I Have a Question

@Randomgirl8 from Admin Andrew A Common Question on SW: Why is Private Messaging not available yet?

We have been progressing well with many of the unfinished features, including private messaging; we do expect this feature to become available for use in a soon to come update.

Private messaging is more complex than many other features, such as Hearts, for example.
Many users ask questions like: "Why did we complete Hearts before Messages?",
yet seem to not realize that these features are completely opposite on the scale of difficulty.

In the same way you wouldn't expect Facebook, Google, Yahoo or Hotmail to build and entire messaging service (or even a single new feature) in just 2-3 days,
it takes us days or weeks of work to build complex features as well (also we have businesses/jobs apart from SW).

We do not simply drag-and-drop features into existence on this site.
Everything is being hand-coded, and rigorous security and performance tests must be done for each feature.


However, probably the main reason for cautious progression with the Messaging feature, is SAFETY.

We want to be sure that by the time we make private messaging available on our site, minors are protected to the best of our ability from predators;
And ALL members in fact, are well protected from seeing inappropriate content in private messages which they never asked to receive.

We are very much aware of the complaints and instances of inappropriate behavior from certain members on this site.

Although you may not see us always take most swift action on some of these issues, they are definitely factors of concern to us, and we will be working toward making our community on Similar Worlds a safer and better place for all members, one step at a time.

@Jessa29 - You guys are doing awesome on this site! We can be patient, trust me. I'd rather wait awhile and have a nice safe working private message system.
The staff here are on the right tracks with trying to protect minors from adults and vice versa. That was something that EP was sorely lacking!

@SicklySweetOne Thank you :D

Thanks for telling me, I know it is difficult but I thought u guys would do the hard this first. (I don't code so I am inexperienced when it comes to this stuff)

From what I heard in a couple of weeks everything will be completed.

@Randomgirl8 Your welcome. Coding is very hard to do.

@jessa29. Thumbs up. Take whatever time you guys need to get it right.

Yup, it's the feature I'm waiting for most too!

Soon soon soon...just keep telling myself that :D

@Gina18 Thank you :)