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.

Happy April Fools! How many years has it been since the last one? (I wasn't here... right?)

Was that okay? Was it too safe for AP standards?! Well, maybe you are a big Naruto fan anyway, or you didn't mind the paint job, as long as you got some kind of dark theme and wasn't burning your eyes out. Hey, back in the day we didn't even HAVE dark mode for anything. So you mean, not only do I have to do multiple designs for responsive web, I also have to make a dark version of everything now too?! Sheesh!

Did you find the Easter eggs? I personally liked the flying narutos from clicking the banner...

Believe it!

Dark Mode is real...

Do you see that in the top right corner? The area where you get your notifications and chats? Now you can click the icon to turn the lights off!!

Well, the thing about last Halloween was a true story, but I'm glad we can finally enjoy something like this. I'll always be tweaking it. That first load transition you will probably see if you default to dark is kind of annoying, but I will pursue a way to smooth it out. To be honest, I'm still not used to maintaining forums that run like an app...

And I had the nerve to open up a Wishlist thread...

But there's more!

As I've already alluded to in the info banner last month, I had been working on an alternative search engine! In the top right corner there is also a that will open up a search box. The first one we had when the forums revived last year semi-failed on us because of its intensive memory usage, and in some ways, its accuracy. That's not to say this one will solve all the problems we had before, but it is just better than that one in some capacity. So give it a try, and see if it can dig up some cool stuff. Please be gentle with it

When you make your first search, you can tweak your preferences by expanding the Advanced Search section and saving your preferences. Some of you might always search with specific parameters, and some of you might always want to avoid certain categories (like Manga spoilers).

I hope you're able to find what you're looking for. I might not be able to do too much to make it perfect.

Lastly, I recommend going into your settings and disabling Enable In-Topic Searching so that you can use your keyboard browser search within topics. There's still something funky going on with that one.

So, uh, when do I get a raise, Robo...?

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 (can't do b/c of the migration )
• "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!

A very interesting snippet I came across:

There were a couple of things that took some persuading, and if there was something that Oda-san was really, really unhappy with, we found a way to change it. But there were some things that we tried and got into the show, that initially he was a little gun-shy about. One of those was moving up-- we structurally moved a couple things up that don't happen until much later chapters, and so one of them for example was bringing up Garp as a more present character in the first 8 episodes. Bringing in Koby, bringing in Helmeppo, and having that marine pursuit be present and on the Straw Hats and on Luffy's tail almost from the get-go from episode 2. It was a big change, and I thought it was something we really needed in order to keep the stakes up and let it feel like it wasn't just a fun adventure where we were meeting different antagonists and different villains and pirates, but where there was an actual kind of organized presence and fearsome presence was behind Luffy and pursuing. So that was definitely a big challenge.

But I think I would've wanted 8 episodes of only fun adventure

Long loong ma-

Apparently this thing is only around from April 16 to April 29.

25m high and 4m wide.

There's warnings telling people to not stop in the intersection or use a tripod while taking photos lol

@Sano said in One Piece Live-Adaptation Drama Announced:

The new trailer looks great. Arlong looks really awesome in live action. Also I like the references to both Foxy and Bellamy in the trailer with their bounty posters.

Pretty boy Cavendish too, haha.

People understand if live action isn't for you. But I'd avoid being the RomanMack for the live action series if you can help it.

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.

@FatDogForMidTerms said in One Piece Live-Adaptation Drama Announced:

edit: and omggggg yelling your attack's name REALLY doesn't work in live action

But all great fighters call out their finishing moves

I’m a super casual reader so I was kind of just waiting for the conclusion after all the uno reverse cards but uh I’d prefer it if my all favorite characters could stop getting killed…

I think I’ll just cherish anime season 1. Nothing else happens after, nope.

I went and watched Sonic 2 recently and the first thing that came to mind was how I could see Chopper working... not sure about the here though.

Hey, welcome to the forums. I hope you'll do more here than advertise your channel. I'll allow this thread but please don't go advertising stuff in other threads where it isn't related

Hey thanks for coming! We get so many bot registrations even with multiple spam prevention tools so I appreciate your patience.

Glad to hear you've finally come over to enjoy the series! I hope to see you around and hear your thoughts in the live action threads.

On the matter of the user permissions, I checked on how we're treating verified and the fact that you have a new thread here should mean you're able to post everywhere else. Feel free to let me know if there are issues you're seeing.

Use this thread for general chat. For season 2, go to https://forums.arlongpark.net/topic/44801/season-2-and-beyond-speculation-thread-spoilers/ !

This one here? haha https://forums.arlongpark.net/post/1277461

If I get the deluxe base game and this new character pass 2, does that cover all the dlc characters available? I've been trying to google for what the 9 characters are in the deluxe so I'm assuming it's the 3 from whole cake, 3 from worst generation, and 3 from wano.

Talk about getting overwhelmed by the number of various dlc options.

@Nitwit said in Funimation DVD Discussion IV (Please Check First Post for FAQ):

We are almost at 9999 posters. What would we do to celebrate?

And this one is number 9980. Celebrate by making Funimation DVD Discussion V thread or something? :lul:

Well... certainly is in the credits.

So it's this guy?

And that's a wrap...