Hey all:

Welcome! If you're reading this, I'm glad you made it back!

There's a lot to say here and no TDLR; so buckle up for the new expansion and the patch notes...

What happened?

In the middle of May, it was eventually apparent that the forums were in the middle of getting hacked. It became a data breach, and data was exposed. We have a public obligation to let you know this happened and we're very sorry. If you have a tendency to reuse your passwords and you've used one here in the past, we urge you to change them in your other accounts outside of AP and advise using a password manager to generate and store new complicated passwords. We're striving on having this not happen again.

After a couple grueling months, we return with a brand new look. Thank you for your patience. Since everything's new, there's sure to be a lot of bumps to smooth out, so the team and I would be happy to work with y'all to get to a good place.

Without further ado...

Welcome to 4.0!

• We've moved on from vBulletin and have migrated to NodeBB. vBulletin is a very traditional software, but there were more negatives than positives on using it or similar equivalents in the long term. If you already miss the old vBulletin, we'd love to hear what you liked so we can work towards improving your experience here.
• We're now finally rocking the https in the url, and much newer versions of software powering the server. There should be redirections in place, so old links should safely bring you here. If you spot any frustrating issues, feel free to post here.
• The url apforums.net may eventually be retired in the future. For now, it will take you to its home at forums.arlongpark.net so I advise you to update any bookmarks now.
• Please tell anyone out of the loop to come and visit! We're back online!

Logging in

• All passwords were wiped out for security reasons, so you are required to reset your password. This requires you to trigger a password reset email, but we've noticed that a lot of users have invalid addresses associated with their accounts. In this case, please do not create a new user account. Get in contact with one of the admins on Discord and we'll work with you.

Alternative log-in methods for Returning Members

SSO is an identification method that lets you log in to applications using one set of credentials. For example, if you have a Discord or a Gmail account, you can tell the forums that you're the real-deal instead of using a separate password for the forums. Instead of storing a different password on the forums, you're storing a token that proves you're the owner of your account.

On top of that, you have the option to enable 2FA. All these options are viewable in your account details. Let us know if you need any help with setting this up.

We currently support the following:

• Gmail
• Discord

To deter abuse and circumventing, new registrants still need to register by regular means.

If there's something else that would work better for you, we can see if we can work on adding it in as an option.

My username got changed!?

• Some users, like those whose namesake is of the popular Fire Fist Ace line, will realize that their username may have been renamed. Because names with symbols have been treated differently or ignored, they may have conflicted with their non-symbol counterparts and got a number tagged on. For example, if there was a Fire-Fist Ace and a Fire Fist Ace, the latter one got renamed. We're sorry if this has happened to you, so if it has then we're willing to do a one-time rename. Please either post here once you gained access, send me a message here, or get in contact on Discord.

Can I claim an abandoned username that has 0 posts?

• It depends on the circumstances, but we're willing to review it so it wouldn't hurt to bring it up. There's a bigger chance if it looks like a squatter that did nothing but register the name.
• We may decide to do a general cleanup of these kinds of empty abandoned accounts in the future.

Verified Status

• All users who carried over are marked "Verified" which grants them normal user privileges regardless of email validity. New registrants from here on can view account-required subforums like the Manga Spoilers, but won't be able to post or use any basic features until they validate their email addresses.

Where are the other themes? THIS ONE UGLY AND TOO BRIGHT

• This current theme is inspired by the old Retro Park and is considered the new default theme. I apologize for not having a dark version at the current moment. There are plans to have a Night Mode, so I hope you'll be able to bear with us until then.
• Popular themes from the past will be re-created, but they will take time as there isn't an easy way to study them anymore. If you have screenshots saved, please post them; they'll be a great help.
• New themes and color schemes will be made in the future! There's a plan but feel free to use the Suggestions board to give ideas.
• If you don't like anything, I am sorry

Posting

• Posts no longer use the old traditional BB Code. This was the code that was used to format your posts, like [b]Bolded Text[/b] or [i]Italicized Text[/i] -- you may have never had to deal with it. Now we're using Markdown which, with paired with live previewing, should hopefully improve your posting experience.
• Users may now @ someone in your posts, and if that user has the option turned on, they will be notified.
• Posts can now receive emoji reactions, so please act responsibly with them. There are plans to have custom One Piece reactions in the future.
• Previously subscribed threads were not carried over, so you will have to "rewatch" your threads.
• If you highlight a piece of text on a post, you can get an option to Quote that text in a new post.
• There are many other cool features not mentioned here that you will discover on your own.

Tags

• Tags were carried over, but likewise with post reactions, we'd like you to use them responsibly as they can be very helpful for organizing subtopics.

Spoiler Text

Surround your text with three colons and a new line like below:

Doing so will generate this:

Pagination vs. Infinite Scroll

• Update! Traditional Pagination is on by default.
• You can enable Infinite Scroll by changing the option in your profile.
• For Infinite Scroll, use the arrows on the bottom right of your screen to quickly navigate.

