News Archive: Week 29, 2020

Thank you for the enthusiasm for our new subscriptions! We've signed up hundreds of users and have started collecting excellent feedback from the first week of use.

We have an update for users who had existing stripe "pay and save" subscriptions, or who had purchased months of GA at a time. First, thank you to everyone who purchased more than one month of GA at a time, your faith in the site is 😍 what keeps us going.

First, we added PayPal as a payment option! We're looking into adding more payment options including apple pay and google pay in the upcoming weeks. If there is a payment processor that is used in your home country that would make signing up easier, please let us know as well.

Second, If you have 2+ months of gold account and would like to subscribe for the new subscriptions, please make a create a ticket and a UA will convert your remaining GA time in cash shop credits (rounded up, of course) so you won't be wasting that perk of the subscriptions.

We're also aware of a small number of users who are unable to register for the new subscriptions (they get sent to the "thank you" page page, but with no charge to their card or subscription benefits) and we are working to resolve that as soon as possible.

Thanks again everyone!

Have you spotted Quentin’s newest Quest Shop items?

Stomp around your home in these revamped mortiking slippers!

Do you have this plushie in your collection?

This new moisturizer from Elysian is heaven on the eyes!

With the introduction of the our new subscriptions (thank you to everyone who has subscribed already!!) and custom wearable vouchers we're looking to shake up the custom wearable market. BUT we want to share the decision making for the market that so many of you have poured so much creative energy, time and money into.

The concept and rules for custom wearables come from a long time ago, when we were worried about them overrunning the site completely with hundreds of items. 😆 Well, we're now at tens of thousand items on the site and I believe we've crossed that bridge. Thousands of times. So, the new focus and guiding light for the CW market is to make it as easy and efficient as possible to submit an item and get it on the site, and just as easy to find the perfect CW to complete your outfit, for as few CSC as possible to continue to support the site.

We're starting to find where our creative focus is best spent (plots! events! features!) and it's not on pumping out new wearables (y'all have that COVERED), so, we're putting together a small group of users to work with us on three specific, near term goals:

1. Rules and Acceptance Criteria: The rules for custom wearables were made a long time ago, when we were worried about them overrunning the site completely. Well, we're now at tens of thousand items on the site and I believe we've crossed that bridge. So, my new focus for the CW market is to make it as easy and efficient as possible to submit an item and get it on the site, and just as easy to find the perfect CW to complete your outfit, for cheap.
2. Approval / Denial Process: If we relax the rules and lower the price (!) we expect significantly more items to come into the queue. We're interested in a solution where users can give each other feedback, and be part of the process for approving the items onto the site.
3. Pricing: If we make it easier to submit new items, we also want to lower the prices. Find a way to remove the slotting process overall and move all CW purchases to the shops (giving the submitter multiple copies, and reducing the price to shop are options) to streamline finding CWs to wear and buy.

These goals push us to make the market sustainable so that we have the resources to continue to build and improve the wardrobe and the other areas of the site and focus our staff creative energy building those long term goals. We're starting to reach out to users that we would like to be involved in this council this week, but if you would like to put your name in the ring please send me a smail with what you think you'll be able to bring to the above discussions. We're looking for people passionate about the CW market, from someone who just has an interest in custom wearables to someone who has submitted hundreds of items to the site.

The outfits page has been given a boost, with lots of new features!

➕ You can now browse publicly saved outfits! ➕ You can now search by username! 🔜 Autocomplete that field. Right now you have to fully type the correct username ☹️ ➕ You can set your outfits between public and private. Your public outfits will show up in the public view! ➕ You can add items to your avatar from outfits without needing to put the whole thing on 📈 You can search by "most popular" which will show avatars that have been viewed and shared the most on the forums! 🧑 The very start of user profiles are coming together! You can click on the user who owns an outfit, and then the "view all outfits" directly from that page 🔜 A "block" showing recently public created avatars, and removing all of the fake stuff from that page. No real design for this yet 💬If you share the URL for your outfit, non-logged in Subeta users can view it! (this isn't great right now, it doesn't tell them to sign up or anything...) 👍🏼 It will also now have the correct meta tags, so if you drop the link in your discord, it'll show the image of the avatar! 🐛 All of the bugs with hair, and wearing your old outfits, should be resolved!