Posted by Kim on January 12, 2022, 9:00am
A fairly huge change was introduced to character profiles this past week! You can now adjust the visibility settings of a character, setting it to draft mode, only visible to logged in users, or only visible to logged in users in your same age group (under or over 18 years old.)I can hear someone typing the question, 'Will you be adding 'friends only' as an option for profile visibility?' and the answer is... probably.
There's a lot of scenarios that present some challenges for such an option. For example, if your character is anonymous, how would it even make friends if no one can see it in the first place? You could potentially have your anon character send the initial friend request to another character, but they couldn't ever look at your profile before choosing to accept/reciprocate or not. Maybe if your anon friends only character sends the friend request the recipient of the request could look at your profile briefly to make a decision about if they wanted to accept, much like top secret groups provide a short viewing period when an invite has been sent to someone to join it. But then, what of the situation of two anon friends only characters? Not ideal. More pondering necessary.
Some more deets:
- All newly created characters now begin in draft mode until published.
- Draft mode characters are only visible to you until you decide they're ready for prime time.
- You can also send an existing character back into draft mode if you need to overhaul it, but beware...
- You cannot create forum posts or send inbox messages as a character in draft mode. This may disrupt in-progress RPs if you choose to make a character unavailable in this way.
- Yes, mods can override if necessary to follow up on a report.
Post tags: Feature Explanations
Comments
Question about draft. if we are only allowed 10 characters slots does the drafted characters count to the number?
I anonymized all my characters while I figure out what to do with them... This feature is actually exactly what I needed right now, haha.
This is freaking fantastic! Thank you! ❤
Hades_
January 12, 2022
10:11pm
Yeessss
@Lunalla-Starlight it makes it so that only the creator can view that character profile, no one else. So you could make a new character named John Smith, and until you took him out of draft mode, only you would be able to see John Smith's profile. Nobody else would.
This is wonderful. Thank you, Kim!
It will be nice to take certain characters off anonymous and dump them into draft mode.
The over/under 18 aspect is nice too.
Thank you!
It will be nice to take certain characters off anonymous and dump them into draft mode.
The over/under 18 aspect is nice too.
Thank you!
Raspberry_Beret
January 12, 2022
4:42pm
This is awesome! Thank you!
MasterWinter
January 12, 2022
3:38pm
Thank you so much for implementing this!
Draft Mode lets you work on your profile and keep it invisible to the masses. It nice for those who like to get everything on it done before showing it to the world!
thax for the awesome idea!
thax for the awesome idea!
This is great!
Thank you, Kim, I was hoping for some way of hiding my characters from users under 18.
Draft mode I can also definitely see myself making use of, especially right now, throwing 99% of them under it when I get the chance, haha.
Thank you, Kim, I was hoping for some way of hiding my characters from users under 18.
Draft mode I can also definitely see myself making use of, especially right now, throwing 99% of them under it when I get the chance, haha.
This is wonderful Kim thank you!!!
*runs to throw 98% of my characters into draft mode oh no*
*runs to throw 98% of my characters into draft mode oh no*
Oh ok, i mustve accidentally missed that bit. Thanks kim!
"Draft mode characters are only visible to you until you decide they're ready for prime time."
It might just be me but what does draft mode do exactly? Im finding it a bit difficult to understand it's purpose...😅
Thank-you! 
Yes yes yes! Super!
Kim
January 19, 2022
12:38pm