# Hyperfy Discord - 2025-12-10

## Overall Discussion Highlights

### Project Direction & Development Status
- **Hyperfy 2.0 Development**: Being built as a "highly versatile engine, sandbox, and toolkit" to enable various projects
- **Development Activity Concerns**: Community members noted no GitHub pushes for nearly three months
- **Communication Gap**: Several users expressed frustration about limited updates from the founder (Ash) and team
- **Hyperscape Project**: Mentioned as an in-development project utilizing Hyperfy 2.0 technology, not yet public
- **Focus Shift**: Development team appears to be working on specific use cases rather than the core engine itself

### Platform Changes
- **Hosting Model Change**: Shifted from v1 model to requiring self-hosting or third-party services
- **Enhanced Capabilities**: New platform features generative AI integration making it more accessible to non-technical users
- **Token Confirmation**: Ash confirmed "hyper is and always will be the token"

## Key Questions & Answers

1. **Q: Is hyper still the token?**  
   A: "Hyper is and always will be the token" (answered by Ash)

2. **Q: What is Hyperscape?**  
   A: A project some people are working on using Hyperfy 2.0 technology (partially answered by vox)

3. **Q: Is Ash working on a different project?**  
   A: Ash appears to be working on "a specific use case utilizing the technology" rather than abandoning the project (partially answered by vox)

## Community Help & Collaboration

- **Platform Clarification**: Vox provided detailed explanation about Hyperfy 2.0 capabilities, ongoing development focus, and reasons for the hosting model change to help address community confusion
- **Technical Direction**: Vox encouraged community members to focus on building content with available tools while development continues

## Action Items

### Technical
- Develop projects using Hyperfy 2.0 platform capabilities (Mentioned by: vox)
- Explore self-hosting options for projects during the transition period (Mentioned by: vox)

### Documentation
- Provide regular updates on development progress to reduce community confusion (Mentioned by: Agent12)
- Create clearer documentation about the transition from v1 hosting model (Mentioned by: vox)

### Feature
- Improve self-hosting or third-party service integration to make the transition from v1 hosting model more accessible (Mentioned by: vox)
- Continue development of generative AI integration features for non-technical users (Mentioned by: vox)