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Kumos 🐛 Bug Fix March 18, 2026

Kissing Booth "Spread the Love" Exploit Fixed!

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!

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March 18, 2026, 12:17 pm by Frizzy_Lizzy
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Better late then never. I think this is a great update.

March 18, 2026, 12:18 pm by Xoo
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I really appricate this because I accidently left booths a few times and chose to not go back when I otherwise whould have due to this.. D: Felt too bad.

March 18, 2026, 12:21 pm by Flier
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thank you Keith! i know you have a TON on your plate but really appreciate being able to use the button and feel like I'm actually "spreading the love" :)

March 18, 2026, 12:24 pm by Bliss
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I love this update! thank you :)

March 18, 2026, 12:26 pm by osterizer
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Random is also the behavior of the Autopilot button. It'd be nice if the two buttons had different functionality. Any chance of preserving kiss counts across booths so they wouldn't reset to zero by leaving and rejoining?

March 18, 2026, 12:27 pm by Yuri445
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WHAT? This was a thing? I had no idea. I'm so glad it was fied then. Ignorance is bliss.

March 18, 2026, 1:07 pm by Keith
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They're tracked right now as part of the metadata on the forum itself (so it just gets cleared when you leave, no mechanism for tracking longer), next year I'll consider having that saved somewhere else!

March 18, 2026, 1:08 pm by Yuzuru
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I noticed someone doing this multiple times, thank you for fixing it!

March 18, 2026, 1:33 pm by Taarna
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Little shits

March 18, 2026, 1:42 pm by Aphr0dite81
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i accidently left and joined back. Mine was an accident. there was no way to undo it. i had enough hearrts thus far just wanted to be a top kisser. hit leave instead of enable. :|

March 18, 2026, 3:04 pm by Sweetichu
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That is great news. I saw it happen in a couple of groups I was in. Same person too. Maybe also a function where you can close the group oncs you have like 50 people in a group? Optionel only

March 18, 2026, 3:20 pm by BoaConstrictor
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omG, hilarious, unbelievable what people come up with. I, too, right at the beginning left one of my groups accidentally and joined back immediately. It never occurred to me, that this would actually always make you the least kissed one. Actually I try to be a top kisser. Ridiculous, with the booths and extra kissing on both sites we get Candy Hearts galore anyway. And this would be way too much effort on top.

March 18, 2026, 4:43 pm by Tylan_959
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I also left a booth accidentally, rejoined straight away and was confused that my kiss count restarted at zero. I assumed that the booth would just remember my score when I joined again. Thank you for fixing the way kisses are distributed!

March 18, 2026, 5:10 pm by colorWIRED
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I noticed that this possibility and immediately forgot because I was working. then i rememberd again and was too lazy to see if it was actually something that happened. thanks for reminding me a third time :D

March 18, 2026, 6:08 pm by Vic
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Great change!

March 18, 2026, 7:23 pm by Sheap
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I noticed the autipilot + spread the love could be use like this too, but were to lazy to actually put it on work, ha ha ha ha And also, had enough candy hearts

March 18, 2026, 8:35 pm by Dracona
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The audacity! I got a good kiss count just going the usual way. Greedy peoples.

March 18, 2026, 9:52 pm by demon
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there should be an ability to remove folk from your booth, surprised that wasn't a thing!

March 19, 2026, 5:11 am by stars_water
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Yuck, allo people activities lol I'm just glad I had enough candy hearts that I didn't need to participate.

March 19, 2026, 11:14 am by Brioche
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what the heck? The things that people pull to get all of the attention! lol I never noticed anyone pulling that but I'm glad that you guys are on it.

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