Happy Sunday everyone!

The time is here, we are now on the latest and greatest version of the forum software we have been running for the last 5 years. There was a plethora of reasons to upgrade, a couple being: The version we were running on became unsupported in January, and the huge amount of features the latest version brings to the table was just too much to say "no" to!

What's new you ask? Let's get right to it!

• Greatly enhanced mobile support
• Markdown Support
• Native Emoji Support
• A much speedier and efficient codebase
• Extended API's for us to use
• Native navigation & widget support
• Push Notifications
• Enhanced alerts
• Embeds - from just about any site you can think of!
• "What's New" section
• 3rd Party Logins - Login with Steam, Twitch, Reddit, Twitter, GitHub, or Discord!
• 2FA Authentication
• Dark & Light Themes
• And much more!

This upgrade required almost an entire restyle, and revamp of everything except the content that...

Hey all, it's been a while since I posted here, however I have been providing incremental updates in our Announcements channel in Discord. If you're not in there, you should be!! Everything in this update is from the beginning of the year up until this very moment:

• Added new Surf maps:
  • surf_cement (Tier 4 Staged)
  • surf_flipv2_go (Tier 2 Staged)
  • surf_funhouse2 (Tier 2 Linear)
  • surf_shrug2_fix (Tier 3 Staged)
• Added new KZ Global maps:
  • bkz_lewlysex Tier 2
  • kz_atlantis_od Tier 4
  • kz_bir_dont Tier 2
  • kz_cyberspace Tier 2
  • kz_dyd_ladderjumps Tier 4
  • kz_evilcorp Tier 4
  • kz_haste Tier 4
  • kz_high_socks Tier 6
  • kz_huber Tier 1
  • kz_lionheart Tier 6
  • kz_okaychamp Tier 5
  • kz_p1 Tier 6
  • kz_simple Tier 5
  • kz_simplejourney Tier 4
  • kz_slide_rov_od Tier 5
  • kz_zoomer Tier 4
  • Updated several maps to new fixed versions
• Updated GOKZ to latest version
• Updated KZTimer to...

I love doing this every year to show how much we've grown as a community, but also as a report card to ensure that we are doing things right! 2019 was undoubtedly our best year on record, and I would like to share the statistics of this year with you!

Skill Surf:

• In 2019, we had 182,721 unique players from 155 different countries. This is a growth increase of 22% since the previous year!
• We had 45.5 years of play time on surf this year. Absolutely unprecedented number.
• The player with the most time in 2019 had a whopping 1,471 hours!
• We currently have 742 maps in rotation throughout all of our servers, this is up 70 since last year when I made the year in review post.
• In 2019, we had a ton of new personal bests! This includes 91,925 bonus completions, 303,426 map completions, and 2,612,395 stage completions.
• The quickest map time in 2019 was completed by a-ha!, on his own...

Happy Holidays all! Here is a quick roundup of updates that have happened over the past few weeks through today:

• All timer servers now return to the last map that was on after a update/crash/restart rather than a static default map.
• Added surf_epiphany (T5 Staged)
• Added average map time to web surf stats page
• Updated the following KZ maps to their new global versions:
  • bkz_apricity_v2
  • bkz_nocturns_blue
  • kz_akrh_warehouse_v2
  • kz_catalyst
  • kz_illusion
  • kz_lost_marketplace
  • xc_supermario_go
• Added missing KZ map images for discord record announcer (thanks Ocelot!)
• Added bhop_legoverse (Tier 3)
• Temporarily disabled the bonus ELO gained on Retakes from killing a higher ranked player while a more mild algorithm is procured

Expect some more content related updates early January, I've had quite a bit on the burner the past couple months that will be coming to fruition soon.