====== Community hosting and shared feedback ======

^ Documentation status | Qualified v7 owner pilot; independent peer gameplay acceptance pending |
^ Behavior reference | v7.0.1 dev9 difficulty-floor repair and deployed website feed · reviewed 2026-10-14 |

===== Owner rooms and community rooms =====
The original four owner lobbies keep their modes, commands and staff controls. Independently operated rooms use another operator's osu! account, configuration and moderation policy. **Community Lobbies** on the homepage displays consenting remote hosts separately. Owner room counts do not silently include those hosts. Stale, revoked or unavailable listings lose their join links.

===== Where the maps come from =====
The central service collects metadata and score evidence and runs map analysis. Operators obtain complete prepared selection catalogs, including the information needed for their supported modes. Signed catalog metadata and hashes establish integrity before activation. Research databases and display-only website metadata are separate from selection catalogs.

If the hub is unavailable, rooms can continue with their last verified local catalogs and feedback snapshot; unavailable updates are not silently treated as verified. Network recovery and local gameplay remain separate responsibilities.

===== Feedback is opt-in =====
Enrollment does not automatically publish a host's rooms, upload historical opinions or grant feedback contribution rights. Public listing consent, rating capture/sharing, the central contribution grant, historical seeding and shared weighting are distinct choices. Player feedback is committed locally first. Retries are deduplicated; an accepted upload alone does not establish aggregate inclusion or active shared weighting.

Shared selection reads verified snapshots only when explicitly selected. Local/independent weighting remains the default. Private diagnostics report progress without publishing raw player chat, vote bodies or credentials. The initial real independent-host vote/snapshot test is still pending; do not mistake technical qualification for observed peer gameplay.

===== Interested in hosting? =====
Contact the maintainer for the qualified private kit, supported setup and a bound enrollment invitation if desired. Keep osu! authorization local. Same-topology upgrades preserve compatible state; adding rooms requires a reviewed setup rather than editing protected ownership files or running two supervisors on one hosting account. New dev10 onboarding controls are not yet published as part of the current owner dev9 pilot.

Project moderation bans are operator-local; they are neither osu!-wide sanctions nor an automatically shared network ban list.

[[updates:v7_0|v7 foundation]] · [[updates:v7_0_1|Current pilot notes]] · [[lobbies:start|Choose an owner lobby]] · [[wiki:ratings|Player feedback]]