Customizing your profile

• Avatars have to be manually re-uploaded. I only did this for about 700 users, so if you have an avatar coming in, it means I uploaded it for you. If you find yourself missing one, it wasn't personal! I may still have a copy of it so if you want to see if I can restore it, please post and I'll try to get to it, otherwise go ahead and upload a new one.
• Upload a new banner to your user profile! The limit is about 2MB. Hover over the banner to see icons with options to upload and adjust it. I believe this is not possible to do for mobile users.
• User messages which were left on your profile in the old forums were not carried over.
• Friend/Ignore lists were not carried over. The feature has been replaced with "Follow" and "Block" respectfully.

Where's my signature?

• Signatures felt very intrusive while skimming through posts so I have made the decision to globally disable them while viewing posts. They may still be edited in your profile. We may consider creating a way to allow users to toggle signatures in posts in the future.

Where are custom titles?

• These were unfortunately not transferred over. In the future when the option is available again, they will need to be re-entered.

Upvotes, Reputation, and Bounties

• User Reputation increases when certain activities occur on the forums. We do not condone any behavior that involves using this number or system against others in a toxic manner.
• You cannot upvote your own posts. If you find yourself being harassed by others over upvotes, please report them to the moderation team.
• User bounties are visible in your profile and are influenced by various aspects of your activity on the forums. There are currently no rewards, and it's unknown what kind of consequences there are to having a bounty...
• If we find that users are abusing this in an effort to increase their internet points, we'll have no problem enacting an appropriate action on individuals, or at worst disable entirely.

Usergroups and Badges

• Crimin Star ranks from usergroups have now been replaced with badges.
• The red/purple stars and its group no longer exist.
• Blue star Envoys from the past remain.
• Future Plan: Badges tied to a reward system, like forum events, contributions, or even donations. They'll be announced at a later time.

Private Messages

• These have become Direct Messages. It's essentially like a chatroom now.

Tapatalk

• This is no longer installed in favor of a responsive design. If you notice issues, please post about it with as much details as possible and we'll do our best to address it.

"Untitled" threads

• For whatever reason, some really old threads in 2005 may be called Untitled. We don't have the people resources to manually restore them.

Polls

• Old poll data was unfortunately not carried over.

Other Things

Will we still get the false DMCA claims that traditionally took down AP?

• There is still potential for that, but we hope we're in a better place than before to address them in time.

Maintenance schedule

• From time to time, the forums will need to be updated. The forums will be down momentarily while this happens. This will likely happen more often at the beginning until things stabilize.

Data import stats for nerds

• 121702/121714 users (-12)
• 52030/53051 private messages (-1021)
• 44252/44440 topics (-188)
• 4018441/4018654 posts (-213)

Pretty much all the users who didn't make it were ones that were made up of symbols. While theses are very minor numbers in the grand scheme of things, they did belong to someone so I do apologize for the loss.

New ideas?

• Post in the Suggestions board! Let the upvotes shine light on good ideas.

Any bugs? Questions?

• Please post here or get in contact on Discord! You may privately do so as well. It can be a bit of an adjustment compared to before, so it's okay to have questions.

We are here for our love of One Piece and this community. As always, be kind and courteous to your fellow users.

First, I wanted to say I'm really grateful for the heartwarming reception these past few days. I seriously didn't expect it as I was completing the third month of what I was calling "Forum Jail" -- and having a tiring cycle of essentially day and night jobs! Traditional forums may be dying out, but I'm glad to witness and support such a great community coming together in this day and age.

Yeah, yeah, I know you're not here to listen to me go on. You're here for something else...

I've already seen a lot of requests scattered around forum threads and discord channels, and some were easy to take care of on the spot, while others are a lot more difficult to take into consideration. I'd like you to repeat what you've said and use this thread for that. I wonder how many of our wish list items overlap?

The number one thing I want to make clear is that there are no promises for anything and no promised timeframe for completion.

Truthfully, I don't have the expertise about the system to be able to confidently make everything come true, and sometimes it's too crazy for one person to fix issues for every different way people are using the forums. Some things might've been easier or even existed on the old platform, but we got so much more moving on to this one... so I hope you can understand.

My goal for this thread is to see what it'd take to reach a point of stability.

If there are single items that warrant focus, attention, and a discussion with the community itself, it may be beneficial for you to create a new thread instead.

Game Rules

1. One post per user containing a wish list AND optionally an "unwish" list
2. Wishes can only be practical forum features related to the overhaul -- reasonable, easy to understand, and have the community in mind
3. Edit your list as you see fit, but at the very least please use the hyphens to make the bullet lists
4. Wish for the same things to show interest, and unwish items for the opposite effect -- they don't have to be worded the exact same
5. No need to list items I'm already committed to, below:

My List of Committed Work

• Nighttime Arlong Park
• Alternate color skins
• Alternate themes (CP9, Sabaody)
• Custom titles
• Discord bot for multiple channels
• Fix the url redirections as best as possible
• "Pirate Crews"
• User-enabled signatures
• One Piece emoji reactions
• Custom subforum icons
• Donation/sub badge and rewards
• Bold unread threads, unbold read threads

It's a lot easier to quote from multiple posts if you use the full Reply button for the side-by-side pane and highlight-quote instead of the quick reply. I hope that's not too bothersome.

