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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.

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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.


[big]Bonus Photos Quota 🖼️[/big]

About a year ago, we have [b]doubled[/b] the Image Storage Limits to the following:

[c=359E00][big]Regular Member[/big][/c]
[b]500[/b] Private Images
[b]500[/b] Album Images
[b]2000[/b] Post Images

[c=BF6900][big]VIP Member[/big][/c]
[b]2000[/b] Private Images
[b]2000[/b] Album Images
[b]10,000[/b] Post Images

Now, there is an [c=BF6900][b]Additional Bonus Quota[/b][/c] given to [b]everyone[/b], that users can earn by using SW daily.

🌟 [b][i]Now:[/i][/b]

[c=359E00][big]Regular Member[/big][/c]
[b]500 + [c=BF6900]BONUS[/c][/b] Private Images
[b]500 + [c=BF6900]BONUS[/c][/b] Album Images
[b]2000 + [c=BF6900]BONUS[/c][/b] Post Images

[c=BF6900][big]VIP Member[/big][/c]
[b]2000 + [c=BF6900]BONUS[/c][/b] Private Images
[b]2000 + [c=BF6900]BONUS[/c][/b] Album Images
[b]10,000 + [c=BF6900]BONUS[/c][/b] Post Images

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

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



[big]History Lists ️🗞️[/big]

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

VISITED POSTS | SEEN IN-FEED POSTS | VISITED USERS

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



[big]Linked Accounts - Switch from anywhere! 👥[/big]

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.



[big]Back button on iPhone 🔙[/big]

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.
[i](only for iOS users who add SW to their Home Screen)[/i]



[big]... and much more! 🚀[/big]

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.


[b]A few other Highlights:[/b]

• 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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SW-User
[quote]Auto-scroll to linked reply, when coming from Notifications[/quote]

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 [i]feed[/i], and I want to try to read the original [i]post[/i], the [i]comment[/i] on the post is just my path into the post, and I don't mind scrolling down to the comment later
Nuno · Admin
@SW-User Thank you for your feedback. It makes sense, and we'll see what we can do to improve.
@Nuno Same here, highlighting the comment is fine but auto scrolling to it is annoying.
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
[quote]@SW-User then the page just autoscrolls back down the highlighted comment again ...[/quote]

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)


[quote]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[/quote]

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.