There are also some good introduction posts written by Ryozuki on his personal website:
https://edgarluque.com/categories/ddracenetwork

Well, this might be already linked at the ddnet-wiki page but anyways .__.

Glad that you found your way into mapping. Unfortunately that's not the right place anymore. The whole map testing section moved to discord (https://discord.com/invite/22sqGcB) a few years ago. You should upload your map there (Map-Testing > submit-maps) to get feedback and maybe we can release it t...

Unfortunately you can't just upload a skin yourself, like maps it should be evaluated and approved first. So, upload your *.png file and an ingame screenshot at our discord (https://discord.com/invite/22sqGcB) under "Skin Submission" and maybe it will be uploaded to the official skin datab...

Kujire wrote: ↑Mon Jan 09, 2023 11:55 pm i would just like to know how this topic has 276k views

He's not even the most popular boi, take a look at this thread from last moderation round.. :>
https://forum.ddnet.org/viewtopic.php?t=7489 (7M+ views)

Although it's not really recommended and you would lose all the other recent changes, there is always the option to downgrade your client.
I guess version 16.2.2 introduced the HUD, so you would be fine using version 16.1 (https://ddnet.org/downloads/#16.1) for now.

You can just ignore the warning about the already existing username. DDNet is not based on accounts, so it's basically just an information for new players that they should probably change to another nickname. In your case, that doesn't matter. If you don't want the warning each time you start a new ...

Unfortunately a submission via discord is the only option left right now.
You probably noticed that the forum is nearly dead .__.

However, as murpi suggested, we could post the skins on your behalf in the discord channel and write the evaluation results here.
For that, just post the *.png-files here.

Your graphical skills are truly amazing, thanks for sharing yet another masterpiece :3

So you're currently 18 years old and played this game for more than 13 years.. That's quite an achievement indeed :>

Feel free to write whatever you want (within the guidelines obv) .__.
However if you want to participate in real-time conversations, our discord might be the better place.