Historical archive — not current configuration guidance. Source: Papapyrus's Discord announcement, supplied by the project owner for archival publication. Posted: September 8, 2026, 2:52 PM. Displayed time zone was not supplied. Announcement timestamps are not independently verified deployment dates.

A major backend update: up to four lobbies from one process, one osu! account and one referee connection, without lazer client switching.

• Run one to four lobbies using room_count in universal.json.
• Shares the API limiter, Discord bot connection, profile cache, availability cache and referee connection across active rooms.
• Per-room Discord channels, controls, transcripts, map updates, welcomes and replies.
• Adds Discord .say to chat in that channel's osu! lobby; .room1 say, .room2 say, .room3 say and .room4 say explicitly target another room.
• Adds Room 3 and Room 4 example configs.
• Fixed-difficulty rooms direct .harder / .easier voters to an active AutoDiff lobby.
• Empty AutoDiff rooms reset after five minutes by default: JSON star range, fresh title/queue and no leftover difficulty-vote bias. The room itself stays open.
• Bot messages—including welcomes, rating prompts, confirmations and map responses—mirror to the correct Discord channel.
• .ai is no longer advertised in welcomes or .help; the code remains available if enabled later.
• Shared API controls and adaptive chat polling remain live-configurable through universal.json and staff Discord commands.
• Preflight checks reject missing configs, duplicate aliases and duplicate Discord channels before rooms are created.
• Adds per-room .close and global .shutdown all controls.

The Windows launcher announced at the time:

.\start_lobbies.ps1

Example instances/universal.json:

{
  "room_count": 2,
  "auto_empty_reset_seconds": 300
}

room_count supports 1–4 and requires a supervisor restart. The empty-lobby reset delay is in seconds and hot-loads; 0 disables it.

For current behavior, use the feature guides and the command reference. Back to release history.