What the relation between games and a dating site?

i also think some minigames between members would be a great feature.

i dont like this idea.. only if game is good developed flash multiplayer game without brand and comercials by other providers.

but i think Vld shouldnt focus on this as datingscript primary objective

I dont see why not this would help keep your site active.

Multi-player games  are a great way to increase profits

I think that 90% of all dating and social networking script do provide some sort of gaming page where ether your members can add single player games or play multi player games

please take a look at http://www.freshmetropolis.com and look in the menu i bought a game script and installed at as an add on but my members love it they can add, play and rate single player games. ITS A PLUS

Last edited by zoltar (2011-03-23 05:46:54)

i say prior would be:
- chat
- video chat

as for dating script its more reasonable to have those things and not necessary to have external.
however.. games and video chat is i believe different to program and am not sure if this same team can do it with same quality as they did vldpersonals. skadate recently buyed some flash games but integration is still buggy... flash cant be translated etc... am not so happy about this suggestion. ONLY if its done correctly, otherwise its waste of time and resources (company, not hardware)

orange_slice, congratulations on the text !!

i think a mixture of a dating and social network site is not to bad. Since vld already supports things like "add friends". A user of an only dating site will leave, if he is no longer single. But if he finds "friends" or chat-mates or a place to relax, maybe with games, he will stay. I think some integrations of facebook-features will help to keep vld attractive and modern. Specially the feature of "status" to tell your "friends" whats up and what you are doing should be integrated in vld, since you can have already "friends" at vld. A lot of people i know use this "feature" heavily at facebook, even with the their mobile phones, even to post "useless" informations, but people seem to like this kind of information, if you look at twitter, etc.

Last edited by sirtir (2011-03-24 08:11:01)

if vld will go in race with social networks... its fail at beggining.
phpfox, facebook, gooogle, msn... they all have social networks, all of messengers have games, plenty of flash based sites.
This IS dating script. if u wish games - ok, but ask Vld to make it as addon, not as integrated module. Me, as owner of one license, will not be satisfied if script got heavier and more complicated only cos of games which i ll have off anyway. My opinion only. I can understand also that someone wanna make social script turned on dating slightly and that he would need such a things.

One more thing. as we speak how to hold members to use actively ur site. Script as script will not hold any members if owners dont provide some kind of moving on site  with some contests, pools, rewards etc etc..
even games will fail

I like when people share their experiences and opinions about site and users management.

I understand and agree about some things, infact I have a phpbb3 forum integrated into my site and a public video chat where people can discuss and meet...
What I meant is it's better we ask to vlad to improve existing features before to ask for adding something else. We all have to remember each addition/modification/improvement require a lot of work. I love vldPersonals and I really thing it's a great script as it is and we have to help vlad to focus on things that make the script better day by day.

I agree. Let's ask for improvement, not for useless additions.

Another opinion I agree with.
To explain better my meaning I have to add that everyone can add other things like a forum, a public video chat, a video messenger, and flash games too (the video chat I am installing allows to buy a plugin to have flash games into the chat). So everyone can make his dating site more "social network style". The question is that adding those things have not to be requested to vlad and vldpersonals...
To buy a good bread ask for it to a baker.
To buy a good ham ask for it to a pork butcher.
Then you can fill and prepare your sandwich the way you want.

One more thing. A site become more active if it grows. I learned it by myself. There's nothing I can do to keep the site active if I have few users. Activity grows when/while site grows.

Fortunately "vldpersonals is so much more", but this doesn't mean it has to become something different...
As I said, you can add games, but don't ask for this to vldpersonals.
Yes, if someone don't like to add games he could just not to use them, but why to ask for things that few people will use? Working on them means to not work in other ones that lot of other people would like and are really needed...

It's just a question of priorities.

Just my honest opinions.

We are going too much off topic...
I apologize.

This is "exactly" what I am trying to explain to you and I hope all vldpersonals user understand we have to ask to vlad just for things
1-related to vldpersonals as dating site script (because it is for dating sites)
2-needed and appreciated by "the majority" of vldpersonals users.
Consider I would like hundreds of things into vldpersonals and I am using some modifications, but when I ask/suggest to vlad adding some things I list only things that lot of webmasters could be interested to.
I am using a flash chat of third party, "but I don't ask for a flash chat to vlad"...
I am using a video messenger of a third party, "but I don't ask for a video messenger to vlad"...
Obviously, I could save LOT of money if vlad included a flash chat and a video messenger into vldpersonals, but I understand it's not possible to ask to the same person all these absolutely "different" things. Moreover, not all vldpersonals users need them...
If you read my post about my personal wishlist, you can see I listed only things that I think could be useful for the majority of vldpersonals users, even if it is a personal wishlist.
We have to help vlad not wasting his time to read lot of requests that cannot be pleased.
http://www.vldpersonals.com/forum/topic … -the-best/
There are at least other 10 things I would like into my site, but I don't ask for them to vlad.
Also for phpbb3 integration/customization (not really needed into a dating site) I understood I had to ask for to someone else (see my signature, it costed me) even if I liked it and vlad could add it into vldpersonals (making me saving money)...
It's right this way and I LOVE vldpersonals.

The meaning of my example was to make you to understand you should have to ask to vlad just for things related to a dating site. For things related to a social network, ask for them to a developer of a script designed to build a social network... For video chat and video messenger, ask to a flash developer.
The baker should be vlad and we can ask to vlad just for delicious bread, avoiding wasting time and efforts on other things.

Asking vlad for ham too we distract him from cooking his delicious bread and at the end we will have some not tasty bread and some not tasty ham.

Last edited by orange_slice (2011-03-25 10:39:17)

The way I see it.. this is a situation where a voting system would be best applied to.

Create a poll for every requested feature, make it so that a license owner can only vote one time for each feature.
Take the top 10 or whatever number of requested features with the most votes.
Then let Vlad decide which ones are feasible for him to do.

Done.