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Building upon the recently released “My Opinions” feature we’ve just added a couple of tag clouds to the Search page. What is a tag cloud? Here’s how Wikipedia defines it:

A tag cloud is a visual depiction of user-generated tags, typically used to describe the content of web sites. Tags are normally listed alphabetically, and the importance of a tag is shown with font size or color. Thus, both finding a tag by alphabet and by popularity is possible. The tags are usually hyperlinks that lead to a collection of items that are associated with a tag.

So based on the popularity of things that people like & what they dislike, we are able to generate a tag cloud for MFI. Here’s a screenshot of what the ladies of MyFreeImplants like/dislike most:

If you go to the actual page (just go to the Benefactor/Model Search page and scroll down) you can click on any of the words in the cloud which will run a search for that term to show all of the people that share that same opinion. Hopefully this will help a lot more people find more people that have similar taste to each other — or different taste if that’s your thing.

The lists are completely dynamic so as you add more items to your “My Opinions” lists, and other people also add those items, the cloud will change to reflect the most popular values in real time.

Helpful Tip: To get the most out of this feature, you should generally use common words/spellings for things. So for example: “boobs” vs. “boobies” vs. “my boobs” vs. “big boobs” are all different tags. So using the more generic version of just “boobs” will probably hold more weight as more people will have the exact same spelling as you. Similarly if you put additional characters like “~*boobs*~ !!!!! ” that too probably won’t do you much good since NO ONE ELSE is going to spell it the same way and it will then be harder for people find you as a match!

Here’s the science to prove it

We just took a first stab at a “system to recognize long time members” based on an extensive review of many of the comments left. Upon your premium membership subscription renewal we are factoring in your length of membership and awarding you 5 bonus free message credits for every year that you’ve been a member. So for example if you’ve been here from the start (2005), you’ll now receive 25 free credits (5 credits X 5 years = 25 credits) with every automatic renewal, along with your regular 5 paid credits. That’s 30 message credits each month!

Some of the veterans have some of the best advice for new girls, and so hopefully you can now pass along your wise words of advice and encouragement to new ladies at no additional cost to you.

You will need to have at least a C-Cup or DD-Cup membership level at the time of the auto-renewal in order to take advantage of this offer but it’s okay if you had a lapse in membership (or need to take a temporary break) as it’s based purely on when you originally created your account. We feel this method struck a balance between most of the concerns voiced for privacy of the reward since only you know how many credits you have, and only you know what subscription level you have.

We’re going to leave the feedback forum item open with a “started” status for a while in case anyone else has other ideas to contribute, as we view this as only 1 piece of the puzzle in recognizing the veterans here.

SAY WHAT!?

Yeah, that’s the result of a very preliminary aggregated report of what people generally dislike on MFI:

1. liars
2. Rude people
3. Ignorance
4. Lies
5. Arrogance
6. Cats
7. Drugs
8. greed

However, if you’re a voluptuous chocolate labrador retriever & chihuahua mix, then you are sure to be mans best friend and garner lots of respect, as indicated by the top liked items.

1. Boobs
2. HONESTY
3. Dogs
4. Respect
5. Friendship
6. chocolate
7. Latinas
8. Photography

We’re looking for a few good men.

Now accepting applications for technicians!

Just rolled out a quick update to fix an annoying feature when you blocked someone and they then tried to send you a chat. Previously the person you blocked could keep requesting chats, and you would be subjected to repeated annoying pop-up windows notifying you that someone you blocked was trying to chat with you. Now with this update if you block someone, you will no longer receive the blocked-chat-request windows. In addition, if you want to try to resolve whatever issue you had when you originally blocked them, you can send them a chat request (without the need to unblock them) and they will receive the request. So in a sense it sort of creates a 1-way valve for chat — outgoing only, no incoming. Of course, if you have both blocked each other, then neither of you will get the requests.

In addition we’ve filtered out blocked people from the main list of ladies/benefactors, and instead moved them to a new sub-section of that list where you can view all the people you have blocked.

This weekends new feature is called “My Opinions” and is a way to share with people what you like, and what you dislike, as well as find other people that share your opinions. It’s similar in some ways to other websites that have a “Favorite TV Shows” or “Favorite Books” lists that you are probably all familiar with. The main difference in our implementation is that there are no structured categories to force you into a box (what if I don’t watch TV?). There are simply two lists: Likes & Dislikes and you can add anything you want (30 character limit) into either of the lists.

