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Hi, creators. If you saw the previous announcement, Options to control mod descriptions and URLs, you may have gone to your creator settings to set account-wide defaults for mod descriptions and mod URLs. It turns out that I made a mistake and those settings were never saved. Individual mod...

Hello, creators! Until now, when downloading a mod from Heliosphere, its description and website as shown in Penumbra would be overwritten by Heliosphere. This was intended to reduce the amount of description duplicating needed from creators and to make it easy for users to find where they...

I've seen feedback from a couple people that they dislike Heliosphere replacing the PMP descriptions with the mod page description. The reason that Heliosphere does this is so that people don't need to visit the mod page to get relevant information about the mod, and it also prevents the mod...

As of Chrome version 142 (and other browsers based on Chromium), requests to localhost require a new permission. Heliosphere does not yet ask for that permission by default. I will be updating the site soon to fix that, but if you are having issues getting Chrome to connect to the plugin, there...

A new Windows 11 update breaks connections to services running locally. If you are having issues with the website detecting the plugin that just started recently, this is probably why. See this thread on StackOverflow for more information. Edit: installing further Windows updates, including...

Hi, all. While investigating this issue, I realised that there has been an issue with certain mods that caused them to be downloaded incorrectly. I have since fixed this issue, but I would like to disclose it in case anyone needs to redownload anything or anyone has been wondering why certain...

Hi, creators. I fairly often receive reports from users complaining about tags being incorrect or missing. A few generic examples: a gear mod that is tagged both gear and hair but doesn't actually have hair a gear mod that has no body tags a mod that has NSFW options, a SFW preview, but no...

Hello, creators! A new update has been released for Heliosphere, adding a consolidated area for creator tools and scheduled mod edits. In the dropdown user menu at the top right, you will now see "Creator area" instead of the usual links to your mods and templates. Like the settings area, this...

Hello, creators! Just letting you know that there's two new options available to you regarding download statistics. These options are available for all creators. The first option is a setting on all of your mods: stats collection mode. This lets you turn off download tracking entirely, make...

Just adding this here for everyone who has complained about it but never suggested it (and for those who did suggest it but didn't post it here). Absolutely zero idea how I would want to tackle this, but I know I would want it separate from the mods. One page for mods, one page (or multiple?)...

Changelog Change the way that Heliosphere mod folders are named to be much shorter Add a mandatory migration prompt for renaming all existing folders Fix minor config bugs Add a crash warning for PAP files with long paths Add an option to disable automatic update checking Add a warning in...

One of my downloads failed. How can I restart it? Just start the download again. Any properly-downloaded files that Heliosphere already grabbed will be checked and skipped. How do I cancel a download/fix a stalled download? Cancel the download by dismissing the notification by hovering over it...

As an update to my last post, I can announce that the Patreon integration has been fully removed from Heliosphere. Any mods that were Patreon-integrated have been set to private, as otherwise they would be downloadable normally. I have deleted all Patreon webhooks that I had access to delete...

Hi, everyone. Some people are just now discovering the Patreon integration that Heliosphere has had for ~2 years now. Many of them don't like it, and that's fair. I would like to discuss that integration and the backlash some people are generating from having discovered it. I made Heliosphere...

If you're the kind of person who enjoys IRC, come say hi on Libera.Chat! Join #heliosphere on irc.libera.chat or use the web client. As the Discord is being sunsetted for support and announcements, I think it makes sense to have a more lightweight place for any discussions that aren't suited to...

The recent uptick in errors from Cloudflare while uploading mods and extra files has shown some weak spots in how uploads are handled. I have pushed an update out that should do the following: make uploads faster by running multiple requests at once make uploads more reliable by changing some...

I have completely redesigned how the "Affects" section of mods is populated. It should catch many more things and be more accurate now! If you notice anything that seems wrong or off, please let me know so I can look into it. In addition, the "Affects" section now displays groups of affected...

Going forward, usernames will be required to be Latin-alphabetic alphanumeric (including dashes and underscores). To allow the same level of expression, however, display names are being added, which have very few limits. If you do not set a display name, your username will be shown instead. Note...

Some of you may have noticed "internal server error"s when attempting to upload files. These have been a combination of timeouts when communicating with Cloudflare and errors coming from Cloudflare, both happening on Heliosphere's side of the upload process. TL;DR: I am adding/changing some...

I have released the reactions feature today! This lets anyone react to mods with various (by default) positive emoji. Login is not required to react. Subscribers may create custom reaction sets, picking any emoji they desire instead of the defaults. Let me know what you think!