ManiaExchange 10 Years Update

04/01/2021

This year marks an important milestone for us. We celebrate 10 years of the ManiaExchange network. Forzyy released ManiaExchange for TM² publicly on August 17, 2011. Since then, over 200,000 maps have been uploaded to MX.

Thanks for supporting MX all these years!

10 Years of ManiaExchange

In the upcoming months through the anniversary we will be hosting a variety of events and competitions, as well as bringing you extra content curated by the MX Crew. If you would like to know more about the projects and how you can help with your contributions, we encourage you to contact us via our Discord.

We have also prepared some merchandise for this occasion. You can take a look at our new merch shop over at Spreadshirt and help support our project!

For April 2021, we have prepared a massive update to our ManiaExchange network. Read about some of the highlights in this blog post.

New Account Page

We have prepared a new state-of-the-art authentication system and accounts page for ManiaExchange. The highlights:

Centralized login for all MX pages (without the need to log in or out on each page)
Enhanced security for your account data
Ability to log in with ManiaPlanet and Ubisoft Connect
Faster issue response thanks to enhanced tools for MX Admins

The new account page offers an glimpse into these future updates:

Two-Factor Authentication
Further security enhancements up to new web standards
More account interconnection with tm-exchange sites

ShootmaniaExchange

We have brought over all MX 2.0 features to SMX. From now on, all updates to the map exchanges will concern SMX, TMX and TM2.MX.

Leaderboards

Until now, the new monthly leaderboards, which were introduced in July 2020 on MX, were counting points from all maps on the site where replays were uploaded. For the next seasons, we decided to focus the seasonal leaderboards on maps uploaded only during this and the previous season.

Also, we have enabled you to browse the previous leaderboard season results via a dropdown, including statistics and scorecards!

MX, TMX Updates

There are A LOT of updates coming your way on our exchange sites. So many, that we decided to split them into groups.

New features

Avatars: Now on forum posts as well!
Records: Updated styling
Updated all icons with better quality
Redesigned homepage track displays
Added TMNFX/TMUFX to the quick menu left of the search bar
Search: Revised track search pages and map search pages
New banners for TMX by Shortz

Styling

Forum Threads: Page number out of bounds if a post was deleted
Mappack: Own map not showing up after mappack submission left the "pending" status
Profile: Statistics links now have the right URLs
Maps: You can now accept a co-author request even if you awarded the map
Maps: Fixed non-16:9 images stretching on fullscreen
Maps: Fixed black bars on images with a bigger height than width
Menu: Fixed links in the Mappack menu
Records: Fixed 11th replay showing up twice
API: Get_Mappack_Tracks now returns unreleased mappack info, when a secret is provided
Frontpage: Amount of maps shown now fills one row, instead of 1 1/2 for non-logged-in visitors
Mappack: Player login is now stored for multi-map-uploads (it wasn't before)
API: Get_Map_Info now also returns the Author Time in the response
Mappack: Adding maps will now increment the ID counter
API: Get_Mappack_Maps will now also include: AuthorTime, VehicleName, ReplayWRTime, ReplayWRUsername and ReplayWRUserID
Upload: Fixed the timeout error that occasionally happens upon upload
Upload: Because of binary conversion issues, the upload limit was 488KB, which has now been increased to 500KB
Search: Fixed keyboard accessibility
Search: Fixed thumbnail previews
Search: Cleaned up filters

Bugfixes

Forum Threads: Page number out of bounds if a post was deleted
Mappack: Own map not showing up after mappack submission left the "pending" status
Profile: Statistics links now have the right URLs
Maps: You can now accept a co-author request even if you awarded the map
Maps: Fixed non-16:9 images stretching on fullscreen
Menu: Fixed links in the Mappack menu
Records: Fixed 11th replay showing up twice
API: Get_Mappack_Tracks now returns unreleased mappack info, when a secret is provided
Frontpage: Amount of maps shown now fills one row, instead of 1 1/2 for non-logged-in visitors
Mappack: Player login is now stored for multi-map-uploads (it wasn't before)
API: Get_Map_Info now also returns the Author Time in the response
Mappack: Adding maps will now increment the ID counter
API: Get_Mappack_Maps will now also include: AuthorTime, VehicleName, ReplayWRTime, ReplayWRUsername and ReplayWRUserID
Upload: Fixed the timeout error that occasionally happens upon upload
Search: Fixed keyboard accessibility

IX Updates

There are some smaller updates over at ItemExchange.

New Random feature to get a random block or item
FIX: No more unreleased maps in the maplists of items / sets