📢 Announcement: DM Feature Discontinuation
Dear Dreamfora Community, We truly appreciate the connections and encouragement you’ve shared through Dreamfora’s DM feature. It has been a valuable space for many of you to support each other and exchange thoughts on your journey toward personal growth. That’s why it’s with a heavy heart that we announce the complete discontinuation of the DM feature in early February 2025. The DM feature in Dreamfora has been powered by Sendbird, a third-party chat service provider. However, as our contract with Sendbird comes to an end, we have made the strategic decision not to renew it. This means that we will be removing the ability to start new chats as well as access existing chat rooms from the app. 📌 Changes Coming Soon • DM feature discontinuation date: Early February 2025 • What happens next: You will no longer be able to start new DM conversations or access existing DM chat rooms. While the DM feature has been greatly valued by some of our dedicated users, it is currently used by less than 0.5% of our monthly active users. To ensure we provide the best possible experience for the majority of our community, we are reallocating our efforts toward enhancing Dreamfora’s core goal-planning and management features. Please note that once the feature is discontinued, all previous DM messages will no longer be accessible. If you have important conversations, we recommend noting down key details before the feature is removed. We sincerely appreciate your understanding and support. This was a difficult decision, but we believe it will allow us to refine Dreamfora into a more powerful and meaningful tool for all users. Thank you for being part of our journey, and we look forward to bringing you more improvements in the future. Warm regards, The Dreamfora Team ---ADDED-1--- We truly appreciate all of your feedback and understand how disappointing this news is for many of you. Please know that this decision was not made because we believed it was a better direction for the community, but rather due to financial constraints and unavoidable circumstances. Given our current situation, we had no choice but to discontinue the DM feature, and we deeply regret the inconvenience this causes. We hear your concerns, especially about losing past conversations, and we sincerely wish we could offer a way to preserve them. Unfortunately, due to the way our chat system is structured, keeping old messages accessible is not an option. We understand how frustrating this must be, and we’re truly sorry for the impact this will have on those of you who rely on this feature to connect with others. Thank you for being part of Dreamfora and for sharing your honest thoughts. We know this is not the answer many of you were hoping for, but we appreciate your understanding and continued support. 💙 ---ADDED-2--- We truly appreciate your passion for Dreamfora and understand how important the DM feature is to many of you. However, we want to clarify that this was not a decision we wanted to make—it was an unavoidable step due to financial constraints. Currently, less than 1% of our monthly active users use the DM feature, yet the monthly fee we pay to Sendbird for this feature is higher than the total server costs required to run Dreamfora for 100% of our users. As a company operating at a continuous deficit, we simply cannot sustain this cost while keeping the platform alive. This was not about choosing to remove a valuable feature, but about making a necessary adjustment to ensure that Dreamfora as a whole can continue to exist and serve our community.
To be honest I will miss the dm feature a lot but truly I think the measure taken by dreamfora official members are truly valuable and maybe you have an better plans for this community and us . Thanks for informing us
Thanks for informing us about that 🙃... Will miss the DM feature more than anything, bcuz I spent my most of the time chatting there, with my closest friends :) Hope you'll bring back this feature in the future ✨🌷best wishes for team dreamfora ♡
Really sorry to hear that 😔🎀 But I truly hope that you'll bring this feature back again...tbh, I am pretty sure most of the users use this app cuz of this feature. I myself will be inactive after it's discontinuation. Idk, but this is the best feature of this app in my pov. When I came here first, the DM feature was newly started. I am gonna really miss it. 😭
I am gonna really miss this feature i was planning to regard users from tht who joins to my challenge but now i can't 🤧😔
Hey dreamfora team, is it possible to at least keep our existing conversation intact? I have some fond memories here that I don't want to lose. I understand if we can't text anymore, but I'd like to be able to look back at conversations.
Can't we get 2 more days cause it's just like loosing friends
Hey dreamfora team, can you atleast keep the existing conversation intact? There are many memories made?
Please don’t remove the DM feature! 🤧It’s one of the best ways to connect, share motivation, and build real friendships here. Losing it will take away a huge part of the community feeling. Please reconsider!✨🪐
Noooooo 🙃
Many people stay in this app just for chatting with their friends. If you remove the feature...
So like we cant even check our old messages ?
At least let the old ones be there tbh-
Maybe give us a "wake up" notification feature?? (Like in ypt)
I'm introverted enough to not talk on dm to them, and now, you expect me to switch to comments where it's visible to everyone?? 💀 Nope. I'll chill with my diary ig 🥱🍟
Nooo fora🥲
This is a good feature it should be not removed. As it's very helpful.😔
Please, developers, don't do this. I am communicating with a friend who is allowed and comfortable to chat only on dm.
We truly appreciate all of your feedback and understand how disappointing this news is for many of you. Please know that this decision was not made because we believed it was a better direction for the community, but rather due to financial constraints and unavoidable circumstances. Given our current situation, we had no choice but to discontinue the DM feature, and we deeply regret the inconvenience this causes. We hear your concerns, especially about losing past conversations, and we sincerely wish we could offer a way to preserve them. Unfortunately, due to the way our chat system is structured, keeping old messages accessible is not an option. We understand how frustrating this must be, and we’re truly sorry for the impact this will have on those of you who rely on this feature to connect with others. Thank you for being part of Dreamfora and for sharing your honest thoughts. We know this is not the answer many of you were hoping for, but we appreciate your understanding and continued support. 💙
We completely understand how important your past conversations are and truly wish there were a way to keep them accessible. However, since our DM feature is powered by Sendbird’s servers, once our contract with them ends, it will be technically impossible to retrieve or access any existing chat history. This is not a restriction we can override, and we deeply regret that we cannot provide a better solution. As we’ve mentioned before, this was not a decision we wanted to make, but rather a necessary step due to financial constraints. We know this is disappointing, and we sincerely appreciate your understanding during this difficult transition. Thank you for being a part of Dreamfora. 💙
Thank you, Dreamfora Team, for your transparency and for always prioritizing the best experience for the community. While it's sad to see the DM feature go, we truly appreciate the thought and effort behind this decision. We understand the challenges and respect the tough choices you’ve had to make. Looking forward to the exciting improvements ahead!✨💗
Thank you for informing us 🙂 Personally for me the DM feature wasn't really that important because my parents don't let me talk to strangers on the internet but also it's a big loss for everyone else 😅
Will miss it, but I respect your choice since it has valid and logical reasons. Thanks for your efforts never the less <3
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In fact, I will retire from Dream Fora because of this bad decision.
I have one feature suggestion, do i have to email it to you now coz dm is off? Or shall i make a post about it? (Lmk soon pls!)
Yea done! I suggested : The candle study challenge Imma make a post about it too maybe coz its niceee