Hi it's... me? Long story short: we are attempting to (slowly) transition to a new website which we are making from scratch (just like good ol' SmileBASIC Source). It's: https://new.smilebasicsource.com/, and it focuses on SB4 (Switch). This transition will be slow, and when the new website has all the features we need, we hope to retire this old website. Before then, we will most likely set up some kind of migration so you can move your stuff over.
So for now, please try to post NEW content on https://new.smilebasicsource.com/, while all your old content will still be available here on old sbs. Edit: Some confusion about whether to copy stuff over: you CAN if you like! We're hoping to eventually add some kind of easy-migration thing, but even so it will be up to the owners and per-page so... up to you if you want to wait!
Several users pointed out (truthfully) that this was not communicated well and the transition is unsmooth. I want to apologize right now before any explanation. I take full responsibility for any confusion, anxiety, and general bumpiness surrounding this transition. I had ample opportunity to create a new website and never did. It is entirely my fault, and I will listen to complaints whenever you like.
Now, more info for those who are interested:
This website, the one you're on now, was a group effort, a collaboration with a lot of work put into it. We made it for SmileBASIC 3 (for the 3ds). It was neat because we had a place we could call our own, and making your own website when there are obviously better alternatives really fits the kind of community that uses apps like SmileBASIC. Plus we were fleeing from Wikia which was an awful place that only got worse and worse.
This was also my first website and it shows. It is nearly impossible to improve or redesign or do anything that people have wanted for many years during the SB3 days, and which is even more pertinent for SB4. Everything is heavily dependent on each other, and I have frequently made small changes here and broken things over there. It's bad, and I want the community to have something nice.
I've worked off and on with ideas and implementation for a new website for a few years now. I never made anything. I knew SmileBASIC 4 was going to EVENTUALLY come out but I never just pushed and got it done. It is because of my laziness that this transition has not been smooth.
Y, a user you will probably hear from on this thread, came to me less than a month ago with information that SB4 would be releasing on the 23rd in North America. She told me as soon as she knew, and expressed concerns that the current website would not handle this well for various reasons. I agreed and got to work on a new website. It was really about three weeks... that is not enough time to write a fully custom website from scratch front to back and then have time to test it all. I enlisted the help of MasterR3C0RD to make a front end while I worked on the backend. This is how the new website was made and is being made.
So, that's about it. We had only a few weeks to get a new website out and we did not have time to implement most of the features nor to test it well, so the new website is having a rough time and we're doing all we can to fix the major bugs and add the obviously missing features. But it functions and you can post programs and soon you will be able to chat there too. We really hope to do everything we can to get necessary features implemented in a timely fashion.
Thank you for sticking it out with us for so long, and I hope to see you on the new website.
