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The Bug Bounty Hunt is On!

Posted by Kim on January 23, 2026, 7:30pm

An old timey poster on parchment featuring a drawing of a sad insect. The text reads WANTED: The outlaw gang of bugs & usability issuesWith great awesomeness comes great responsibility. With every new feature, upgrade, or change to the site, there comes with it a risk that bugs will sneak in as well. All these major updates at once means that the risk is enormous.

That's why I need you to help me hunt down anything that may have gone wrong so we can get the site working perfectly down to the smallest detail!

For the next two weeks, every bug report that leads to something being fixed will be rewarded with a special event-only accolade to display proudly on your user profile. It doesn't matter if the bug was just introduced, or has been lurking around for years - if you report it and it gets addressed, you can earn one of these accolades.
A shiny bronze coin imprinted with the image of a mythical bird. It shines beautifully in the light as it is moved. A shiny mythril coin imprinted with the image of a mythical bird. It shines beautifully in the light as it is moved. A shiny orichalcum coin imprinted with the image of a mythical bird. It shines beautifully in the light as it is moved.

These gorgeous phoenix coins are the first animated accolades we've ever made available to be earned! After this two week bounty hunting event, we'll be back to the regular old accolades, and these shining coins will never be available again.

Want to earn a phoenix coin (or five) for your profile? Follow these simple guidelines!

Bug Bounty Hunt Rules & Guidelines

  • Any report made that leads to a site improvement in the next 13 days (until February 7th) is eligible for a phoenix coin accolade.
    • "Site improvements" might be helping me to find and fix a bug (something that isn't working correctly), but it might be something else!
    • If you report something that is confusing or difficult to understand, but not necessarily "broken", you might still win an accolade, depending on the quality of the report
    • Sometimes even reporting typos or broken links can earn an accolade!
  • Accolades can only be won if reported via the bug report form. If sent through comments, private messages, on the forums, or via semaphore, you won't get an award. PLEASE, use the bug report form! In the top navigation, go to "Help", and then select "Report a Problem" from the dropdown. Or use this link.
  • Bug reports must contain a thorough description of the situation. Please don't write and say "it won't let me..." or "I can't..." and then nothing else. If the problem occurred on a specific page, link me to that page. If it occurred in a specific group, tell me which one. Let me know if you were on a mobile phone or a desktop computer. Let me know what browser you were using at the time. The more details you can provide, the better chance I have to find the problem and fix it.
  • Accolades are awarded when the problem is fixed. If you submit a report within the time period but it doesn't get fixed until after the event is over, don't worry! You'll still be given the event accolade. :)

Go forth and test everything there is to be tested! With help from all of you, we'll have all the kinks ironed out in no time.

Comments

Kim

February 4, 2026
8:02pm

@Cosmonautilus - Literally every page on the site got touched in this latest update, so it's hard to tell you where to focus! We are in the last few days of the hunt though, and I think the low hanging fruit has been... sniped? Mixing metaphors like crazy here XD

Cosmonautilus

February 4, 2026
4:33pm

This may have been asked already, but is there anywhere in particular you'd like us to focus on for our Bug Hunt? 👀

Finally have a chance to sit down and I've perused several pages and sub pages without anything jumping out, so far so good!

alsooo in here to humbly shamelessly beg for the accolade window to be extend

Kim

February 2, 2026
1:17pm

The various colors are awarded randomly when a bug report is closed out. There's no "meaning" per se other than people like it ;)

MagicHavoc

February 2, 2026
1:10pm

Do the different colors have different meanings, or are there just different colors so people report more bugs to collect them all?

Corvin

February 1, 2026
12:55pm

Thanks Kim, I sent it to ya. I'd like to reflect others' sentiment and thank you for upkeeping this amazing site!

Dawnia

January 31, 2026
10:18pm

Claine wrote:
I need profile shineys !!!!!!!!!!!

You just need the gold one for the trifecta!
I lucked out and got all three different ones on three bug reports! :D

Claine

January 31, 2026
6:27pm

I need profile shineys !!!!!!!!!!!

Dawnia

January 29, 2026
3:42am

I managed to bug-spray a couple things.
Kim, the site is running beautifully!
Thanks so much fro your hard work and your passion for RP Repository! <3

Kim

January 28, 2026
9:30pm

@Corvin - If you made your report via email because that was the only way you could, you can go ahead and send in a note through the bug report form to get your accolade retroactively. :)

Corvin

January 28, 2026
9:13pm

I couldn't use the bug report form because it wanted me to login... Which was where I was having the issue. 😩

Ahh well, but thank you for your speedy response! 🖤

Kim

January 24, 2026
10:11am

You guys are ON IT! :D The site is already noticeably healthier thanks to all of you.

Kim

January 23, 2026
8:13pm

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