A few changes, including Email OR Phone Number MUST be verified in order to contribute on Imzy

Hi everybody!

I hope you're all having a wonderful weekend! As many of you noticed, we had our first burst of "less than ideal" activity this past weekend, and we've been making a bunch of behind the scenes changes as a result.

Unfortunately, we haven't had a chance to mirror the changes across all platforms (mainly web and apps), so you might see some weird behaviour over the next couple of days while they get caught up.

Some of the changes, that have happened:

Rate limiting

  • Previously, our only limit was on creating communities (2 during the beta), we've extended rate limiting to comments and posts as well. I won't say the exact numbers, as we're still tweaking the numbers, but the essence of it is:
    • You can only create one post/comment per X seconds.
    • You can only post/comment Y times per 24 hour period.
    • In the communities you lead, there's a Z multiplier (e.g. Y*Z posts per 24 hours and posts per X/Z seconds).
  • Accidental thanks to @ifindkarma and @Ellis who educated us last night that our initial X, Y, and Z numbers were not adequate.

Mandatory Verification of Email/Phone Number

  • Creating communities, posts, and comments will now require a verified email or phone number.
  • Users can join communities, message leaders, like posts/comments, without a verified account, but in order to contribute, they must verify their email or phone number.

New users will receive invites after 30 minutes on the site

  • Previously, it was 5 minutes, but we've made it a tad longer.
  • Note Automated invites are completely disabled for the next day or two while we work on some more tools for leaders and staff.
  • Community invites will still be manually handed out, and if you're in need, you can use the "chat with us" and feature and we'll get to it when we next do a batch of invites.

How these changes might look weird on the site

  • If you are in a state that you can not comment, you won't have a reply option, on comments or posts, like this:

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  • If you can not create a post, you will receive a warning as to why, like this:

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  • If you can not create a community, you will be told it is because you are over the creation limit, no matter what, like this:

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  • We'll be working with our web and apps teams over the next couple days to make this far more user friendly, but unfortunately, we had to push some backend changes to stay ahead of the game first.

Thanks for being a part of the beta, we really do appreciate your feedback and continuing support!