📈 Similar Worlds #️⃣ pages Indexed, UP 3x since Group Consolidation 🚀
The number of webpages from Similar Worlds being indexed by Google [i](which will resultingly translate to other Search Engines)[/i], has [b]increased by Threefold (x3) since our release of Group Consolidation[/b], / Restructuring, which was done on [u]July 23rd, 2021[/u]. [i](Initial improvement changes were started in the prior month of June.)[/i]
This will lead to future growth on SW, in the coming months and years ahead.
📈 [b]More Pages Indexed = More Visitors = More Signups & Growth[/b] 🚀
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This is as we have strategized, which is that these recent changes will improve the overall "Site Quality", Relevance and Organization, over time.
The real benefits to users, will be more visible once we have implemented the planned significant improvements to our "Relevance Algorithms", which will provide more relevant:
While we understand that many users will not be happy with many of our decisions made in improving/adjusting the way how this site works and operates,
we (SW Staff) DO definitely always consider user feedback, very strongly, in every decision we make.
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Please note that a "Majority Vote" on a public poll (for example) will not always be indicative of the path we have decided to take on a decision, (especially for years old feedback polls, where many factors would have since changed).
There will always be a lot of crucial data that is only available to SW Staff (just as with any other website/service), that also factors heavily in the final decisions we make.
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We continue to look forward to incoming growth for SW, in the coming months. 👍
Many of our recent and in-development changes to this site, are being done, in part, to allow and facilitate such user growth, as well as to provide a higher quality experience to all of our users, in the long-term.
Thanks for your continued feedback, support and patience! 🙂
Kind regards, -SW Staff
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@TexChik That's not why EP closed down. A woman was killed by a man she met on EP, and the operators felt that they couldn't maintain the required member anonymity in the face of demands by law enforcement to turn over members' account information. EP was also used for drug dealing and other criminal activity. Of course, criminals shouldn't be protected, but it's a civil liberties issue, where eventually everyone's information can be divulged.
For example, everyone is cheering about Apple checking users' photos against child sex trafficking databases, but it won't be so great when some grandmother is arrested for sharing a photo of their grandbaby taking a bath. The other thing Apple is doing is, if an adult sends an explicit photo to a minor, the photo is blurred, and if the minor opens it, their parents on their family plan are notified. Sounds great, right? Except when a 18 year old black guy sends a photo to his 17 year old white girlfriend, and her racist parents have him arrested.
@TexChik You said "EP grave yard," so I assumed you were referring to how EP closed.
EP definitely deteriorated toward the end. It was obvious the site owners were trying to save money. I don't know if that's happening here. I think the SW owners are just trying to maximize profits. And if they can increase ad revenue through google indexing, of course they will do that. As long as the site stays anonymous, I don't see the problem.
The alternative would be changing it to subscription only. I like this site, but not enough to pay a monthly fee for it.
