Last time, we had gotten our website to quite a clean and enjoyable state, but there were still a couple touches that we wanted to tweak a bit, so we decided to package the Profile rewrites with a website patch! There were just a couple rough things, that were either looked over or rushed, like our CHANGELOG not using the correct quotation marks and apostrophes or the very rough mini-icons in the Discover Page, but we've cleaned those up.
At this point, there's not really any other updates planned for this website, other than one more update for two more categories to the Discover Page, Projects and Soundtracks, along with one faint idea to replace the tabs system that probably won't happen because it is highly complex. After that point, everything should likely be nearly exactly as we've always wanted it, and we'll just be adding on new content to it.

We've been considering Comics for quite a while, to show off our little critters' lives and relationships more clearly, especially due to the lack of anything other than Profiles at the moment, so we finally decided to make our first proper Comic: Bagelverse Issues!!
It currently only has 1 Issue, and it's the only Comic at the moment, but we plan to add more at some point, with different Comic series for our different Universes. They'll remain fairly simple, none of them will have a major story across the entire Comic series, each Issue (unless explicitly named as the sequel to a previous one) is its own independent event.

Soon after we had temporarily put Multi's Mathematics: Jelly Edition on the shelf, we started to work on fixing up our website. I always had some small issues with how the website appeared as of v2.1.0b, and I had plans to change it. v3.0.0 had originally started as simply v2.2.0, however it quickly turned into a complete remake of the website, mostly from scratch, so we decided to bump it up to v3.0.0.
After we figured out what we wanted to change, it was quite easy to get it all done, we had quickly cleaned everything up except for the Discover Page. There were multiple concepts, including a sticker book, a very "formal" and "serious" database, and a computer program. After some playing around, we decided to stick with the computer program decision, which I think has let the Discover Page become way easier to navigate and look way better.
Near the end though, we had started to rush the remaining things we had to finish. Fortunately, we only had to finish how the website appeared on mobile devices and the Newsletter for the release... unfortunately, they're kinda important. Because of this, we had already planned a post-launch patch that later became v3.0.0a that released recently, fixing all of the issues we had with v3.0.0.

We hadn't worked on Frenzy's Garbage Can too much during June. In fact, as far as I can remember, not much of anything came out of the first half of June for Frenzy's Garbage Can. Early into July, however, Frenzy's Garbage Can had ran into a big issue, which I will let Frenzy talk about now:

fgc is DEAD MEDIA! i liked the concepts made with it but motivation to keep it going has been hard to maintain.
- Frenzy

That was when we had decided to just outright scrap Frenzy's Garbage Can. If we had decided to keep running with it as it was, it would've just taken all the fun out of it and wouldn't have been too worth it... But we did come up with a replacement, of which we both co-own like Bagelverse so I'll be doing most of the maintenance. It takes some of our concepts for Frenzy's Garbage Can while fully defining and refining them, and while it is not too much of a priority right now, it doesn't even have a name yet, we do plan to work on it a bit later.

While v3.0.0a was being planned and made, I had realized that some of our work was... quite inconsistent. More specifically, our Profiles for our CHARACTERs and stuff. They share a similar general format, however the phrasing and order of how things are described doesn't really match across multiple Profiles and the quality tends to fluctuate. Because of this, I've written some guides for the team to help make sure that our Profiles, along with some other stuff like our CHANGELOGs, are written with better consistency and quality in mind, as best as we can manage. Because of this, we'll be rewriting some of our older Profiles to match our current framework, along with extending some and completely rewriting others, specifically the ITEMs because they were not only too video-game-like, but also because they were a bit too similar to what we were referencing for them and we want them to be a bit more original.

We've decided to just completely redo the website... once again... It took about 10 days, and honestly I'm not even sure HOW we managed to pull that off.
We've tried our best to condense everything down as much as we can, so you don't have to scroll or navigate as much. For this, we've not only been trying to use tabs more often, but we've also started to use sections that have independent scrollbars from the main website.
Now... it's a bit messy on mobile, but I hate .css so much. I'll fix it at a later time.

...I don't even know why we're talking about the website, it literally got ONE update on the FIRST DAY of May.
There's not much to talk about really: The Universes page felt necessary to add given future plans, the Favicon update was just to make it look better, and that's basically it. I guess we COULD talk about future plans. I won't go into too much depth as to not spoil too much, but we're planning at least one more update before we leave it alone for quite a while, not counting adding new information onto it or minor patches. That update is planned to revamp some of the pages to look better and refine some of the website's weaknesses.

