The SW Team is pleased to provide you with an update of what has been implemented since our last announcement last week.
• Message Introduction 💌 and Privacy Improvements
We have released a great new feature: Message Introduction.
Your Message Introduction appears to users in the moment they are about to compose their first message to you.
With this, you can let users know what type of private conversations you are interested in having or what you are not, what they can expect when contacting you, or anything else on your mind.
• Privacy Improvements
You can now make messages from Users who you have Muted be sent to your Messages Requests, unless you already have a conversation with them in your Inbox.
This is a new option in your "Filter Messages" settings (accessible through your Messages page). ☑ Users who I have Muted
In addition, if you want to move a conversation from your Inbox to your Messages Requests, there is now a new button Ignore Messages that does that:
Contrariwise, you can also move messages from your Messages Requests to your Inbox:
• Remove Followers 🔒
You can now remove Followers.
Removing a user from Followers will also restrict the user from following you again.
If you want to allow that user from following you in the future, you can remove the block very easily, so that they can follow you again: https://similarworlds.com/settings-blocked-followers
• A few other Improvements to Friends lists
- We now show the user names instead of "SW User", if the user has canceled their profile and they are still on your Friends list (only you can see the real name).
- You can now see the time at which someone Followed you, or when you Followed someone, in your Friends/Followers lists.
• New Image Max-Size 🏖🏝🌄
We have increased our maximum image/photo size from 650x600 to 720x720.
This allows our users to upload bigger photos to Similar Worlds, improving the quality of the images shown on posts and messages.
• Other Relevant Improvements 🛠
• We are now line-breaking big links on posts, to make them easier to select and copy.
• Loads of improvements to the popup position and size, especially when the keyboard opens. (a good example is the Insert Image popup, which we found a bit dificult to use on Mobiles)
• We don't allow posting nested replies on a Comment from someone that is blocked, anymore.
• The "Show Less" (of a user) action can now be found through the Profile button: "Mute/Block/Report".
• Multiple improvements to Scrolling and Navigation on SW.
💡 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.
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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.
Very kind regards, - The SW Team
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@Peaches It is only Nuno and Andrew- who I am blacking as well-see example above- I just don't like hos posts! LOL And I woudl imagine they are busy with a number of issues- so in time.
@beckyromero They had alluded to that before which is why we not have drop down menus for stories and questions. Go back and read past posts by Andrew and Nuno regarding this when it was spoke of and debated. Educate yourself.
@Elandra77 Are we talking about the same thing? A day ago, our badges were to the far right of our profile photo. Now they are below - and white space is in its place.
@beckyromero I am not sure what you are talking about but I know what my friend and I are speaking of. The info bar with Home, posts and explore I was alluding to. Today was just part two of that that did not involve that but the look of our page headers. This the moving of the placements of a lot on the top of our page. One step at a time.
@Nuno Thanks for the reply and clarification!! I rather like the new layout and I am interested to see where the team goes with it. It adds new dimension the same page header that some of us have looked at for close 10 years.
@Peaches What I don't understand is how they can have time for things nobody asked for yet there are age old issues that still irk me. Friends lists show a next button even on the last page and only then on an empty page says there are no more users. Searching groups, people and posts only show the first ones and no way to list more. Still no way to create groups. People unable to message each other due to malfunctioning content control.
It's like SW can't fix these issue and keep on adding gimmicks and cosmetics.
@Nuno so the layout was improved or changed to help out those on mobile devises , well I’ll be honest the way I see it at least on my phone it actually makes it to where the access list is not as accessible as before , now when I log in and go to my profile page I have to scroll down a bit to get access to the list of friends groups etc... before it was right there easily accessible I didn’t have to scroll down to access it, personally I liked it the other way but I guess I understand the room thing though I don’t really see how there’s more space but it’s fine for now I guess I’ll have to deal with it , it’s not really that big of an issue I guess. Anyway I do want to say that as far as the whole site goes so far I think it’s really coming together and it’s a great sites thanks for all the hard work from the SW team whoever y’all are, kudos to you.
Highonheels I log in and go to my profile page I have to scroll down a bit to get access to the list of friends groups etc...
Not anymore. Please check the profile page again.
MeisterAndrew Searching groups, people and posts only show the first ones and no way to list more. Still no way to create groups.
These are things that will be possible in the future.
MeisterAndrew Friends lists show a next button even on the last page and only then on an empty page says there are no more users.
This is not a real/big issue, and that's simply because we don't keep a counter specifically for the number of people on each Friends list. Those buttons don't stop you from being able to see everyone in that list.
MeisterAndrew People unable to message each other due to malfunctioning content control.
@Nuno I don't understand why you'll leave it simply because you don't consider it important. It's already implemented when past the page so obviously you have a way of checking the number of profiles and it can be adjusted to no longer show when reaching the last profile.
Similarly it shouldn't be hard to show more pages for groups and posts. These are day fixes.
Nuno There is no malfunctioning I'm aware of.
Several people have complained about this not being able to message people they should be able to or not being able to message someone back. Obviously there are some issues and like people have suggested the only censorship that should exist is through our own settings.
@Nuno You say there's no malfunctioning of the system you're aware of, yet I can't view the profile of someone I'm friends with and have to use another one to do it.
