The SW Team is pleased to provide you with an update of what has been implemented since our last announcement.
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[big]• Emoji Upgraded 😀 🥪 🥰 🥴[/big]
Our Emoji set is now compliant to Unicode 11.0. With this Emoji upgrade, we are now supporting 891 new Emoji icons that we weren't supporting before, as we were compliant to Unicode 8.0. This Emoji artwork is provided by JoyPixels.
We hope you enjoy their new look and that you enjoy the many new Emoji supported.
[big]• Add Details to your Profile 🧁 🧬[/big]
You can now define what is your Intent of using Similar Worlds.
Whether you want to be on Similar Worlds for Advice, Making Friends, writing/reading Stories... that's up to you, and you can make it clear as soon as someone visits your profile. You can hide specific intents from Everyone, if you don't feel comfortable to share some of them with everyone.
This is a completely optional feature.
We added a few more optional fields that you can add to your profile. We also added 🛡️ Privacy Options to existing old fields such as your Country.
A few other new features/changes added: - Increased Photo max Upload size (we understand how good the quality of the photos is these days!). - When Taking Photo with Camera, now you can choose between front and back camera on phone (unfortunately, some phones such as iPhone may not support this yet). - Allow to delete Gifts before unwrapping them.
[big]• Improved Safety and Reporting on Similar Worlds 🧼 ⛑️ 🆘[/big]
To better categorize your reports, and to help your report be even more helpful for us, we added a few new options that you can choose between: - This is a new account of a previously suspended user - This is a new account of a user who I have already blocked - I suspect this user is putting a child in danger of exploitation
We also improved the text box where you write your evidence, so that it expands as you write, making it easier for you to type.
We created a few help pages with a number of tips and helplines in case you or someone else need help:
[b]What do I do if I have evidence of a child being exploited?[/b] https://similarworlds.com/help/4-What-do-I-do-if-I-have-evidence-of-a-child-being
[b]What do I do if someone is threatening to share intimate photos or videos of me?[/b] https://similarworlds.com/help/3-What-do-I-do-if-someone-is-threatening-to-share
[b]What do I do if I have evidence of human trafficking?[/b] https://similarworlds.com/help/5-What-do-I-do-if-I-have-evidence-of-human
[b]Suicide Crisis Help Lines[/b] https://similarworlds.com/help/1-Suicide-Crisis-Help-Lines
Please remember that even though you can report contents with the above to us, you should also have a look at the pages above so you know how you can proceed in the different scenarios. While we try to do our best, due to the number of reports we receive, [u]you can help us greatly by documenting the case with all the information you have and contact the authorities[/u].
We made also a number of improvements in the Private Messages center: - If the user you are responding to in a message has an active profile warning, we will show that warning to you. This is helpful especially if you're talking with someone new and the message tells you that this user has a history of harrassing/bullying other people. - For new users talking to you, in some cases we may show you some small auto-generated alerts telling you the risks of providing personal private information/photos to other users. We may also detect Suicide thoughts coming from the other user, that you may want to provide support to.
[big]• Improvements to the User Interface 🛸 🖌️ 🔍️[/big]
- We brought Full Pagination to the Profiles! May not be perfect in all cases, depending on whether you are filtering adult posts, but should be useful in most cases.
- Heart Explosion! We got loads of nice feedback from many users when this was implemented! Thank you everyone.
- Expanded body of several pages on Similar Worlds, when there is no sidebar menu to show (no difference on mobiles).
- Get full About Me text without leaving the Profile page.
- Photo Count is now displayed in the profile picture corner.
- Confirmation pop-up when setting an image as profile picture.
- Show all users in Friends/Circle/Followers, even if cancelled, except if you're not the owner of that list.
- A number of other minor design/layout fixes and improvements.
[big]• Security Improvements, as usual 🧱️[/big]
We upgraded our Password encryption to a more secure algorithm (with random salt added per user). Note that we don't know our users' passwords (since they are encrypted), so we only migrate users to the new algorithm when they log in or change their password (this is the normal standard method of doing this).
