Pokémon Online

On 19th September around 3AM GMT, the Pokemon Online website was hacked. The hacker appeared to have gained access to one of our administrators accounts. This could have been due to the Pokemon Showdown! hack that happened a few days ago. The same hacker stole a database dump from Showdown, which included password hashes.
Everything has been restored and is now back to normal. Unfortunately we may have lost a couple hours worth of posts.

We are doing the following to prevent this happening in the future:

1. Our websites software has been updated to the latest version to fix security holes.
2. Administrators must set a password that has never been used elsewhere.

Although there are no signs that the hacker has taken a database dump, and I'm 99% sure he hasn't, it is highly recommended that you change your password immediately to prevent unauthorized account access.

Please accept our apologises for this inconvenience.

Since the inception of the Pokemon Online Forums by coyotte508, the forums' primary reason for existing was the development of the simulator. In that time, we have been on three different forum softwares and have moved forums around here and there, but have still had development as the primary reason for the forums.

For the last few years, Pokemon Online's focus has been our community. The competitive battles the community can do, the conversations the community has, the projects that the community want to do and help us with... all of this is our main focus. You, the users, are our main focus.

With that being said, we are reorganising the forums to reflect this shift in focus that has happened over the 6 years since PO was initially released into Beta form. Whilst simulator development is no longer the primary focus, it is still an important part of the community, and thus will continue to remain as a part of the board. A list of the changes being made will follow, with a more...

I got bored and decided to make some new themes for the forum. I've been working and tweaking on and off for the past few weeks and I think they're just about ready for launch. Not everything is perfect so please help me out by letting me know of things that don't match, are hard to read, or feel out of place.

Both themes were designed and checked on mobile to help make the forums more accessible to everyone. Navigation is easier and the ads shrink with your screen size so they don't completely screw up your view like on the default PO style (Note: I did backport this change so the forums would be usable on that theme as well).

The two new themes are named PO Modern and PO Modern Dark. Structurally they are identical but one is more of a "day" mode and the other is a "night" mode. There's a convenient toggle next to alerts (a sun or moon depending on which mode you are on) to allow changing between the two easier....