diff --git a/db-models/posts.js b/db-models/posts.js
index 573a130a..661b3bdd 100644
--- a/db-models/posts.js
+++ b/db-models/posts.js
@@ -80,13 +80,13 @@ module.exports = {
 
 	},
 
-	getPost: async (board, id) => {
+	getPost: async (board, id, salt) => {
 
 		// get a post
 		return db.collection(board).findOne({
 			'_id': id
 		}, {
-			'projection': { 'salt': 0 } //projection to hide salts
+			'projection': { 'salt': salt || false } //projection to hide salts
 		});
 
 	},
diff --git a/models/api/delete-post.js b/models/api/delete-post.js
index 4c80c574..bb4f1f32 100644
--- a/models/api/delete-post.js
+++ b/models/api/delete-post.js
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ module.exports = async (req, res) => {
 		posts = await Posts.getPosts(req.params.board, req.body.checked);
 	} catch (err) {
 		console.error(err);
-		return res.status(500).json({ 'message': 'Error fetching from DB' });
+		return res.status(500).render('error');
 	}
 
 	//filter it to ones that match the password
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ module.exports = async (req, res) => {
 			deletedPosts = result.deletedCount;
 		} catch (err) {
 			console.error(err);
-			return res.status(500).json({ 'message': 'Error deleting posts from DB' });
+			return res.status(500).render('error');
 		}
 
 		//get filenames from all the posts
@@ -61,9 +61,16 @@ module.exports = async (req, res) => {
 		}));
 
 		//hooray!
-		return res.json({ 'message': `deleted ${threadIds.length} threads and ${deletedPosts} posts` })
+		return res.render('message', {
+			'message': `deleted ${threadIds.length} threads and ${deletedPosts} posts`,
+			'redirect': `/${req.params.board}`
+		});
 
 	}
 
-	return res.status(403).json({ 'message': 'Password did not match any selected posts' })
+	return res.render('message', {
+			'message': 'Password did not match any selected posts',
+			'redirect': `/${req.params.board}`
+	});
+
 }
diff --git a/models/api/make-post.js b/models/api/make-post.js
index 3a2ecc66..84c9e0af 100644
--- a/models/api/make-post.js
+++ b/models/api/make-post.js
@@ -19,13 +19,16 @@ module.exports = async (req, res, numFiles) => {
 	if (req.body.thread) {
 		let thread;
 		try {
-			thread = await Posts.getPost(req.params.board, req.body.thread);
+			thread = await Posts.getPost(req.params.board, req.body.thread, true);
 		} catch (err) {
 			console.error(err);
-			return res.status(500).json({ 'message': 'Error fetching from DB' });
+			return res.status(500).render('error');
 		}
 		if (!thread || thread.thread != null) {
-			return res.status(400).json({ 'message': 'thread does not exist' })
+			return res.status(400).render('message', {
+				'message': 'Thread does not exist.',
+				'redirect': `/${req.params.board}`
+			})
 		}
 		salt = thread.salt;
 	}
@@ -36,7 +39,10 @@ module.exports = async (req, res, numFiles) => {
 		// check all mime types befoer we try saving anything
 		for (let i = 0; i < numFiles; i++) {
 			if (!fileCheckMimeType(req.files.file[i].mimetype)) {
-				return res.status(400).json({ 'message': 'Invalid file type' });
+				return res.status(400).render('message', {
+					'message': 'Invalid file type',
+					'redirect': `/${req.params.board}`
+				});
 			}
 		}
 		// then upload, thumb, get metadata, etc.
@@ -71,7 +77,7 @@ module.exports = async (req, res, numFiles) => {
 			} catch (err) {
 				console.error(err);
 				//TODO: DELETE FAILED FILES
-				return res.status(500).json({ 'message': 'Error uploading file' });
+				return res.status(500).render('error');
 			}
 		}
 	}
diff --git a/views/pages/message.pug b/views/pages/message.pug
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..87835bde
--- /dev/null
+++ b/views/pages/message.pug
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+extends ../layout.pug
+
+block head
+	meta(http-equiv="refresh" content=`5;url=${redirect}`)
+
+block content
+	h1 Success
+	p #{message}
+	p You will be redirected shortly. If you are not redirected automatically, you can #[a(href=redirect) click here].