Changelog
What's changed on the portal and in the game, newest first.
November 2026
Website2.4.0
Link reminders
- Andrew:
/remind-unverifiedsends everyone in a server who hasn't linked a one-time DM asking them to link with the portal, with an optional note from the staff. Nobody gets it twice. - The Privacy Policy explains that the Discord ID of someone reminded is kept for 90 days, so they aren't messaged again.
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- Andrew:
Website2.3.0
Clearing unverified members and new crests
- Andrew:
/update-all unverified:Truetakes bound roles off everyone in a server who hasn't linked, such as roles RoWifi gave, for anyone with Manage Server. Bots, nicknames and roles that aren't bound are left alone. - 1st Special Forces Command, the Army Special Operations Aviation Command and the 193rd Infantry Brigade have their own crests, on the ORBAT map too.
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- Andrew:
Website2.2.0
Open positions
- Open positions replaces Open seats. Leaders open a leadership seat in the ORBAT or a position in their group, such as a brigade command, with their own introduction and questions.
- Anyone in Fort Red Sand can apply, even from another group. If you're chosen from outside, you're asked to send a join request on Roblox, the portal accepts it, and your seat or role follows.
- Choosing someone for a position goes through ranking, with its usual approvals and a Personnel Action Report.
- The ORBAT only has leadership seats now. Privates, specialists, clerks and other non-leadership seats are gone, and anyone who held one stays a member of the same sub-unit.
- Open a position is in each group's Manage tab, and Applications points to it.
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Website2.1.0
Your data, privacy and Discord name tags
- Your data, under Account: download a copy of everything the portal holds about you, and ask for anything to be corrected or deleted. The group owner answers within 30 days.
- 90 days after someone leaves Fort Red Sand, their email address, sign-ins, two-step setup and Discord and Google links are deleted. Their group history stays as the group's records.
- A one-time note explains that the site only uses the cookies it needs, and the Privacy Policy lists every one.
- The time-zone cookie now ends when you close your browser.
- The Privacy Policy explains your rights under EU law, and when your data is handled outside the EU.
- Andrew:
/update-allrefreshes everyone's roles and nicknames in a server at once, for anyone with Manage Server. - Developers keep their paygrade on Discord: in the main server their tag shows both, such as [E-5/DEV], and they get their paygrade's roles as well as the developer roles.
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Website2.0.0
A new look
- Every page opens with a black camouflage banner holding its title, what it's for and its main buttons, in the light theme as well as the dark one.
- Records, units, ranking pages and the Overview carry their avatar, crest or numbers in that banner.
- The sidebar is black in both themes, so it frames every page with the top bar, and the page you're on is lit in gold.
- Buttons speak in the same capitals as the headings.
- Back links only show on phones, where the trail above the page is hidden, and unit pages no longer show two trails.
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Website1.13.0
Tools on profiles, better search and clearer navigation
Tools on a member's record
- Everything in the Manage menu on a member's record now opens in a window over the record, so you never leave it. That covers changing their rank, removing them from a group, placing them in the ORBAT, disciplinary action, evaluations, awards, qualifications, blacklists, removing roles on Roblox and earlier positions.
- The member is already filled in, and their current role is chosen to start with when changing rank.
- A save brings you back to the record with a message saying what happened. If something is refused, the window opens again with the reason and everything you typed.
- Each window links to the tool's full page for anyone who wants more.
Tidier pages
- Titles, text boxes, lists, tables and buttons share one style on every page, with a gold rule under each title and a gold ring around the box you're typing in.
- The light theme is whiter and cleaner, and the page you're on stands out in the sidebar.
- A trail above each page shows where it sits, such as People › Ranking, and takes you back up in one click.
Search
- Suggestions no longer hide behind the content below them, and clicking one opens that member rather than whatever was underneath.
- Every search finds all the words you type, in any order, with the closest names first. A Roblox ID on its own finds that member.
- Ctrl K results are real links, so Ctrl and click opens one in a new tab, and the last rows always offer to search the whole roster or every help article.
