Timeline

This list is mostly complete, but it is missing some entries.

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The beginning of silverhawk555's video "The Dive-In Adventure: ULTIMATUM"

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November 2020

On 23rd November, LBP.me was reported by various users on Twitter to have been shut down due to problems with hackers.
On 25th November, @LittleBigPlanet on Twitter/X replied: "We don't have any plans to shut down the LittleBigPlanet servers.", "LBP.me is just down for some general maintenance and updates."

March 2021

At some point in March, LBP Union converts from a clanning alliance to a LBP fan-community.
On 6th March, Twitter users noticed that the LittleBigPlanet servers were experiencing some issues, A user known as m88youngling attempted to log onto LittleBigPlanet 2 to host a mech battle tournament match when he was unable to access my Earth, Community page, and any published levels. However, He was still able to play with other people on his friends list. Many users were seeing the pop up: "A problem occurred when attempting to connect to the LittleBigPlanet servers (403)."
From 6th March to 11th March, the servers experienced a DoS attack. An individual utilized a publicly released script that exploited an unused feature in LittleBigPlanet HUB. This script falsely signaled to the server that an exceptionally large number of slots (999,999) had been purchased for publishing, allowing for the attempted publication of thousands of levels per second. Although this didn't necessarily cause the server's CPU to reach 100%, it effectively overwhelmed the server's capacity, rendering it unresponsive to other requests. As a result, players were unable to access online features, experiencing extended loading screens during this time. Following this, the server underwent a series of disruptions, characterized by intermittent shutdowns and restarts, as developers engaged in a game of cat and mouse with the attacker. While the issue with level publishing was addressed, subsequent attempts were made to exploit other server functions, such as spamming pictures and high scores. To mitigate these attacks, developers implemented rate limits on all write operations. However, the attacker found another vulnerability, exploiting a text search function with an excessive number of levels in the query (999,999,999), leading to another form of DoS attack. In response, developers expanded the rate limits to include all read operations, thereby safeguarding the server from further exploitation.
On 10th March, The servers were taken down without warning.
#SaveLBP campaign officially starts at 11th March, with few starting as early as 10th March
On 11th March, Crown creates a now-defunct Discord server "LittleBigHome" serving as a refuge for the community and as a base for the hashtag campaign.
On 12th March, @Sony_XDEV and @SumoDigitalLtd posted and confirmed that the servers are taken down for technical issues and they will be return soon.
On 15th March, LBP Union reaches 100 members.
On 31st March, @LittleBigPlanet posted “Please be assured that our team are doing all they can to get the servers back online ASAP. Thanks for being so patient :)”
The servers were briefly online on the 31st March.

April 2021

On 2nd April, @LittleBigPlanet posted “Server update : It’s taking a bit longer than we anticipated to get the servers up and running again. Please be assured that we are doing all we can. Keep checking here for updates. Thanks.”
On 15th April, @pete0515 replied “We haven’t given up, work is ongoing but it’s taking much longer than we expected. We’ll update properly when we have something firm, but don’t think silence means nothing is happening.”
On 21st April, The servers goes up. The servers are going online and offline throughout the next week.
On 27th April, @LittleBigPlanet posted that these random server outages are a part of testing new security updates.

May 2021

The servers manage to stay up for a whole month but eventually modders and hackers start disrupting the community. Scripts are used to make people's game crash, auto-heart hundreds of accounts, or display hateful messages just by loading someone's planet. The servers went offline a second time to prevent further damage to player's profiles.

June 2021

On 7th June, @LittleBigPlanet posted an update announcing the servers are being worked on, but with no ETA.
On 8th June, Steven Isbell steps down as "overseer" of the LittleBigPlanet community.
On 22nd June, LBP Union transfers it's political community over to a new servers alongside with the only political channel, making the main LBP Union server mostly apolitical.

July 2021

On 2nd July, LBP Union created Agent Washington as a server monitoring bot
On 28th July, 4th August, and 10th August, Agent Washington detected the servers going up and down for 60 seconds or less each. One time being as long for 4 minutes.

August 2021

On 6th August, The server's security certificate was renewed, In order to use the new certificate, each LBP game would have to be updated. People wonder if the games will finally get a new update after so many years.
On 11th August, Some users noticed the error code went from 403 to 0xffffffff
On 11th August, @LittleBigPlanet on Twitter/X replied: "Apologies that it is taking so long, we can assure you that you are most definitely not being ignored though. We are still working on the issue and promise to update, as soon as we can."

September 2021

The idea of a private server begins at 2nd September, the project is later called "Project Lighthouse" and it's server instance later called "Beacon"
On 13th September, the online servers for LBP1, LBP2, LBP3 PS3, and LBPV were officially shutdown, which makes Vita's and LBP2 Cross-Controller's official servers completely inaccessible. Some LBP3 features were missing such as Dive-In and Challenges.

October 2021

Project Lighthouse begins development at 5th October
On 5th October, LittleBigPlanet 3 gets updated to Version 1.28, restoring features of Dive-In and Challenges.
On 21st October, To make up for the server shutdown, @LittleBigPlanet posted that LBP1 and LBP2 Content Unlocks will now unlock everything, regardless of PSN data or Pin progress.
on 23rd October, the first dev tester has managed to connect to Beacon Custom Server using real hardware
Project Lighthouse gets it's first in-game message "fart" and second multiplayer session on 23rd October

November 2021

Some point in November, Beacon enters private beta phase.

