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Emotes on your video
Reacting with an avatar emote will now trigger the emote to display over your avatar
and your video
.
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🆕 New emote: Pumpkin
🍂 Happy Fall to all! To celebrate, we've added a new
pumpkin emote
for when you're feeling in the Fall spirit, or perhaps a bit gourd-ish!
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🦾 More performance updates in worlds
You may notice improved performance in the following areas: While entering worlds, connecting and disconnecting to others by video and audio, moving your avatar or observing other avatars move, and throwing emotes and gestures.

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World performance improvements
Topia's engineering team has been hard at work optimizing performance in multiple areas of our platform. This week, we're beginning to roll out updates that will improve resource and memory consumption in worlds. Users on older devices or slower internet connections should see improved performance in worlds.
👍 New emotes
Cry tears of joy or sadness, give a side-eye glance of mystery, and more.
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🏋️ Performance & Layout Improvements
Here are the areas where you'll notice the improvements:
  • Quicker load times to enter the world and once you’re in the world.
  • Standardized layout across Dashboard.
📃 
Report a Channel Message
Use the triple dot action on any Channel Message to submit a report.
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📺 New Setting: Video Scale
Use this setting to increase or decrease the scale of all video tiles (for example, videos of other users you connect to and media, like YouTube or Twitch videos). It can be found in the Settings drawer of My Account.
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Report a Direct Message
Use the triple dot action on any Direct Message to submit a report.
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Table view for sessions and session length
Click “View Table” on the Sessions or Average Session Length graphs for your worlds to access the new table view. From here, you can filter by date range and export to a CSV.
  • Note:
    This means that all analytics for an individual world now have a table view and are exportable.
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Screenshare for admins only
World owners and admins can now customize screenshare to be available for everyone, admins only, or no one from the updated “Screenshare” setting in General Guest Controls (World Settings).
⚖️ Simplified toolbar while entering worlds
Help, Create World, and World Settings (World Owners and Admins only) will be accessible when viewing the enter world screen. Social Hub and Messages can be accessed from Dashboard and inside worlds, and Library from inside worlds.

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📋 Reports in Dashboard
World owners, Mangers, Producers, and Moderators will have access to the Reports page in Dashboard. On the reports page, these users will see reports for worlds they own or have the previously mentioned admin permissions. Click the "View Report" action to see additional details about the report and users involved in the report.
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Dashboard: Export analytics
All analytics tables now have an export button, which exports the current dataset you’re viewing to a CSV.
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Self-serve demo world creation is back!
Click
create world
from worlds or dashboard and choose "Demo" to create a free world at any time.

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👯 Group messages in worlds
Open the messages drawer and click Direct Messages to respond to existing messages or to start a new message. Click the plus (+) button and choose “New Group” to start a new group message.
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🚪 Close World
World Owners and Moderators can go to Authentication (World Settings) to access the new “Close World” settings. When toggled on, guests will be removed from the world and unable to reenter. Admins can add a Description explaining why the world is closed for guests who try to enter the world.
- 🗒️ Note:
World admins can still enter worlds that are closed.
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🤝 View friends in Dashboard
Go to Social Hub in Dashboard to manage friend requests, portal to, message, and remove friends.
Social Hub
🧞‍♀️ Add friends by username in Dashboard
Click the “Add Friend” button and enter a username to find someone by their username from Dashboard. Once found, you can send them a friend request.
  • Note:
    Username search supports an exact match only. Also, send friend request by email is not supported on Dashboard.
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👩‍🚀 View and edit profiles in Dashboard
Users who have signed in to Dashboard can view your profile using your unique URL or the View Profile action if you’re friends.
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Also, profile editing has moved to Dashboard. Click “View Profile” in the account dropdown (top-right hand corner of Dashboard) and then use the edit action to make changes.
  • Note:
    Profile editing will no longer be available in worlds, though there will still be an option in My Account that redirects you to Dashboard.
Edit Profile
📫 Send friend requests from more places
The “Send Friend Request” action has been added to the profile summary (click a user’s name or profile picture to access this) in Current Guests and Channels. Also, you can now view your own profile by clicking “View Profile” from your own profile summary.
🐃 Usernames and Profile Names for all
Everyone who uses Dashboard or worlds will be given an auto-generated Username and Profile Name, which can be changed at any time from the Edit Profile page in Dashboard. These will be used as the primary labels to identify other users in Social Hub and Messages.

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💬 Create new messages in Dashboard
Create a new message by clicking the new plus (+) button from Messages in Dashboard. This will give you a list of friends and users that you have previously direct messaged. Messages that you create from Dashboard will also be available in worlds.
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👯 Group messages in Dashboard
Use the “New Group” option while creating a new message in Dashboard to create a new group message. Once in a group message, you can add or remove participants and close the group (if you're a Group Admin) and leave the group (if you're a participant).
  • Note:
    Group messages can only be created with friends.
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🦋 New Avatar: Butterfly
Fly, soar, and sit on a flower as the Butterfly. Oh, and a plant will grow from the ground when you throw any emote!
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✋ New Emote: Raise Hand
Use this new emote to let others know you have a question, or just have something to say!
Note:
This emote is only available with the Original Topi.
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🖱️ [Beta] Interactive Layer
This new Modify Asset setting allows world builders to choose which layer (top, bottom, all) is interactive for guests. After you’ve chosen an option and added a Link, an outline will display around the interactive layer while in edit mode. You can use this to verify that the correct layer is interactive before you finish editing.
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