The SW Team is pleased to provide you with an update of what has been implemented since our last announcement in April.
Please note that even though we are writing less announcements, it does not mean we stopped development. We are just busier than usual, but we're thinking of writing more updates in the future, maybe even for smaller updates.
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[big]• User Tagging 🔖 🏷 [/big]
One big feature we have released was User Tagging.
You can now tag other users by their username, e.g. @Nuno, and that name will be linked to their profile.
The format to tag someone is: [b][@<username>][/b] (don't forget the square brackets around the tag - it's important!)
The other user will receive a notification saying that you mentioned them, but only if they have added you to their Friends list. If you edit a post and add new names, it won't notify anyone. Mentions/Tags are allowed on Posts and Comments.
[big]• Improvements to Blocking/Muting 🚫 [/big]
We have released a few new features to help you maintaining your list of Blocked and Muted people better:
- We now display the time when you blocked/muted the users in the list. - Sort by Time / Sort Alphabetically - Show Canceled (so you can see who you can safely unblock - but note that some profiles can be reactivated!) - Blocked and Muted (if you blocked someone who you have muted before, you may decide to free up the Mute slot)
[big]• Easily upload a Screenshot 🖥 [/big]
You can now easily take a screenshot and then use your keyboard (Ctrl+V) to paste it to our uploader.
[b]Note that this currently works on Windows, Linux and MacOS, but only on modern browsers such as Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox.[/b]
[b][c=#BF0000]Note that posting screenshots of Private Messages is not allowed. Posting screenshots of other user's posts or comments is also not recommended, as it can make other people uncomfortable.[/c][/b]
[big]• Submit Questions to SW-Questions ⁉ [/big]
You can now submit a question to be asked by @SW-Questions. If your question is chosen, you will receive a notification and your name will appear next to the question (optional)! You will also be rewarded with 💰 500 SW Coins.
You can submit your question here: https://similarworlds.com/questions-submit
[big]• New Gifts 🎁 [/big]
As many of you may have noticed, we recently released some new gifts over at our shop: https://similarworlds.com/gifts
We also made a few improvements to Gifts: - Increased gifts text limit. - Prevent gifts duplicates, for users with slower connections, being charged twice.
New Gifts are also coming soon!
[big]• Improvements to Photos 📷 [/big]
- Photos now have views counters. - We're now detecting uploads of duplicate photos, so if you try to upload a photo you uploaded in the past, we'll just reuse it. - We show photos in notifications. - We now allow you to move photos to the Private Album. - We also provide a dropdown menu to make it easier to move photos in certain situations (if drag-drop doesn't work well for you). - Photos marked as Nudity on comments/replies are now blurred.
[big]• Improvements to Reports and Safety 🔐 [/big]
- Added Mildly Adult, Adult and Nudity tags in many places to help distinguish posts that might be NSFW. - Comments/replies can now me marked as Containing Nudity. - Users are now notified when a post or comment is getting reports. Our system also takes automatic actions to those posts/comments when appropriate. - You can now report individual message elements, instead of reporting the whole Message Thread. This helps us knowing exactly where the incident is. - More clarification and many improvements to the Report system. - New Report option for illegal activities.
[big]• Other Improvements 🛠 [/big]
- Searching Posts is now Real Time! This means that we don't update our Search results every hour, but as soon as a post is published, instead! - Searching Posts will now show better results. For example, if you search "dog", it will also find results for "dogs". Similarly with "octopus" and "octopi". - Quick Links in Mobiles for Followers/Friends/Circle. - Notifications are improved - show more details, fixed some glitches, etc... - Sort Awards by weight, rather than some fixed random order we had. - Back Button now works for Stories and Questions pages, not just Home, so users can continue where they were. - Fixed SW getting "disconnected" frequently on some Windows Phones (because of a Windows Phone bug). - Fixed New Message notification appearing after Mark as Unread. - Fixed Remove Friend not working on iPhone web-views.
[big]• Security Improvements 🛡 [/big]
In more technical terms, we continue to work towards making our systems more secure and close any possible hole that might compromise our servers or user's privacy. We like to keep all our software always upgraded (lots of security fixes come with them), but it also takes a lot of our time to do these migrations/upgrades. We also are improving and growing our infrastructure, as our community and databases keep increasing every day!
[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 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.
Very kind regards, - The SW Team
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Hi Nuno... Awesome job on the site, truly awesome. The tagging is great. All the upgrades are helpful.
