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Bonus Photos Quota 🖼️, Switch Accounts from anywhere 👥 & a lot more! 🎉

Hi everyone, 🏖️🏝️

The SW Team is pleased to provide you with an update of what has been implemented since our last announcement.

We've been working daily on many things that aren't visible to users, or are too technical to be announced, but here are a few highlights that are worth mentioning.

Bonus Photos Quota 🖼️

About a year ago, we have doubled the Image Storage Limits to the following:

Regular Member
500 Private Images
500 Album Images
2000 Post Images

VIP Member
2000 Private Images
2000 Album Images
10,000 Post Images

Now, there is an Additional Bonus Quota given to everyone, that users can earn by using SW daily.

🌟 Now:

Regular Member
500 + BONUS Private Images
500 + BONUS Album Images
2000 + BONUS Post Images

VIP Member
2000 + BONUS Private Images
2000 + BONUS Album Images
10,000 + BONUS Post Images

To see what you Bonus Quota is, open any of your albums and look at its usage.
Example:

Quota: 100 / (500 + 256)
(Using SW daily increases your Bonus Quota.)

History Lists ️🗞️

We have added 3 sections where you can find your recently visited or seen posts and users. Only you can see these lists.

VISITED POSTS | SEEN IN-FEED POSTS | VISITED USERS

This can be accessed through the header menu "Social" -> "History"

Linked Accounts - Switch from anywhere! 👥

At the beginning of the year, we implemented Linked Accounts.
If you have more than one account, you can link them to make it easier to switch between them, without having to Log Out and Log In every time.
To Link or Switch accounts, you can open the Header menu (top right) and then select "Switch Account".

Before, this would bring you to a different page with the list of your accounts, and you'd lose the page where you were at previously, which could be an inconvenience.
Now, you can switch accounts while staying at the same page (rather than always being redirected to the Home Feed), so you don't have to "go back to it manually", after switching.

Back button on iPhone 🔙

If you use an iPhone, and you added SW to the Home Screen (which makes it a "standalone" app), you might have noticed that iOS doesn't provide you with a Back button to facilitate your navigation on SW.

For your convenience, we've added ourselves a Back button so that you can always go back to the previous page at any time.
(only for iOS users who add SW to their Home Screen)

... and much more! 🚀

We are continuously working on improving security and other technical elements.
As usual, we always work in correcting known glitches, fix bugs, and make improvements to the System, Security and User Interface.

A few other Highlights:

• We worked on a number of changes to detect, prevent and reduce Spam on SW.

• We've also implemented several measures to reduce User Conflict.
(We heard your feedback and made some improvements since these measures were first released.)

• Great internal improvements that allows us to submit Predators reports more often.

• You can now see users that are relevant to you, at the top of the Home Feed.

• Improvements to Push & Email Notifications.

• Loads more Groups Merged & Reinstated, and now we're sending notifications to users when groups are reinstated so users are aware of the changes that affect them.

• Auto-scroll to linked reply, when coming from Notifications.

• ...and loads more (internal / non-visible changes)

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Thank you for your support.

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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Soossie

Dear Nuno... many thanks to you, Andrew and all your team members...

You've done a great job... 🤗🤗👏👏👏

ChampagneOnIce · 51-55, F

Thank you so much for all you do to make this site better for us!

SledgeHammer · 46-50, M

SW TEAM----

Cool..

Hey Nuno,
You guys are doing a fabulous job...

THANKS.!

marsbar · F

Great improvements! Thank you for all your hard work! 😊

SW-User

Nice, i can post more images, thanks!!

Coppercoil · M

Looks really cool.. for years Ive tried buy my vip in 3 month increments, so the site make more money. I also gift vip and often vip my alts.. its my way of showing appreciation. This site has done a lot for me and many others over the years. Good job keeping it improving. Thank you.

