Update on the New Peer Review Process

A few weeks back, we annouced changes to the Peer Review process. I am making good on my promise to deliver our findings on what we have seen since we introduced these changes. These findings reflect activity in the month of November:

In total, 231,000 reviews were completed.
The average time a product was in Peer Review [...]

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Now Available – Choose Your Own Public Room Moderators!

Public Room Moderators
Public Room owners now have the ability to designate trusted friends as moderators (“mods”) of their rooms when they aren’t available. We hope all of you room owners are as happy to hear about this new (and heavily requested) feature, as we are to deliver it!
Designated moderators will now have the ability to [...]

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The New Peer Review Process

We’re very excited to announce that we’ve just overhauled the Peer Review process. In response to your persistent and valid concerns, we’ve introduced many changes which should help get new products into the Virtual Goods Catalog faster and with enhanced rating accuracy.
Who Can Participate in Peer Review?
First, we have broadened the eligibility of who can [...]

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New Peer Review Process

Since introducing the Peer Review (PR) process, we’ve heard the following persistent concerns:

Products take much too long to get through Peer Review.
Not enough people are reviewing products to keep up with daily product submissions.
Review delays lead to unmanageable Customer Support queues.
Reviewers routinely pass/fail products incorrectly to increase their Tier scores, to publish unsuitable for IMVU [...]

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New Friends Tool & Turbo Product Loading Turned on for All in Release 424.0

New Friends Tool
In response to the feedback many of you shared with us when we eliminated the separate Friends Window, we are pleased to announce that you can now easily access your friends from the New Friends Tool released in 424.0. Click here to download now. The Friends Tool is accessible from the lower right [...]

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New Turbo Product Loading in Release 423.0 – Turn it ‘On’ in Settings Mode to Experience it for Yourself!

Performance Improvements
We are ecstatic to announce that we’ve made significant improvements to product and room loading times in 3D Chat! To experience this enhanced turbo product loading, download Release 423.0 now. Long load times have historically been one of the biggest sources of community feedback, and we know smooth and immediate performance is extremely important [...]

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Public Rooms & Room Products

In an effort to offer the best possible experience to our users, we are making the following changes:

All existing Public Chat Rooms can only include “published” room products (i.e., products that have passed Peer Review). 
It will not be possible to visit Public Rooms based on unpublished room products.  These rooms will also not be possible [...]

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Wishlist Now Available in 3D Chat!

 Wishlist in 3D Chat
We are pleased to announce that you can now manage your wishlist from Shop Mode!  Add an item to your wishlist by clicking the star icon just below the product image. You can see your whole wishlist at any time by clicking the new “wishlist” tab in the Shop Mode (see screenshot [...]

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Goodbye, Friends Window! … Hello, New Avatar Menu!

Update – 9/29: Please see the latest blog post for details on several features released today based on the feedback you have shared with us. Click here for more information.
Update – 9/24: I wanted to assure all of you that we are reading all of the feedback and suggestions being posting here and on the forums on [...]

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Animation Frame Rate

Recently, we made a change to how animations play in IMVU. Now, all animations play at the speed that their Creators intended them to play.
It used to be that an animation would play at a different speed depending on how powerful your computer was. Even though the target frame rate was 30 frames per second, [...]

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