We also increased the hashes in the private big version of photos of the users, to increase protection.
And a lot of other under the hood changes that we could keep listing here forever! :)
💡 [b][c=#BF0000]If you find any weird behavior in our system, please let us know straight away by sending any of the admins a Private Message or an email to us. This is the best way to reach us and ensure that we will look into the problem as soon as possible.[/c][/b]
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Thank you for your support and we hope you continue to stay with us.
We are constantly listening to your suggestions, so please keep giving them to us, as they are very important to the future of Similar Worlds.
I think it's great that there are more emojis now than there were before, but I wish that the ones we already had were still the way they were. They were more crisp and expressive before. Compared to the old emojis, the new ones look fuzzy and a little goofy. Some goofiness is fun, every now and then, but the smiles aren't as wide anymore.
Otherwise, I think these changes are great.
Thanks for all you do, and for the help you've given me.
Awesome improvements! Always looking forward to wonderful updates. Thank you. As per suggestions, regardless of how the message is at one glance in my inbox, it’ll be nice if we could check the profile of a PM sender, who’s outside our friendlist, before even opening the Private Message itself Thank you
I would like a "last online" note on my Blocked and Muted lists. The date I blocked them is semi-helpful, but if I could see they were no longer active, I could un-block them perhaps. Save my blocks for actively annoying people! Lol.
Right now, I may un-block and cross my fingers they don't show up, because I won't remember to re-block them in 24 hours. Thanks!!!
@TeresaRudolph71 No you're not the only one, but I hear there was no choice in the matter. I miss the owl with the big wide eyes. The other emojis I heard were outdated and they had to upgrade I guess. 😟
Can we have a help page to report those (with a view to suspending them or nailing them to a wall) for those socially-crippled and mentally-challenged people who sanction the abuse of animals; either by covert or open posts?
Hello Have you been the subject of threat or blackmail ?
You are not responding to me at all and furthermore you limited my posts.
If you do not mind, would it be absolutely terrible to share with me and the world my location in...Hawaai ? Canada ?? Other place ? Information you may have about me ..sex, gender etc. am I male, female, alien ?? Do you have any evidence of any wrongdoing of mine ?
May I inform you that my first account on here : voyelle got shut down for the same empty and nefarious reasons. But I was in no MOOD at all to fight this at the time.
Should I be ashamed of having been "transiting" on EP ??? nope.
Did you watch Gaad Saad video about his lying psychopath , munchhausen by proxi ?
Hi123abc Hi123abc 1 review Star 1 Star 2 Star 3 Star 4 Star 5 Published September 18, 2018 Updated September 18, 2018 Favourite anonymous website. Love it. My favourite anonymous website right now. It allows users to have the options to be any types of users they desires. I respect this because people are unique with different purposes/uses for SW. SW is able to tailor the website to individuals’uses/needs/wants; whilst, being fair to all users. You can be anonymous, or you can verified. You can post for fun, or/and post about serious life’s traumas. Share your thoughts via posts, or find love. It’s a dating website if you want it to be, or you can post whatever/anything you need/want on your mind. It’s all up to you. I’m opened-minded; thus, I’m always respectful/considerat/non-judgmental to all types of users/posts first. Excellent Amins, and awesome Mods. Love it.
Excelent work on the help pages and excellent work all round! We are increasing your wages and you have , now, qualified to be on our executive staff when we take over the world! You have to bring your own sandwiches, though... oh, and a chair.. we don't have many chairs. Some of us, still, have to stand in those dark alcoves.
That's great to have what we're looking for on here and also to report the account of a previously suspended user etc! Not been on here in ages so good to see.
@DarkHeaven If they read this, it would be great if, when receiving a notification and clicking on it, that it would scroll down to the relevant bit on mobile. For example, I receive a notification saying nothingness has commented on my post but have to scroll down from the start of the admins original long post. Luckily I hadn't long posted my comment and there weren't other comments before mine so it was easy to find.
You've ruined the blush emoji, people are now using it in the place of shock. No longer do we have any way to portray our cute and flirty selves. Shame.