December 2021

On 8th December, the first non-developer private beta testers has managed to connect to Beacon Custom Server
On 12th December, the first non-LBPU team member private beta tester has managed to connect to Beacon Custom Server

January 2022

On 23rd January, @hallm3lbp posted announced a contest known as "Context Contest". Though should note that the contest is ran as unofficial even though the host is a staff.

February 2022

On 1st February, Context Contest begins
On 16th February, Project Lighthouse now supports LittleBigPlanet Vita

March 2022

On 1st March, Beacon opens enlistment for Private Beta
On 3rd March, Beacon has gotten 100 enlistees
On 5th March, Beacon brings in 10 enlistees, making them beta testers.
On 10th March, LBP Union reaches 2,000 members.

April 2022

On 1st April, Context Contest ends
On 1st April, Ezoiar takes the initiative to lead LBP Union to create an art at r/place 2023.
On 3rd April, A tragedy has happened on r/place 2023, prompting m88youngling to take a greater intiative to create the Union Task Force and notify hundreds of people. 70+ people has participated.
Beacon reaches 100 users on 16 April

May 2022

On 24th May, LBP servers goes offline briefly due to a scheduled maintenance.

June 2022

On 9th June, @StevenIsbell on Twitter/X replied: "LBP.me will remain down for the foreseeable future. We are aware of the feature loss from its closure though and are investigating alternative solutions. Our goal is the continued maintenance and support of the LittleBigPlanet servers and online services."

July 2022

On 18th July, LBP Union reaches 3,000 members.

August 2022

On 21st August, jvyden stepped down as Lead Developer at LBP Union and Project Lighthouse shortly after an impersonation incident.

September 2022

On 8th September, Ezoiar posted an announcement about the death of Queen Elizabeth II at LBP Union, unexpectingly causing LBP Union to go under chaos.

October 2022

On 5th October, LittleBigHome's Discord server got deleted after the administrators were archiving and the entire server underwent a chaotic period.
On 17th October, LBP Union reaches 4,000 members.
Following the original LittleBigHome's deletion on the same day, A new LittleBigHome Discord server was created by the original owner, Crown.

November 2022

On 16th November, @hallm3lbp posted a hint for Context Contest #2.
On 18th November, Context Contest #2 begins, again running unofficially.

December 2022

PLGarage starts development at 1st December, PLGarage is a server software for LittleBigPlanet Karting
On 11th December, jvyden began developing on Refresh, an alternative custom server software.
On 21st December, jvyden announced his server software, Refresh. and his server instance, LittleBigRefresh.

January 2023

On 8th January, LBP Union reaches 5,000 members.
On 31st January, LBP Union's own r/place "u/place" begins.

February 2023

On 2nd February, u/place ends early than originally scheduled.
On 1st February, Context Contest #2 ends
At some point in February, Beacon reached 1000 users.
On 21st February, Beacon is announced to go public beta on 6th March 2023

March 2023

On 6th March, Beacon entered public beta phase.

July 2023

On 13th July, LBP servers goes offline briefly due to a scheduled maintenance.

August 2023

At some point in August, Beacon reached 5000 users.
On 23rd August, LittleBigPlanet official servers started experiencing connectivity issues.
On 26th August, LittleBigRefresh server instance has been launched to the public.

November 2023

On 12th November, Refresh now supports LittleBigPlanet on PSP

January 2024

On 7th January, 30+ players were falsely banned which includes: Ayee, BlazingVictini, EpicLBPTime, hallm3, m88youngling, MmOfficial, MysteriousCube, SamuraiEzoiar (and his old account), Sonichu, StevenI, and Trixel_Creative.
On 7th January, PLGarage now supports Modnation Racers
On 8th January, The LBP servers was once again temporarily offline, to investigate the issues that was reported by the victims.
On 16th January, Steven Isbell announces he will step down as community manager sometime at March
On 17th January, a popular influencer IShowSpeed was temporarily falsely banned on PSN as he found out at the stream. Coincidentally it happened on 8th January which is possibly linked to the false ban wave.

February 2024

On 5th February, Dreams has been attacked with false bans like LBP, but did not make the servers go offline.

March 2024

On 4th March, LittleBigHome was attempted to go active again by Crown.
On 12th March, Steven Isbell announced he will be staying as community manager for a year longer.
On 17th March, Beacon got breached and affected 7% of the userbase at the time.
On 23rd March, LittleBigRefresh went into read-only due to severe threats
On 25th March, Beacon goes under maintenance due to severe threats
On 30th March, Beacon is online again with read-only temporarily enabled.

April 2024

On 5th April, Beacon reached 10,000 users.
On 14th April, LittleBigHome was mysteriously deleted without warning or public reactions by Crown.
On 15th April, LittleBigRefresh turned off read-only after receiving credentials from NCMEC and enabled the CSAM Scanning Tool.
On 17th April, Beacon turned off read-only after receiving credentials from NCMEC and enabled the CSAM Scanning Tool.
On 19th April, the online servers for LBP3 PS4 were officially shutdown, making the main official servers completely inaccessible, which then makes any official method on having online functionality completely impossible.

May-September 2024

Attacks on LBP community continued.

October 2024

On 8th October, LittleBigPlanet announced that they will delist LittleBigPlanet 3, alongside ALL DLCs (Downloadable Contents) from the PLayStation Store on the 31st October.
On 31st October, LittleBigPlanet 3 and the entire DLC catalog will be delisted.