It's very common to enter rooms and find everyone silent for hours, making the rooms feel dead or like an avatar parking lot.
To fix this, I suggest a few changes.
AutoKick: Avatars who haven't spoken or moved for 30 minutes will be automatically kicked from the room.
BotDetector: Avatars who enter and leave rooms without saying anything or repeating the same message repeatedly will be detected and banned for 6 hours.
With these changes, the rooms will become more active and less frustrating.
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Sylaraiaposted
2 months ago
People parking in their own rooms isn't anyone else's business except their own, and it's not the problem with the platform. It's past policies that led to people doing what they currently do that is the problem. Criticism should be directed at the decision makers and not people sitting in rooms. I agree that customer retention is critical to IMVU - something they seemingly haven't been concerned about for years. When Vu rolled out their app it caused several huge problems, which have led to the current state of affairs:
1. App users had no way to track their avatar weight. This led to them being asked to lower kbs, and then screamed at by frustrated room owners. I should know - I was one such room owner. I was deluged by app users, sometimes hundreds in a day, and the whole experience made me regret running a club.
2. App users couldn't create public rooms. I'm older, and while I get that young people were raised on their phones, I cannot comprehend why they would choose the phone screen over a laptop - and yes, I've had conversations where app users who have admitted they have a laptop within arm's reach. Regardless, this made classic users feel used. I immediately realized that IMVU was relying on classic users to provide the rooms for app users. This only increased the clash between the user bases.
3. I have a friend who talks with staff. At the height of the app usage, when IMVU was running upwards of 200,000 people online at any given moment, IMVU quickly learned that the average app user account lifespan was 30 days. They also knew that the primary frustration that was causing users to leave was the lack of an avatar load weight tool. Here we are, five plus years later, and they've done nothing to fix it. Here's how I feel the script went - new user gets online, and does what we all did - loads up with poses and pets and goes into public rooms only to be screamed at about kbs or just booted upon entry. App user decides IMVU is full of A-holes, cancels account - and then tells all of their friends not to bother with IMVU - it's full of said A-holes, thus costing IMVU future customers.
This continued clash is undoubtedly the primary reason you see people parked in rooms nowadays. You ad to that IMVU never fixing classic, which has a list of performance and outdated issues longer than Santa's naughty list, and putting out a secondary platform that has to somehow remain in sync with classic and the app, which causes continuous stability issues, and you wind up with the current state of affairs.
I could actually go on for hours with all of the things wrong with IMVU, but at this moment, I see those as being the top of the stack of problems. So please stop focusing on users doing what they want in their own rooms, even if it is nothing at all. They're not monkeys placed there for your entertainment. Go start your own room and attract friends to hang with you instead of impeding upon other people's social rights.
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2 months ago
@Petrazenka you think its funny now, but this is exactly the kind of behavior that will make IMVU lose business and customers. Less and less people have been playing over time and this is 1 of the things people complain about the most on reddit. You should want to encourage new people to stay and welcome them. If you have the slightest care for this website, you should want to see this place grow. When you lose your old dinosaur account with all the money you've spent on it over the years, you'll have no one to blame but yourself and your friends....
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Sylaraiaposted
2 months ago
A. Do you know that they're not whispering?
B. If it's not your room - not your problem. If they want to be afk in their own rooms, that's their business. Room owners can boot people they don't want parked in their rooms.
C. All for the bot suggestion.
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Petrazenkaposted
2 months ago
Folk have the right to keep their personal conversations with others private and there is nothing you can do about it.
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Guestposted
2 months ago
If you want an entirely private conversation then go to a private room. Public rooms are for public conversations. Whispering is fine here and there but atp its abused.. why people dont make their rooms friends only when they only want to talk to their friends is beyond me. VIP also offers this service....
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Petrazenkaposted
5 months ago
If a public room with many folk seems silent then it often means that almost everyone is whispering.
Folk have the right to keep their personal conversations with others private; this is why VIP membership has become popular.
Folk also have the right to stay in the same spot even if you want them to move at least once every 30 minutes.
If you don't like the way other folk run their public rooms then you should make one with your own rules.
