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Sponge 13 is the 13th version of SBC, released at night on May 19, 2019. The site upgraded to Invision Power Board 4.4, and introduced Moods and Quizzes. This version celebrates the 20th anniversary of SpongeBob SquarePants, and the 10th anniversary of SBC. Patty Sponge was the lead designer of this version.
SBC Direct
Before the release, an SBC Direct aired live on May 17, 2019. This showcased a couple of skits, and announced both Spin-Off Festival 9 and Sponge 13.
New Features
- Three new skins: V13 Sponge, V13 Sponge Dark and Neptune's Castle. The Puffy Fluffy Community is now a Loyal Customer exclusive.
- Four skins added to the Skin Store: Mystery Dungeon, The Gay Brothers Community, Jellyfish Fields (returned, Loyal Customer exclusive) and Tropical Sandy (Loyal Customer exclusive).
- Moods
- Quizzes
- Portal
- Emotes: 20 new emotes (all made by Cha) were added, along with a switch to Twitter emojis for defaults.
- News Slider
- Animated Gifs (Giphy integration)
- Discord: New integration bot.
- A new interface for mentioning users.
- SpongeCraft updates: The minigame Spleef was added, and is in beta. A new and fixed chat, general optimizations, and automatic announcements were added.
- Wiki updates: The wiki received a new logo and was updated to be more mobile friendly.
Removals
Trivia
- During development, the working names for V13 Sponge and V13 Sponge Dark were "Smelly Socks" and "Very Smelly Socks".
- The default skins for Octerror Fest 2018 and Snowcember Ball 2018 had foreshadowing for the layout of V13.
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