Private Chat

After months of hard work, the multi-talented technical team at Jawaker launched one of the site's greatest achievements: Private Chat. This feature is simple and powerful, and it facilitates one-on-one private chat between friends on Jawaker; across different games and the game index list. The functionality was built from scratch and also includes notifications of when your friends come online and go offline. The intention of this feature is to make it easier for friends to organize games and play together on Jawaker. This feature will be part of the premium paid bundle to be offered by Jawaker in the very near future.

Mutual Friendship

Jawaker is a more than just a card gaming website, it's a community. We made an important step towards this vision by introducing the concept of mutual friendship. Whereas previously players could "Star" and "Flag" each other, these actions were one-sided "bookmarks", so to speak. Today we launched a new approach that models a standard social network. Players can add friends directly from the game table or manage their relationships from the "Friends" page on the profile. this management includes accepting and refusing invitations as well as blocking players. Players can also search for their friends by username from this page, in case they missed them on the game table.
Another small change is that we took out the complaint system from the friendship model. This means that complaints now go directly to the Jawaker Team and we use the data to manage our site policies.

Game Creation and Filtering

We just launched our latest set of features to be tested: Game Creation and Filtering. This set of features will allow users to create a private (password protected) game that doesn't show on the game index. Once the creator shares the game link with other players, they are prompted to enter the password in order to join the game, otherwise they will not be allowed to join.
We also added the ability for players to create games by minimum rank. This feature defines the minimum rank a player must have in order to join a particular game, thus ensuring that similarly skilled players can play together.
As an added cherry on top for this feature, we also included the ability for players to filter games on the game index by minimum rank, games with friends and timer.