It's very common to enter rooms and find everyone silent for hours, making the rooms feel dead or like an avatar parking lot.
To fix this, I suggest a few changes.
AutoKick: Avatars who haven't spoken or moved for 30 minutes will be automatically kicked from the room.
BotDetector: Avatars who enter and leave rooms without saying anything or repeating the same message repeatedly will be detected and banned for 6 hours.
With these changes, the rooms will become more active and less frustrating.
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Sylaraia posted 2 months ago
People parking in their own rooms isn't anyone else's business except their own, and it's not the problem with the platform. It's past policies that led to people doing what they currently do that is the problem. Criticism should be directed at the decision makers and not people sitting in rooms. I agree that customer retention is critical to IMVU - something they seemingly haven't been concerned about for years. When Vu rolled out their app it caused several huge problems, which have led to the current state of affairs:
1. App users had no way to track their avatar weight. This led to them being asked to lower kbs, and then screamed at by frustrated room owners. I should know - I was one such room owner. I was deluged by app users, sometimes hundreds in a day, and the whole experience made me regret running a club.
2. App users couldn't create public rooms. I'm older, and while I get that young people were raised on their phones, I cannot comprehend why they would choose the phone screen over a laptop - and yes, I've had conversations where app users who have admitted they have a laptop within arm's reach. Regardless, this made classic users feel used. I immediately realized that IMVU was relying on classic users to provide the rooms for app users. This only increased the clash between the user bases.
3. I have a friend who talks with staff. At the height of the app usage, when IMVU was running upwards of 200,000 people online at any given moment, IMVU quickly learned that the average app user account lifespan was 30 days. They also knew that the primary frustration that was causing users to leave was the lack of an avatar load weight tool. Here we are, five plus years later, and they've done nothing to fix it. Here's how I feel the script went - new user gets online, and does what we all did - loads up with poses and pets and goes into public rooms only to be screamed at about kbs or just booted upon entry. App user decides IMVU is full of A-holes, cancels account - and then tells all of their friends not to bother with IMVU - it's full of said A-holes, thus costing IMVU future customers.
This continued clash is undoubtedly the primary reason you see people parked in rooms nowadays. You ad to that IMVU never fixing classic, which has a list of performance and outdated issues longer than Santa's naughty list, and putting out a secondary platform that has to somehow remain in sync with classic and the app, which causes continuous stability issues, and you wind up with the current state of affairs.
I could actually go on for hours with all of the things wrong with IMVU, but at this moment, I see those as being the top of the stack of problems. So please stop focusing on users doing what they want in their own rooms, even if it is nothing at all. They're not monkeys placed there for your entertainment. Go start your own room and attract friends to hang with you instead of impeding upon other people's social rights.
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Guest posted 2 months ago
@Petrazenka you think its funny now, but this is exactly the kind of behavior that will make IMVU lose business and customers. Less and less people have been playing over time and this is 1 of the things people complain about the most on reddit. You should want to encourage new people to stay and welcome them. If you have the slightest care for this website, you should want to see this place grow. When you lose your old dinosaur account with all the money you've spent on it over the years, you'll have no one to blame but yourself and your friends....
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Sylaraia posted 2 months ago
A. Do you know that they're not whispering?
B. If it's not your room - not your problem. If they want to be afk in their own rooms, that's their business. Room owners can boot people they don't want parked in their rooms.
C. All for the bot suggestion.
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Petrazenka posted 2 months ago
Folk have the right to keep their personal conversations with others private and there is nothing you can do about it.
SMILES
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Guest posted 2 months ago
If you want an entirely private conversation then go to a private room. Public rooms are for public conversations. Whispering is fine here and there but atp its abused.. why people dont make their rooms friends only when they only want to talk to their friends is beyond me. VIP also offers this service....
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Petrazenka posted 5 months ago
If a public room with many folk seems silent then it often means that almost everyone is whispering.
Folk have the right to keep their personal conversations with others private; this is why VIP membership has become popular.
Folk also have the right to stay in the same spot even if you want them to move at least once every 30 minutes.
If you don't like the way other folk run their public rooms then you should make one with your own rules.
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