A big update landed across 9ntyapi.com today. Here's everything that's new.
## Announcements
- Announcement bars now size themselves to fit their message instead of stretching across the page.
- 10 new styles: Midnight, Neon tube, Frosted glass, Holographic, Brushed metal, Carbon fibre, Ticket stub, Duotone, Capsule and Minimal line.
- 16 new animations, including Decode, Split-flap board, Ink unfold, Magnetic letters, 3D tilt, Comet orbit, Liquid chrome and Lightning arc.
- New drawn icons replace the old emoji icons.
- New Countdown cards: a live timer (days, hours, minutes, seconds), a progress bar and a burning outline that fills as the time passes. The Fortnite Item Shop reset countdown runs every day and rolls straight into the next day after each reset.
- Announcements can be placed on the home page, inside the shoutbox, on the forum index, in any forum section or in threads, and shown to everyone, guests, members or staff.
## Shoutbox
- The daily Item Shop message now posts on its own as soon as the new shop is out, and it can't be skipped or posted twice.
- Pinned messages can have a category, a colour, a size, a font, an animation and a timer, and members can close them.
- New messages appear live without refreshing the page.
- Welcome messages now read "Welcome @username to 9ntyapi.com".
## Forum
- A new layout with sections: Bot Announcements, Announcements, Community General, Community Suggestions and Staff.
- New forums: Rules and Guidelines, Community Support, Official Support, Introduce Yourself, Gaming (with GTA 6, Fortnite, Call of Duty and Other Games), Milestones and Bragging, and Groups.
- Read-only forums: anyone can read Announcements, Bot Announcements and Rules and Guidelines. Only the team can post there.
- The Staff section is for signed-in members. Contact Staff threads show their status (Open, Waiting on member, Closed) and which staff member is handling them.
- Up and down voting on suggestions, with staff labels: Under review, Planned, Done and Declined.
- "New" markers on forums with unread posts, and a Mark all read button.
- Introduce yourself for a one-time 25 credit bonus and the new Introduced award.
- Milestones and Bragging posts need a screenshot or link as proof, and screenshots are free to add there.
- A live GTA 6 release countdown in the GTA 6 forum.
- Times like "5 minutes ago" now update by themselves while the page is open.
## Live stats board
- At the bottom of the forum and home page: who's online, a legend of every rank's username style, and live totals for threads, posts, users, the newest member and the most members ever online at once.
- Every number is counted from the site's real records and updates every 10 seconds.
## Usernames and ranks
- New name effects for staff ranks and upgrade tiers. Each has its own small particle effect, including raining stars, rising embers, rain, a lightning storm, drifting glitter, falling snow and flipping stars.
- They show on forum posts, in the shoutbox, on profiles and in the stats board. You can preview them on the Upgrade page.
## Profile and control panel
- Change avatar: a larger preview, crop, zoom, rotate and flip, 7 filters, and previews at every size used on the site.
- Avatar frames (9 animated frames unlocked by tier), a tier-coloured ring, a hover avatar from Epic, and your last 5 avatars kept for one-click switching back.
- Panel frame (Epic and above): choose the thickness, colour and one of 10 outline animations for your home page panel.
- Animated forum graphics for Mythic members.
## Fixes
- Fixed an error that stopped the home page loading for signed-in members.
- Fixed forum thread and post counts in the Staff section.
- Fixed announcement link buttons losing their text on hover.
A big update landed across 9ntyapi.com today. Here's everything that's new.
Announcements
- Announcement bars now size themselves to fit their message instead of stretching across the page.
- 10 new styles: Midnight, Neon tube, Frosted glass, Holographic, Brushed metal, Carbon fibre, Ticket stub, Duotone, Capsule and Minimal line.
- 16 new animations, including Decode, Split-flap board, Ink unfold, Magnetic letters, 3D tilt, Comet orbit, Liquid chrome and Lightning arc.
- New drawn icons replace the old emoji icons.
- New Countdown cards: a live timer (days, hours, minutes, seconds), a progress bar and a burning outline that fills as the time passes. The Fortnite Item Shop reset countdown runs every day and rolls straight into the next day after each reset.
- Announcements can be placed on the home page, inside the shoutbox, on the forum index, in any forum section or in threads, and shown to everyone, guests, members or staff.
Shoutbox
- The daily Item Shop message now posts on its own as soon as the new shop is out, and it can't be skipped or posted twice.
- Pinned messages can have a category, a colour, a size, a font, an animation and a timer, and members can close them.
- New messages appear live without refreshing the page.
- Welcome messages now read "Welcome @username to 9ntyapi.com".
Forum
- A new layout with sections: Bot Announcements, Announcements, Community General, Community Suggestions and Staff.
- New forums: Rules and Guidelines, Community Support, Official Support, Introduce Yourself, Gaming (with GTA 6, Fortnite, Call of Duty and Other Games), Milestones and Bragging, and Groups.
- Read-only forums: anyone can read Announcements, Bot Announcements and Rules and Guidelines. Only the team can post there.
- The Staff section is for signed-in members. Contact Staff threads show their status (Open, Waiting on member, Closed) and which staff member is handling them.
- Up and down voting on suggestions, with staff labels: Under review, Planned, Done and Declined.
- "New" markers on forums with unread posts, and a Mark all read button.
- Introduce yourself for a one-time 25 credit bonus and the new Introduced award.
- Milestones and Bragging posts need a screenshot or link as proof, and screenshots are free to add there.
- A live GTA 6 release countdown in the GTA 6 forum.
- Times like "5 minutes ago" now update by themselves while the page is open.
Live stats board
- At the bottom of the forum and home page: who's online, a legend of every rank's username style, and live totals for threads, posts, users, the newest member and the most members ever online at once.
- Every number is counted from the site's real records and updates every 10 seconds.
Usernames and ranks
- New name effects for staff ranks and upgrade tiers. Each has its own small particle effect, including raining stars, rising embers, rain, a lightning storm, drifting glitter, falling snow and flipping stars.
- They show on forum posts, in the shoutbox, on profiles and in the stats board. You can preview them on the Upgrade page.
Profile and control panel
- Change avatar: a larger preview, crop, zoom, rotate and flip, 7 filters, and previews at every size used on the site.
- Avatar frames (9 animated frames unlocked by tier), a tier-coloured ring, a hover avatar from Epic, and your last 5 avatars kept for one-click switching back.
- Panel frame (Epic and above): choose the thickness, colour and one of 10 outline animations for your home page panel.
- Animated forum graphics for Mythic members.
Fixes
- Fixed an error that stopped the home page loading for signed-in members.
- Fixed forum thread and post counts in the Staff section.
- Fixed announcement link buttons losing their text on hover.