Release 458.0 and prereleases 458.n

Hotstuff5743 · Joined: 11 Jun 2008 Posts: 106 Location: Canada

not sure if anybody has picked up on this outstanding bug but if your in a chat room with a friend for one on one private chat if you go to change scenes/rooms the room that you've changed too only partially loads leaving both you and your friend with a half loaded room or a loaded room with stuff missing. It forces u to have to close that chat room and reopen a new room and reinviting your friend.
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JasonDevi · Joined: 13 Apr 2009 Posts: 204 Location: USA - CO

only 2 things I've noticed so far. Haven't gone pvt from room to room yet tho. When you do a chat room search and use a filter like Favs, when you remove that filter, it doesn't really remove. The only way to refresh your listing is to exit the chat rooms tab and re-enter. Also I agree that we are in desperate need of the tool tips in our inventory. A lot of devs use generic images for all their products and now it takes longer to find an item.

MartineUK · Joined: 22 Feb 2011 Posts: 101 Location: United Kingdom

JasonDevi · Joined: 13 Apr 2009 Posts: 204 Location: USA - CO

lol true... Seems every upgrade gives you less. So it is a downgrade.

sintek · Joined: 18 Feb 2007 Posts: 555 Location: United Kingdom

There are certain laws surrounding this subject, possibly their own Americans With Disabilities Act but definately the Equality Act here in the United Kingdom.

Firstly we need to know about the eye conditions that IMVU use can worsen.

Photosensitive Epilepsy
Photosensitive epilepsy (PSE) is a form of epilepsy in which seizures are triggered by visual stimuli that form patterns in time or space, such as flashing lights, bold, regular patterns, or regular moving patterns.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosensitive_epilepsy

Nystagmus
Nystagmus is a form of involuntary eye movement. It is characterized by alternating smooth pursuit in one direction and saccadic movement in the other direction.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathologic_nystagmus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdU_2DWI7cY

IMVU use can make these conditions worse with the use of the animation used, by allowing all IMVUsers to option to alter this animation within the chat client you are allowing them the choice to use, increase, and decrease the animations speed allowing them to sue your service for longer periods without experiencing a medical side effect to doing so.

One of the problems with the 2 above issues is that 90% of the population do not even know they may experience such an eye condition until it is too late, so by not offering the user option to alter the animation speed to all IMVUsers you are actually breaking certain laws by treating some less favourably than others.

it has been found that 1 in 2000 people actually have some form of Nystagmus http://www.umaeyehospital.com/nystagmus-a-little-known-yet-surprisingly-common-eye-condition/ and with an average IMVUser number of 100,000 by not allowing this simple option to be included in all versions of the IMVU chat client you are or may be potentially effecting or making the eye sight worse of approximately 5000 people.

LordRiccardo · Joined: 30 Jan 2009 Posts: 13707 Location: United Kingdom

JasonDevi · Joined: 13 Apr 2009 Posts: 204 Location: USA - CO

sintek · Joined: 18 Feb 2007 Posts: 555 Location: United Kingdom

Laele75 · Joined: 29 Nov 2006 Posts: 5895 Location: USA - WA

I think what sintek (and I as well) are saying is if they give everybody the slider, then it doesn't matter. Yeah, strobe effects still bug me, but I avoid rooms that have them. (Seriously, if you have PSE or any other form of photosensitivity, DO NOT GO IN rooms marked as raves, neon, or even disco, have some common sense as well.)

I do resent the opinion not to buy in. I developed migraines a year after I started using this program. I'd already bought in. It's not unreasonable to ask for a useful feature that helps me control my serious medical issue without bothering anybody else.

Also, you can use the slider to speed up the animation, which is helpful for people with bad connections and slow processors so they're not seeing everything in slow motion.

In the end, it's pushing for a USEFUL FEATURE that already works and people enjoy. On top of the other benefits listed here.
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LokiDarkfire · Joined: 22 Apr 2008 Posts: 86 Location: United Kingdom

i just thought id mention that its all well and good saying not to go in these rooms with the flashing lights and such to avoid them and how the slider ment you didnt have to but theres always the other side of things, what if, like me you already do avoid these rooms? in context i tend to spend most of my time ina room called brains required where animations are not welcome at all, but we still get trolls coming in deliberately breaking said ruel jsut to spam the room with flashy animations people dont care enough about others and without that slider people are goign to have no choise but to suffer, and eventually, leave imvu

RinaFanel13 · Joined: 25 Nov 2009 Posts: 5640 Location: USA - CO

I have a friend with epilepsy and she LIKES to rave, but she can't do it in real life. IMVU was her haven to do so. She could turn down the animations and still enjoy the music and the bright colors. Now she can't even enjoy what she loves because she has to avoid all her rooms. What sucks is she couldn't even handle the animations that were brought in the imvu store. Now what is she supposed to do? Quit IMVU and all of her friends? Thanks guys. It's obvious that you don't want to be friendly with people who have certain kinds of disabilities.

Hotstuff5743 · Joined: 11 Jun 2008 Posts: 106 Location: Canada

for all the ppl harping/whining about the slider all it did was just change ur chat clients FPS rate. for me all it did was either speed up imvu or slow it down. i think it wasn't meant for ppl with photo sensitivity issues because imvu warns u in it's TOS about photo sensitivity issue, where u should and shouldn't go. all the slider really did was help older, slower outdated and i mean computers that were 5-10yrs old with a video card that's original card or graphics chip built into the motherboard to be able to run the higher direct X9C, DX10, DX11 as well as Open GL's 1, 2 and 3.

just be thankful that IMVU isn't as graphically rendered as something like Second Life because then 3/4 of the ppl here wouldn't be able to run it unless they either had a high processing powered top of the line graphics card or they ran the special beta version.
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JasonDevi · Joined: 13 Apr 2009 Posts: 204 Location: USA - CO

MinhyrdinWindrose · Moderator Joined: 13 Mar 2007 Posts: 15671 Location: USA

Locking since we have a new release out: 459.x.

You can continue the slider debate here.
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