Yep, they disabled it at 11am, 40 mins ago, the same time as they posted the announcement on their site.
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NCL suspends image sharing in Swap Note and Flipnote [Spot pass Notes disabled]
- Thread starter StreetsAhead
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My friends and I swap silly drawings and game screenshots between each other a lot. It's quite a popular feature of the 3DS, at least in my experience.
axisofweevils
Holy crap! Today's real megaton is that more than two people can have the same first name.
It's a shame because I enjoyed receiving different stationeries from around the world and passing them on, but I always wondered how it would fit in with Miiverse. It was also notable that until recently with the Z:ALBW stationery, there hadn't been any for 2 months.
Brawly Likes to Brawl
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So you can't send anything through Spotpass now? They might as well have just sent a note saying "DELETE ME"
This just in: Friendcodes are/were worthless.
LOL! Love that line. That entire episode was great as a matter of fact. Loved how Ralph explained what he saw Prinicipal Skinner and Mrs Krabappel doing in the closet.
Streetpass still works, doesn't it?
StreetsAhead
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Alright, updated the OP with more accurate info. Sorry for being shit again.
Cheesemeister
Member
And the baby looked at me.
Brawly Likes to Brawl
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Yeah, but its nowhere near as feasible and useful as sending messages to all your friends through the internet. The entire app is basically neutered now.
I'm confused. Was it shut down because minors were swapping inappropriate pictures or because minors were sharing regular photos of themselves with people on their friends list?
If it's the former I kinda understand the decision. However, It would be complete bullshit if it was the latter.
If it's the former I kinda understand the decision. However, It would be complete bullshit if it was the latter.
Ugh, super lame. I was going to send a message to everyone with my NNID but I kept procrastinating :'(
StreetsAhead
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Thanks, put it in the OP.
This is such a ridiculously dumb and over reactive action to take. I mean, Nintendo has done some baffling things when it comes to online, but this is borderline mental.
How about making users actually take responsibility instead of punishing EVERY single 3DS owner out there.
I'm really, really mad about this, as Swapnote was something I loved about the system.
How about making users actually take responsibility instead of punishing EVERY single 3DS owner out there.
I'm really, really mad about this, as Swapnote was something I loved about the system.
StreetsAhead
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Well Q3 is usually their biggest quarter and will include at least 2, if not more, million selling software and at least a few million 3DSes. So, they deserve good things?
El Pescado
Member
No, seriously, this is the worst. I am so pissed. I loved SwapNote. I sent out my baby's first picture through SwapNote. What the hell, Nintendo.
entremet
Member
Yep. Nintendo makes great games but there online strategy is so outdated.
Keep fighting the good fight, friend.
StreetsAhead
Member
To be honest, they probably still would have disabled the feature even if their was a 'proper' account system in place on 3DS.
How considerate of them to notify us of the service shutdown after they already shut it down.
And again, there are parental controls built into the 3DS and Swapnote app. They say that it's best to shutdown the entire service when they could have easily just disabled it for people with parental controls on.
superpickleman
Member
I never used it and I dont know how image sharing worked on it but my guess is that it became a child porn sharing gold mine.
Samurai_Heart
Member
Don't forget we've also lost our ability to tell who deleted your friend codes ;__; thanks to the service stopping, fecking idiotic minors and perverted peeps...
JennyTablina
Member
Man thats sad, I never had anything bad other than the odd crude drawing from people. Used to send doodles on the service too, hope we get miiverse for 3DS soon : (
DICKS AHOY
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in other news facebook is removing the ability to private IM other users after finding out couples were talking about sexually explicit activities amongst each other
I mean I get the reasoning behind this, but maybe just make the service age-restricted or something? Seems ridiculous to remove the entire service if Miiverse isn't coming to the 3DS anytime soon. Was really fun to dick around during off-times with friends, and unlike Miiverse I was under the impression the messages wouldn't be monitored so we could say/draw whatever. Shit sucks.
I mean I get the reasoning behind this, but maybe just make the service age-restricted or something? Seems ridiculous to remove the entire service if Miiverse isn't coming to the 3DS anytime soon. Was really fun to dick around during off-times with friends, and unlike Miiverse I was under the impression the messages wouldn't be monitored so we could say/draw whatever. Shit sucks.
Yep really silly to turn this off when it's between people who have exchanged friend codes. Makes total sense if it was random streetpass. As always there should just be more options. Parental controls etc. I'll just say though that comparing this to someone shutting down Google because kids can access is a really silly comparison. This isn't the open web. It's an app designed by Nintendo that apparently children can download and use. There should be controls in place to age gate it to prevent this. Related to that can you lock the web browser out to children on the 3DS?
sixteen-bit
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Why not stick it behind an age gate?
StreetsAhead
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ITT we post false equivalencies
I don't think an account system is even needed for this. They could have added a report button and block users based on console.