If this is the first time you’ve opened up the game or website in a while, you probably have some questions. While more details will be available if you continue reading, the gist is that the original website has been retired. No data is being carried over to the new website, which means you will need to register a new account and re-upload your scores.

Why a reboot?

The history of Etterna Online is comprised of score data spanning a large number of songs. Unfortunately this score info is quite spotty, missing a large amount of information due to a lack of replay data, input data, and other validation checks. Between a large number of users utilizing the XML upload feature, which has now been depreciated, and a prior website space issue forcing a deletion of most replay data, starting over to ensure everyone has the same checks seems like the best option.

Why close EO when EO2 is still in beta?

The most pertinent reason is pragmatic. We have limited space and finances, and hosting two websites costs significantly more money. The new website is far enough along that it is fully functional, so after several months of closed beta, it’s now ready to be tested by a wider audience.

The original plan was to retire the old website once the new one was fully released. However, we reached a situation where the database had reached its maximum capacity again, rendering the website completely inaccessible. Because of that, we had to shut it down earlier than anticipated.

While the old data is not publicly accessible anymore, it is not completely gone. We're exploring the option of resurrecting the old data in the future for historical purposes. But as of right now, data uploaded to the old website is unavailable until further notice.

How do I join the new website?

The beta is open, but we are slowly letting users in through frequent drops of invite codes until the full release. You can either find these codes on our new forum, or from the announcements channel on our Discord. Head on over to the register page and fill out the info listed, but note that you may need to try a number of codes to find an unused one. Once you verified your email, you are good to go!

How do I submit scores?

You might expect to log in through your current client and start uploading, but this will not work since current release clients (0.72.3 and below) use the old website API, which has been shut down.

If you wish to test the 0.73 beta builds, please read the instructions from Poco on this news page. Install in a new directory, copy over your /Save/ and move your /Songs/ folders, then login with your new credentials.

Please note that your username is your email address, and that any new beta build will require you to install a new version to keep proper testing going. Once logged in, all scores on ranked files will be uploaded automatically. Any scores with no replay data will be marked invalid.

What if I run into a problem?

If you’ve read the relevant pages and come across a game or website issue, please describe and report any troubles you are having through our Discord server. We expect some issues to crop up, and being alerted of reproducible issues is very helpful for everyone in the beta phase.

Have fun, and enjoy exploring the new Etterna Online experience!