Jazz2Online news for March 2026
Anniversary Bash 28 (NOW APPROACHING) - March 25th 2026
Source: JCF thread
Clear your calendars for Anniversary Bash 28 from April 10th to April 13th! The annual event celebrating Jazz Jackrabbit 2’s shareware release (April 9 1998) is celebrated with a dedicated online multiplayer server, with a customized level list drawing from the last twelve months of community creations and from popular hits of years past, hosted all through the nearest weekend.
Visit the the JCF thread for the early details and to make any suggestions, and stay tuned!
Also, the results of the 2025 JCS Awards are in—congratulations to all the winners!
Reviews now send Emails - March 15th 2026
Whenever any of your uploads gets a review, J2O now sends you an email about the review! This means you don’t have to keep revisiting the Latest Reviews page every day hoping someone will have noticed your work!
By default, emails are turned off for users who self-identified as living in the European Economic Area, which is governed by Article 13 of the ePrivacy Directive, and turned on for everyone else.
Specifically, it’s turned on for non-EEA people because when I asked about this on the JCF, everyone was strongly in favor. This isn’t intended as a scam, it’s intended to make creators happy by telling them that people still like their work. However, because it’s legally required and because it’s the right thing to do, you can toggle this behavior from your edit profile page.
(The same profile setting also emails you when you receive private messages. This was a J2O feature already, but you couldn’t intentionally toggle it, and also the emails are much prettier now than they used to be.)
(I’ve tweaked other parts of J2O since OpenGraph support, this was just the first one that felt like it warranted a news post. You can track the rest [and future changes] in this thread.)