Not Another Update
I like improvements but I hate updates because they seem to go hand in hand with crashes. I try to wait a few days before doing updates unless it sounds like something really major, just on general principle. But when I crashed 5 times in a single night I figured it was necessary. 3 of them were blue screen bad crashes and it seemed to have messed up some programs which had to be reinstalled.
Anyway it did get more stable for me after updating although that certainly wasn’t a very high bar. The one thing I do like 
in the new update is the new chat invite box. It shows not only who’s inviting you, and some information about them but it also shows you the room their inviting you to and how many people are in it. It’s nice because it tells you more about the invite ahead of time.
The room you were inviting from before didn’t matter that much before but now suddenly it does, almost as much as your profile picture. It’s very easy to change your default room and it’s suddenly much more important than ever before. Even if you’re new, you should change your default room as soon you’re able to because inviting someone to the default room is like keeping your default profile picture. It makes you look like you don’t know what you’re doing and or you don’t care very much.
Shopping Together soon?
How would you like to be able to shop together with a friend? Shopping is one of the most fun things to do in IMVU but it’s always been limited to a solo activity. I often thought they’d sell a lot more if we could shop with a friend. Someone recently told me that they had talked to a programmer in IMVU and that they were very close to allowing us to shop together with friends. I hope this is true and can’t wait to be able to shop together with friends.
Maybe next we’ll be able to allow other people to edit items and build rooms together? What features would you really like to see? Leave a comment.
New Feature: Hiding Menu Text
Another new feature although more subtle than some of the others, is that menu trigger commands don’t show up in text any more. I really love this small change. It allows you to do things more subtly. It was always so distracting for the different dance commands to pop up when you’re dancing for example. You can still type them instead of using the mouse to do it but they show up that way.
They should really make the command you type after the slash, which triggers a command not show up too. That way you can use the slash if it’s in the middle of a line or even when you type it separately if you want to avoid the text. It would also be helpful if they would make a command to collapse all the menus in avi too. I wind up with so many menus it makes it harder to get to the right menu for that trigger. That’s why I used to use the text. My fingers were already there. Now you have to jump back and forth to avoid distracting commands. So I love this change but they need to do a little bit more to allow it for text too.
New Feature: IMVU PORTALS
IMVU just added Portals, allowing you to connect rooms. There is a new feature out that I was saying they should add (not that anyone listens to me, lol). I think this is important for several reasons. It will allow you to have multiple rooms and if one is too crowded people can all jump to another. It will allow people with popular rooms to charge for a portal to someone else’s room. It will also be great for people like SDM Erotica, (yeah I left them but it’s still a good example) to link their clubs together. If you like one of them you are more likely to like the others or want to try the other variations.
Here’s how it works. Portals can be added to any furniture item in your room. (Hint to developers, DOORS will become much more popular with this!) The new portal tool is located in the furniture tools set. Simply click on the portal tool and then hover over the furniture item you want to turn into a portal. The portal node will be distinct and placed at the base node of the furniture.
Select the destination for that door using the menu options. You can only link to public rooms, ones from the list of your favorite rooms, rooms you own or have recently visited. Save and you are done! You can now view the portal node on that furniture item along with the name of the room it links to. It allows you to create a kind of virtual bookmark system in a sense. I think this is going to be very popular and some people will get known for having a good set of links and become a hub. This could be profitable and allow you to charge a fee to be linked. Just an idea…
