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Heliosphere
@heliosphere.app
A community-focused, queer-led, Penumbra-integrated modding platform for FINAL FANTASY XIV. It's the one with the optional plugin that provides automatic updates […]

🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://hachyderm.io/@heliosphere, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
A neat thing about Heliosphere is that it only needs to save one copy of any files that are uploaded inside mods. If two different mods share the same file, Heliosphere only keeps one copy of that file.

All told, this has saved us 743.31 GiB of storage space so far!
January 8, 2026 at 4:49 PM
We have completed maintenance to migrate our database to PostgreSQL 18, which was long overdue but had complications that delayed it. This should make Heliosphere even faster! As always, please report any issues that may arise on the forums.
January 8, 2026 at 1:55 PM
Heliosphere is always looking for volunteers to help improve our documentation! If you know how to use Heliosphere and would like to contribute some technical writing, please check out the link below.

https://forums.heliosphere.app/threads/call-for-documentation-contributors.5/
Call for documentation contributors
Are you good at writing technical documentation or guides? Do you know how to use various parts of Heliosphere? Would you like to make it easier for other people to use those parts? If you answered yes to all of those questions, please feel free to contribute to our documentation repository...
forums.heliosphere.app
January 4, 2026 at 7:21 AM
Hard at work adding more warnings about common pitfalls or misunderstandings.
December 30, 2025 at 1:18 PM
We updated the affects database on Heliosphere (finally), so mods that affect newer items that weren't being detected should be mostly fixed!
December 30, 2025 at 12:53 AM
This account is now officially bridged to Bluesky, so people on there can also get Heliosphere news!

Happy holidays!
December 25, 2025 at 5:32 AM