All changes to public parts of the site will be documented in this thread. Information and polls on upcoming or potentially upcoming features will also be posted at the staff team's discretion.
Feature requests, bug reports, and general comments or questions concerning a feature should be noted in our Issue Tracker or shared with a member of the coding team via PM, DM on Discord, or even the Staff Feedback form.
Feature requests, bug reports, and general comments or questions concerning a feature should be noted in our Issue Tracker or shared with a member of the coding team via PM, DM on Discord, or even the Staff Feedback form.
- December 7, 2017
- Alcaro: Made empty [url] BBCode tags show their URL as their text.
- Alcaro: Prevented the post toolbar, CuteEdit, from generating invalid [url] tags in certain circumstances.
- December 9, 2017
- Alcaro: Fixed the "Last seen" field on posts so it displays "Never" instead of "47 years ago" for users who have never logged in.
- December 15, 2017
- Alcaro: Implemented stricter validation for ROMs and BPS patches in the SMW Hacks section.
- December 28, 2017
- Alcaro: Made the Tools section sort its list by the Featured field by default, making it easier for new users to find the tools they need.
- January 1, 2018
- Alcaro: Changed ratings so they require leaving a comment first.
- January 2, 2018
- Alcaro: Prevented the post toolbar, CuteEdit, from generating invalid [img] tags in certain circumstances.
- January 9, 2018
- Alcaro: Implemented the Super Mario Odyssey site scheme designed by leod for the winter 2018 C3.
- January 11, 2018
- Alcaro: Fixed an issue with left-menu site schemes. Reported by LX5 in the Bug Reports thread.
- January 18, 2018
- Alcaro: Disallowed plain text in the post header.
- February 18, 2018
- Alcaro: Changed submission removal logs to include the submission's screenshots.
- April 14, 2018
- Alcaro: Disallowed people from rating their own submissions.
- April 22, 2018
- Alcaro: Fixed the URL and image buttons in CuteEdit in older browsers. Reported by DPBOX in Site Questions, Feedback & Bugs.
- May 24, 2018
- Telinc1: Implemented the Switch Palace site scheme, originally created by randomdude999 during the winter 2018 C3.
- June 15, 2018
- Telinc1: Changed the order of the site schemes in the Edit Profile page to be more consistent. Implemented counters to show how many people are using each scheme, similar to the counters which exist for ranksets.
- July 1, 2018
- Telinc1: Internal refactor of the File Bin page. Added checkboxes to allow deleting more than one file at once.
- July 6, 2018
- Telinc1: Implemented the Christmas Beach site scheme, designed in accordance with the public relations team, for the summer 2018 C3.
- Alcaro: Fixed file uploading in the File Bin for people with a higher usage quota.
- July 12, 2018
- Alcaro: Removed the Project Wonderful ad after the service shut down.
- July 19, 2018
- Telinc1: Implemented the Super Mario All-Stars site scheme designed by Hinalyte.
- Alcaro: Fixed the C3 voting page on some site schemes. Reported by Shiny Ninetales in the Bug Reports thread.
- July 21, 2018
- Kieran Menor: Decoupled a user's name color from their gender.
- July 25, 2018
- Telinc1: Added CuteEdit, the post toolbar, to all forms which support BBCode: submission comments, news comments, user bio, post footer, and several internal pages.
- August 11, 2018
- Alcaro: Disallowed users with no posts from editing their layout.
- August 12, 2018
- Alcaro: Disallowed banned users from submitting files to the sections.
- August 23, 2018
- Alcaro: Hid the emoticon button in CuteEdit in fields which don't support emoticons. Reported by RanAS in the Bug Reports thread.
- September 6, 2018
- Telinc1: Allowed the submitter of a waiting file to view and edit its submission notes. Requested by Giftshaven in Site Questions, Feedback & Bugs.
- Telinc1: Added styles which truncate long usernames in the post sidebar, which has a hardcoded width of 150 pixels. This was done to prevent table stretching.
- September 7, 2018
- Telinc1: Added stricter checks for avatar URLs and the avatar size limit of 150x150 pixels. The Edit Profile page no longer allows saving invalid or oversized avatars and existing ones are automatically hidden. Additionally, the Edit Profile page now shows a live preview of what the avatar will look like.
- Telinc1: Added a built-in SPC player for the SMW Music section and the BRR Samples section.
- September 8, 2018
- Telinc1: Added a Detect button next to the timezone offset field in the Edit Profile page. It will automatically calculate the user's offset from the server time and set the field's value accordingly. Additionally, stricter checks were added to the timezone offset field to disallow nonsensical values.
