LBP Union Research and Development - Revision history

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	{{Organization Infobox\|image=Research and Development.png\|othernames=R&D\|keypeople=Zaprit: Minister of Technology		{{Organization Infobox\|image=Research and Development.png\|othernames=R&D\|keypeople=\|founded=August 2021\|parent=LBP Union Ministry of Technology\|leaders=Zaprit: Minister of Technology
	Slendy: Lead Developer		Slendy: Lead Developer
	sudokoko: Senior Developer		sudokoko: Senior Developer\|notable_members=metraberry: Developer
	metraberry: Developer
	Dagg: Developer		Dagg: Developer
	acidiclight: Developer		acidiclight: Developer
	...~~\|founded=August 2021\|parent=LBP Union Ministry of Technology~~}}
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	The Research and Development (R&D) team is the LBP Union's division of programmers, in-game logicians, and other technical experts discover new technologies, develop applications, and maintain the Union's software operations.		The Research and Development (R&D) team is the LBP Union's division of programmers, in-game logicians, and other technical experts discover new technologies, develop applications, and maintain the Union's software operations.

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	=== Later History ===		=== Later History ===
	~~At some point in 2022~~, Jvyden resigned as Lead Developer.~~{{Fact}}~~ Following his resignation, Slendy was appointed as Lead Developer on August 22nd, 2022. <ref name="Discord 7">LBP Union Discord Server private-development 8/22/2022 https://discord.com/channels/354122111503171586/879412256071356527/1011336615756578816</ref>		Sometime around the end of August, Jvyden resigned as Lead Developer following disagreements with the direction of LBP Union and Project Lighthouse <ref name="m88-4-2">m88youngling's Journal #4 8/10/22</ref>
			and in response to a series of fake screenshots alleging that he had orchestrated an attack against the public custom server Catbox. <ref name="m88-4-1">m88youngling's Journal #4 8/22/22</ref>
			Following his resignation, Slendy was appointed as Lead Developer on August 22nd, 2022. <ref name="Discord 7">LBP Union Discord Server private-development 8/22/2022 https://discord.com/channels/354122111503171586/879412256071356527/1011336615756578816</ref>

	=== Publicizing Development Discussions ===		=== Publicizing Development Discussions ===

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	=== Later History ===		=== Later History ===
	At some point in 2022, Jvyden resigned as Lead Developer. Following his resignation, Slendy was appointed as Lead Developer.~~{{Fact}}~~		At some point in 2022, Jvyden resigned as Lead Developer.{{Fact}} Following his resignation, Slendy was appointed as Lead Developer on August 22nd, 2022. <ref name="Discord 7">LBP Union Discord Server private-development 8/22/2022 https://discord.com/channels/354122111503171586/879412256071356527/1011336615756578816</ref>

			=== Publicizing Development Discussions ===
			On April 6th, 2024, the lighthouse-dev channel on Discord was opened up to the public in an effort to make development of Project Lighthouse more accessible. <ref name="Discord 8">LBP Union Discord Server lighthouse-dev 4/6/2024 https://discord.com/channels/354122111503171586/1213470659716579398/1226227042954121348</ref>Later that month, a blog post was published to LBPUnion.com about Project Lighthouse 2, a project detailing LBP Union's ambitions to write a new LittleBigPlanet custom server from scratch using the lessons learned from Project Lighthouse. This would hinge on making all parts of the development process accessible to the public. <ref name="LBPUnion.com 2">Project Lighthouse 2 Blog Post https://www.lbpunion.com/post/project-lighthouse-2/</ref>

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	The Research and Development team was founded sometime in August of 2021<ref name="Discord 1">LBP Union Discord Server bot channel 2/1/2025 https://discord.com/channels/354122111503171586/651240118753165331/1335397619421151287</ref>and was not initially open to the public. According to Lead Protector m88youngling on August 25th, 2021, "I think if we can combine our knowledge and ideas, we can create really innovative stuff that people will enjoy, like the [[LittleBigPlanet Codex\|Codex]] project." [2] Days prior, [[ShadowLeviathan]] was appointed as Lead Developer on August 23rd.		The Research and Development team was founded sometime in August of 2021<ref name="Discord 1">LBP Union Discord Server bot channel 2/1/2025 https://discord.com/channels/354122111503171586/651240118753165331/1335397619421151287</ref>and was not initially open to the public. According to Lead Protector m88youngling on August 25th, 2021, "I think if we can combine our knowledge and ideas, we can create really innovative stuff that people will enjoy, like the [[LittleBigPlanet Codex\|Codex]] project." [2] Days prior, [[ShadowLeviathan]] was appointed as Lead Developer on August 23rd.

