Roadmap for the rest of the year & a little message about site gu...

Hi everyone,

So I Just wanted to make a little (or maybe not so little) post about the plan for the site up until the end of the year.

1) Complete and polish off current features:

So obviously at the moment there are a tonne of things you can do on the site but a lot of them are unfinished or do not work quite as well as the others. An example would be if someone comments on an Ownership post it won't go to the top of the news feed like other posts would do, you also don't get notifications for some things when people comment on them, this will be fixed too. This was an oversight on my part. The site was put together in a bit of a hurry and is in some parts 'mashed' together. When I started this place my coding knowledge was a little limited, but over the last 2 years that has obviously grown. I plan to go back over the earlier plugins and make them more integrated with the rest of the site, adding in new functionality and really making them work as the newer features do. This will mean though that for the time being new big changes will not be happening.

2) Create a better mobile experience:

Mobile tech is obviously becoming more and more popular and I plan to make the site more mobile friendly. This was already started a few weeks ago, and I am sure a lot of you will agree that the mobile experience is now a LOT better, but it still needs work. As part of this new mobile experience things like the messaging system will be given a complete overhaul to make it work with Apple devices. The messaging system will be the only part of the site to get a major re-work as part of the mobile upgrade.

3) Better security:

I take your security VERY seriously and soon I will be implementing SSL encryption to the site. When you buy Tips Verotel already provide this service so your card details are safe, but I will be rolling this out across the entire site. I know some of you like to allow Masters access to your profiles and even PC's via things like TeamViewer and I can't stop that, but when you use the site at least you'll have a secure connection.

4) Visual refresh:

Nothing major, but still helpful little pieces here and there. You'll notice the new changes to the news feed so it is now easier and more obvious on how to Tip members etc. There were also the new changes to the avatars to make ownership more obvious. So there will be more little changes like that. There will also be updates to profiles to make things such as what users are into and after more clear.

I think up until the new year this is realistically everything I could accomplish. I have a lot more planned clearly but that will need to wait for the new year.

As always I am trying to build this into a great community. I want something different to the others, and based on what you say I am on the right track.

In order to get there though I need your help, and I would really appreciate it if people re-read the Terms & Conditions, Content Guidelines and things like the Chat Room Rules.

They are there to make sure that we can all play safe, view original high quality content and really have a site that we can be proud to be apart of. If we stick to our guns our quality will outshine the other sites.

Thanks again for being apart of the site, here's to sailing into the new year (Y)

MoA

New Feature: Slave service availability

This is now live and slaves can set themselves as available for service from the console menu along the top of the site.

Masters who constantly ask for tribute from slaves who are not set in service mode will be given temporary bans.

Slaves ready for service will have an icon on the bottom left of their avatar and also a notice will be on their profile.

Please respect when a slave is ready for service and when they are not.

Many thanks.

New Feature: Slave availability

From next week a new feature is going to be introduced for slaves.

Slaves will have the option as setting themselves available for service or not available.

When they set themselves as available a little icon will show on their avatar and profile, slaves should ONLY then be approached for Tips and service if this icon is shown.

I have been getting messages from slaves saying they are put off using the site as every time they come on-line and post something or enter chat they are harassed for payment.

This new system will clearly show who is ready to serve and who is not.

Masters found to be harassing slaves for payment who have not set themselves as available will be given temporary bans.