‘Discussion’ becomes ‘Chat’

New real-time ‘Chat’ replacing ‘Discussion’

The heart of our mission is to create positive human connections. Effective communication within communities on the platform is critical to allow people to connect and get to know one another.

We love the instant feel of messaging apps such as Telegram, Slack and WhatsApp groups. Chat on Matchpool aims to deliver a similar messaging experience to messaging apps but will also offer additional matchmaking and payment features to occur within both the public member chat and private messaging as an optional feature.

Further messaging improvements will be implemented in the coming releases, on top of the revised chat that we are releasing today.

Features in this week’s update 🎉

Real time messaging

Request Intros

Quick Profile Look

Attach Images

Emojis (Stickers not just yet!)

Development & Roadmap Updates

This month 🚀

— Dev app registering

— Implementation of the service for working with API

— Creating/editing/removing users and users

— Creating user chat with the site registration

— Getting access token with authorization

— Chat creation with pool creation

— Adding to pool with adding to chat

— Chat creation with intro creation

— Chat Intro creation when creating intro

— Removing ‘Chat’ inside pool when removing pool

— Adding members to and removing from chat pool client side

— Merging ‘My Intro’ and ‘Chats’ tabs

— Upgrading new ‘Chat’ design

Product Roadmap Update 🚀

— 2018 Product Roadmap will be added to the website in the coming weeks.

Planned User Experience Upgrades for 2018

Upgraded MetaMask Integration:

The Matchpool web app will prompt downloading and launching MetaMask when joining the site before logging into the app to make payments more seamless and intuitive. This will stop users from being interrupted during their experience using the website and encourage more users to make use of the Guppy tokens inside the app.

On-boarding:

We’re redesigning our on-boarding process from the ground up. From first time visitor, to signing up, to explaining GUP, to Pool creation.

Pool ‘Floats’:

Pool add-ons named ‘Floats’ will be a new feature that allows Pool owners to add widgets inside the Pool member areas including the ‘About’ page, ‘Members’ page and New Chat sidebar. Floats will be widgets that can be enabled via Pool settings by the owner and viewed by all members.

An example of a Float

Integrating Applications within Floats:

A number of blockchain apps will be partnering with us in 2018. We strongly believe the more value we give the Pool owners, the more they will want to use Matchpool to connect with their communities. Matchpool ‘Floats’ will enable Pool owners to link their other crypto applications inside of Pools.

Payments for Introducing Members:

We recently announced Intro Requests, Ice-Breaker Messages, Matching, Messaging and and Intro Ratings. View our article on Introductions. Soon you’ll be able to pay and request payment for introductions within the app.

Pool Rules:

Pool Owners will be able to take more control of their Pools in the future, for example: Pool Owners will be able to decide on which features they would like to enable and disable. From interactions between users to enforcing the language used inside their Chat.

Matching in Pools without Intros:

As we mentioned in our previous post, Pool Owners will get an option to turn ‘Intros’ on and off. This would allow members of the Pool to chat with other members by ‘liking’ each other, removing the need for the Pool Owner to interfere. When private chat between two users begin after ‘liking’ one another, a match is created.

One of the main use-cases for this feature is dating, where members can ‘like’ each other based on their appearance.