SCRAPPER's blog: "fubar Updates"

Many of you have been asking for more options for bling likes.

We added the dazzler

We added the bling like reset once a month.

We also added the Sticky Fingers which gives you a 2x bling like points

We also added bigger bling like bonuses.

We also added bigger like bonuses.

The side effect of this is that we would have to drop the overall like bonuses or it was way too powerful to keep all of the above things. Rather than drop bonuses,  we opted to separate bling likes from the like bonuses so we could keep the like bonuses high for everyone as well as keep the bling like bonuses high for everyone. Unforunately we could let them all compound.

We are also adding a personal happy hour bonus.

I wanted to touch base on the fubar events. We appreciate all of you who participate. Over the last three years we have evolved many of these events and added new events. They started grass roots with a few members helping us organize to where we host the events now. 

Some people get upset that we hold too many. Some people get upset becauuse we don't hold enough. Some people get upset because people run their families like a mafia boss. Others get upset because they can't get into these families. Some people are honestly just always upset about everything! The point is no matter what changes we make or whatever we do, we are not going to please everyone. We get that, but we will not allow you to publicly bash our site or create drama over the way we run events.

We are all adults here. You are free to participate and free to not participate. Yes there are some level up requirements that do make it so you have to participate in a few of them, but you do not have to participate if you do not want to. This is a game for your entertainment. You play because you want to play or you don't play because you don't want to.

What many people do not understand is by having many events, it allows for more people to win and rank versus the same 20 people always dominating. Yes that hurts some of these ultra comptitive people's feelings that they can't dominate every aspect of the game, but this is how the world works. We want everyone to have fun and have a shot.

If you have feedback, please send it to us directly. Do not write a "WTF fubar" blog, status or comments and then get upset when it is deleted. We will always shoot straight with you. You might not like the answers you are given but again you do not have to participate if you do not want to. Please do not create extra work for us because you are salty.

We appreciate and love all of you whether you play the game or not! Let's keep this place focused on having fun!

2024 is here and now we have AI generated photos. Many of you are having fun with them which is fine, but there are some of you who are taking this too far and meshing reality with fantasy. 

It is one thing to have a few AI photos and have fun with them. It is another thing when you make the majority of your photos AI generated versions of yourself and you cross the line of catfishing with AI photos.

Recently we have been getting a lot of complaints about this. We have tried to let people do their thing but as usual, people have started to take this too far. I am writing this blog to respectfully ask everyone to be respectful with these images. Many people create an album and mark them as such. While that is not a requirement, it does show you are not trying to fool anyone.

There used to be a woman on this site who would photoshop her face on playboy models. We had to have this convesation with her about her defaults. She was actually pretty good at photoshop but this AI stuff takes it to the next level. It is not fair to the unsuspecting dude who is fooled by these photos and then reality hits and they come to us. This creates unwanted extra work and is a bad look for the site.

We have always prided ourselves that fubar was real people i.e the salute requirement. We have never allowed people to use model photos. Yes they try but we flag them. If these AI images start to get too out of control, we will start flagging these images.

The saddest part to me is that some of you feel that you have to present yourself as an AI version when your real life version is way better. I know it is tempting, but please don't make your entire profile or defaults about this. I am not talking about the cartoon versions we see of you. I am talking about the ones that mesh models with your face.

If you have any questions please hit me up. We want to keep fubar real, authentic and fun. Let's not let it devolve into the AI fantasy land. Please do not abuse these images and ruin it for everyone.

If you see a profile with AI only phtoos with no salutes, please report. We will take action on these fake profiles. At least with a salute on file, people can somewhat see what is going on.

We will be doing a likefest this Saturday 3/30.

All of the typical prizes and achievements will be in play.

On another note, I wanted to take this opportunity to help address the people who have issues with PU's disappearing when they activate new ones. We are working on making this better, but there are several factors at play here.

Most of you use multiple devices and tabs which is fine, but this is what adds to the problem. When you activate or reset multiple powrups on multiple devices or different tabs quickly, it creates issues.

The best way to eliminate this problem is to SLOW DOWN when activating and try to do it from one device. This does not mean you can't do what you normally do, but when activating PU's slow your role.

Try activating a PU and waiting 5-10 seconds or a little more between activations for the servers to sync. Then activate the next one and take the same approach when you activate the next one and the next one. We appreciate your fast fingers on the trigger, but activating multiple PU's within seconds and using multiple devices during this process creates the problems.

Without getting too techinical the activation actually happens. You just do not see it. The system cache not to be confused with your browser cache needs to catch up. It will usually catch up wihtin 5 minutes. During that time people often activate new ones not realizing what is going on. Slowing down between activations will help and we are going to work on some stuff on our end to help alleviate this. If you do have problems, please stop by the support lounge. 

Please share this with yoru friends.

Thanks

The top 5 reaching the Top level get an achievement and bling reward.

The top 15 reaching the top level get an achievment and bling reward

We have a GMP saturday march 2 with all the typical achievements and prizes. 

We are going to be doing a points blow out event on Saturady 2/17/24

This is the leaderboard we use to determine the winners.

http://fubar.com/top_daily_ranked_members.php

Get ready for the likefest! Saturday 2/3/24

I was doing some housekeeping and accidentally deleted my entire fubar update blog. Ooppss. Most of it was old information but DERP on me.