====== PoolRotater v6.0 — Headless Multiroom Update ======

**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.

===== Announced changes =====

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:

<code powershell>
.\start_lobbies.ps1
</code>

Example ''instances/universal.json'':

<code json>
{
  "room_count": 2,
  "auto_empty_reset_seconds": 300
}
</code>

''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 [[wiki:start|the feature guides]] and [[commands:start|the command reference]]. [[updates:start|Back to release history]].