Jazz Twosday: JJ2+ v6.6
- Posted:
- 6 Jan 2026 at 20:25
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- JJ2+
Version 6.6 of JJ2+ is now available! Today’s the 6th of 2026, what better date could you ask for?
Let’s have a history lesson. Here was the player list (in CTF) in vanilla JJ2:
This was the list from most of JJ2+‘s history. It added a lot of new information, but could be hard to read, with unexplained symbols like “M” and “S” and “A” and “*”. The asterisks were even drawn inconsistently in different gamemodes. It also drew “+” next to plus players’ names, which made sense in 2008 when running plus was rare, but is just unnecessary detail in 2026.
Version 6.4 started to tackle the problem of unexplained symbols, and moved the flag icon farther left, to a position consistent across gamemodes, so that it wouldn’t be obscured by other data. However, this led to the list being even more cluttered than before, and sometimes there was a lot of horizontal space between the flag (or other such icons) and the player’s name.
Following extensive community discussion and numerous public test builds, we’re happy to release 6.6 with a focus on being easy to read. The useless “+” symbols are gone; the redundant spectator eyes/scores are gone; the unclear “M” and “A” letters are replaced with graphics and moved to the right where less time-sensitive information goes; spacing is improved everywhere; and flags (and other such icons) are drawn immediately next to player names.
Because JJ2+ used to draw “*” in different positions in different gamemodes, some players may be more comfortable seeing icons on the right side of player names instead, so 6.6 has a new alternate display mode for those players who disable the new “Icons Left of Names” option.
As mentioned, this was the result of a long, very productive discussion in our issues tracker. There are about 90 different open threads at the moment, far more than we can possibly prioritize, so always remember to reply to the threads that have ideas that you want to see added/fixed in future. That’s the only way that JJ2+ developers can know which ideas are important to the community.
You can download 6.6 in-game or in-browser.
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Awesome, thank you for this
Having + removed is a very bad idea. I would understand to remove the symbol from plusonly servers. But there are still public servers where vanilla players can join and we encourage them to get JJ2+. With the symbol removed, we won't know if they are using Plus or not.
Also, "M" and "A" being unclear is new information to me at least.
And seriously, you have brought back the ugly spacing that Blur got rid of? For the love of God, why is this in any way a good idea?
At this point the players that have plus are 99% known, any new players with plusonly off servers you can assume they are not using plus. You can try to have conversation and encourage them to install jj2+.
If that player does not respond to the bare minimum question like "Are you using jj2 plus?" Then it's also highly unlikely that person is going to be presuaded to install anything from a random download link.
What I'm trying to say is that effectively having that + icon really does not change much. For installation of plus on a strangers pc you need conversation anyway. Besides that the symbol is clutter.