June 22, 2025

• 💬 Live chat completely rewritten - now using real-time updates for a smoother and more responsive chat experience
• 🤵 User / Item popovers rewritten - I got a lot of feedback about this, so I took some time to rewrite these. They are now hover by default on desktop, and click on mobile. You can change your preferences here

June 21, 2025

• 🐛 Bug Fix: Fixed forum caching issue where users were occasionally seeing the forum as if logged in as someone else, sorry!!!

🎭 Masquerade Forum Dance Features

• 🎭 sCode Support: Use [dance=username] in forum posts to invite users to dance
• 🃏 Dance Cards: Use [dance-card=user1,user2,user3] to create group invitations for up to 20 people
• ⏰ Rate Limiting: 5-minute cooldowns now have countdown displays
• 🚫 Safety Features: Prevents self-invitations and respects user blocking

🎪 Dance Groups

• 🤖 Auto Dancing Machine: Automatically pairs dancers every 5 minutes
• 🎯 Fair Pairing System: Ensures everyone gets equal dance opportunities
• 👥 Collaborative Repair: When machine breaks, multiple people work together to fix it
• 📊 Dance History: Complete tracking of all your dancing activities
• 💬 Live Group Chat: Real-time chat, based on the shoutbox / live forums - which are getting major improvements

👑 Dancing NPCs

• ✨ NPC Boost Powers: Dancing NPCs can join your groups and bring special abilities:
  • ⚡ Speed Boost: Makes Auto Dancing Machine work faster (4 minutes instead of 5)
  • 👥 Group Dance: Enables 3-person dancing instead of just pairs
  • 💰 Double Rewards: Doubles dance counts for all participants
  • 🍀 Lucky Charm: Reduces machine breakdowns and improves repair success
• 🎲 Smart Activation: NPCs have 25% chance to use their power with cooldown periods
• 🎭 Limited Participation: Only one NPC per dance group to keep things balanced

👋

User / Item popovers rewritten - I got a lot of feedback about this, so I took some time to rewrite these. They are now hover by default on desktop, and click on mobile. You can change your preferences here

Wonderful, thanks! I've just posted on another thread - works well in quests! However in NPC shops (when you go to the individual item ), the hover infos are not clickable. The hover info vanishes, when mouse moves away from item.

Plus: I did get a few 404 item not there upon purchase, even though it was still in stock and then worked upon 2nd or 3rd try.

- I'm having problems with the forums still. This morning it was showing that I was logged in as . Now it's showing that I'm logged in as . Also, I'm occasionally having problems with the forums main page loading correctly. Everything is enormous. Posting some screenshots below for you.

Wow! Cool and new updates with a bunch of new features.

Sad I was able to get a new computer before the Masquerade started, but the real sad news about that is I have nowhere safe to set up and I don't want a repeat of that last computer.

I play on the legacy site on my android phone and I'm sick of it! Not of Subeta, but HOW I play Subeta.

Also, I'm not understanding how this dance card works...

Can I put it in my notepad? Do I have to make a forum post? Is the code [dance-card: username1, username2, etc.]?

Interesting! 👀 Can't wait to try these out, thanks for the update.

The new dance features look interesting.

The issue with being logged in as someone else still persists though, as stated. (Mayla is the second person I've seen say they were logged in as me). I am actually able to write this post on Kumos (finally), but when I tried to go back to the main forums here, it showed me logged in as another user.

what does it mean by a "machine" breaking and getting repaired? :0

re: Fixed forum caching issue where users were occasionally seeing the forum as if logged in as someone else, sorry!!!

I'm still getting this one. it showed me logged in as and when I clicked the drop down and went to "profile" it did take me to Ink's profile but in the upper right it showed me as logged in as .

It also showed me logged in as when I viewed the forums. :')

The new dance feature looks interesting. 👀

I only finished reading the OP this morning - what's all this about dance cards etc.?

I've not gotten in on the dance groups yet, but I LOVE this idea. I am not clear on if the dance card is what makes the group or how to actually make one though. Is there a post that explains more than the testing one or is this an admins only option currently during testing?