One question about this:[quote][c=#BF0000][b]Note that posting screenshots of Private Messages is not allowed.[/b][/c][/quote]
I don't think I have any posted now, but I have in the past outed people I don't know who sent me unsolicited NSFW messages, usually with pics included (in their messages, not my posts). There are even groups here for that purpose.
Is this against ToS? If so, I will honor your wishes, but I don't think it should be. There needs to be some way to defend or respond to messages like this.
If someone I do not know and have not consented to PMs with sends me an unsolicited and deeply offensive private message, they deserve to be outed by name to the SW community.
I don't believe there is any expectation of privacy unless both parties have agreed to "go private".
And don't get me wrong, this happens a LOT. The only ones I have outed have been the really deeply offensive bordering on illegal messages (not just the typical juvenile dick pic).
@tynamite If I were to engage in private messages with you and it went in a direction I didn't care to go, I would never reveal that. That's not what I'm talking about. (And that has happened in chats with friends.)
I'm talking about the messages that come at many girls here completely out of no where from people we don't know. Those messages sometimes are harmless, but other times are quite extreme in nature.
Yes, offensive is subjective. But being online does not excuse bad behavior. You would never walk up to a complete stranger in a bar and whip out your business followed by a command that she suck it. That has happened to me here and I outed him. I don't think there was any expectation of privacy in his message given that it was unsolicited from a complete stranger.
But if Nuno says its against ToS, then I will respect that in the future.
@billstickers Hey Bill... Other than[b] you[/b], please name one person that I have put down? Please tell me when or where I have abused anyone on SW or back on EP?
I've asked multiple times if we could just agree to go our separate ways. Clearly you don't like me, so let's just leave each other alone okay? Don't send me private messages; don't make dick jokes on my posts; just go away and have your fun with your friends, okay?
@sarabee1995 They exist because not everyone is aware of the rules here and because not everyone is aware of basic etiquette or netiquette. Use your brain. There is child porn and livestreamed rape and murder on facebook. That doesn't mean that Mark Zuckerberg endorses the content. All social networks, chat rooms and forums have content that breaks the rules.
And again, we are back to the rules and whether such a rule as you describe exists here. I will defer to Nuno and respect his decision on the subject.
I believe communities (online and offline) can and should self-police to a large extent. Good behavior, common courtesy, mutual respect... these are things we can manage ourselves without "calling the police".
So when someone violates these community standards, I see no problem with addressing the issue in the court of public opinion.
And please don't mistake what I'm saying here. I have no issue with the nudity policies on SW. I have a few friends who post tasteful nudes on a daily basis. I, myself, write and post erotica quite a bit. These things are all labeled and voluntarily viewed.
@sarabee1995 if by "addressing the issue in the court of public opinion" You mean sharing private messages publicly with the usernames present, it is wrong and it breaks SW rules.
@billstickers No Bill, not about me at all. The Admins here have made it quite clear what is permitted and what is not. [b]They[/b] have set the community guidelines (as it should be since this is[b] their[/b] site). I used the word "tasteful" to reference their standards.
@tynamite Well, again, it remains to be determined if it breaks SW rules. I'll defer to @Nuno on that.
As for it being wrong, in the offline real world, arrests and charges (all things that happen prior to conviction) are public. This is no different.
The one time I publicly outed someone here on SW (https://similarworlds.com/5045403-I-Have-Been-Blocked/262911-For-most-of-this-week-I-had-quite-a-different-stor), the resulting discussion led to mutual understanding and reconciliation.
@tynamite Why don't we await the reply by @Nuno instead of making this thread longer going in circles? I think @sarabee1995 more than once in her responses for you told you she will respect the outcome of such reply.
@billstickers You clearly got a private issue with @sarabee1995. Why don't you follow her suggestion, and move on. I doubt Sara will spend much time following you around inside posts and comments made by you. Don't like her? Simple, stay out of her posts and comments. Should be possible, no?
@billstickers Might be, but you're making an ass out of yourself and how you behave yourself towards one of my friends. You act in a very rude, and off topic way with your comments. That could make it a question whether you're violating TOS for harassment.
@billstickers Sure they are in the context they are brought. It's not only choice of words, it's also the acting. You need to grow up and let a girl on her own when she asks you, and not keep up doing what you do here inside this thread. You're only fooling yourself about motives here, if anyone.
