Similar World's new place for Posts is the "Home" tab.
We believe we have finished our changes to the design, and we apologize for any inconveniences that this caused to some of our members.
These changes to the design will help us considerably in consolidating the Groups and organize them better. Those coming changes will not affect the user interface.
In addition, we have made it much easier to switch between Filters for the Feeds. With just one click/tap, you can filter Posts by the Groups you follow, or by the Members/Friends you follow:
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You can customize your Posts Feed by going to Home and press the "Customize Feed" button:
You can then select whether you want to include comments, and how much relevancy:
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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.
Could you guys please replace the 'Home' tab with like, a 'Comments' tab or something? You say I have the option to filter out comments in my home feed to effectively turn it into the old 'posts' feed. Totally cool. But now, I don't have my old home feed unless I go through the options and change it back. I normally like to go through the 'posts' feed when I first log on to see interesting new stories 'n' shit, and then visit the 'home' feed to see my friends' comments, and I could do that with the click of a button. Now, I have to change my settings to switch from one to the other.
You could reasonably argue that that's a petty concern, and changing my settings is only like 3 clicks. And you know what? That's totally fair. But right now, what you have is two buttons right beside each other in the UI that do literally the exact same thing. The site has the exact same number of buttons and menus as it did yesterday if I remember correctly, with just a little less functionality.
Meanwhile, I've never even seen someone say they like the 'people' tab, and damn, can you blame 'em? It's just a big, long list of usernames, ages, and pictures in three columns, in what appears to be a random order. No bios, no log-in times, no interests, nothing whatsoever that could possibly make that tab a good way to browse users to befriend. Just sayin'.
@BlueVeins We have loads of users who use the People tab all the time. If we were going to remove the People tab, even more people would complain. We should leave the People tab alone :)
Thanks for your feedback regarding the Comments in the Feed. If you had a 1-click quick switch for Showing/Hiding Comments in the Feed, would that be enough?
But we're not Facebook and Co. or are we becoming like these sites? It seems so which is incredibly sad.
I think most of us appreciate and choose this site, to the exclusion of others (in my case total exclusion) because it was unique and user-friendly, and I use was, since I don't feel it's changing for the better.
You have a solid following of members here, many of whom came over from EP and quite a few who promote good will and who are well-liked and respected in the SW community. In the last few months even, I have seen quite a few of these people delete their accounts, which assumedly indicates that things are not changing for the better.
You are asking members what we want but you don't seem to be acting upon our requests. It reminds me of being at work when you're asked to put forward your opinions but you know management have already made up their minds 🤷🏼♀️
Please listen to your members,, especially your loyal ones, without whom you would not have this unique site at all. We're here for many different reasons and most of us cherish our friendships on here. Please honour that and in turn, appreciate our support.
@MartinTheFirst It's actually useful. When you're scrolling down through posts the "home" button disappears but the icon is always visible. In this way you don't have to scroll all the way back to the top of the page to click home.
Not sure, but I think moving all tabs to Home wasn't done to imitate other social medias.
It is just the way they chose to achieve more organized group structure. It is not the goal, it is the means.
In the past, the same topic had many groups. It is redundant.
These groups are all imported from EP. Some of these groups are illegal or highly inappropriate. Which is why many of questionable new members would justify their content by "if it"s group in this website then it's fine to post about it"
This seems to be just a step to limit and manage groups.
I have always enjoyed perusing only questions or only stories as the mood struck. Now I can't do that. I also see random comments on the feed mixed in with the stories and questions which seem to create more static in the mix. Sorry, but I am not a fan of these new changes.
Not a fan. Note I did your pole on stores and this merging is more of hindrance than a help for the time being.
I do write prose and some stories.
I know you mentioned somewhere that we maybe able to do further select groups. Yet your not giving a time table on any of these changes much less on such group filtering. Yet even that really isn't enough. We need true "multiple" custom feeds like on Reddit.
I still have over 3100 groups after the group reduction!
Don't make accusations when you can't handle the same. You brought this up because you are obsessed about it.
Fanaticism is when you stop at nothing to achieve your goals, which is basically what you do. You go to the extent of disguising immoral acts under a moral argument, censorship.
And if you were really into freedom of speech and not censoring, you wouldn't be asking me to block. You would handle my arguments just fine.
You are all for freedom of speech until someone disagrees with you.
I don't remember you being an admin. So this is very confusing, you don't review my report about the posts to actually claim they were false.
And you have been attacking me for not wanting child pornography in this website for while. And attacking those who had similar opinions.
Since you were so eager here to attack me and call me names, you will have to cope with responses to it regardless of your fake good nights.
SW-User
I was not happy with bunching stories and posts together. But I sorta understood that. But adding comments and all posts together?? Nah fan. It would be nice if home could be further customized, to where we could take off the comments.
Edit: nevermind! I found the option to take off comments!
