iYabbr News

We’ve been busy adding a huge amount of new content and features to iYabbr. The platform is still growing, but this update brings some of our biggest additions yet. 💙

🛋️ My Room
Every member can now have their own customizable pixel room.
You can walk around, sit down, chat with speech bubbles, customize your avatar, decorate your room, move and rotate furniture, stack smaller items on tables, switch certain items on and off, and change your wallpaper and flooring.
You can also visit other members’ rooms, leave likes, and discover rooms through the new Room Navigator.

🪑 537 New Furniture Items
The catalogue has received a massive expansion with 537 new pieces of furniture across 26 new sections.
New themes include Christmas, Lodge, Candy Land, Ice Palace, Space, Beach, Zen, Spooky, Diner, Kitchen, Bathroom, Office, Garden, Club, Royal, Gamer, Music, Library, Hotel, Valentine, Easter, Pets, Y2K, Sports and Window Views.
We also added new color variations for sofas, beds, chairs, lamps and TVs in Bedroom, Living Room and Tech.

🌆 Window Views
You can now add animated-style window views to your room, including forests, cities, beaches and skyscrapers.
These automatically change between day, sunset and night depending on the visitor’s real local time.

✨ Better Furniture Rendering
We improved how furniture is drawn so items now appear in the correct order and no longer overlap incorrectly.
We also fixed several furniture art issues, including beds, sofas, the throne and PC.
Furniture images are now versioned too, so updated artwork should appear immediately without old cached images getting in the way.

💎 Limited Rares
A new Limited Rare can appear each month with a limited number of individually numbered copies.
Members can collect them, and rare items are displayed in the new Hall of Rares.

🎨 Graphics Maker
You can now create your own nostalgic graphics directly on iYabbr.
The Graphics Maker includes:
- Blinkies
- 88×31 buttons
- Glitter text
- A public graphics gallery
- Shareable codes

💖 Sticker Walls
Profiles can now have a Sticker Wall, giving members another way to decorate and personalize their page.

🎂 Birthday Cards & Friendiversaries
Friends can now sign birthday cards for each other, and iYabbr can celebrate Friendiversaries when friendships reach milestones.

❤️ Reactions
You can now react to:
- Bulletins
- Blog posts
- Pictures

🔥 IM Streaks
Active conversations in instant messages can now build up a streak, complete with a flame indicator.

🎁 Gifts
Shop items can now be purchased as gifts for your friends.

👀 Who Viewed My Profile
Members can optionally enable profile visitor tracking.
It works both ways, meaning you only participate if you choose to use the feature yourself.

🏷️ Tag Friends in Pictures
Friends can now be tagged in uploaded pictures.
Tagged members get the chance to approve the tag before it appears.

📸 Pic of the Week
We’ve added a new weekly picture contest, with separate competitions for younger and adult members.

💤 Away Messages
You can now set an away message for instant messaging, including automatic responses while you’re unavailable.

📧 Weekly “What You Missed” Email
Members can receive a weekly summary showing some of the activity they may have missed while away.

🌙 Dark Layout Improvements
We fixed several areas that were difficult to read when using dark profile themes, including:
- My Room
- Away messages
- Kudos labels
- Sticker Wall text

🛠️ Fixes & Improvements
We also fixed several issues behind the scenes, including:
- Squashed furniture images in the catalogue
- Catalogue rows not lining up correctly
- A Shop gifting crash
- Old room messages not clearing properly
- Furniture layering problems
- Outdated furniture images being cached

There’s been a lot added lately, and there’s still much more planned.
iYabbr is continuing to grow one feature at a time. 💙

Thanks to everyone who’s joining early, testing things out and helping shape the platform.