Creator Updates Legacy Resources Retirement and Other Improvements

[Mick]

Hi creators!

We've been hard at work recently with lots of QOL improvements that I wanted to give an update on.

Legacy resources are being retired April 11th​

This April marks the 1 year anniversary of us releasing Pro resources, and the support from creators has absolutely blown us away. Creators representing over 95% of payment volume have voluntarily moved to our Pro system. As we grow it's becoming infeasible to support both systems, and this is becoming more evident to us each month as the Pro system continues to grow.

For this reason we're fully retiring Legacy resources on April 11th. Any paid resources which haven't moved over to Pro before this date will be unpublished. Please create a ticket if you have any questions before migrating and we'll be happy to help.

If you're still on our Legacy PayPal system we recommend that you move to Pro. Creator earnings have increased significantly since switching to Pro, more than enough to make up for our 9.9% fee that we charge.

Click here to migrate →

New filters​

We've made some big changes to the filters available in each Minecraft category. This is important for you to know because you may need to edit your resources to update the filters they use. We plan on making filters much more prominent in discovery over the next few months, so please take a few mins to double check you've got the correct filters set up! Changes include:

• Plugins: Changed several of the Type filters, added game mode filter
• Server setups: Added several new game mode options
• Builds: Simplified Type filter, added new themes, added size filter
• Configs: Removed Type filter
• Graphics: Removed texture options since they have their own categories
• Textures: Added Type filter
• Models: Added more Type and 'implemented with' options, added game mode and events filters, removed file formats filter
• Server jars: Removed all existing filters. Added 'Fork of' and version filters
• Skripts: Added Type and game mode filter

Also added a filter for Light and Dark mode availability to all of the website theme categories.

Other changes​

• Added optimisation for images uploaded to the carousel and cover! Category and product pages now load much faster. This also has allowed us to increase the maximum image file size from 2MB to 8MB
• Added a new Become a Creator page to explain the benefits of publishing through BBB. Peep the new page →
• Added resource file size and last edit date to the product page info box
• Added a check to disallow the inclusion of URLs in EULAs
• Added a check to disallow the word 'Bundle' in resource or addon titles to prevent confusion
• Added categories for LeaderOS themes and Pterodactyl eggs
• Added redirects from Nikoverc.com to BuiltByBit for all URLs and product licenses
• Updated 'Tag line' field to now be called the 'Summary' to avoid creators thinking this is the place to enter product tags
• Updated impression tracking to be more accurate
• Updated the cart functionality so now whenever a guest with resources in their cart registers they're redirected to their cart rather than the homepage
• Updated the "This license was given for free" notice on reviews to no longer display on free resources with PWYW enabled
• Updated the email sent to buyers that encourage reviews to now only show recent purchases rather than all of them
• Removed the ability to upload models directly through us to SketchFab. Note that you can still embed your own SketchFab models

As always if you've got any feedback on these changes please let us know in the #creators channel in our Discord server!

Mick