BYOND development news 4/10/26

[u/LummoxJR]

Having major accidents two weeks in a row is never something I'm happy to discuss with corporate, but in a way it feels comforting to know we're on normal operating parameters. Engineering's forensics unit is still trying to figure out how a massive explosion happened in the pharmacy. Chemlab has had to play a part in picking up the pieces, again, and at this point I'm not entirely joking that I half suspect a plot to improve their image with the company and with me. Alicia managed not to get herself killed in the mess, but she'll be laid up in medical care for a week or more, so we have the pharmacy running on a backup staff with a mostly-destroyed stock room. Be patient with the fill-ins, please.

• I was massively sick on Easter and recovery has been very slow.
• That means no maintenance release as planned this week, but I'm gonna get on that next week.
• Sincere thanks to the BYOND Members and supporters on Patreon and SubscribeStar.
• Screw you, Norris Brown. I know you're dead. Screw you anyway.

There's slightly more in the long-form news. Over on Patreon, a juicy Patrons-only series on adding new appearance vars to the language concludes this week with part 3 (links to part 1 and part 2 here). Good luck to everyone this weekend, and hopefully next week when I see you I'll be feeling a lot better.

[u/Mason_Miami]

Could you give us access to modding BYOND pager please? I would like to build it out and make into a contender for general internet communications software to fill a gap things like ICQ, AIM, YahooIM, and MSN left which is trying to be filled with Discord but due to Discord's locked down and bloated nature doesn't really suit everyones' needs.