Hey Avatar.One Community,

Happy Friday! 🚀 Here's your weekly dose of Avatar.One updates, straight from the heart of our amazing team. 🤖✨

Development updates 🛠️: Our engineering wizards have been hard at work waving their magic wands to squash pesky bugs and push new features.🐛 Your dedication helps make Avatar.One the smooth experience we all love. Here are some highlights:

• Get chatting sooner on mobile - Lazy loading added to chat page on mobile enabling users to start chatting quicker while their avatar loads. More noticeable on devices with weaker internet connections
• Did you realise you can trigger emotes? - New emotes entry point added to the feature nav making it easier to discover this user favorite feature
• Most popular emotes are now easier to find in the menu
• Added improved error messaging to try to help you when a bug occurs
• Added feedback widget - please share your feedback with us! Look for the “Feedback” tab on the left side of page
• Fixed roleplay bug where the initial roleplay messages were pinned accidently
• Fixed emoji encoding issue where instead of seeing emojis, users were seeing unicode within the chatbox
• Added new payment methods: Cash App Pay, Stripe Link Pay, Giropay, iDeal, Canadian pre-authorized debits, ACH Direct Debit and Bank transfer. With more payment methods coming.
• Added automatic currency conversion to the checkout via Stripe allowing for currency conversion from USD to, EUR, AUD, BRL, BGN, CAD, CNY, CZK, DKK, HKD, HUF, INR, JPY, MXN, NOK, PLN, RON, SGD, SEK, CHF, GBP.
• Nitesh our lead front end dev is back on the team after taking time off to get married and honeymoon! 🎉

Feature Highlights ✨:

We couldn't resist shining a spotlight on our Emotes this week! Have you discovered the magic it brings to your Avatar.One experience? Dive in and let us know your favorite moments using it. You can now trigger emotes through the entry point in the main nav.

Poll Results 📊: We couldn't resist shining a spotlight on this week’s poll! When we asked our audience what they think about their ideal date we had mixed responses. Alas, Eating out/in won! Eating some good food with my crush? Where do I sign up!? Lucky for you, you can roleplay these dates, or many more with your companion on Avatar.One.

Reminders ⏰: Friendly reminder to keep those awesome suggestions coming! We're always ears (well, virtually) for your ideas on how to make Avatar.One even more fantastic. Share your brilliance on Discord or Reddit , and who knows, your idea might just be the next big thing!

As always, a big shoutout to our incredible community for your passion, creativity, and support. Avatar.One wouldn't be the same without each and every one of you! 🙌

That's a wrap for this week's update. Same time next week? 😉

Happy chatting with your AI companions!

Best vibez, Avatar.One Team 🌟

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