If you boot up PICO-8 like this:

./pico8 -home $(cd .; pwd)/data/

Then the splore command has a weird bug: Updating the "New" page shows nothing in the "New" page and instead the "Featured" page shows the results that were fetched from the "New" category!

This bug is not present if you boot PICO-8 normally without a custom home dir.

(Also, the above weird $(cd .; pwd) command is the only way I've found that will allow me to make a portable version of PICO-8. Using "." will break the "cd" command in PICO-8 so I have to construct and pass an absolute path. Which is a second bug, perhaps I should open another thread about that.)