Spiritualangel777

It’s so nice to see things changing here.. great work people ✨✌🏻

SubmissiveWolf · 46-50, M

Many thanks for all you do

Pretzel · 61-69, M

keep up the good work!
thanks guys

Miklee02 · 51-55, F

Thank you 😊

MellyMel22 · F

Thank you!

silentwriter180 · 51-55, F

Thank you, team!!

uncalled4 · 56-60, M

Wow! It's good to hear from you, and some of these features sound very good indeed!

LeopoldBloom · M

Thank you! The back button is a huge improvement.

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

Thank you for the increase in the posted images album. I was concerned by all the screenshots I have been taking. 😱

Even edited screenshots can take up that quote. Even though they are far smaller for being edited.

iamonfire696 · 41-45, F

@DeWayfarer what is the need for screenshots?

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

@iamonfire696 here is example of just one, though I do screenshots for on here more than often...

https://similarworlds.com/phones-computers/android/4435497-How-can-we-temporarily-block-all-incoming-calls-on?rid=53521055

iamonfire696 · 41-45, F

@DeWayfarer Yes that’s certainly helpful

submissivelittlewoman · F

Thank you for the update 🙂

helenS · 36-40, F

Thank you very much for all your efforts! 🌷
Here's a suggestion: you might consider rewarding users who have many SW coins with more storage volume for pictures. For example, I have hundreds of thousands of those coins, and they are essentially useless to me (apart from the occasional gift that I send). How about: 100,000 coins ==> 500 bonus images? 😇

BringTheLove · 22-25

Thank you

MistyCee

Thanks guys!

Classified · M

Any news about games too perhaps?

KaysHealingPath · 36-40, F

I’ve sure missed a lot 😅
I forgot how busy life gets with a 1yr old 😅
Y’all have been super busy here too I see! 🥰

Can’t wait to check these features out 😃

froggtongue · M

I'll look at the history thing. That sounds nice since i've sometimes navigated away and then decided i wanted to say something on a post long gone.
I have found the autoscroll handy as well as the relevant users. Thank you for those.
I would like back and forward buttons on the Android app too, please.

AthrillatheHunt · 51-55, M

Andrew is better

froggtongue · M

I'd also like a way to put in a gif straight from the text field. I'm not the kind of person to open my browser and search multiple sites to d/l a gif then upload it to a message or post.

JoyfulSilence · 46-50, M

Cool. I use this site almost every day (since I have no life, LOL!). I have not yet used up all my photo slots, but I always wondered what I would do when I hit that wall.

I already hit the block limit years ago. My solution to that is to offer amnesty to old blocks, especially if I do not remember the person or why I blocked them. Yet anybody with a gross fetish in their username is kept blocked.

JoyfulSilence · 46-50, M

In the past, if I recall, when I clicked on a notification it bounced to another page, and showed the reply that prompted the notification. It was pretty seamless

Now, it jumps to something seamlessly, then scrolls down a bit, then stops. All this scrolling is annoying and making me dizzy.

This happens on both a computer with monitor and my smartphone. It is worse on the former since the screen is larger.

ImRileyTheDog · 22-25, F

When will we get more dog emojis?!😭

SW-User

Auto-scroll to linked reply, when coming from Notifications

This has just started impacting me in the last few days it seems, and I wish I could disable it, I'm sorry but it is distracting and annoying ... it also seems to happen from the feed, and I want to try to read the original post, the comment on the post is just my path into the post, and I don't mind scrolling down to the comment later

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CestManan · 46-50, F

@SW-User @Nuno
The auto-scroll, I imagine some people find it useful but I agree that it would be nice if we could disable it on our own account at least

SW-User

@Nuno ... and when you scroll back to read the post, and find it is "truncated", click the link to expand it, then the page just autoscrolls back down the highlighted comment again ... highlighting it, and sorting it at the top is good enough ... and maybe it could have a unique URL, so when you click something on the same post, move forward, read that, then hit the back button, the relevant comment is still highlighted, still sorted at the top of the comments list (until I click some other sorting option), and post itself is still at the top of the viewport (ideally not truncated)

If that relevant comment happens to be comment number 16 in a list of 32 comments, it would also be nice to not have to do a lot of additional mouse clicks to keep expanding more and more parts of that specific comments subtree ... having to keep clicking my mouse over and over just to expand things on a desktop computer is burdensome

Ideally, if truncating posts has to stick around, it would be nice to have a second option to disable that for my own account as well, so I never see truncated posts, they are always expanded

Nuno · Admin

@SW-User then the page just autoscrolls back down the highlighted comment again ...