- The Roster box offers to search ranks as well as names.
- When choosing a member in a form, Enter picks the highlighted name, and pressing it again sends the form. Boxes for several names add what you typed on Enter, and Backspace takes the last one off.
- Help, documents, Basic Training and the audit log say when nothing matches and offer a way to clear the search.
Navigation
- Announcements are under My service for everyone.
- The link to the public site at the top is now called Main site.
- Ranking pages show what's waiting first and fold finished requests into History.
- Browser tabs name the unit, member or article you're looking at.
- The ORBAT fits on phones.
Personnel Action Reports
- Removing someone from several groups within the hour makes one report instead of one per group. Leaving a division or unit while staying in FRS is a relief, and only leaving FRS is a separation.
- A report issued in error can be withdrawn with a reason. It stays on file marked as withdrawn, and the member is told.
- Reports name people and ranks the Army way, without Roblox tags, and fit on two pages.
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Website1.12.0
Your own clock, smoother forms and a new Andrew
- Times show on your own clock, on a 24-hour clock with the time zone named. Deadlines, periods and leave days still run on UTC, and notices, emails and reminders use each reader's time zone.
- Forms: the button you pressed shows it's saving and can't send twice, a refused form keeps what you typed and shows why, end dates can't come before their start, and leaving a half-filled form asks first.
- Notifications are grouped by day, with Unread and To acknowledge filters.
- Every page has its own browser tab title.
- Admins: the audit log shows names and readable actions with filters, and Members and access has search, a status filter and last sign-in dates.
- Andrew: answers match the portal's look, /help only lists what you can use, /me shows your record and what's waiting, and ticket forms use buttons and menus with a review before sending.
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Website1.11.0
Personnel Action Reports and documents from templates
- Promotions, reductions, appointments, reliefs and separations made through the portal get a Personnel Action Report, written in the group's house style with its crest and letterhead. The member and the leaders who could discipline them open it as a PDF from the profile.
- Leaders make documents from library templates. The FRS account owns each copy and gives the leader's linked Google account edit access, which ends once they lose the role, their account or the link.
- Members can link a Google account under Account.
- The library files everything into the FRS account's own folders.
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Website1.10.0
Desertion alerts, a profile Manage menu and the document library
- Desertion: leaving a division or unit without an approved transfer, or leaving the group while serving in one, removes the roles below it, tells the command teams and posts to the server's desertion channel. Leaders can cancel the removals.
- Manage menu: profiles list the unit and administration tools the viewer can use, and each opens with the member already filled in.
- Documents: a library owned by the FRS Google account, so nothing is lost when someone leaves. Members hand documents over, and the account renames and files them. It holds templates too, with locks and daily backups.
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Website1.9.1
Several verified roles per Discord server
- Each Discord server can give everyone who has linked their account several roles, such as Verified and separator roles, even people in no group.
- Andrew gives them on sync and takes them back when someone unlinks.
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Website1.9.0
This changelog
- This page lists what changed on the website and in the game, newest first, grouped by month and filterable by area.
- Developers write it, through a new Developer preset that allows nothing else.
- Removed entries stay on file.
- The public site's menu fits better on smaller screens.
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Website1.8.0
Email, account requirements and the full chain of command
- The portal can email notices, orders, certificates and newsletters from a no-reply address, each headed by the crest of the group it's about. Only confirmed addresses get email, each kind can be turned off, and every email has a one-click unsubscribe.
- Senior ranks need an email address and division members need a linked Discord account. Admins choose both rules.
- The public Chain of command shows every command in its place, with its command team, units and strength, and the full rank ladder.
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Website1.7.0
Automatic BCT graduation, name tags and new binds
- Passing the last Basic Training stage graduates the recruit there and then, whether the game reports it or a drill sergeant signs it, and [E-2] Private follows on its own.
- A stage signs itself off once every station in it is passed.
- Reception, run by an NPC in the game, is the first stage. Everyone already in training counts as having done it.