In addition to creating your own lists, you can borrow from other peoples lists. So say for example you are viewing someone elses profile and see something in their dislikes list that you also dislike. You can click on the negative symbol “-” next to the word to also dislike it, or similarly if you actually like it, just click the positive symbol “+”

And finally, clicking on any of the words in any lists you come across will run a search for all of the people that share that same opinion. So if a lot of people here like “boobs” for example, and you click on the word “boobs” in someones “Likes” list, you’ll get a list of all the people that also like boobs.

Here’s a quick video screencast of the feature in action:

We see one important use of this new feature as a way for people to clearly define what they are and are not willing to do on this site. This site has a very diverse group of people with a very diverse set of interests and expectations. Hopefully through the use of this tool you can now easily find the right group of people for you to becomes closer friends with.

For those of you having surgeries outside of the United States, you now have access to a very simple way to compute your actual surgery cost in US dollars (the currency of the website) from the currency your surgeon has provided your price quote in. It’s a very straight forward process that is integrated into the “Add/Edit Surgery Goal” page. Just enter the actual total amount on your doctors price quote, and then choose the appropriate currency from the list. Then once you add/update your goal, we’ll automatically calculate the US dollar equivalent for you. No more having to go look up the rate on xe.com or other currency conversion websites!

Right now we are only providing conversion from the following 17 currencies:

• Australian Dollar (AUD)
• Brazilian Real (BRL)
• Canadian Dollar (CAD)
• Colombian Peso (COP)
• Czech Koruna (CZK)
• Dominican Peso (DOP)
• Estonian Kroon (EEK)
• Euro (EUR)
• British Pound (GBP)
• Mexican Peso (MXN)
• Norwegian Kroner (NOK)
• New Zealand Dollar (NZD)
• Philippine Peso (PHP)
• Polish Zloty (PLN)
• Thai Baht (THB)
• Taiwan Dollar (TWD)
• Ukraine Hryvnia (UAH)

That list was generated based on past payments we’ve made in those currencies. We do however have the ability to easily support 117 others currencies should the need arise for someone to have their surgery payment made in say Mongolian Tugrik (MNT) for example. If you need a currency not on this list, just contact us to have it added for you.

Currency rates are updated roughly twice daily and we will be adding in a feature later today that will automatically adjust surgery goals for those ladies with non-US currency goals. AND, we’re even factoring in the difference of buy/sell rates of currencies based on our historical data of the variance of those rates.

All in all, these changes should give everyone a much more clear and accurate picture of exactly how much each lady needs to earn, regardless of geographic location, and greatly reduce the number of instances of ladies needing to come out of HOF to raise more funds due to fluctuations in the global economy.

We’re just now pushing out the following updates to the blogs:

• Ladies can now give benefactor blogs a star rating for benefactor blogs that they like. Along with this of course, benefactors can now see how many stars their blogs have received, and if you click through to the actual blog you can see who gave it a star. (33 votes)
• We’ve updated the blog listing page for individuals to be a bit more consistent with other blog list displays (this mostly affects the ladies view of their own blogs)
• And finally, as per request (with 131 votes) we’ve enabled the ability for anyone to “delete” blogs which will remove it from the public list of blogs. Keep in mind that this is not a complete and total deletion however. Instead, if you mark a blog as deleted, it will only make it unavailable to people that joined MyFreeImplants AFTER the date the blog was originally published. Anyone that had an account prior to the publish date will still be able to read it. Any blog that has been marked as deleted will still have the title accessible, but it will be crossed out to indicate it’s deleted state. Said another way it will make the selected blogs hidden from new members that never had a chance to see them anyways, but older members can still access them since they already saw them anyways. This solution is also one of the “perks” offered to long time members. In addition it will allow people to invite their friends to join MFI while still protecting their “checkered past” as these new people would not have access to those now inaccessible blogs.
• Since we are also adding the ability to delete blogs, we’ve also opening up all past blogs and made them accessible. Previously only the 200 most recent blogs for a person we’re available on their profile. Now there is no limit to the number of past blogs you can view. It displays 50 blogs per page for as many blogs as you/then have.
• We’re also going to experiment with enabling HOF ladies to show up in the Top 20 bloggers list. HOF ladies have a wealth of good information and insight that is valuable to the newbies, so we’ll see how this experiment goes for a little while. And of course, as always, we welcome your feedback.