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Weekly Recap

[Week 22: May 31st - June 6th]

Hey Songuardians,

We hope you are all staying safe, as you go about your daily routines. By now, some of you are already in summer, while others are on the final stretches before going on summer break.

Over at the Plugin Development Team, although it seems quiet, we are currently working on updates for all our plugins, one by one, ahead of the official release of Minecraft 1.17, and are also trying our best to fix reported issu...

Weekly Recap

[Week 21: May 24th - May 30th]

Hey Songuardians,

We hope you are all doing well and keeping safe. We hope those of you who had finals in the last couple of weeks or are currently still in the process of doing finals successfully complete them, then you can move into summer mode.

Over at the Plugin Development Team, ahead of the release of Minecraft 1.17, our developers have been hard at work starting to convert our plugins to be able to run on Java 16, and t...

Weekly Recap

[Week 20: May 17th - May 23rd]

Hey Songuardians,

We hope you are all healthy and safe. As many of you know, the end of the school year is finally here or approaching, and with it the start of summer, and some time to destress and relax.

Over at the Plugin Development Team, ahead of the coming release of Minecraft 1.17 and with it the switch to Java 16, our developers have been hard at work to begin preparing for the changes that this will bring. With the ini...

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[Week 18 & 19: May 4th - May 16th]

Hey Songuardians,

We hope you are all doing well and staying safe out there as you go about your days. As most of you know, it’s still currently finals season, with some of you approaching the end, some of you are about halfway through and some of you are yet to start. Regardless of how far along you are, we wish you the best of luck and know you will do well.

Over at the Plugin Development Team, EpicAnchors is gettin...

Weekly Recap

[Week 17: April 26th - May 2nd]

Hey Songuardians,

We hope you and your families are all well, and able to go about your daily routines. As most of you know by now, exam season is fast approaching if it hasn’t already started for you. We hope your studies are going smoothly and that you are able to successfully pass all your classes

Over at the Marketplace Development Team, our developers are currently tackling reported bugs and thoroughly testing a new sys...

Weekly Recap

[Week 16: April 19th - April 25th]

Hey Songuardians,

We hope you are all doing well and staying safe out there. To those of you who are still in school, we know that exams are approaching and final assignments are being made. We hope all is going well as you prepare for your upcoming exams, and know you will all do well on them.

Over in the Plugin Development team, we know we have been quiet this week in terms of updates, but things should be soon picking up...

Weekly Recap

[Week 15: April 12th - April 18th]

Hey Songuardians,

Over at our plugin support team, we recently recruited 7 new team members, Alexc2, Darkwinged, ItzGliese, Jakethedog, Minty, Shad0wcube and Zaserr who have substantially increased our plugin support team. They are all currently in the beginning stages of training, and will soon be busy responding to your pending support tickets, which will help to speed up the process. We know they will all do their best and be ...

Weekly Recap

[Week 13 & 14: March 29th - April 11th]

Hey Songuardians,

We know we missed last week’s recap with all the Easter holiday activities, but we hope all who celebrate the holiday had an enjoyable Easter and were able to spend it or at least communicate with most of your family.

Over in development, we recently hired a new developer, Sprax, who has already started working on fixing some issues that were around for a bit, so you should expect those updates ...

Weekly Recap

[Week 12: March 22nd  - March 28th]

Hey Songuardians,

First of all, it is Brianna’s birthday today! We wish her a happy birthday and thank her for all the time and work that she puts into running and working on the various projects of Songoda throughout the years. If it wasn’t for her, Songoda might have never existed, so we might not be here now. Don’t forget to wish her a happy birthday if you see her around!

We also want to celebrate two years ...

Weekly Recap

[Week 11: March 15th - March 21st]

Hey Songuardians,

We hope you are all doing well, and coping with everything going on around you as the world changes from day to day during the everchanging pandemic.

Over at development, the overhaul of UltimateClaims has been going along smoothly as we add and test new features which have been requested on our feedback site. You can expect an update or sneak peek at these new features in the coming days.

Over on th...

Weekly Recap

[Week9: March 1st - March 7th]

Hey Songuardians,

We hope you are all still doing well, and your lives are beginning to settle down in terms of becoming accustomed to the daily routine with the health protocols.

Over in development, there has been a steady stream of updates being released as we catch up with the bug reports and tickets that were backlogged.

Over in the marketplace, it has been mostly quiet as our developers work behind the scenes to fin...

Weekly Recap

[Week 8: February 22nd - February 28th]

Hey Songuardians,

As things are starting to get back to a minor sense of normalcy with the distribution of the vaccine around the world, we hope you are all safe and still practicing the safety protocols as you go about your day.

Over at development, things have begun to move again in regards to plugins and updates as our developers work to fix reported bugs and make some changes to the plugins, in order to improve the...

Weekly Recap

[Week 7: February 15th - February 21st]

Hey Songuardians,

We hope you are all doing well and managing being at home. For those of you who live in Texas, we hope that things get better soon as you go about getting back to a normal routine after the storm.

We know that things have been relatively quiet at Songoda over the past couple of weeks, this is partly due to Brianna who is recuperating after briefly having caught Covid-19, but she is now all better and ...

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[Week 5: February 1st - February 7th]

Hey Songuardians,

Firstly, we hope you are well and safe. To those of you who are under lockdown, feel free to come say hi in our discord server, many of us are also stuck at home just like you.

Over at development, our developers have been hard at work to get some performance upgrades to our current plugin lineup programmed and tested. It’s slowly but surely getting there, so the updates will slowly be released to you...

Weekly Recap

[Week 4: January 25th - January 31st]

Hey Songuardians,

First, some good news over in our plugin support team: we welcomed two new members, Fatilda and SweatySalty! They have gotten off to a great start in terms of providing support, and we expect great things from them over the course of the next two weeks or so as they complete their training period.

