What up Banto community,
From time to time, we will release a list of names to acknowledge the contributions that fellow members of the community have made to the site. These are all people who have supported our site in more ways than one — either through active conversations on our Discord, providing invaluable feedback, creating great content, or even helping us debug. As we grow in our journey, we'd like to take the time to acknowledge these early and important Bantonians:
SRN
As our lead white hat hacker, debugger, and first user (we didn't personally know), SRN has thoroughly reviewed every feature we've implemented, recommending improvements to enhance the stability and security of the platform. He has exploited our trading and marketplace features with a buyQuantity bug that had existed. He has torn our XP and Bantobux award system to shreds, making himself the first [temporary] millionaire. He has combed through settings, finding bugs we didn't know existed. He had even created an exploit that revealed answers to questions before they appeared. (All of these are solved, by the way!)
ExciteMike
He has brought a heavy hand to helping stress test our trading and marketplace features. In Banto, he will probably be the first ever to complete a box set of characters. Additionally, he is one of the first traders on the platform! Every day, the Discord community we have feels alive because of him.
pig55
A pillar in many communities, pig55 has brought in lots of goodwill for Banto in those other ones as well. As one of the first Bantonians, he will likely be one of the other first Bantonians to release a YouTube video on the website. Along with ExciteMike, they have suggested the first community-driven box: The Elemental Box.
PandaMartianYT
Another OG Bantonian who has contributed to the site by welcoming a large percentage of those who join, as well as with his own suggestions. That one is adding a "Join Date" to the profile section!
Nebulous
We appreciate Nebulous, who advised us to add a welcome page to the server. As a result, we plan to expand the Discord bot's features in the future to handle commands and welcome messages.
LoneWalker
Artist of The Elemental Box, he has been a great person to communicate with, always promptly responding and asking for iterative feedback.
Cerulean
He had made some concept art for us for a new Banto! For future boxes, characters, and items within them, you can probably expect the artwork to be from him.
RIC
Another pillar in other communities, RIC has recommended suggestions within the Discord relating to the community. Additionally, he made us aware of a bug that allowed users to purchase boxes till they hit a negative balance! He is also the first Bantuber, releasing a video on the platform on June 13, 2025!
Umbreon & TYavaJ
The first to point out that schools may ban the .tv top-level domain. Because of that, we created a new domain: playbanto.com.
Bidhan Acharya
One of the co-founders of the Race Code blog. We emailed him and he gave valuable feedback on how to ensure our brand presence could become more trustworthy. Both the blog and site itself. We have since incorporated his changes and will continue to do so.
Thank you to all our early supporters who have helped shape Banto into what it is so far! Your contributions, feedback, and dedication have been invaluable to these early days.