As we enter into 2026, some changes will be made to the forum, as shown below. Please do not hesitate to contact moderators with any questions that you have.
Category Updates
We will be updating categories based on the usage and need of the forum.
Ice711
- News & Updates
- Video Requests
Simple changelog: The “New Videos” category has been removed, which will be replaced with a direct link to Ice’s YouTube.
Forum Information
- No change.
Video Submissions
- Art Rating Submissions
- Planefinder Submissions
Simple Changelog: The “Aviation Art” and “Planefinder” sub-categories will be moved into a new “Video Submissions” category to improve the visibility on these areas.
Aviation Hub
- Aviation News
- Flight Sharing
- Aviation Discussion
- Flight Simulators*
- Spotting Photos
- Flightradar
Simple changelog: New category dedicated to only aviation, including a sub-category for discussion on flight simulators. “Spotting Photos” and “Flightradar” have been moved from the “Planespotting” category into this new category.
Community Hangar
- General Discussion
- Showcase
- Content Creators
- Art Museum
Simple changelog: “General Art” and “3D Models” will be merged into one “Art Museum” category (not used for video submissions). New “Showcase” category added to show the items that you own to the community.
AI Updates
We will be adding a new AI Bot to the forum, which has the following features:
- Assistance in using the forum
- Create AI images
- Creativity Use
This bot, for now, will only be available to Trust Level 3 and Flight Crew members. We hope to expand use to this bot in the future.
In addition, we will be adding an “AI Helper” in the composer, to assist with selecting categories, tags, translating to English if needed, proofreading text, and naming topics. Just click the 
button that appears in the composer (after you type a few words) to help you out.
Interface Updates
Not one, but two new themes will be added to the forum - “Horizon” and “Hangar”. Samples of these themes are below. These themes are already available for selection now under Preferences > Interface.
Horizon
Hangar
In addition, several new airline logo emojis have been added to the forum! These can be selected by clicking the “emoji” button in the composer and scrolling down to the bottom.
The “New” and “Unread” pages have also been merged together into one singular “New” menu, to reduce the number of menus found on the home page.
Timeline for Changes
These updates will occur throughout the month of December. We appreciate your patience during the process of making these changes to the forum! We will keep you informed of when we will be making these changes.
One again, please contact the moderators should you have any questions and give any feedback in Forum Information > Forum Feedback. Thank you everyone!