Admin Announcements
🗨 Comments in Home Feed ✳
Hello SW Members! We hope you are all having a great weekend. :)
As most of you may have noticed by now, we recently made a major change to this site.
Comments from your Friends and other Relevant users to you may now appear in your Home Feed, amongst the latest posts which you are used to seeing in this feed.
We understand that this change is very new and surprising to many of you, however we hope that you can give it a chance.
We will be listening attentively to your feedback, as we always do.
Our idea with this change is to add more relevance to users on this site.
Previously before this change, the Home feed was filled with mostly random posts, 90% of which are not relevant or interesting to many users.
(Not saying that your posts are uninteresting! 😄 Just that on average, most of what you see in the feed may not be a topic of interest or from a person you are familiar with/interested in.)
We considered (based on feedback) that many times users feel the site to be "empty" (while our stats show the opposite).
Many times users don't see and engage with their friends and acquaintances often enough, as they'd have to get through 100 other posts which may not be relevant to them.
The aim is that users will now be able to interact with their friends/acquaintances much more often, and join them in topics they would otherwise be unable to find (with the old feed layout), while we also still continue to show all the latest posts on the home feed as we always have.
Please do let us know your thoughts and suggestions in the comments. We are very interested in hearing from you. :)
Other recent improvements to Similar Worlds:
• Improvements to Header and Navigation.
• Removed the "Relevant" Feed, as we wish to simplify our website and improve the main feed instead.
• Display "Edited: xx ago" on Posts, to prevent abuse of the Edit feature (eg: changing the original post considerably to cause misleading answers).
Privacy Improvements and Bug Fixes:
○ "Online" status not showing anymore on the Blocked People list.
○ Removed showing of User Tags in Notifications of comments, if the user is blocked.
○ Fix that emails were not being sent if the user was being mentioned/tagged.
Thanks again for your attention and support!
- The SW Team
Update:
Regarding Comments of Blocked users appearing in the feed.
This is a major bug which was accidentally released with this change.
It is being reverted right now, and we are working on the fixes.
We apologize for this inconvenience.
Please note that mistakes can happen sometimes when major changes are being made to a site.
We don't intend to make changes that would make users unhappy,
however, we cannot move the site forward without sometimes making changes and receiving feedback.
Please be assured that we are listening to all feedback, and will work to come to a solution which satisfies as many users as possible.
Thank you.
Hello SW Members! We hope you are all having a great weekend. :)
As most of you may have noticed by now, we recently made a major change to this site.
Comments from your Friends and other Relevant users to you may now appear in your Home Feed, amongst the latest posts which you are used to seeing in this feed.
We understand that this change is very new and surprising to many of you, however we hope that you can give it a chance.
We will be listening attentively to your feedback, as we always do.
Our idea with this change is to add more relevance to users on this site.
Previously before this change, the Home feed was filled with mostly random posts, 90% of which are not relevant or interesting to many users.
(Not saying that your posts are uninteresting! 😄 Just that on average, most of what you see in the feed may not be a topic of interest or from a person you are familiar with/interested in.)
We considered (based on feedback) that many times users feel the site to be "empty" (while our stats show the opposite).
Many times users don't see and engage with their friends and acquaintances often enough, as they'd have to get through 100 other posts which may not be relevant to them.
The aim is that users will now be able to interact with their friends/acquaintances much more often, and join them in topics they would otherwise be unable to find (with the old feed layout), while we also still continue to show all the latest posts on the home feed as we always have.
Please do let us know your thoughts and suggestions in the comments. We are very interested in hearing from you. :)
Other recent improvements to Similar Worlds:
• Improvements to Header and Navigation.
• Removed the "Relevant" Feed, as we wish to simplify our website and improve the main feed instead.
• Display "Edited: xx ago" on Posts, to prevent abuse of the Edit feature (eg: changing the original post considerably to cause misleading answers).
Privacy Improvements and Bug Fixes:
○ "Online" status not showing anymore on the Blocked People list.
○ Removed showing of User Tags in Notifications of comments, if the user is blocked.
○ Fix that emails were not being sent if the user was being mentioned/tagged.
Thanks again for your attention and support!
- The SW Team
Update:
Regarding Comments of Blocked users appearing in the feed.
This is a major bug which was accidentally released with this change.
It is being reverted right now, and we are working on the fixes.
We apologize for this inconvenience.
Please note that mistakes can happen sometimes when major changes are being made to a site.
We don't intend to make changes that would make users unhappy,
however, we cannot move the site forward without sometimes making changes and receiving feedback.
Please be assured that we are listening to all feedback, and will work to come to a solution which satisfies as many users as possible.
Thank you.
