New Year, New Forum!

BY NAEV DEVTEAM, ON JANUARY 2ND, 2026

Happy New Year! Although the year has barely started, we’re glad to say that 2026 is year of the Naev forums revenge! For those that remember, Naev used to have forums from 2010 to 2016, which were quite popular, however, to the dismay of many, the server was lost along with everything on it in a series of onfortunate mishaps. Although you can still view some of it on the Wayback Machine to get a kick of nostalgia, from now on, you can participate in the brand-new forums that should be less likely to catch on fire (yay working backup system). We’ve been planning to have forums for a while, but it took a while for all the pieces to fall into place.

When it comes to forums and the likes, although, there are many more modern options today, we decided to go with a more classic look, anticipating a comeback of the pre-social media era internet (one can hope). In particular, we are using Simple Machines Forum instead of the originally used phpBB (even though it is still kicking), which has the good late 90s, early 2000 look that some of us still love. Of course, it is themed to fit Naev and has 3 different colour themes you can choose from.

Requests for changes or improvements can be done on the forums themselves, via the forum meta board directly! Registration is already open, so feel free to drop by and leave a message. We look forward to seeing old-timers and newcomers alike!