trans rights are human rights btw

We appreciate all the new sign-ups!

If any of you are considering subscribing, the code WOKE is available for 75% off your first month for new subscribers. Only 10 uses available. We also offer 14-day free trials!

Did you know that Heliosphere has a function to prevent inappropriate words from being contained in mod IDs? Fortunately, people have already made lists of profane and inappropriate words, so we didn't have to come up with the list ourselves...

Heliosphere has Atom/RSS feeds for all new mods and for creator pages. You can plug in the home page or a creator's profile to your feed reader.

NSFW requires you to add ?nsfw=true to the end: https://heliosphere.app/feed/newest.atom?nsfw=true

Added a tooltip to the PMP download stage icon and numeric progress below the progress bar. Hoping to make this UI even more informational and clear as time goes on!

If you ever have questions about Heliosphere's rules or policies, please feel free to reach out on fedi (@anna@blahaj.zone), bsky (@anna.lgbt@bsky.brid.gy), our forums (https://forums.heliosphere.app), official hs account (@heliosphere@hachyderm.io), or even email (rules at heliosphere dot app).

You can pet the dog on our website. If you give her enough pets (rubbing your mouse cursor around on top of her), hearts will start popping out!

The pride flags on our website up by our mascot (Sunny) will now show every unique flag available in our flag pack before allowing repeats. Before, it was true random sampling.

If you are capable of making pride flags in that style and want one added, let us know!

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A neat thing about Heliosphere is that it only needs to save one copy of any files that are uploaded inside mods. If two different mods share the same file, Heliosphere only keeps one copy of that file.

All told, this has saved us 743.31 GiB of storage space so far!

We have completed maintenance to migrate our database to PostgreSQL 18, which was long overdue but had complications that delayed it. This should make Heliosphere even faster! As always, please report any issues that may arise on the forums.

Heliosphere is always looking for volunteers to help improve our documentation! If you know how to use Heliosphere and would like to contribute some technical writing, please check out the link below.

https://forums.heliosphere.app/threads/call-for-documentation-contributors.5/

Hard at work adding more warnings about common pitfalls or misunderstandings.

We updated the affects database on Heliosphere (finally), so mods that affect newer items that weren't being detected should be mostly fixed!

This account is now officially bridged to Bluesky, so people on there can also get Heliosphere news!

Happy holidays!