osu! has a very vibrant community composed of people from all around the world. And anyone can be a part of the community in their own way!
Below are just a few of the ways you can help out in the community:
The wiki is our official knowledge base that contains anything and everything about osu!. And as such, the wiki is always looking for more contributors to help keep the site up-to-date with fresh, new knowledge or translations.
If you are a newcomer to the osu! wiki, you can read more about it in the osu! wiki contribution guide.
In order to keep the official community hubs safe, osu! has a dedicated moderation team — the Global Moderation Team — that monitors the forums and online chats around the clock.
Fortunately, it is still easy for you to help keep everything safe here. The following are just a few of the many ways you can help:
!report
command in the in-game chat to notify the moderators of it.If you encounter someone who has an issue with the game, lend them a hand! Whether it is a driver issue, a beatmap question, or gameplay question, if you can answer it, you can help the person in solving their problem.
The following outlines how you can get started helping others on the forum:
Mark forum as read
button on the top.osu! has a dedicated team of reviewers, the Beatmap Nominators, to check if submitted beatmaps are ready to be ranked and played by everyone. However, that doesn't mean you cannot contribute to this sector:
#mapping
and #modreqs
channels in the in-game chat and either join in on the conversation or just follow along.Everyone loves to improve and requires feedback for this. Often users will ask for feedback on their gameplay progress in the Gameplay & Rankings forum and others eagerly await feedback on their latest skin creation in the Work In Progress Skins forum.
osu! has a thriving community of technical and competitive people. They range from hobbyist tinkers to seasoned rhythm game veterans. There are a lot of proposals and projects being made exclusively for osu! and you can help them, or drive the future of osu! with your very own proposals/projects!
Below are just a few of the ways you can contribute:
Started in 2017, the osu!(lazer) project is the current focus of the osu! team, along with the new website, which is what you see today! If you would like to help make these projects even better and bring us closer to the future of osu!, there are a number of things you can do, but below are just a few examples:
There is an old saying that you should become part of the solution, not the problem. Simply by following this old saying, you'd be helping osu! by making the community a brighter place. People will always complain, but there are still so many ways you can help lighten up the mood in the community:
!report <username> seems to be cheating
can fix your problems within minutes to hours.While this article cannot cover how much more you can help the osu! community, simply playing the game as well can make osu! even more awesome!