LUMINAIRE IS HERE JUST FOR YOU
🎁 You will be able to choose from two previous years and receive a random item from it!
🎁 We will not have new items every day. When collecting Melody gifts, you will see at the top of the page whether there is a new item. You will always be able to choose two previous years for items, though!
🎁 You can learn more about why we changed things here.
✨ There are two achievements related to visiting Melody. For Lumineve Regular 2025, you must visit Melody 20 days in the first 25 days of December because the achievement will retire at the end of December 24. For Melody Regular 2025, you must visit Melody for a total of 25 days during Luminaire. The days do not need to be consecutive for either achievement.
Decorate your Trees!
🎄 Choose your 2025 tree and have fun decorating it. Add a little something extra by adding a background for your tree.
🎄 You can donate sP to Melody after visiting her cottage to receive an Old Box of Ornaments. Opening the box will give you a random selection of ornaments to decorate your tree with. You can mass add ornaments from your inventory to your ornament inventory here.
🎄 You can adjust your tree gift settings here to be 'everyone' 'friends only' or 'no one'. Tree's will 'open' on December 25, which is when you'll be able to access your gifts! Below is the sCode for adding your tree to your status, on the forums, and more.
Code:
[tree=USERNAME]
❄️ Keep an eye out for the snow fairy minions, which you can give via random event. There’s an achievement, 'Fairy Catcher!', when you find one. You can release snow fairies from your inventory for the 'Free all the Fairies' achievement. There is also an achievement, 'Fairy Collector' for having one of each color snow fairy in your inventory.
❄️ Mysterious Melody is back!
❄️ The snowtapult will open once Winter starts on Subeta on December 21. More information about throwing snowballs will happen then!
❄️ You spread joy on the Luminaire Forums throughout Luminaire. The forums will be open until January 5 to finish up any last-minute business.
❄️ Luminaire ends at 11:59pm on December 31. Once we get closer to the end of the month, we'll have updates about New Years.
Links will be added to the news side bar in the next 24 hours!
Posted by Amber
gryphongrl
Are the artists okay? I have noticed there are less items this year on many events and the staff is doing a good job bringing back old items, which is a great idea, but now I am worried about the artists. Not a criticism, just how my mind works.
Keith
STAFF
@juniper If you haven't - you should try clearing out your cache (it's mentioned on the page).
When we turn on a holiday, every user rushes to do things like decorate their tree, which is resource intense (we save the image, like avatars).
Sorry that it's disappointing, we're doing our best :) Happy holidays!
When we turn on a holiday, every user rushes to do things like decorate their tree, which is resource intense (we save the image, like avatars).
Sorry that it's disappointing, we're doing our best :) Happy holidays!
Ugh, can't stand kumos & will only use it when forced to. Tree not working, won't save with anything on it. Disappointing.
So happy we get to choose items from past years! I was on hiatus for 2022 and 2023, so I missed those Melody items, and I'm glad to have a chance to get them now. I don't mind there not being a new item every day this year, in exchange for getting some of these older items back in circulation!
Keith
STAFF
@far We don't have a "final move" planned, because it's impossible to do that.
I'm a single person working on the programming for a site built over 20 years - and it's not my primary job (as mentioned elsewhere, I haven't been paid for my work on Subeta for 5+ years now, it's a labor of love and the joy that I get from all of you enjoying something that I've helped make). So, we will continue moving things over one at a time, and hopefully at some point it's much easier to turn on the legacy frames on Kumos and them not feel as annoying as they do now.
I know it's really frustrating to be caught in the middle, but unfortunately it's where we are for the foreseeable future.
I'm a single person working on the programming for a site built over 20 years - and it's not my primary job (as mentioned elsewhere, I haven't been paid for my work on Subeta for 5+ years now, it's a labor of love and the joy that I get from all of you enjoying something that I've helped make). So, we will continue moving things over one at a time, and hopefully at some point it's much easier to turn on the legacy frames on Kumos and them not feel as annoying as they do now.
I know it's really frustrating to be caught in the middle, but unfortunately it's where we are for the foreseeable future.
Keith
STAFF
@BoaConstrictor Because the feature was rewritten and is now on Kumos.
All of the features on the site are going to be rewritten and brought to Kumos. I know that this is frustrating, and that you (and many others) do not like this change, but the legacy site does not work. It takes 80% of the time I can dedicate to Subeta to keep it running, it is a series of wires connected to each other and if a single one breaks, it takes hours to days to unravel and figure out.
The advent calendar is now on Kumos, where most features will move.
All of the features on the site are going to be rewritten and brought to Kumos. I know that this is frustrating, and that you (and many others) do not like this change, but the legacy site does not work. It takes 80% of the time I can dedicate to Subeta to keep it running, it is a series of wires connected to each other and if a single one breaks, it takes hours to days to unravel and figure out.
The advent calendar is now on Kumos, where most features will move.
Why, for goodness sake, does even my old link lead to Kumos?!?!?! something inserts "kumos" into the web address?! Even if I travel via the map to Melody's cottage it transports me to Kumos!!!
I believe it's a nice touch and I'm glad for the change, especially if it's also less complicated for the people running the site behind.
That being said, the fact that it brings me to the new website makes it a bit more annoying. Is the final move planned ? I wish it weren't on separate websites all the time.