Yep - noticed that earlier today and that's already fixed (to be released soon / tomorrow morning).
Thanks for reporting!

Also, another change is that if you are coming from the Feed (rather than Notifications), it won't auto-scroll you anymore.
(based on your initial feedback above)

If that relevant comment happens to be comment number 16 in a list of 32 comments, it would also be nice to not have to do a lot of additional mouse clicks to keep expanding more and more parts of that specific comments subtree

True. That's a "known issue", actually, but not very trivial to fix.

The auto-scroll was just intended to be for Notifications, which most of the times the replies will be "the last one" (or close), so we haven't prioritized auto-expanding the nested replies.

Thank you for your feedback.

FlowersNButterflies · 61-69, FVIP

Make it easier to post photos. Should be able to copy and past, but nope.

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FlowersNButterflies · 61-69, FVIP

@Nuno I am on an iPad. Very difficult.

Nuno · Admin

@FlowersNButterflies Ah ok! In that case, if you're on a mobile device like that, I don't think it would be easy/possible to allow pasting images. (unless we overengineer the text fields)
Thank you for your feedback.

FlowersNButterflies · 61-69, FVIP

@Nuno I have posted photos here on my iPad. It is way more difficult than it has to be. SW can fix this. I am not the only one here on ios.

assemblingaknob · 26-30, F

When will I be able to cash in on my sw coins?

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DeeBee · M

@assemblingaknob Oh interesting,first i heard of it thank you.How is that door coming along?

assemblingaknob · 26-30, F

@DeeBee slowly but steadily materializing. In a couple years' time I should get to building the key....if everything turns out fine that is.....

DeeBee · M

@assemblingaknob glad to hear it,Rome wasn't built in a day,slow and steady is the way to go.

DesiDudeJ04 · 26-30, M

I am just waiting for games here.
Please start games here, so all SW members can play here. Bingo game will be also ok.

froggtongue · M

Can we add a 'happy hug' reaction? I might have asked that before. But i think it'd be a nice addition to the other ones.

Yungj87 · 36-40, M

Are you guys making an app for the iPhone?

helenS · 36-40, F

@Yungj87 Essentially, SW is an app which runs in a browser.

Yungj87 · 36-40, M

Oh thanks, I know android users have an app. I was just hoping @helenS

JohnOinger · 41-45, M

Can You Bring More Hot Female Members On Here

froggtongue · M

@JohnOinger goodness. The number of bots would overcrowd.

TurtleEclipseOfTheHeart · 22-25, F

Thank you Nuno, we love you

BigbangFACTS · M

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MarineBob · 56-60, M

Damn i have more bonus pictures than I could possibly use.
Are you still working on games?

CestManan · 46-50, F

Somebody would really have to be into themselves to even need 2,000 pictures on here. 😄

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Peanut2 · F

@CestManan I was thinking the same!

CestManan · 46-50, F

@Peanut2 I mean it is nice that the admins upgraded some things but 2,000 pictures?

Imagine how many they have on their phone. 😲

SW-User

@CestManan Oh some are. 😂

ExtremeNext · 31-35

SUPERVlXEN · F

Thank you for the update. I'm curious when we'll be able to choose all posts in chronological order without the algorithms ruining it? Those of us who doesn't follow a lot of other users or topics/categories are experiencing an almost dead feed which doesn't encourage one to engage in much interaction on the boards. Previously we've been told that with the preset configuration of 'all users, time based' we'd almost have it all. This is far from the goal tho and frankly killing the experience of scrolling the boards.