates once every 24 hours, even though as Philly showed, it can manage to update them just fine on a page only he has access to. I realize this matters to literally no one but me, but goddamn do I find these random and pointless regressions in site utility infuriating. Software upgrades are supposed to make things better, not break them. We are paying real money for it, right?