	Aside from the LBP Union Codex, a project to add cryptographic dual factor authentication between LittleBigPlanet and Discord,<ref name="Video 1">LBP Union Codex Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaQfqRHzr2c&t=238s&pp=ygUKTEJQIFVuaW9uIA%3D%3D</ref>one of the primary focuses of the early R&D team was to investigate the status of the official LittleBigPlanet servers hosted by Sony. On August 27th, an announcement was posted to LBP Union's status history channel on Discord explaining some of R&D's recent observations of the official servers. The announcement explained that Turecross321's self-hosted server status tool had detected that Sony's server was indeed online but wasn't accepting any public connections. This led to the conclusion that Sony could have potentially been performing internal testing of new server security. The announcement also highlighted that the official servers had been periodically going up and down, indicating that they may have been rolling out changes and restarting the server to implement those changes.<ref name="Discord 3">LBP Union Discord Server status-history 8/27/2021 https://discord.com/channels/354122111503171586/854503011090038784/880802931438411806</ref>		Aside from the LBP Union Codex, a project to add cryptographic dual factor authentication between LittleBigPlanet and Discord,<ref name="Video 1">LBP Union Codex Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaQfqRHzr2c&t=238s&pp=ygUKTEJQIFVuaW9uIA%3D%3D</ref>one of the primary focuses of the early R&D team was to investigate the status of the official LittleBigPlanet servers hosted by Sony. On August 27th, an announcement was posted to LBP Union's status history channel on Discord explaining some of R&D's recent observations of the official servers. The announcement explained that Turecross321's self-hosted server status tool had detected that Sony's server was indeed online but wasn't accepting any public connections. This led to the conclusion that Sony could have potentially been performing internal testing of new server security. The announcement also highlighted that the official servers had been periodically going up and down, indicating that they may have been rolling out changes and restarting the server to implement those changes.<ref name="Discord 3">LBP Union Discord Server status-history 8/27/2021 https://discord.com/channels/354122111503171586/854503011090038784/880802931438411806</ref>At some point in August, [[AcidicLight]] (then known as Aklnthndr) was also appointed as a Lead Developer alongside ShadowLeviathan. The two answered questions at a press conference on August 28th.<ref name="Twitter 1">http://twitter.com/LBPUnion/status/1431285388912508934</ref>

	=== Private Server Development ===		=== Private Server Development ===
	On September 2nd, LBP Union and the Research and Development team began to turn its attention to hosting private game servers for the community with a dedicated Discord thread.<ref name="Discord 4">LBP Union Discord Server lighthouse-development thread 9/2/2021 https://discord.com/channels/354122111503171586/883094873425731644/883094874906312784</ref>About a week and a half later on September 13th, this speculation turned out to be warranted, as Sony permanently discontinued online service for PlayStation 3 and Vita.<ref name="LBPUnion.com 1">LittleBigPlanet Servers Returning for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3 and Vita Remain Offline https://www.lbpunion.com/post/littlebigplanet-servers-back-online/</ref>This thread was made up of all R&D team members, notably including LoganTGT, Jvyden, Nya0, Turecross321, Acidiclight, and others. <ref name="Discord 4></ref> On September 13th, the thread's name was changed by m88youngling to 'Project Lighthouse (Private Server Dev)', which was the first time that the name for the project had been proposed. This led to the R&D team pivoting even further toward the development of [[Project Lighthouse\|Project Lighthouse.]]<ref name="Discord 5">LBP Union Discord Server lighthouse-development thread 9/13/2021 https://discord.com/channels/354122111503171586/883094873425731644/887074657356902400</ref>		On September 2nd, LBP Union and the Research and Development team began to turn its attention to hosting private game servers for the community with a dedicated Discord thread.<ref name="Discord 4">LBP Union Discord Server lighthouse-development thread 9/2/2021 https://discord.com/channels/354122111503171586/883094873425731644/883094874906312784</ref>About a week and a half later on September 13th, this speculation turned out to be warranted, as Sony permanently discontinued online service for PlayStation 3 and Vita.<ref name="LBPUnion.com 1">LittleBigPlanet Servers Returning for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3 and Vita Remain Offline https://www.lbpunion.com/post/littlebigplanet-servers-back-online/</ref>This thread was made up of all R&D team members, notably including LoganTGT, Jvyden, Nya0, Turecross321, Acidiclight, and others. <ref name="Discord 4></ref> On September 13th, the thread's name was changed by m88youngling to 'Project Lighthouse (Private Server Dev)', which was the first time that the name for the project had been proposed. This led to the R&D team pivoting even further toward the development of [[Project Lighthouse\|Project Lighthouse.]]<ref name="Discord 5">LBP Union Discord Server lighthouse-development thread 9/13/2021 https://discord.com/channels/354122111503171586/883094873425731644/887074657356902400</ref>On October 16th, Jvyden was appointed as Lead Developer due to his contributions to Project Lighthouse. The Research and Development team would continue to develop Project Lighthouse for the next several years.<ref name="Discord 6">LBP Union Discord Server team-news 10/16/2021 https://discord.com/channels/354122111503171586/820403310296301598/899124406595485716</ref>

