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Hello!

After a year plus change, we are unveiling our biggest Site Update yet!

Long version

• You have already noticed a few changes, like the “Your Turn page” is now your central hub.
• Limit You can have up to 15 enabled characters at a time. If you enable or create more, one of your enabled characters will be automatically disabled. No need to worry: you can re-enable your characters any time you like.
  • Only enabled Characters will be in the drop-down menu; the rest can be found under "Manage Characters" in your account menu.
  • Join ‘The Tech’ for a round with FUN WITH NUMBERS
    • Our top account has over 260 Characters!
    • Only 30 accounts have more than 15 Characters and will be affected by this change.
    • On average, one account has 1.7 Characters.
• New stuff New pictures got added to the character creation for males, females, and others.
• New stuff 9 new tags got added
• Limit Limiting the Characters and Stories to a maximum of 12 tags.
  • New Characters can only select up to 12 tags.
  • Important Over the next week, we will limit and reduce all existing Characters to 12 tags. If you don’t want 12 of your tags randomly selected, please restrict them manually over the next week.
• So cool Fire suppression system in the #lobby
• Fixed that A reported bug concerning the story reader got fixed; now the font is no longer changing
• Oh yeah Bunch of smaller improvements and bug fixing

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The main event The 2nd most voted request (after ‘time zones’, which we released in November) was ‘a group feature with admin control.’ Today, after over a month of development and after a week of beta testing (many THANKS to the testers!!), the main attaction of this update, our Federation Page, is released!

Federations allow you to create and control your universe. Other characters can join your Federation, which will be visible on the character sheet. You can directly add pictures, files(!), and stories. For Stories, a separate tag system was created to categorize the incoming stories inside your Federation. The Federation comes with its editor to give you maximum flexibility.

A few Federation bullet points:

• Private or Public and open or closed membership
• Fully customizable HUB (Federation landing page)
  • Choose from pre-defined panels or add unlimited free text and leaderboard boxes.
• Membership management
  • Rank system; Characters can have different Ranks in each Federation.
  • Federation Membership and Rank are visible on the Character Sheet.
  • Delegate Federation admin or bouncer rights to your trusted lieutenants. (Warning Until they stab you in the back, as trusted lieutenants would.)
• Internal Federation story system, which lets you organize submitted stories.
• A private Federation Chatroom that supports the Rank system.
• Federation Sub-Forum
• Picture and File upload

Here are a few examples of what the Federation System can be used:

• Your strong, tough, and powerful, find and join the squad of an open and public Federation and fight against rivals from other clans. This clan can be another Federation or use the ‘Rank’ system to create different clans in your own Federation and let members fight each other.
• Your private space for you and your friends, create your world and have everything together like chapters in a book. Leave each other messages on the wall, discuss new possible plots in the private forum. During your world-building, you lost some loved virtual characters? Add a custom memorial to remember them. Support your virtual world with Pictures, Videos, or other Files!
• Be a gym owner, only accept the most vital participants, set them weekly challenges, and reward or downgrade their ranks. As ranks are public, your muscle guys will give the best to prove they worth it! Use the Character leaderboard to rank your guys for the biggest chest or biceps.
• Gender restricted Federation, Federation Admins can define their own rules only women allowed – no problem.
• If you prefer Dice Pro Boxing, create a Federation for it, upload some basic rules in the File section, and only accept members who agree to Pro Dice Boxing. Then organize an internal competition. Add and display the score on your ‘Hall of Fame.’
• Just want to upload your videos, share them with your best cyber friends, create a private Federation, invite your friends, and upload videos, pictures. Or make it public an use the Story system to post blogs.
• A Federation can also be created just for you alone, to collect your thought and classify your Stories. Let your own Characters join to show others that they belong together, as family, rivals, or friends.
• Be a Monster Zoo director. Who doesn’t like monsters or animals, so now, you can create a Zoo.
• You don’t like any existing Federation? Create your own!

As you see, we tried our best to make Federations as flexible and customizable as possible. There is no need to represent the classical meaning of ‘Federation.’ Use the system for whatever you need it! Have a look at our already existing Federations to get inspired! And maybe join a few of them. As you can own (or join) as many Federations as you want, you can create a new Federation for every new world or universe you come up with.

Try it out and check the DEMO Federation to get an overview of what is possible!

A word of warning

Careful! The public control requires some trust between Federation Admin and joining characters. Keep in mind, You always have full control over your character. You can leave a Federation at any time, which will remove all ranks from your profile. And Admins can remove any member in a Federation at any time. If in doubt, I recommend creating a secondary Character to join or start the Federation. Remember, ChatFighters allows you to use multiple Characters simultaneously. I encourage you to have fun and try new things, New characters, join or create a new Federation, and if it does not work out, use the ‘delete’ button. Just be so lovely and let your Cyber partners know. But there is no need to argue with them.

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Shameless begging So first: do not worry. Donations and Federations are not related to each other. Everyone can create as many Federations as needed. ChatFighters is free and remains free, including 100% advertising free. (Have a look at MeetFighters.com: 11 years FREE thanks to donations). We show respect for your privacy and mental health by not including advertising that tracks you

If you genuinely enjoy our site and want to support us, you can do that now. The only ‘reward’ and ‘benefit’ will be a Medal on your Character sheet and in the Chat, showing that you are a donating member.

This means you won’t have any negative experience on this site or miss out on something if you decide not to donate.
You can only donate after 30 days, membership. (Get familiar with the site first, then if you wish, give us your money).
It was not easy to find a good donation model for ChatFighters since you can operate multiple Characters. Suppose all your characters get a medal. In that case, that might reveal their identity. It might feel unfair if you have 15 Characters with a Medal. In contrast, someone else got for the same money, only one. Buying a pool of medals and flexibly assigning them sounded too complicated and opened the possibility of abuse.
In the end, a simple solution was chosen: 1 Donation Medal goes to 1 Character. This can be your own, or to someone else as a gift. Donation Medals last for one year (all except one).

The donation page and our FAQ provides more details and full transparency.
Thank you very much for even considering a donation!

And as always, this is Version 1.0 for Federations and for Donations. Let us know your feedback, bugs, or improvement ideas. We have some plans for Federations 2.0, but you know we are always trying to include your input!

Where to go next?

• Go to Federations.
• Visit our DEMO Federation
• Go to Donations.
• Use the comments below for feedback.
• Or join our Chat and tell us.

Stay safe, stay healthy!

Best Regards,
The Tech