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Hey all! As part of a move towards more transparency this thread will be used to keep the community up to date with changes made. This thread will be posted to by staff members as changes come.

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• The staff have forced a change to all passwords on the forum. There has been a security breach that has compromised user passwords. If you have used the same password for any other accounts, please change those to a unique strong password. A password manager will help store and generate secure passwords. After a few months, passwords will be required to be reset again periodically to ensure account safety. If you are on Discord, please consider turning on Two Factor Authentication.
• The SMBX Wiki will be closing for maintenance until further notice. Details will be shared as more are worked out.

In light of the new SMBX2 MAGLX3 release, the LunaLua subforum has gotten its very own forum! Here you can post your Lua wonders and ask for help in the new LunaLua help subforum!

An extra step after registration has been added as a precaution against spam and abuse of the forums. Chances of seeing spam bots will be far lower going forward.

It's the 10th anniversary of SMBX's launch. That's a big number!

Kley has passed on site ownership to Quill. Staff will remain the same with the exception of that change. Any questions about the site should be directed at Quill.

Also, a fix has been implemented to prevent "508 Resource Limit Reached" errors from being an issue. The SMBX download as well as this site should remain available going forward. We apologize for past inconvenience this issue has caused. We're still working on keeping bots away, and will continue to do so.

Work is being done behind the scenes to clean things up from prior attacks. Forum performance should be improved and page load times may be noticeably faster. Bandwidth usage has also steeply declined since the implementation of the botnet fix so 508s should be rare.

The SMBX forums will now be using phpBB's COPPA system for members that are under the age of 13. A group of registered COPPA users will have limited access to some forum features in order to make the community a safer place for its younger audience. This will not disrupt the typical member experience in any way, and will be set up to ensure everyone can participate in the SMBX community appropriately. An additional rule has been added specifying this change.

A change was made to the forum's CSS to reduce the width. Things should be more readable and just look better (especially for wide screens)! More back-end changes will be made in the near future.

The forums have been updated to latest phpBB version. Unfortunately this broke compatibility with the post merging extension so that is no longer available. There are a few visual tweaks left to be made for the SMBX theme, and those will be fixed relatively soon. Aside from those drawbacks the forums should run as normal. Sorry for any inconveniences with the downtime and the remaining tweaks left to be handled.

The SMBX theme and post merging have been fixed.

There is now a Guides forum for members to post guides they have created for SMBX and related tools! The Help and Support and the Guides forum now have their own category to separate from the SMBX content forums.

Here's a tip: this forum has ATOM feeds enabled. ATOM works basically the same as RSS. You can keep up to date by adding forum feeds to your RSS reader. To do this put "feed.php" at the end of the forum URL. Here are some options for that:
For more on ATOM feeds look here: https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=2029415

There is now a new Contests and Events forum! Check out the Mystery Contest!

Hey shapeshifters and timetravellers!

This is just a quick update to let you all know that there have been some changes going on among the staff team.

It's no secret at this point that I recently resumed my Admin position that I abandoned some time in early 2019, but you may also have noticed two new names in green popping up here and there!

That's right, Panda has been reinstated into the SMBX staff team and she is joined by our newest addition to the team, ShadowStarX!

So give both of them a warm welcome to the team, both of them are very engaged and ambitious to help out around the place!

A new rank set has been implemented! Since the old ones were replaced before the final rank at 10,000 posts was revealed, here it is now:


The admin ranks, and other special ranks will be replaced soon. For more on the rank replacement see: viewtopic.php?f=99&t=26685#p382532

Hey shapeshifters and timetravellers!

There's some changes happening on the staff team again!

Aero will resign after being the backbone of this community for the better half of two years. In her place, Panda now joins the admin ranks! So please give her a warm welcome :)

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And a second small update: We're looking for ChanOps for the Discord! If you're interested, fill in this google application form!

https://forms.gle/DUAZf73QJEeaxWYa9

Applications will run until the 26th of April!

I'm back! I'm working on a Super Top Secret project, which will hopefully be a good QoL boost. Stay tuned...

The Super Top Secret is a new bot named Redigital! It's in very early development, but will be sticking around in the the SMBX Discord going forward.

We're trying something new. There is now a Moderator Support group. This group has basic moderator privileges to help the rest of the staff out. The primary responsibility of this group is approving legitimate accounts, disapproving suspected bot accounts, and keeping track of the forums. This will be an open group so we won't be doing applications for this. You can find the group in the UCP to request membership. Not every request will be granted of course and don't take it personally if you don't have access granted. Do not request membership if you are inexperienced with phpBB's moderation tools, or have recently been warned (even if verbal)/banned.

We will be moving hosts over the next couple of days. Some downtime should be expected. Apologies for any inconvenience.