Posted by Kim on June 11, 2010, 1:00am
You've been asking, I've been working, and now it's finally here; As of today, you can befriend other players directly. To get started, go to a player profile and choose "Befriend".This update also brings a number of other small changes to the site. Most noticeably, your dashboard now has an extra level of navigation on the top bar, so that settings like email preferences and password changing can be gathered in a place separate from where you edit your public profile information. It seemed to confused people when it was all crumpled together, so I hope that this new organization will be more intuitive. Of course, this same bar has a link to see all your friends, too.
Speaking of viewing all your friends, friend lists have been made more useful. Friend names for both players and characters have been turned into links so you can visit their profiles quickly, and a link to message your friends has been placed next to all their names.
Search results have also been upgraded. Previously, the different ways that people might enter a url pointing to the very same page was fracturing search results. For example, if you were to conduct a search for http://www.elderscrolls.com/, you wouldn't be able to see http://elderscrolls.com/ or http://elderscrolls.com
Don't see the difference? Most people don't, but computers are annoyingly picky like that. Let me put them one on top of the other, and see if you can spot the difference.
http://www.elderscrolls.com/
http://www.elderscrolls.com
http://elderscrolls.com/
http://elderscrolls.com
Notice that some versions of the address have a trailing slash, and some have a www. Previously, searching for any one of the above would return only those results that perfectly matched what you'd typed. Now, entering a url for a game will result in the database being searched for all four of the above possible combinations of www's and trailing slashes.
As always, if you find something not working like it should, report it so I can fix it for everyone.
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Ah, that seems like a viable option...
If you think it might be a good idea, however, I had thought of making an option to block characters individually, or block users, excluding their anonymous characters (like when adding friends). That way, people would still be able to receive messages from anonymous characters from the user they blocked. Like, if they had a roleplay going with that specific character, and they block the user who's using the character, and suddenly they stop receiving messages... that might tip them off. o_O
If you think it might be a good idea, however, I had thought of making an option to block characters individually, or block users, excluding their anonymous characters (like when adding friends). That way, people would still be able to receive messages from anonymous characters from the user they blocked. Like, if they had a roleplay going with that specific character, and they block the user who's using the character, and suddenly they stop receiving messages... that might tip them off. o_O
Blocking is nearly done, complete with the ability to block users even if they are talking to you through anonymous characters and still not violate their privacy. However, I'd love to have your input in case you have a great idea that hasn't occurred to me!
Great! 
By the way, I don't know if a way has been found to block users efficiently, but I might have a suggestion if none has been found as of yet.
By the way, I don't know if a way has been found to block users efficiently, but I might have a suggestion if none has been found as of yet.
Haha, that's great! c: Thanks for adding this to the site!
Kim
June 11, 2010
7:39pm
My thoughts on that are, if someone is harassing me, I want to be able to make them stop with a single button, not go searching for all the player's characters to block one at a time. Potentially they could have 10 anonymous characters, which would mean I couldn't find out who all their characters were until they chose to send me something nasty from each one. That's 11 nasty messages from one person I'd have to sit through to fully block a mean user! And that's assuming they don't keep deleting their characters and making new ones, meaning a potentially infinite number of new nasty messages I would have to waste my time trying to block and having it not work. If we block users and their characters except for their anonymous characters, we run into the same problem, that they could continue to harass us with as many anonymous characters as they felt like creating.
Personally, I wouldn't want to RP with someone so mean I had to block them, even if they weren't being mean to me with their secret character.