- The game can show a player's rank, position and unit on their name tag.
- Discord binds work like RoWifi's: several roles per bind, binds by role, group, rank range, game pass, badge or item, a priority and nickname templates.
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Website1.6.0
Basic Training in the game, and OCS
- Basic Training is ready for the game. Its stations are kept in the portal, the game reports results to it, and drill sergeants can sign off everyone the game says is ready in one click.
- Officer Candidate School follows the real school's Basic, Intermediate and Senior Phases, cut down to 12 events so it suits a Roblox game, and ends with a final exam.
- Passing every OCS event graduates a candidate, and that's the only way to the OCS certification.
- TAC staff grade the events, and company commanders and the Commandant make the phase decisions, which appear in To do.
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Website1.5.1
Back to your link after signing in
- Opening a portal link while signed out now brings you back to that page after signing in, instead of the Overview.
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Website1.5.0
Simpler navigation and announcements
- The sidebar folds into plain groups: People, My service, Careers, Justice and Operations.
- Unit pages are split into short tabs, so nothing is a wall of buttons.
- Announcements for the whole group, shown to everyone or to signed-in members only.
- Andrew answers every command straight away and keeps running if one command fails, and members link their Discord account with a one-time code.
- Each Discord server has its own settings page.
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Website1.4.0
Quick rank bind setup
- Each Discord server has a page that lists every role in a group, fills in the matching Discord roles by name or rank tag, saves them together and warns about roles above Andrew's own.
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Website1.3.0
Andrew joins the servers
- Andrew, the group's Discord bot, now runs alongside the portal and moves forward with every update.
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Website1.2.0
Course certificates and in-depth guides
- Finishing Basic Combat Training or OCS issues a numbered certificate, and the OCS qualification only comes from that certificate.
- Every guide in the knowledge base was rewritten in depth. Guides now refresh with each update, unless someone has edited them in the portal.
- Each group's portal replaces its old division page and lists the tools for members and leaders.
- The owner can appoint administrators.
- USAG and IMCOM have their crests.
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Website1.1.0
Secure connections and legal pages
- Every visit uses a secure connection.
- New Privacy Policy, Terms of Service and Disclaimer pages explain what the portal stores and why.
- Names and avatars load more reliably.
- The site makes clear that Fort Red Sand is a Roblox game.
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Website1.0.0
The FRS Portal opens
The portal goes live, with everything Fort Red Sand needs in one place.
- Sign in with Roblox, protected by two-step verification with recovery codes. Every member of the group can open their own record.
- Personnel: a roster and profiles kept in step with Roblox, with ranks, assignments, position history and service records, plus a public Personnel Search.
- Structure: a portal page for every unit, an ORBAT map that zooms from commands down to single seats, open seats to apply for, and transfers between units, all built around Fort Jackson. U.S. Army Garrison Fort Jackson runs the post, with the Directorate of Emergency Services as its police and the Logistics Readiness Center as its supply.
- Ranking: rank requests with approvals, and promotions that follow division positions. Division heads rank their own people directly, changes that stay at E-6 or below need no approval, and officer ranks need the OCS certification.
- Operations: events with sign-ups and logs, repeating events, quotas, leave, status reports, inspections, readiness, analytics and leaderboards.
- Training: Basic Training and OCS boards for the people who run them.
- Justice: disciplinary documents that members sign, misconduct reports, investigations, court-martial cases under the group's UCMJ, and blacklists.
- Recognition: awards, qualifications, evaluations and the public Honours page.
- Every day: To do for everything waiting on you, search from any page with Ctrl K, orders to acknowledge, notifications and the knowledge base.
- Administration: portal roles, permission presets, divisions, Roblox groups, members, system status and an audit log that can't be edited.
- A portal link shared in Discord and similar apps shows a card with the page's name. Cards for private pages only name the page.
It all comes in black, gold and white with a liquid glass look, in light and dark themes, and the public home page shows the game.
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