			=== Later History ===
			At some point in 2022, Jvyden resigned as Lead Developer. Following his resignation, Slendy was appointed as Lead Developer.{{Fact}}

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{{Organization Infobox|image=Research and Development.png|othernames=R&D|keypeople=Zaprit: Minister of Technology
Slendy: Lead Developer
sudokoko: Senior Developer
metraberry: Developer
Dagg: Developer
acidiclight: Developer
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The Research and Development (R&D) team is the LBP Union's division of programmers, in-game logicians, and other technical experts discover new technologies, develop applications, and maintain the Union's software operations.

== History ==

=== Foundation ===
The Research and Development team was founded sometime in August of 2021<ref name="Discord 1">LBP Union Discord Server bot channel 2/1/2025 https://discord.com/channels/354122111503171586/651240118753165331/1335397619421151287</ref>and was not initially open to the public. According to Lead Protector m88youngling on August 25th, 2021, "I think if we can combine our knowledge and ideas, we can create really innovative stuff that people will enjoy, like the [[LittleBigPlanet Codex|Codex]] project." [2] Days prior, [[ShadowLeviathan]] was appointed as Lead Developer on August 23rd.

Aside from the LBP Union Codex, a project to add cryptographic dual factor authentication between LittleBigPlanet and Discord,<ref name="Video 1">LBP Union Codex Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaQfqRHzr2c&t=238s&pp=ygUKTEJQIFVuaW9uIA%3D%3D</ref>one of the primary focuses of the early R&D team was to investigate the status of the official LittleBigPlanet servers hosted by Sony. On August 27th, an announcement was posted to LBP Union's status history channel on Discord explaining some of R&D's recent observations of the official servers. The announcement explained that Turecross321's self-hosted server status tool had detected that Sony's server was indeed online but wasn't accepting any public connections. This led to the conclusion that Sony could have potentially been performing internal testing of new server security. The announcement also highlighted that the official servers had been periodically going up and down, indicating that they may have been rolling out changes and restarting the server to implement those changes.<ref name="Discord 3">LBP Union Discord Server status-history 8/27/2021 https://discord.com/channels/354122111503171586/854503011090038784/880802931438411806</ref>

=== Private Server Development ===
On September 2nd, LBP Union and the Research and Development team began to turn its attention to hosting private game servers for the community with a dedicated Discord thread.<ref name="Discord 4">LBP Union Discord Server lighthouse-development thread 9/2/2021 https://discord.com/channels/354122111503171586/883094873425731644/883094874906312784</ref>About a week and a half later on September 13th, this speculation turned out to be warranted, as Sony permanently discontinued online service for PlayStation 3 and Vita.<ref name="LBPUnion.com 1">LittleBigPlanet Servers Returning for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3 and Vita Remain Offline https://www.lbpunion.com/post/littlebigplanet-servers-back-online/</ref>This thread was made up of all R&D team members, notably including LoganTGT, Jvyden, Nya0, Turecross321, Acidiclight, and others. <ref name="Discord 4></ref> On September 13th, the thread's name was changed by m88youngling to 'Project Lighthouse (Private Server Dev)', which was the first time that the name for the project had been proposed. This led to the R&D team pivoting even further toward the development of [[Project Lighthouse|Project Lighthouse.]]<ref name="Discord 5">LBP Union Discord Server lighthouse-development thread 9/13/2021 https://discord.com/channels/354122111503171586/883094873425731644/887074657356902400</ref>

=== References ===
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