Hello! Happy Tuesday again! I have no idea why the update has landed on a Tuesday 2 weeks running but at some point we'll need to come up with a better name than "Tuesday Updates"...

So what's new this week? Lobby Burst v2: UltraBubbleMegaPop? No.. not quite.. yet...

Profile Skins!

Profile skins! You asked for more customisation options, we're delivering it - for a price! Now available in Frank's Stamp Shack you'll find three new profile skins available to redeem your completed stamp cards for. Be warned, these skins aren't cheap costing 30 completed stamp cards each.

In honour of the release of profile skins we're giving you a 17% discount on profile skins until 25th April. Bringing the cost per skin down to 25 stamp cards each! We hope this gives everyone enough time to at the very least earn themselves one skin but it's worth knowing that it equates to about the cost of 5-6 submitted wins on Lobby Burst!

Statuses & the FranklySphere

Also new to your profile is a visually pleasing box - statuses! A status is a snapshot, a moment of your time - what show are you watching in the background? Got a tune stuck in your head? Read a good (or questionable) book? Statuses let you tell your friends what the vibe is and make your profile look great while doing it. 

So you can see your own statuses, and your friends reading 50 Shades of Grey (or worse), but how do I see what everyone else is vibing with? Frank has a special secret for that. 

After the recent installation of the Habbo Hotel: Origins spaceport (you've not been there yet, but trust us, it probably exists in the lore somewhere). Frank discovered a strange source of community spirit in the far reaches of the Habboverse. This strange source appears as a sort of orb, or globe, and seems to be made up of everything the community loves! He's set a webcam up for the hotel to see - it's on lan and we're not sure how he got the cable up there. You can view it with the FranklySphere tab in your status box!

Frank's Stamp Shack Revamp!

We loved the sticky notes as much as you did, but let's be honest, it wasn't practical in the slightest. I've never been blinded by a virtual sticky note at 3am before until the Stamp Shack existed. So, we've given it a little functionality face-lift! 

The sticky notes still remain as Frank's Featured Items. These will be the 3 items that are new, or we think might be best for you to have right now. 

Underneath the stickies, you'll find a neat little console shop for all your Stamp Shack needs. It's even more practical on mobile, it's a miracle! 

Other minor updates/fixes/stuff

Profile Privacy

Remember that thing we released that did nothing at all? That's now working correctly! You can decide whether your profile should be publicly available to users who aren't logged in, or if you want to keep it private and only for your Frankly crew. 

Profile Box Visibility

You now have the option to hide individual boxes on your profiles with three visibility options: Visible, Hidden for guests, Hidden. This doesn't include every box, the following boxes cannot be hidden: 

  • Your Bio
  • Your Posts
  • Your Achievements
  • Your Friends box can be hidden from guest view, but you can't hide it from yourself completely (those top friends just won't get away from you, will they?)

This also includes the introduction of the "Preview as Guest" toggle you'll find in edit mode. This lets you see your profile the same way another member would see it (not a logged out member, your profile visibility cannot be previewed in this way). 

Colour Pickers

We heard you! Those colour pickers that were a pain to find the hex code on?! A thing of the past! We now have our own custom colour picker to make your lives just that little bit easier. 

St. Patricks Day Achievement

Happy Saint Paddy's day! Grab your free achievement in the Stamp Shack - available until Sunday 22nd (at whatever time I decide to snatch it away mwahahahahahaha)!

ProImager issues & what's happening...

A few of you may have noticed there's a number of issues with the current version of the ProImager. As we've said from the start, this tool is in beta and we're actively developing it. At this current moment in time we have a more updated version of the ProImager which is a lot more reliable and user friendly. This tool is being actively beta tested by our staff team for social graphics & article imagery but it's looking much better. 

We're not releasing this new version to you today, we have a couple more things we need to do with it first, but please don't be disheartened or think we've forgotten about it, you'll just have a much more reliable version very (very) soon. 

On a similar tone...

We're still very grateful for the feedback and appreciate the ideas that pop into your heads, even if they don't make it to fruition in the way you'd hoped. We're actively trying to cycle through existing and new features to make sure it's all being improved and we're at a point we want to be as a fansite. 

From every member of the team, but especially me (maybe Rhyss too idk he's probably in Greggs stressing over sausage rolls), thank you for sticking with us and helping make Frankly something special <3

Steve xox