It's been a little while but as promised, it's not been wasted time! Happy Tuesday updates!

What's new?

This update is packed with behind the scenes bits, stuff to make life easier for the Frankly team for the most part, but there's bits for everyone else too. We're now able to upload achievements on the fly without requiring a full website update, this includes birthday achievements for specific users (you might want to try writing a post that says "Happy birthday steve!" if you're reading this today (May 5th). 

But obviously, there's more, and the biggest thing is the introduction of the FranklyCloud!

FranklyCloud

We know that ever since we opened our doors, you've been begging for the ability to upload images to really customise your Profile's and posts. Obviously this has it's issues and drawbacks, the biggest being the risk of unsuitable content on our servers from a few bad characters that've previously cut short other great ventures from other community members. 

We've got a hesitant solution which we'll be slowly rolling out. 

The FranklyCloud works a lot like other "cloud based" storage you might be used to elsewhere. You can opt to either: 

  • Add an image from your ProImager saves (I'm aware the quality of these renders is a little fuzzy when adding to your cloud currently, this will be fixed over time but just be prepared for it them to be less sharp. 
  • Upload an image from your device. 

When you choose to upload an image from your device, we send the image via an encrypted connection to a third-party AI service which checks your imagery for NSFW content. This is somewhat relaxed, still allowing some 18+ focused content, but will (hopefully) block full frontal nudity and abuse. While we're confident this solution can work, it's obviously not flawless and as admins we have full control over the content you post. 

This new feature is available to you now, however, image uploads are currently disabled. As part of our safety system we have layers of accessibility to this new feature. At the time of publishing this article, our staff and content creator teams will gain access to image uploads. This is to ensure that everything is working as expected but also to be certain that it'll filter out exactly what we want it to avoid. When we're confident everything is working as expected, you'll be notified via the discord that image uploads are now available to all - then the fun really begins! 

Shortly after full access to file uploads, and assuming everything works, there'll be more options for you to add your custom imagery to your profiles too, really customising everything. 

Note: Your FranklyCloud will have a hard limit of files that can be added to it. Removing an image will delete it from our servers and therefore from wherever you've used this image too. There are future plans to give you more access to this space, but given this feature is in a trial state we've decided to keep it at a hard limit for now. 

Pinned Achievements

As well as the FranklyCloud and some UI redesign, you'll also notice the ability to pin an achievement to your Bio box. This is visible to other users when they visit your page, but also on the Community Posts page. Show off your bestest and rarest achievements!

More bits...

There's some more bits dotted around the site that've been changed/fixed. Obviously some UI bits, you can now click on users names and PFP's on Articles to visit their Profile directly, and there's the sweet smell of some fancy new Profile skins lurking in the air. It's worth having a good look around and seeing what's new! 

I also want to thank you all for still giving us your time and attention. We realise Origins is painfully quiet right now but the strong and mighty community keeps us chugging along. 

Much love, Steve xo