With the end of 2025, it’s time to reflect on all we (the Hubs community) accomplished in the year, along with the trials and tribulations we faced.
Highs and lows from the year include:
- Download issues with some of our larger assets and the move to predominantly getting them from the Hubs Foundation Public Files folder in our Google Drive. 🥲
- The creation of the Community Resources page on hubsfoundation.org. 🥳
- The troll in our meetup room and the resulting increased security for a few months. 🧌
- A Pi Day party. π
Group photo (avatars by Imaginer, Christian, and Theanine3D; scene by JCo; in-room objects from Sketchfab) - The restoration of the Hubs docs website. 🥳
- The impersonation of a former Hubs team member on X/Twitter promoting a fake “HUBS” cryptocurrency. 🥸
- The Beginner’s Guide moved from several Google Docs to the Hubs docs website. 🥳
- The restoration/update of the Hubs Discord bot and the re-opening of the meetup room (as a Discord bound room) to the public. 🥳
- Numerous tours of community made scenes. 🥳
Scene by hobbs; in-room object/avatar is a tweaked version of Theanine3D’s Dog avatar - Issues with Kubernetes updates, data loss, and the roll-out of emergency backup and restore scripts. 😢
- Sharing in friends’ holiday celebrations across the world. 🎊
Group photo (avatars by hobbs, Christian, and Doug — via ReadyPlayerMe; scene by JCo; in-room objects from Sketchfab) - A “Talk Like A Pirate Day” party. 🏴☠️
Group photo (avatars by hobbs and Doug — via ReadyPlayerMe; scene by Doug; in-room objects from Sketchfab and hobbs) - Hubs Community Edition 2.0 released with updated deployment scripts so that Hubs instances are automatically provisioned with truly persistent storage (so no more data loss), and the inclusion of the backup and restore scripts. Plus the documentation for the new setup and how to migrate old instances to the new setup. 🥳
- The issuance of memberships for the Hubs Foundation to the community. 🥳
- A Halloween party. 🎃
Scene by hobbs - The first AGM/Election for the Hubs Foundation. 🥳
- Yvonne Grzenkowicz (Yvonne G) was appointed to continue on as a director of the Hubs Foundation. 🥳
- The use of Hubs for two presentations at IMMERSIVE X. 🥳
- A presentation on the new KHR_avatar glTF specification that is under development. 🧑🎓
- Many of the old scenes uploaded to the official instance of the Hubs Foundation for distribution to Community Edition instances. 🖼️
Events Promenade – Night scene by JCo - The integration of Icosa (contains many of the assets from Google Poly) to Spoke. 🥳
- Many updates to the dependencies of the Hubs client and the Hubs admin panel. 🥳
- A winter holiday party. ❄️
Group photo (avatars by hobbs, Jim, and Syed; scene by Christian; Holly from Icosa by Tomo asks; Santa Hat from Icosa by Joe Dorman) - Continued community meetups, dev meetups, and documentation meetups throughout the year. 👪
Group photo (avatars and scene by hobbs) - 13 Shares of the Month awarded. 🏆
- 3 Hubs instance software releases. 🦆
- 1 Hubs Blender add-on release. 🐵
Some things we didn’t get to:
Along with everything we accomplished, there were a few things that we had planned to do this year that for whatever reason we just couldn’t get to.
- Creator Labs
- An easy submission process for new Creator Labs articles.
- The old Creator Labs articles. These articles are full of great content and we had planned to get them back online, but for now they’re still only accessible through either the WayBack Machine or the hubs-blender-files GitHub repository.
- In 2026, we will work to enable the easy submission of new Creator Labs articles and re-host the old Creator Labs articles in an archived section of the Creator Labs blog.
Final Thoughts:
We leave you now with some thoughts on the future. We’re still here, and Hubs continues to connect people in a way that is open and for the community, by the community. As we progress into 2026, Hubs will continue to improve and reach new heights. Long live Hubs! We’ll take it from here.
Photos used in this post were taken by community members.