@Spoiledbrat when you look at the bar the white seach catches the eye home on the left would we easily picked out we all want to go there most of the time
it is like shelving in a store selecting what goes where to pull the hand towards a product without much thought
The group search only shows a pull down list with ONLY 10 groups, rather than the pages and pages of groups it did before.
So I rarely can find a group I want. So I have just started choosing the group "I Groups" as a default, and using the Title to convey the meaning of my post.
I am a mathematician but most of my workdays are spent writing SAS code to test out the math. My code always has bugs and I spend more time debugging than drafting the initial code. I also write system requirements for our IT folks. It is so hard to put formulas and procedures into words. It is usually easier to just write the code myself, but that is not my job. Sometimes I also validate the systems by creating my own SAS code or else use Excel files (often with Visual Basic code) to do the calculations independently.
@Peaches because incase not all comments are necessarily removed others can still reply to a reply.
I actually understand that one. Only if "everything" is removed should it be left out.
Also I suspect deleted comments and posts also have something to do with the rating system here. Whether it's by the poster or the commentor depending on the greater rating.
They don't want to talk about this. So expect no reply to this whole thread.
@Peaches it all depends on your current rating. If you're a good standing member, and I believe you are, then it's not going to effect it much. What exactly the formula is though is a secret. Other things probably effect the rating. Probably how many over all posts, replies and things like that.
I don't know WHY questions and stories have merged together, I found it better the way it was?!🤔 And for some reason I can no longer see the "click to go back" arrow at the top of my browser, the "click to go forward" arrow, or the "home page" icon. The only thing that is showing for me is the "reload this page" arrow/icon. Can anyone help?
@FairyGirlGemma I understand, but like I said, it helps keeping the same standard every other website uses. Helps us (and future members) in the long term, because of the consistency.
@FairyGirlGemma they’re not going to change it back unfortunately Fairy. I truly question how much they listen to our requests. Hence why I don’t contribute when they come out every so often and ask for site suggestions
Toggling between the new feed buttons does not update the old "Customize Feed" menu.
But changing something with the Customize Feed menu updates which of the new buttons is highlighted.
Also, the back button fails when you use the new feed buttons. For example, suppose I am viewing my circle feed and click the new everyone button. It updates the feed showing everyone. Suppose I click a story. When I hit the back button it goes to the circle feed, not the everyone feed.
Hi Nuno. Can you explain to me what’s up with the “too short” thing? It wasn’t too bad before, but now we’re required to put a title on every post so we’ll be seeing that more. Is it a limitation that can be removed?
@JustNik This is a necessary limitation to ensure posts are not of "too low quality". The more contents/words the posts have, the more interesting they become and therefore better quality.
@Nuno I disagree. There is power in a single word just as there is power in a picture - no words at all. Conversely, one can ramble out 100 words and say nothing at all. Quality has little to do with quantity.
It is your site and your perception runs the SW world. I understand that. Just offering another perspective. 🙂
Nuno I have a burning question. You've claimed that if you were to sell or merge this website then you would give us the option to "delete our accounts". However "deleting" ones account on this site doesn't equate to deleting all of the posts you've made, nor the images, nor the comments. So what exactly are you "deleting"? This would mean that our information would be sold or merged even if we were to go through with removing our accounts.
So the only way to effectively get rid of the posts and comments is to delete them one by one, but you've made this practically impossible by adding a limit to both editing and deleting comments.
As an example, if you search any "deleted" accounts name into the search bar, all of their posts come up and you can browse them. Try "IDidNotFart"'s account for an example. What's your thoughts on this? I know what mine are.
@Nuno I am certain, actually i know for a fact that Ididnotfart expected her account to be permanently removed with all data on her when she clicked that button. It's very misleading.
@Nuno Yeah I tried deleting my 3000 posts one by one but now the limit to delete posts has kicked in and I can not delete any more posts for God know hows long. It's been 30 minutes already and I still can't delete any more posts.
Ok... I get that. But why does the same post have to run 3 or 4 times on that same floor? It's so irritating because as we scroll down bumping into the same post over and over because someone replied to it.... then another comment,,ok we keep scrolling. Then coming across the original post... The most nettling issue, though , is scrolling to the bottom of the page to recent activities and guess what? Yes! Again 3 more times,,that dam post! Nuno? Honestly- are you guys just trying to fill in space? It's too much. Feels like I'm caught in a swirling tornado seeing the same post multiple times crossing my screen... sometimes there's 2 or 3 other posts doing the same thing... Shit I'm getting dizzy just explaining it... I gotta sit down. Wait... I am sitting down... whoooah---
@Luvbuttz Hello. Thank you for your feedback. We can definitely look into reducing the number of times the same post can appear. However, if you wish, you can also stop the Comments from appearing between posts by pressing the Customize Feed button and select "Do not include any comments".
@SW-User They have been following me everywhere for almost ten years now. They are from Pakistan and India. They act so very nice, but they aren't!😠 They can screw with the settings here AND my posts!👎🏽