- Telinc1: Revised the SPC player in the music sections to let it play any SPC file from the submission's archive. This allows previewing soundtracks and other submissions containing many SPC files.
- Telinc1: Revised the playlist component of the SPC player so it hides common folder prefixes. This makes it much easier to differentiate SPC files in submissions such as the Crash Bandicoot 2 Soundtrack.
- September 10, 2018
- Telinc1: Added the ability to give each section a unique description displayed at the top of its list page. Currently, this feature is only used for the SMW Hacks section.
- September 12, 2018
- Telinc1: Implemented several new internal API endpoints for bots.
- Alcaro: Disallowed using sizes of 100 and higher with the [size] BBCode tag.
- September 14, 2018
- Telinc1: Replaced the ellipses in pagination links with dropdown menus. Requested by GreenHammerBro in Site Questions, Feedback & Bugs.
- Telinc1: Added a gallery view to complement the default list view in sections which support screenshots, such as SMW Graphics.
- September 19, 2018
- Alcaro: Changed the pagination dropdown menus to only show the first and last 50 pages as well as multiples of 10.
- September 20, 2018
- Alcaro: Changed the page menu on forum threads to only show the first and last 50 pages as well as multiples of 10.
- September 27, 2018
- Alcaro: Changed dropdown menus in pagination links so that they can't contain only one item (such as a range of 2-2).
- October 7, 2018
- Telinc1: Added suffixes and prefixes to some fields in the sections, such as the Insert Size in SMW Music, to clarify the expected data format.
- Alcaro: Removed the ability to upload JPEG images in sections.
- October 12, 2018
- Telinc1: Fixed a bug with the Author filter in sections. Authors with invalid names, such as 6646, can now be found.
- November 18, 2018
- Telinc1: Fixed a bug with the Tag filter in sections. It now supports lone tag exclusions.
- Telinc1: Added a gallery type option to the Edit Profile page. It allows you to choose between 4 different galleries for submission pages.
- November 19, 2018
- Telinc1: Added "phantom threads", which temporarily display in the original forum of a thread which was moved.
- Telinc1: Allowed users to see their own posts' history. Revised the post history page to track thread title edits, allow comparison between two posts, and allow reverting a post to a previous revision.
- Telinc1: Overhauled the poll interface and its internal features.
- Telinc1: Implemented low-priority event handling and an internal Discord reporting system.
- November 21, 2018
- Telinc1: Added a New Reply link at the bottom of PMs to complement the one at the top.
- December 2, 2018
- Telinc1: Created a new voting system for the annual SMW Central Mosts.
- December 5, 2018
- Telinc1: Fixed a browser compatibility issue in CuteEdit, as reported by RanAS.
- December 7, 2018
- Telinc1: Added an email visibility field to the Edit Profile page, as suggested by Sinister Pixel.
- December 15, 2018
- Telinc1: Allowed [img] tags to have a maximum width, as suggested by Roberto zampari. This is not yet available in CuteEdit because it currently cannot support more than one input field in a dialog.
- December 17, 2018
- Telinc1: Updated the snowstorm code to its newest version as recommended by Kieran Menor and removed the ability to click the snowflakes, as suggested by tcdw.
- December 19, 2018
- Telinc1: Made submissions with no ratings explicitly state they have no ratings instead of displaying a rating of 0.0, as suggested by XenonZed.
- Telinc1: Made section filters remember your query even if you navigate away from the page, as suggested by Rainbow Man.
- December 22, 2018
- Telinc1: Made the Mosts voting dropdowns work better with holiday names.
- December 25, 2018
- Telinc1: Added a partial workaround for a problem with the autocomplete menus in section forms. Reported by Shiny Ninetales in the Bug Reports thread.
- January 2, 2019
- Telinc1: Updated the Submissions page to properly sort submissions by title.
- Telinc1: Made inactive users receive a darker name even when rainbow names are enabled.
- Telinc1: Added warnings when replying to an old thread in certain forums.
- Telinc1: Added a trophy grouping field to the Edit Profile page.
- January 6, 2019
- Telinc1: Added an [spc] BBCode tag (and matching CuteEdit button) which allows previewing SPC files from the filebin on any page.
- January 12, 2019
- Telinc1: Expanded the dynamically embedable SPC player to allow previewing section files along with filebin files.
- January 13, 2019
- Telinc1: Added previews when submitting or editing memory map addresses. Suggested by Shiny Ninetales.
- Telinc1: Added the ability to sort threads by creation date. Suggested by Deputy BS.
- January 20, 2019
- Telinc1: Allowed all users to create polls.
