LBPUnion.com and Archives Group
Hello, everyone!
I wanted to reach out to let you know that a few weeks ago I have created a website for the LBP Union that is now accessible via the top navigation of our wiki. The site was somewhat inspired by the success (and continuing success at that!) of my news post about LBP.me. LBPUnion.com provides not only news about LittleBigPlanet and the ongoing server outage, but also forums and groups features that can help people talk about LittleBigPlanet.
In fact, the LBP Union Archives has its own group there that you can join if you'd like! I am hoping to perhaps add our own discussion category on the forum at some point in time but I may keep that reserved for the group page on the site. I think that will be more successful at driving t…
What Happened To LBP.me
As many avid fans of LittleBigPlanet have noted, LittleBigPlanet's companion site, LBP.me, has vanished from the Internet without a trace. With more questions than answers, LittleBigPlanet's community is now left without a way to view updates to their recent activity, comments, and even the only means of blocking other players in the game. What happened to LBP.me and LittleBigPlanet.com, and where do we go from here?
This story is closely related to the LittleBigPlanet server outages of 2021. If you're interested in learning more about that, check out this article about the LittleBigPlanet servers.
LBP.me went down sometime around November 23rd, 2020 according to the earliest tweets I could find. Here is another example from that date.
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Happy Refoundation Day 2020!
Happy Union Refoundation Day everybody! On this day seven years ago, December 14th, 2013, the LBP Union was reformed. For two years, the LBP Union served as a platform for communication, peace, and collaboration between organized players and creators of the game.
Thank you to all of the editors on the wiki, with special thanks to SamuraiEzoiar for all his awesome work. This past month or so we have brought you a ton of new features such as active clan notices, miniature flags next to names in infoboxes, new and improved infoboxes, and a new featured article box on the homepage.
I am hoping to bring much more content to the wiki in the future, such as a more detailed history of Akatsuki, updates to the LittleBigPlanet Union article, and mor…
Union Refoundation Day 2020
I want to remind everybody that this December 14th, 2020 will be the seventh year anniversary since the LBP Union was reformed at the end of 2013! Union Refoundation Day is a time I like to spend to reflect on all the great memories of the LBP Union, the people I met, and the things we created together.
As usual, I don't have anything huge planned. However, I did manage to add a brand new featured pages box to the front page! I'm not very good at CSS or wikitext so that was a bit of a challenge. As we approach Union Refoundation Day, I will be adding more Union clans to the featured pages slider.
There is also a new poll up that I thought would be fun. I'm hoping to introduce new polls more frequently, so make sure you vote for your favorit…
Notice About Clan Infoboxes: Population
So, this might have caused a few issues.
In the clan information infobox template, I've changed 'Population' to 'Total Population' and added a new row called 'Average Population.' The idea is that you wouldn't have both on one article, but only use the one that was necessary. Most older, dead clans probably need 'total population' because we have no chronological data on their membership count. However, we can figure out everyone who was involved, or at least as many people as we can find. Calling that the 'total population' helps us understand that this may not have been how many members that the clan had at any given time, but rather over the entire course of its existence.
However, for a clan like the New Lunar Republic that has chronol…