Excited to see how this will help with some of us who are working all day but still want to dance with our friends here. :)

Okay, disregard. I think I was trying to make a new post in a non-masq forum so didn't see the options. Testing ithis with some firends now!

[dance-card: ]

There does not seem to be a timer for Keith's dance card, I was able to "Dance with Keith" and "Dance with SubetaTeam" repeatedly (like twice for each just for testings sake, if items get rewarded feel free to remove if glitched) with the popup saying I had "0 minutes" before I could dance again each time. Guess it's another bug?

dancing is also broken for me; i was able to dance with someone multiple times in a row accidentally.

also, in all of my years of dancing at masq, i've never gotten the Boudewijn duel. yet, in the past two hours, i've gotten it three times. i've won twice and lost once, but the achievements are not populating for me. (as an aside, i also don't have restocking achievements for all of the r99s i've restocked on the kumos website, but i digress.) i hope achievements get fixed. should i file a ticket?

I like the new Kumos Masquerade dancing pages... but ain't the popups during the duels on top of the dialogues redundant? They're saying the same things.

EDIT:

So, some issues I've run into with the new "dance groups" and thoughts.

1. The "live" chat doesn't auto refresh when someone posts, meaning it's not actually "live". It will auto refresh when I post, but not when another user posts.

2. There is no alert when the machine is broken. That seems like something that should happen so that people in the group can actually repair it.

3. There's no way to ping users or groups in the live chat.

4. Received an alert in my sidebar that said:

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   The masquerade atmosphere needs enriching! Please share your thoughts: "Which dance partner surprised you the most?" - 2 responses needed. Click here to participate!
   The link lead to the dance group, but this prompt was nowhere to be seen. It just seemed odd.

Alright so now that Masq is over and I have experienced both passive dancing and making my own dance group, here is my feedback:

• Bummed I couldn't make my own bonuses/prizes like it was mentioned when making the dance group. It would have been nice to set some milestones even for my tiny group. I guess it was just never implemented?
• Duels on Kumos were unfortunately broken. I could duel and win but wouldn't receive a prize. I can also duel and lose and THAT would work by giving me a dance penalty which sucked butt. So instead I just accepted dance invites on legacy
• Broken down dance machine wasn't great, and only broke down once? I've been in large groups where it never broke down at all, probably because I joined later after the machine was repaired by others. My little group did NOT do well with fixing the machine. Someone pointed out that notifications weren't being sent when broken down so I sent out some comments but if you have 6 people in a group and you need 5 to fix it, it's going to stay that way for a long, long time :( I think maybe scale the amount of people needed to fix it so it's proportionate to the amount of people in the group?
• Small groups are actually way more preferable to large groups because the dance time is set to 5 minutes, no matter the size (* side note I don't think the dance machine was specifically setting the dance time to exactly 5 minutes?) If I have 6 people in my group, it will take 15 minutes for everyone to get one dance each. For a group of 20, it will take 50 minutes for everyone to get a dance I think to encourage people to join a larger group the dance timing should be lowered, or small groups have a longer dance time
• NPC buffs/boosts didn't work? I had Melody in two of my groups and never did I see three people dancing at once. Maybe I just always missed it, but there was no way to tell when their boost was active. I also am clear with what was meant with the 25% chance. Is this a 25% chance that an NPC will dance with someone or a 25% chance that when they dance it will be activated? Because every time Melody was chosen it said her power was activated, example: 💃🕺 The Auto Dancing Machine has paired [NPC] Melody and what for the next dance! (8 minutes)✨ Melody activates their 👥 Group Dance power: Brings music more suitable for groups of three to dance, making each pairing have three users But every dance pairing after that was only two people

Overall I REALLY like this approach to dancing rather than relying on my own memory to figure out when I can dance next, and I also hope it cuts down on lag for not only the site but just us users as well. Because I hated the forum lag and waiting for the dance popup to see if it actually went through 😅 I think this will be great once all the problem areas get fixed!