Over at development, our developers have been hard at work to get some performance upgrades to our current ...

Weekly Recap

[Week 3: January 18th - January 24th]

Hey Songuardians,

We hope you are all doing well and staying safe as you go about your daily routines.

Over at ServerJars and SongodaHost, we have recently hired a new system admin, CreepinFire (Cam) who has already proven to be a great asset to the team. She will be working behind the scenes with Daedan to ensure all our services are kept running as smoothly as humanly possible.

Over at development, Brianna and L3...

Weekly Recap

[Week 2: January 11th - January 15th]

Hey Songuardians,

we hope that you are all doing well and staying safe out there. To those of you who have started back school this week, we hope you have slowly been getting back into the groove, so next week will be better.

Firstly, we have been working hard to make our plugins more open-source and compileable friendly to the general public, by making it possible to compile them without access to our private repo, as w...

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[Week 52 & 53: December 21st 2020 - January 1st 2021]

Hey Songuardians,

First of all, we hope you all had a wonderful holiday over the last week or two and were able to keep in contact with your family and friends. Over at Songoda, Brianna has been taking a long-overdue holiday, and she is ready to come back to us on Monday, fresh and full of brand new ideas for the new year.

Over at SongodaHost, on Christmas day there was a bomb attack on our ISP’s in...

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[Week 50: December 14th - December 18th]

Hey Songuardians,

We hope for those of you who celebrate the holidays, that your holiday preparations are going well! And to those of you who go to school, and recently had exams, we hope you got through with them and were successful. Now it’s time to relax after all that hard work during the semester/term.

Over in development, we have recently hired another developer to take some of the load of maintaining all 18 o...

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[Week 49: December 7th - December 11th]]

Hey Songuardians,

As some you might probably know by now from the announcement in the main discord, Songoda was recently removed from the verified discord server listing. At present, we are still looking into why this sudden change in our status occurred, and will keep you updated once we receive an answer from discord.

Some big news for our patreons, over the last week or two, we have been working on updating the pac...

Weekly Recap

[Week 48: November 30th - December 4th]

Hey Songuardians,

As we begin the holiday season, we hope everyone is well and stays safe out there. And to all the Dutchies and Belgians (and others who celebrate), fijne sinterklaas.

As many of you are probably aware by now, we launched our new Customer Relationship Team, and that team has been busy over on Reddit addressing concerns made by members of the community about their thoughts on Songoda. You can view that ...

Weekly Recap

[Week 47: November 23rd - November 27th]

Hey Songuardians,

First of all, we hope all of you who celebrate Thanksgiving had an enjoyable one this year, despite the current pandemic, and that you were able to contact all your family members who couldn’t make it over this year. For all of you who don’t, we hope that you kept safe out there and grabbed the good deals on items that you were eyeing for a while. Remember that the sales extend until Monday, so don’t...

Weekly Recap

[Week 44: October 26th - November 1st]

Hey Songuardians,

This week, Brianna has added a bunch of updates to SongodaCore and recoded a large part of UltimateTimber to improve support for older versions of Minecraft.

Exciting updates from our staff team: Zach has been promoted to admin, Ben and Toxic have passed their training period and are now officially part of the support team. We also welcomed 3 new people to the support team: Bramsy, Haczyn, and Sign. Co...

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[Week 43: October 19th - October 25th]

Hey Songuardians,

This week we finally fixed the search on our marketplace. It had been down for quite some time however we gave it a little effort and were able to properly resolve the issue. We may need to make some improvements over the next little bit however it does in fact seem fairly stable as of the moment.

We finally got around to hiring a new developer for the marketplace. This developer will be responsible fo...

Weekly Recap

[Week 42: October 12th - October 18th]

Hey Songuardians,

You guys wanted more power are we’re here to deliver. This week we installed 1 extra gig of fiber for your Minecraft servers on SongodaHost.
While the fiber is not in use as of yet, once we put it to work it will increase performance 2x.

After about a year of the same page design, we thought it was time to give our plugin pages a new one. Since the new Patreon advertisement was so successful we d...

Weekly Recap

[Week 41: October 5th - October 11th]

Hey Songuardians,

This week we decided to get a PO Box for the company. This will allow us to stop mailing everything from Brianna’s house which separates our mail and even gives you guys a place to mail things if you need too.

We finally caved in and inquired about a Patreon poster prototype. This will be a higher-tiered Songoda+ perk where on top of the monthly stickers patrons will also get a poster. If the prototyp...

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 [Week 40: September 28th  - October 4th]

Hey Songuardians,

This week, we have added some awesome new tricks to SongodaCore which allow us to use multi-dimensional NBT compounds. This was needed in order to update EpicEnchants and will be very useful on all of our plugins that utilize or even could in the future utilize NBT data.

Unfortunately, we had to m...

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[Week 39: September 21st  - September 27th]

Hey Songuardians,

This week following the successful move by ServerJars we moved the repo, wiki, feedback, and service desk sites to SongodaHost. This greatly cuts down on our expenses and gives us better access and control over our services. We will be moving Songoda.com soon as well.

FabledSkyBlock got a ton of attention from Brianna. She fixed and closed the majority of the tickets on the service desk. This...

Weekly Recap

[Week 37: September 7th - September 13th]

Hey Songuardians,

This week we overhauled our design for our plugin pages. While most of it is still in the works we were able to release an advertisement for our Patreon program in this new style. We can wait to show you gu...

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[Week 36: August 31st - September 6th]

Hey Songuardians,

This week we implemented Codacy for our plugins. Codacy will help us keep up with and improve the quality of our code. The code quality for each plugin can also be found in the ReadMe file on GitHub. ...