We literally just mentioned the "Batch" format last Progress Update, but we ALREADY scrapped it.
We were originally planning to release Batch 1 as planned, however as I continued to make CHARACTER bios, it felt like I was just rushing everything. Because of that, we completely restarted, and by the time we had finished the "Parodees" and "Bakston's Essentials" sections, I had felt incredibly drained. I had decided to completely change our format for working and releasing:
Releases can either be tackled through only one section or sub-section in our internal CHARACTER list; or we can release them in "PACKs" based on specific groups of CHARACTERs, whether it be based on one of our Projects, a specific CHARACTER and their relationships, or anything else we deem makes sense.
We've been working with this format ever since May 18th, when we released the Parodees and Bakston's Essentials, and I think that, while it guarantees less content at one time, it'll make it easier to handle.

Ah... our mysterious second planned Universe as mentioned last month! I'll let Frenzy talk about how this one ended up going:

ALI MAN has STEPPED DOWN from his position to continue on with this universe... now it's ALL ME! (mostly, he's still just here)
- Frenzy

Yeah, I was kinda rushing this too, trying to get it done before May ended... not a very good start to a Universe, that's why I stepped down. Honestly, I think this is for the best, it'll definetely be better off without me worrying about arbitrary deadlines that aren't even actual deadlines in the first place.

Ah, our website. No matter what I end up doing, somehow we always end up coming back to it, even if I want to move on to another project. We were going to COMPLETELY move on from the website in April, yet somehow it ended up taking roughly half of April. There was just always something that I felt like needed to be tweaked, which is still the case. Yet, despite this, I think it was worth it, I think this month has had some of the best website tweaks out of any other month.
I think the website is VERY CLOSE to a state where I want to finally leave it, at least until we add some more pages.

The second half of April was on something that I wish took up MORE of April. We've been working with "Batches" to get our lovely critters out on the website, and for a while we only had "Batch PREP". But we ended up finishing "Batch 0" just in time for the end of April! We currently have 19 CHARACTERs, 3 ITEMs, and 9 ANIMALs; and we have PLENTY more to add, we won't be stopping any time soon!! Hopefully though, it won't take AS long to get Batches out consistently, though I can't make any promises on that, it can take a bit to make a CHARACTER, let alone multiple.

Upcoming, we have ONE MORE update for the Website planned before we finally move on, for now at least. After that, we're going to be taking a little break, rest a little bit. When our break is done, we'll be adding some more to the Discover Page, but not Bagelverse. That's right, we're finally dabbling in handling and showcasing more than just one of our Original Character Universes! Our main focus is still Bagelverse, it always will be, but I feel like some more things deserve the same kind of love we've been giving Bagelverse. Hope y'all enjoy that!!

As you may've noticed, Website v2.0 came out during this month. This update took about half of our work-time from March, barely anything else was worked on. And funnily enough, it was STILL not even ready after release, because I am stupid! Spaces in file names is a BAD idea with HTML! This is why we had to initiate a patch day of release, sorry about that! It shouldn't happen again now that it's known. Expect a Patch 2 sometime next month (though, then again, maybe don't, we don't like deadlines-).
We had also planned an April Fools joke for the Website, but unfortunately this joke would require new character designs, and... well, the next section will explain why we couldn't end up doing that in time. That will still be included, either on its own or for another year's April Fools prank.

Bagelverse, our pride and joy... I'm very indecisive about it sometimes-
I sometimes overthink design and style stuff, so basically as soon as Website v2.0 came out, I was ALREADY rethinking the designs and stuff for our goofballs, even though we had JUST updated the CHARACTER Art. We had gone through some iterations, a lot of terrible ideas, before landing on something... that didn't even last a week. Soon later, I realized how stupid I was being, and just decided to keep it the same, updating the render art and redesigning any characters that we felt needed it.
Another realization we came to is that, while The Anons are a fun idea, they're kinda... unnecessary due to how many CHARACTERs and ANIMALs we have for it (which will be added onto the website in time). Due to this, The Anons have been completely removed from The Bagelverse.

Well, uhh... Bagel Beats WAS supposed to be our next project, but we're kinda... putting it on hold. We don't exactly have any cohesive plans as of now, and we're debating whether to make it a native FNF mod in an FNF modding engine, or in an original engine. The former is way easier to perform, the latter allows for more creativity but is way harder. I do not know what our next project will be after Website v2.0.2, but we'll presumably be working on it throughout April after we figure out what it'll be.

We have finally added our "Discover" page, as mentioned on February 19th. There's not much there currently, but there's more than there was before! We've also updated a lot of assets to make them look better, because the old assets sucked. We also have an actual written CHANGELOG... which isn't available on the website yet. We plan to make it available at some point, thinkin' of an "Extras" page for this kind of stuff.
Seriously though, I am glad to finally show off some of the team's lovely critters properly, and I can't wait for the ability to show off even more!

I also wanted to directly state that we will try to release Monthly-Progress Updates. In these Monthly-Progress Updates, we will share everything we had done that month we feel like showing off. If a month isn't too productive however, we may just combine two Months into one Progress Update to make it more interesting.

P.S.: Here's one more thing for the road.