Heliosphere

You can pet the dog on our website. If you give her enough pets (rubbing your mouse cursor around on top of her), hearts will start popping out!

Patched and back up!

Our forums will be offline until the PHP security vulnerability patch is available and applied. There is a severe vulnerability in PHP that should be receiving a patch tomorrow.

We have added a new rule (number 6) to Heliosphere. Mods must not require payment or be trial versions of other mods. Mods that require payment for features or are trial/partial versions of a mod are misleading and essentially advertisements. We will not allow these types of mods.

There's a new shape available for subscribers' profile pictures!

Some people have expressed that Heliosphere's front page lags their devices. Please check to make sure you have hardware acceleration enabled in your browser! If you still have issues, try the new "simple graphical mode", which removes blurs and shadows.

Changes from the Penumbra testing branch are now supported on Heliosphere. This comes with a plugin update to account for new features. Please report any issues on our forums. https://forums.heliosphere.app/threads/heliosphere-now-supports-the-penumbra-json-changes.244/

ignore the thumbnails not loading (this is prod data loaded into a local db but not connected to prod data storage), but I've been working on stuff

thank you all for reporting a specific mod over the past 24-ish hours. I was in hell upgrading/fixing my computer, so I wasn't able to review them until earlier today, and the mod in question had appropriate action taken. sorry for the longer-than-average delay on the reports!

be gay, install mods happy pride! unfriendly reminder for chuds that heliosphere is woke as hell

Version 4.9.0 of the Heliosphere plugin can scan your Penumbra library and convert alread-installed mods into Heliosphere-enabled mods! Please make backups in case anything goes wrong in the conversion process. Happy modding!

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You will soon be able to scan your Penumbra library to find mods you have installed that are also available on Heliosphere. Then you'll be able to choose which ones you would like to convert to Heliosphere mods, enabling auto-updates for them without manual reinstallation! Watch this space...

Did you know Heliosphere has forums? Come say hello! https://forums.heliosphere.app/

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@heliosphere/116571492370465322 Tentatively saying service is restored. Please let us know if there are any lingering issues. The site should load somewhat faster!

Heliosphere will be going down for maintenance in ~5 minutes (02:30 Eastern) as it is moved to new infrastructure. This may be a fairly long maintenance, up to a few hours. Thank you for your patience!

Firefox appears to have rolled out local network permissions now, so Heliosphere has been updated to show its warning for all browsers, not just Chrome. If the website no longer offers to use the plugin for you, this may be why!

Due to an oversight by our developer, if you tried to set account-wide creator settings for mod descriptions and URLs when downloaded into Penumbra, you'll need to go back and set them again. They didn't ever save properly. https://forums.heliosphere.app/threads/206/

There are now new options for creators controlling the behaviour of mod descriptions and URLs when downloaded via Heliosphere. Check out the forum post for more information! https://forums.heliosphere.app/threads/options-to-control-mod-descriptions-and-urls.198/

Work has begun on a feature that lets creators set account-wide preferences for whether PMPs of their mods downloaded from Heliosphere should retain their original descriptions and URLs. It can be overridden per-mod, as well.

Let us know what you think about mod descriptions being replaced in mods installed through Heliosphere: https://forums.heliosphere.app/threads/allow-control-over-description-replacement.191/

Explore the files in any mod with this new beta feature! You can download any file individually or preview any texture file, too.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@heliosphere/116190008742161709 It's live now! Let us know if there are any issues.

A new feature is in the works! Check a box to have all loose files in your PMP automatically uploaded as an extra zip file.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@heliosphere/116089955173573215 Thank you to everyone who shared this and to everyone who reached out! We have now added enough people in an advisory capacity.

We've added a tab where you can upload files in the mod "Edit" page for those of you with muscle memory from other sites!

What do creators and users want from resource hosting? Pages, similar to mods, but with multiple files available to download from a list instead of the one big download button?

We've added a new button and link to the mod upload page to hopefully make managing variants easier.

Many people remember the past when Heliosphere required its companion plugin to function. It hasn't required it for a long time. Without the plugin, the big yellow download button downloads a PMP.

trans rights are human rights btw

We appreciate all the new sign-ups! If any of you are considering subscribing, the code WOKE is available for 75% off your first month for new subscribers. Only 10 uses available. We also offer 14-day free trials!

Did you know that Heliosphere has a function to prevent inappropriate words from being contained in mod IDs? Fortunately, people have already made lists of profane and inappropriate words, so we didn't have to come up with the list ourselves...

Added a tooltip to the PMP download stage icon and numeric progress below the progress bar. Hoping to make this UI even more informational and clear as time goes on!

If you ever have questions about Heliosphere's rules or policies, please feel free to reach out on fedi (@anna@blahaj.zone), bsky (@anna.lgbt@bsky.brid.gy), our forums (https://forums.heliosphere.app), official hs account (@heliosphere@hachyderm.io), or even email (rules at heliosphere dot app).

The pride flags on our website up by our mascot (Sunny) will now show every unique flag available in our flag pack before allowing repeats. Before, it was true random sampling. If you are capable of making pride flags in that style and want one added, let us know! (Originals […]

A neat thing about Heliosphere is that it only needs to save one copy of any files that are uploaded inside mods. If two different mods share the same file, Heliosphere only keeps one copy of that file. All told, this has saved us 743.31 GiB of storage space so far!

We have completed maintenance to migrate our database to PostgreSQL 18, which was long overdue but had complications that delayed it. This should make Heliosphere even faster! As always, please report any issues that may arise on the forums.

Heliosphere is always looking for volunteers to help improve our documentation! If you know how to use Heliosphere and would like to contribute some technical writing, please check out the link below. https://forums.heliosphere.app/threads/call-for-documentation-contributors.5/

Hard at work adding more warnings about common pitfalls or misunderstandings.

We updated the affects database on Heliosphere (finally), so mods that affect newer items that weren't being detected should be mostly fixed!

This account is now officially bridged to Bluesky, so people on there can also get Heliosphere news! Happy holidays!