Two years in and over 4 million messages sent!
If you're not gonna stop then we're not gonna either!
New stickers for everybody! You get a three-eyed duck thing! And a sleepy octopus! And .... a jelly...cube...with... bones? Maybe those are french fries.
Because Kind Words is a chill place and strives to be a bit of the opposite of traditional social media, we don't flash a lot of numbers in the game. No online player count. No ticker with announcements or tournaments. (note to self: what would a Kind Words tournament be?) So every now and then we get two questions:
- Is anyone playing Kind Words?
- Is anyone moderating Kind Words?
The answer to both is: heck yes, all the time.
Usage goes up and down, but on a slow day, we're still transmitting a couple thousand letters between players.
And we are moderating constantly and always improving our moderation tools. For every update to the game, I make 10 updates to the backend. Faster, smarter, stronger, purpler. Also, we. Hold on. Duck...
Where was I? Anyways, speaking of moderation, with this update we're doing two things to help keep things kind and on-topic.
First, we're letting people directly delete responses they no longer want to have in their inboxes.
Second, we're going to ask you to confirm some things before you try to do them like... are you trying to send a stranger your discord handle? Or your email? And we'll gently remind you that we gotta keep it anonymous to keep it safe.
Full change notes:
- New room!
- New stickers!
- Added the ability to delete responses you've received.
- Sorted unopened letters to show up on top of your pile.
- Will ask you to confirm before sending if it looks like you're breaking rules.
- Prevented the escape key from erasing what you just typed.
- Updated to Unity 2020.3.16
Thanks once more for living this wild experiment in caring with us.
Yours,
Ziba & Luigi