Happy holidays all :) !
That being said, the fact that it brings me to the new website makes it a bit more annoying. Is the final move planned ? I wish it weren't on separate websites all the time.
Happy holidays all :) !
Why is everything for melody on kumos now… the legacy site already barely works for me right now, but I’ve been in my mysterious melody group basically since this was posted and couldn’t contribute anything because kumos takes forever to load, when it deigns to load at all. Please stop moving integral things for events to kumos until the site is decently functional and enjoyable to use, this is already a big hassle and a waste of time.
Why is Melody now on the Kumos site? I was so looking forward to Lumi. Mysterious Melody? I need a Translator for everything. I could cry, I'm so disappointed. Why did you have to change Lumi? Everything worked fine for Years. I'm so disappointed. I play on Subeta, why do I have to log in somewhere else for the same Game? Why are you doing this?
I love the we now get to pick gifts from Lumi pasts! I think that is an awesome way to balance some new and some old items! <3
Happy Lumi Subeta/staff and players!!
Happy Lumi Subeta/staff and players!!
tysooomuch, i looove the lumi time here... best event ever and cause i love it, vorgive me to say something...
But 20 years of existence also means that we have accumulated 20 years of traditions and expectations, and not all of them are sustainable for a team of our current size or for the size of our user base.
(You don't need a large team to run a gaming site, you need people who can think outside the box. You have 12 months for each event, and every year the sites crash and we make the same mistakes. Traditions are an integral part of what we do, and which ones have accumulated since the beginning? Okay, but they're not exactly breaking the site... Traditions should be cultivated, not rationalized away... )
We have to make decisions about what we want to focus on, and sometimes that means changing things we've always done. (Exactly, you're changing things that work. We had the holiday shop, where you could buy mixed items, which was great because you never knew what you were going to get. You removed it. We had a button in the wish lists that let you see if you owned the item someone else was looking for, which was a big help, but you removed it. Most of the time, it's better to just leave things that work well alone. Many users were disappointed by the (two) changes, but you're not listening. There are some really great suggestions in the forum about what could be done or changed, but no one seems to care.)
... so that we can continue and even improve Subeta, instead of just maintaining traditions.
(Please let us keep the traditions ... Take a look at other sites, for example, you could use a random slot machine for lumi, where you only change the items you've had since the beginning each year... But okay, I can already hear the comments saying that this doesn't belong here... Okay, I'll be off then... I meant well... )
Wishing you all wonderful holidays too... 💖
But 20 years of existence also means that we have accumulated 20 years of traditions and expectations, and not all of them are sustainable for a team of our current size or for the size of our user base.
(You don't need a large team to run a gaming site, you need people who can think outside the box. You have 12 months for each event, and every year the sites crash and we make the same mistakes. Traditions are an integral part of what we do, and which ones have accumulated since the beginning? Okay, but they're not exactly breaking the site... Traditions should be cultivated, not rationalized away... )
We have to make decisions about what we want to focus on, and sometimes that means changing things we've always done. (Exactly, you're changing things that work. We had the holiday shop, where you could buy mixed items, which was great because you never knew what you were going to get. You removed it. We had a button in the wish lists that let you see if you owned the item someone else was looking for, which was a big help, but you removed it. Most of the time, it's better to just leave things that work well alone. Many users were disappointed by the (two) changes, but you're not listening. There are some really great suggestions in the forum about what could be done or changed, but no one seems to care.)
... so that we can continue and even improve Subeta, instead of just maintaining traditions.
(Please let us keep the traditions ... Take a look at other sites, for example, you could use a random slot machine for lumi, where you only change the items you've had since the beginning each year... But okay, I can already hear the comments saying that this doesn't belong here... Okay, I'll be off then... I meant well... )
Wishing you all wonderful holidays too... 💖
Amber
STAFF
@angelembryo That's not technically wrong! The way we store items, before 2009 we didn't have a timeline thing so basically anything before 2009 I wouldn't be surprised to come out of that. People might remember this from past shops we'd add tabs for, where things would show up "out of year" because of that. (thinking new years shop)
YAAAAAY! luminaire is my favorite event on subeta and my reason to return every year. happy holidays, everyone, and thank you, staff, for putting this together! :heart:
Did the achievements get added correctly? I see one for 2025 but it shows as retired and does not have a day tracker.
Seems like the previous year selection on Melody's Cottage is still a bit buggy. I selected 2020 and 2009, and got 
for 2020, but the other item I got was 
which appears to be from 2004?
It looks like it added the item now but I am still getting the glitch when I try to add it and it looks wonky in the pool.
Mysterious Melody is not working correctly. I go to add an item and it says error "undefined" pop up when I tried to add the item in there.
I didn't receive the new brownie this morning, as I collected Melody too early. Should I file a ticket?
The current "preview" for the s-code on forums is a full-sized tree. Will this auto-resize for forums? I don't want to get in trouble because the image is too large for the signature.
Happy Lumi!!
I had a feeling something like this was coming when I saw y'all were bringing back old items for Fireside. Either way, I'm looking forward to seeing the new items, as well as getting some older ones.
I had a feeling something like this was coming when I saw y'all were bringing back old items for Fireside. Either way, I'm looking forward to seeing the new items, as well as getting some older ones.