Edit: confirmed that as long as you have the Reply pane open, clicking on the Quote link beside anyone's posts will add it into the window!

I looked one up just now and I'm pretty impressed by an English version of it. Seems to be an officially recognized rakugoka!

Edit: Here's a longer one if you have some time! The act is half way through but the first half is informative.

third time's the charm

![](https://i.ibb.co/8bbfF8z/6-F46-CAD6-A3-E9-45-B2-8-D84-5171-FA894772.gif)

I can't tell if people are just memeing about her at this point, but otherwise I think it's kind of weird for people to be bothered by the exaggerated over-the-top scolding now of all times. She fills in the "straight person" role more than the others but it's always been like this, since Whiskey Peak even?

@Greg said in Greg: Teacher of SUPER " OP " course !:

See the design of Franky and Robin post-skip. Both of them are almost surgically-design to preserve the identities of pre-skip Robin and Franky so non-readers won't know they're part of the crew.

Confirmed to work. I jump-started a friend a while back with Episode of East Blue, and then randomly watched the scene where Sanji was screaming for Robin in Wano. He's aware of a "Robin" and even saw her for a few mins in Strong World where it was still pre-skip. We're currently at the part where Ace meets the crew in Alabasta and he seemingly hasn't reacted to or recognized Miss All Sunday at all yet...

Can you try clicking on the 3 dots on your post and see if the "Edit" option is available?

I disabled the search just now in case it's the cause of the memory exhaust, it'll need a bit more time to investigate and improve.

Welcome! I hope you enjoy your time here.

Lupin coming to a McDonalds near you... maybe.

https://twitter.com/McDonaldsJapan/status/1574307792416014336

For some reason it felt like the team was finalized based on chapter 1060's color spread where a reader requested "Redraw the coloring corner page from volume 8 but with all 10 crewmates!"

Although I didn't think about it before, a lot of these theory threads seem to appear in the Manga section naturally because of how the subforum represents the most up-to-date situation of the series. I can see why a specific theory subforum would be clear in its purpose, but you'd also have to think about whether you'd want to set ground rules to protect people like anime-only fans, or create a new subforum for this in each section. I think that's why in the end, the Manga and Anime subforums can already fulfill this purpose without worrying about things like that.

@Greg said in Greg: Teacher of SUPER " OP " course !:

See the design of Franky and Robin post-skip. Both of them are almost surgically-design to preserve the identities of pre-skip Robin and Franky so non-readers won't know they're part of the crew.

Confirmed to work. I jump-started a friend a while back with Episode of East Blue, and then randomly watched the scene where Sanji was screaming for Robin in Wano. He's aware of a "Robin" and even saw her for a few mins in Strong World where it was still pre-skip. We're currently at the part where Ace meets the crew in Alabasta and he seemingly hasn't reacted to or recognized Miss All Sunday at all yet...

Welcome! I hope you enjoy your time here.

Welcome! Thanks for joining!

@Ivotas said in Chapter 1058: New Emperors:

And before anyone complains, when I say bitchy I'm not talking about her being a bitch in the sexual kind if sense. But rather in the throwing a tantrum sense by demanding their five minutes of attention while totally ruining everyone's fun that moment. It's really sad as it puts a stain on an otherwise great character.

@Ivotas said in Chapter 1058: New Emperors:

And about my "office bitch" argument. Of course didn't mean that she is looking for attention. I was merely bringing up the most popular example of the other meaning of the word 'bitch' because people always go the bitch = whore interpretation when they read the word. I guess the term 'office bitch' was not enough of a dead give away that it is not to be taken as a 1 to 1 application of the concept. Will make sure to insult everyone's intelligence next time and breastfeed it to people then.

I don't understand the reason for this kind of attitude. I read every post after these, WHO on earth here misinterpreted bitch = whore/sexual? You went out of your way to put out a disclaimer and you went out of your way to defend yourself from... nothing? I don't wish to derail the thread any further than this, but you really don't need to act this way out of nowhere.

The next movie will be One Piece Film BLUE, obviously. The lead will be Vivi!

Nah, I'm honestly surprised Oda continued being involved after Strong World and started a trend because that's a lot of overhead work for him on top of the serialization. I've been surprised by every movie idea I wouldn't even know what to predict next.

I can't tell if people are just memeing about her at this point, but otherwise I think it's kind of weird for people to be bothered by the exaggerated over-the-top scolding now of all times. She fills in the "straight person" role more than the others but it's always been like this, since Whiskey Peak even?

There were a few complaints about its accuracy, and at its current state it was easy for people to overwhelm the server with it. I have to figure out a solution before it can come back.