Version 2.0.0

Zander 2.0 brings the different parts of the platform together into one unified project, alongside a major expansion of the website, community tools, integrations, and management systems. This gives Zander a much stronger foundation for features that span Minecraft, Discord, and the website.

✨ What's New

🎥 Creator Watch

A new community creator system has been introduced.

• Connect Twitch and YouTube accounts to your profile
• Discover related streams and videos from community creators
• See live streams and recent uploads from the new Watch page
• Eligible creator content can automatically be shared to Discord
• Live viewer counts are supported for streamed content

🛒 Webstore

Zander now includes a fully integrated webstore.

• Purchase supported ranks and perks through the website
• Support for one-time purchases and subscriptions
• Gift eligible products to other players
• Purchases can be delivered in-game even while the recipient is offline
• View previous purchases and order history
• Improved handling of command delivery, retries, and failed rewards

❤️ Server Support & Finance

The server support experience has been expanded.

• New support and donation experience
• Server funding progress can be displayed directly on the website
• New finance tools for tracking transactions, budgets, categories, and reports
• Improved visibility into the financial side of running the community

📅 Events

Zander now has a dedicated events system.

• Browse upcoming community events
• View individual event details
• Improved event publishing and announcements
• Event templates make recurring events easier to manage
• Better integration between website events and Discord

🗳️ Voting & Rewards

Minecraft server voting is now integrated into Zander.

• Votes can be tracked across supported voting sites
• Monthly voting totals and top voters are recorded
• Rewards can be delivered automatically in-game
• Reward delivery works across servers and can wait until a player is available
• Monthly rewards can be configured independently from normal vote rewards

🏅 Badges & Ranks

Profiles and ranks have received a major expansion.

• Community badges can now be created and assigned to players
• Badges can be displayed on player profiles
• Rank information is now managed through Zander instead of relying entirely on static configuration
• Improved synchronisation between Zander, LuckPerms, and Discord roles
• Expanded rank management tools for staff

👤 Accounts & Profiles

Account management has been improved across the platform.

• Expanded user management
• Better handling of linked and unlinked accounts
• Improved Minecraft account registration and linking
• Automatic handling of temporary accounts created through Discord support
• Additional connected-account options
• Improved account state and verification handling
• New reminders for users who have not completed verification

🎫 Support Improvements

The support system has received several upgrades.

• Improved ticket management
• Better participant management
• Tickets can now be escalated and de-escalated
• Better handling of users who create tickets before linking their Minecraft account
• Emoji and modern Unicode characters are now properly supported in ticket messages

💬 Community Improvements

Several existing areas of Zander have also been modernised.

• Forums now properly support emoji and extended Unicode characters
• Discord moderation records now better support modern usernames and characters
• Improved announcements and scheduled content
• Automatic announcement expiry support
• Expanded staff auditing and reporting tools

🌐 Website Improvements

The public website has received a number of upgrades.

• Improved homepage and server information handling
• Better Play and Ranks pages
• New Events, Watch, Webstore, Finance, and Support experiences
• Improved navigation between Zander's growing collection of services
• Better search engine and structured-data support
• New sitemap support
• Improved page metadata and discoverability
• Website pages now degrade more gracefully when individual services are temporarily unavailable

🔧 Platform Improvements

Zander 2.0 also includes extensive work behind the scenes to improve reliability and prepare the platform for future features.

This includes improved database management, persistent sessions, automated migrations, error reporting, command delivery reliability, account cleanup tools, additional automated tests, and a more consistent permissions system.