The latest from Subeta. Browse the archives for older updates.
Fixed a bug where Ricardo's Lucky Slots would get stuck in an infinite spinning animation and never show your result. The reels now properly stop and display your outcome every time, even if there's a network hiccup.
The Gift Center has been completely rebuilt for a much smoother experience. Instead of waiting for the page to reload every time you browse items, search, or change filters, everything now loads instantly. your inventory appears right on the page, with search, sort, type filters, and pagination all working without page refreshes. Adding items to your gift box feels snappy with subtle animations, and you can see a progress bar fill up as you add items. The whole flow — pick items, type a username, write a message, send all happens on one page with no lag.
The "Spread the Love" button used to always kiss whoever had the fewest kisses received, which meant someone could leave a booth and rejoin to reset their kiss count to zero, making themselves the permanent target and hogging all the love. Now the button picks someone at random instead, so the love gets spread around fairly. You still get the 1-minute cooldown bonus for using it!
I know this is a late fix, but at least it'll be in place for next year!
*(legacy site)* The Training Center has been modernized. Your pets are now sorted into clear sections — Done (collect results!), Currently Training, and Ready to Train, so you can see at a glance what needs your attention. Jim's intro text has been cleaned up, the old Bootstrap grid layout is gone, and everything uses the my new modern design language.
If you've got a Gold Account you'll notice a new option to get all of your pets out of training at once when they're finished.
You can now set custom pronouns (he/him, she/her, they/them, or type your own) and a custom gender label (up to 20 characters when you pick "Other") on your profile settings.
Right now these don't show up anywhere, but might be added to legacy and kumos user profiles soon.
A celebratory new reaction cosmetic — just for having the Shoutbox widget on your sidebar! If you've got it enabled, you'll automatically unlock this reaction next time you load a page. Art by @Merlin! Check your Reactions page to see it.
You can add the shoutbox widget to your Kumos sidebar and/or your Legacy sidebar. It hasn't been turned on the legacy site in years, but it's back!
Fixed a bug where using the nuclear reset (or having an admin reset your avatar) would clear the zombie skin from the database, but the old zombie image would keep showing up for a few minutes/hours. The reset wasn't clearing the cached avatar image on disk, so you'd keep seeing zombie-you until the cache naturally expired. Now resets immediately clear the cached image too — when you nuke it, it stays nuked!
Fixed a bug where removing your hairstyle in the legacy wardrobe would still show your old hair on your avatar everywhere on the site. The avatar renderer was pulling your last-used hairstyle from memory even when you'd taken it off. Now your avatar only shows hair if it's actually equipped in your outfit.
Ricardo now asks you a simple question during his interruptions, and you'll have to answer right ;)! We've also added a 1-second minimum between spins to prevent button-mashing, and if you've been at it for a while, Ricardo will make you take short breaks that get longer the more you spin. Take a breather, you slot fiend!
You can now set one of your kissing booths to run on autopilot! It'll automatically kiss a random person in the booth every 20 minutes — slower than doing it yourself, but it works even when you're away. Autopilot lasts 12 hours, then you'll need to come back and re-activate it (same booth or a different one). You can enable it from inside any booth you've joined, or from your dance card. Your manual kissing still works alongside it!
