YES you read right! Media Molecule published a new patch 1.26.

You ask what is new?

Well, I dont know it exactly but i know that they removed the Cool pages. We will have more information at the end of this day.

EDIT. Here is the information about the patch 1.26:

Steveni wrote:

"Hey Folks!

We have a new update that will be rolling out today that includes some big changes to the Cool Pages in LittleBigPlanet 2!

We've been hearing you all this time and agreed that the Cool Pages desperately needed an update!

The problem is that they just simply didn't work in their current format.
Contrary to popular belief, there's no "magic button" that would magically change what they display!

So we made the eventual decision to replace them with something new that we feel works better for LittleBigPlanet.

What this basically means is that the Cool Pages have now been removed from the front page of the community section in-game and replaced with the "Lucky Dip" selection.

Lucky Dip works differently to the Cool Pages and we've made some tweaks to it to help it pull out a wider range of levels from a slightly wider selection pool of possible levels to display.

This should hopefully prevent other uses from being able to manipulate or otherwise game the results to their advantage.

It will take a few days for the Lucky Dip to begin working as planned because player activity in the Lucky Dip itself will have an effect on the displayed results, so these effects won't be felt until everyone starts using Lucky Dip from today.

We want the Lucky Dip to bring you a range of levels from different creators, so if you have any feedback on the new Lucky Dip functionality, by all means let us know right here! "

Source: http://community.eu.playstation.com/t5/L...s/td-p/19626038

Yay

Finally, a big change. But we have to see how is it first! I wish it's atleast something better than trending page!

Sounds very good!

About time

Yay at least now when i dont feel like creating I may actually find some good levels!

who think s mm should pick what level should go into the cool pages ?

No, for a first Mm don't control LBP community, StevenI does. Secondly, if they don't like your level your screwed.

This removing Cool pages thing I don't really personally like. I have hard times getting plays with the Cool page, let alone without it. I think a better solution would be to edit the moon to where copied levels cannot be published.
If the Cool page leaves I hope lucky dip picks my levels, because I will be not creating anymore without a decent amount of plays to put in for my hard efforts.

This opinion I hope is shared among us, I think without Cool pages we might actually be worse off.

This is awesome news.

I hope the lucky dip doesn't end up like the cool pages but i have hope .

Unfortunately, first try at the lucky dip I got a bunch of shark survivals, fake costume levels, and random LBP1 levels. I feel like this is going the right direction, but still needs some tweaking.

Well they did say it would take a day or two for the lucky dip section to begin working properly.

I have mixed emotions about this update, on one hand this could almost completely destroy the copiers, but on the other hand it could handicap the real creators out there... I'm optimistic about the lucky dips and can't wait to see what it brings. Hopefully everything goes well!

EDiT: The title lies. Jhonsiak noticed that there are still the cool pages. THey just changed their place with the lucky dip in the 'more sections'

You and 1000s upon 1000s of other creators every week.

As I've stated elsewhere, there are just way too many levels published every week for the Lucky Dip and Cool Pages to showcase them all.

They're just not designed with the intention of making everyone famous because such a thing isn't possible.

Which is why we now have the Lucky Dip instead, which instead of showing the same handful of creators all the time, will now randomly generate a playlist for you from a select pool of recent and somewhat popular levels. (Basically this means it doesn't just pick random levels from all of the 8 million levels we have.)

This will help ensure that a much wider range of creators and players get some plays to their levels.

If you want to get yourself a higher level of plays though, then you're going to have to promote your levels yourself! That's the way that any product gets attention!

You wouldn't publish a video on YouTube and instantly expect to become famous, would you?
Of course not because it just doesn't work like that and you need to put in the work yourself to bring attention to your content.

Question 1 @Steven: When your level has many yays per plays does this increase the probability that the lucky Dip selects your level or is it only important to get fast plays.

Question 2: Do you have a higher change to pop up in the new lucky dip when you published a new level or can old levels with much plays (like old mmpicks that still many people play) appear in the lucky dip

1. There's a set range. If you're within this range, you have just as much chance as being picked for the Lucky Dip as any other level.

2. Lucky Dip mainly focuses on newer levels.

Thank you Steven for answering about all the questions, but creators like me who make platformers and don't get much plays will Lucky Dip premote these levels?

I think we are ALL better off with the lucky dip. When i work months on a level i'm happy to see 10 plays in a day. I posted a blank level as a test and it got 10 plays less than a day.

(That level will be deleted next time i play, i know its spam.)

I asked that because SnakeOwl gets a lot of plays in his level, about 3000, and now he got 470 in about a day!!

Snakeowl is already an established and well-known creator, so you can't really compare against him for a fair comparison since he will naturally gain plays from his followers anyway.

This is great news!

Lucky Dip doesn't promote a special kind of levels. So any kind of levels can be promoted. How should the lucky dip function know that the level called' BLA BLA BLA' is a platformer? It is important that the level is new and that it has many yays per plays how steven confirmed earlier in this thread. So of course platformers can be promoted. And Snakeowl's level hasn't much plays because it didn't pop very often in the lucky dip because it needs some days to work perfectly.

I hope everything i wrote is correct, isn't it?

The lucky dip section is looking better already, I can't wait to test it out when I publish my level on Friday Thanks Steven and everyone who made this change happen!

After reading through I change my opinion, but theirs a question from me.
If the lucky dip chooses levels over yays/plays how high is the standards. I saw snakeowls level Strain in the Sky had 410 yays and 1109 plays on the lucky dip. My question formally is, what percentage of yays over plays do you need?

If you look at the cool page now, you can actually find great levels! Nobody goes to the CP but when you do it's awesome! Yay http://www.littlebigforum.eu/forum/download/images/a_313_e938a1e6.gif