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Site news #6: Federations, Donations and More!

Hello!

After a year plus change, we are unveiling our biggest Site Update yet!

Long version


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The main event The 2nd most voted request (after ‘time zones’, which we released in November) was ‘a group feature with admin control.’ Today, after over a month of development and after a week of beta testing (many THANKS to the testers!!), the main attaction of this update, our Federation Page, is released!

Federations allow you to create and control your universe. Other characters can join your Federation, which will be visible on the character sheet. You can directly add pictures, files(!), and stories. For Stories, a separate tag system was created to categorize the incoming stories inside your Federation. The Federation comes with its editor to give you maximum flexibility.

A few Federation bullet points:

Here are a few examples of what the Federation System can be used:

As you see, we tried our best to make Federations as flexible and customizable as possible. There is no need to represent the classical meaning of ‘Federation.’ Use the system for whatever you need it! Have a look at our already existing Federations to get inspired! And maybe join a few of them. As you can own (or join) as many Federations as you want, you can create a new Federation for every new world or universe you come up with.

Try it out and check the DEMO Federation to get an overview of what is possible!

A word of warning

Careful! The public control requires some trust between Federation Admin and joining characters. Keep in mind, You always have full control over your character. You can leave a Federation at any time, which will remove all ranks from your profile. And Admins can remove any member in a Federation at any time. If in doubt, I recommend creating a secondary Character to join or start the Federation. Remember, ChatFighters allows you to use multiple Characters simultaneously. I encourage you to have fun and try new things, New characters, join or create a new Federation, and if it does not work out, use the ‘delete’ button. Just be so lovely and let your Cyber partners know. But there is no need to argue with them.

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Shameless begging So first: do not worry. Donations and Federations are not related to each other. Everyone can create as many Federations as needed. ChatFighters is free and remains free, including 100% advertising free. (Have a look at MeetFighters.com: 11 years FREE thanks to donations). We show respect for your privacy and mental health by not including advertising that tracks you

If you genuinely enjoy our site and want to support us, you can do that now. The only ‘reward’ and ‘benefit’ will be a Medal on your Character sheet and in the Chat, showing that you are a donating member.

This means you won’t have any negative experience on this site or miss out on something if you decide not to donate.
You can only donate after 30 days, membership. (Get familiar with the site first, then if you wish, give us your money).
It was not easy to find a good donation model for ChatFighters since you can operate multiple Characters. Suppose all your characters get a medal. In that case, that might reveal their identity. It might feel unfair if you have 15 Characters with a Medal. In contrast, someone else got for the same money, only one. Buying a pool of medals and flexibly assigning them sounded too complicated and opened the possibility of abuse.
In the end, a simple solution was chosen: 1 Donation Medal goes to 1 Character. This can be your own, or to someone else as a gift. Donation Medals last for one year (all except one).

The donation page and our FAQ provides more details and full transparency.
Thank you very much for even considering a donation!

And as always, this is Version 1.0 for Federations and for Donations. Let us know your feedback, bugs, or improvement ideas. We have some plans for Federations 2.0, but you know we are always trying to include your input!

Where to go next?

Stay safe, stay healthy!

Best Regards,
The Tech

Last edited on 2021-01-15 17:36 by The Tech
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Starfox

2021-01-16 00:41

AWESOME update Tech and Crew (no techie is an island, or some such)! Appreciate everythning you do for us and for the community writ large!


shbwrestler

2021-01-16 04:36

Very good improvements. Thanks a lot.


Alexander Friers

2021-01-16 16:07

I quite enjoy a few of these updates the federations are pretty cool, but Im not sure I see the point to limiting the tags or the amount of characters one is allowed on. Characters for instance if your playing with a lot of people roleplaying wise, I'd now have to jump back out of chat to get the right character on and hope the other character I'm also playing with with another person doesn't disable? This seem forgive my rudeness not very thought out and unreasonably constricting. Is there a reason you put this in place, when it all seemed fine before?



Ivan the Titan

2021-01-16 16:27

Why limiting tags to only 12? There are more than 60 to choose from! Twelve are too few if we want to make the others know what we're looking for.
Please allow at least 20 tags or we'll have people asking "what are you into?" over and over again, instead of finding like-minded fighters at a glance. Thanks.


The Tech

2021-01-16 19:28

Site post-Update 1.1:

Help page for donations created.
Help page for federations created.

Federation 1.1

  • Bouncers now have the 'EDIT member' button on the Fed-Admin Page.
  • Fed-Admins receive a notification when a member or story waits for approval.
  • Small adjustments to the Federation main page including more filter options.
  • Small bugfixes

Other changes: