The latest news from Oh My Japan's development team
Many members have told us that they really enjoy meeting new people on Oh My Japan, but from time to time they want to take a break from meeting new people.
I’m glad that Oh My Japan has so many members who make an earnest effort to respond when they receive a message.
I also thought it was a great idea to make it easy for members to take a break, so I’m happy to announce our newest feature, “Hide my profile.”
Oh My Japan is happy to announce that emoji (😊) can now be used in messages.
Emoji are an important part of Japanese culture (the word "Emoji" is after all Japanese) and Oh My Japan is now able to support their use in messages and profile text.
Starting immediately, you can simply use your device's keyboard to input any emoji supported by your system and it should appear properly on Oh My Japan. Emoji input is available as standard on iOS (iPhone, iPad, and iPod) and Windows Phone.
Tanabata (July 7) 2014 marks the two-year anniversary of Oh My Japan. We chose the date of Tanabata because of its significance as a Japanese holiday about the connections between people [(Wikipedia entry on Tanabata)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanabata).
As part of the celebration, Oh My Japan is allowing all members who have completed their profiles to send messages to two new people per day until July 14 (normally, members can only send messages to two new people per week unless they have a paid account).
Today I’m happy to announce that you can now select how many people to see per page on the search results screen.
Previously, you could see only 8 members per page; as of today, you can choose to show 8, 16, 32, or 64 members at once.
The previous scrolling mechanism had issues on some devices that caused the “back” button not to work properly. These problems are resolved in the new system.
Please let me know if you have any additional ideas for Oh My Japan!