- January 25, 2019
- Telinc1: Added collapsible spoilers. Suggested by Super Maks 64.
- January 26, 2019
- Telinc1: Allowed looping to be turned off in the SPC player. Suggested by Katerpie.
- January 26, 2019
- Telinc1: Added client-side sorting for tables with the sortable-table class.
- February 16, 2019
- Telinc1: Made the author name filter in sections case-insensitive.
- February 23, 2019
- Telinc1: Added a cake icon next to usernames to indicate birthdays. Suggested by LethalBrownies.
- Telinc1: Added Link and Quote buttons to section comments. Suggested by Gloomy.
- Telinc1: Added an option to hide user avatars. Suggested by Fullcannon.
- Telinc1: Allowed #site-feed on Discord to report comments on news articles.
- February 24, 2019
- Telinc1: Fixed donor coins on the Noir scheme. Reported by LethalBrownies.
- Telinc1: Added a CuteEdit button to document the ability to embed videos from YouTube and Twitch.
- March 2, 2019
- Telinc1: Added a notification system.
- March 3, 2019
- Telinc1: Fixed unread thread labels for phantom threads.
- Telinc1: Added the ability to watch threads for new posts. Suggested by Pinci.
- March 4, 2019
- Telinc1: Fixed a bug with certain keywords in the description filter in memory maps. Reported by Thomas.
- Telinc1: Made the description filter in memory maps search through text in details. Suggested by Thomas.
- Telinc1: Added the ability to watch files for new updates and comments. Suggested by Darolac.
- March 29, 2019
- Telinc1: Added a Link button next to the Quote button in the Thread Review section. Suggested by FPzero.
- April 13, 2019
- Telinc1: Fixed an oversight with the links in the header of the Notifications page. Reported by Shiny Ninetales.
- May 1, 2019
- Telinc1: Added username icons to signify different power levels.
- May 3, 2019
- randomdude999: Fixed the bug where usernames (or the emblems before usernames) could sometimes wrap over newlines. Now they should always stay on one line.
- May 18, 2019
- Telinc1: Moved the preview button in music sections next to the submission's name.
- August 10, 2019
- Telinc1: Fixed the spacing of the tables on the main page.
- Telinc1: Allowed emoticons to be used in profiles.
- Telinc1: Converted the site to UTF-8 encoding, which allows all characters (Cyrillic, Japanese, emoji, etc.) to be used anywhere.
- Telinc1: Added the ability to select multiple filters for section fields which allow only one choice.
- August 11, 2019
- Telinc1: Fixed the Circuit, Social Red, Social Green, and Social Blue schemes, which were accidentally broken during an internal refactor.
- August 12, 2019
- Telinc1: Fixed the "Disable Ctrl+F override" option in the memory maps. Reported by Mellonpizza.
- August 15, 2019
- randomdude999: Fixed icons next to usernames not showing up when viewing the login/logout page.
- August 18, 2019
- randomdude999: Fixed the links to delete single items in the file bin.
- October 20, 2019
- Telinc1: Added a Twitch field to user profiles.
- Telinc1: Added a Pronouns field to user profiles.
- Telinc1: Allowed holiday names to be disabled.
- January 11, 2020
- Telinc1: Added a preview feature to the Staff Feedback form. Additionally, it now gives users the option to reveal their identity as opposed to being anonymous.
- January 27, 2020
- Telinc1: Added seeking to the SPC player.
- March 16, 2020
- Telinc1: Made the birthday field in user profiles private.
- May 15, 2020
- Telinc1: Made the currently playing SPC file in the music sections highlighted. Suggested by Koopster.
- May 22, 2020
- Telinc1: Added proper smwc.me shortlinks for comments. Suggested by Ayami and Giftshaven
- Telinc1: Added a button that shows a random file from a section. Suggested by lion.
- June 11, 2020
- Telinc1: Added new Lunar Magic emoticons. Provided by StackDino.
- October 2020
- New content warnings for hacks replace the old "mature content" tag.
- Added a new emoticon for the new "Open Layer 3 of level in "Overworld Editor" Window" Lunar Magic button. Provided by StackDino.
- Posts older than 30 days can't be deleted.
- November 2020
- The
(under moderation)text in section lists shows the moderator. - Threads, forums, submissions, and profiles have links to their smwc.me shortlinks. Suggested by Giftshaven.
- All comments are shown below the form when editing a comment. Suggested by 7 up.
Added a max size to the [size=2400] bbcode. This does not mean any smaller text is allowed, it's just to make it slightly harder to abuse the site layout even if the moderators somehow overlook your post.