How many people lost their steak while the calendar was gone?
18It didn’t take long for me to lose the habit of scrolling down to verify the click on the calendar, once it was removed. I missed a click from yesterday (Tuesday), of all things, when apparently the calendar would have already been back in place on Monday, but i apparently didn’t even bother to check. Now I get to start over – and wait another week for the calendar to return.
Who else is in the same boat, and had your routine messed up when the home page surreptitiously lost some important pieces?
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It wasn’t gone long enough for it to disrupt my habit. So my meager 60-something streak is fine. I lived in perpetual hope that given the amount of outrage, it would be changed back so I kept clicking. Lol
Nope, still marinating in the fridge
@gregormehndel I bow to your superiority, I’m 2 for 1293. You clearly have more restraint.
I didn’t lose my streak this time but that calendar has saved me in the past. I’ve scrolled down to look at it just before midnight and noticed that there was a black circle without a face. In a panic, I rush to the top and click the button seconds before the change over and saved the day. Whew.
While I was focused on my streak, I did use it as a reminder of items I’d ordered. I’d hit the button for items I wasn’t interested in, and disregard the button when I found something I either wanted to order or was interested in ordering, but at a later date (and likely higher price).
That was my quick glance cheat sheet.
27?
I’m not one of them
@eonfifty You’ve been waiting for this day since, well, you probably can’t remember since when, huh?
@cinoclav
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@cinoclav @eonfifty
CONGRATS!! Missed 4/20 by 3 days but who thinks that far ahead?
@cinoclav @llangley
I’m not gonna break my longest streak ever just for some dumb stoner holiday
/giphy sheesh
@cinoclav @eonfifty oh hell no, I wouldn’t either! Here’s mine from 8/14/18. I made it all the way to 477 before I fucked up
@cinoclav @eonfifty @llangley
Hmmm, I’m just four days away from that milestone.
I kept my streak alive, but like @cengland0 said I have been saved in the 11th hour by it.
Are VMPs allowed to hit the meh button and maintain their streak during VMP last call on something that doesn’t sell out? I’ve never tried it.
@lljk Nope. The link to order is still there but the face has disappeared into the ether.
Huh. I have to admit, if I could save my streak by buying something during VMP last call, there’s a fair chance I would do it.
@lljk
That’s a clever thought. But it would require @snapster/@dave to suspend Meh irreverence (“a streak is a streak, fucker”) for crash commercialism.
Perhaps the irreverence could be preserved by casting it a ”bribe”/“pay to play” scheme.
It would also be an added VMP benefit, with the advantage of funding itself.
i’m confused. wouldn’t you just notice the button under the product said “meh” instead of showing the FOTD? where does the calendar come in to maintaining your steak? i get that it would immediately show you when exactly you fucked up your steak.
@carl669 That’s where I look since it’s obvious. When do we get our steak?
@sammydog01
@carl669 Not necessarily. Imagine your internet went out at the time you clicked the button, it would spin and might show the face but made no connection to Meh to show that they accepted the click into their database. I think part of that is done with locally run Javascript without the need for a page refresh.
So then you go back later and manually refresh the page and the face isn’t there. You wonder why and the only conclusion is the face eating bot got you. That’s happened to many people. To make sure it doesn’t happen to me again, I always double check on a second computer so I know I will not get a cached page.
@cengland0 i see what you’re saying, but, if you’re going back later, manually refreshing the page, and the face isn’t there, you’d still click it at that time.
i guess i’m not seeing how the calendar plays into keeping your steak. i guess it’s a moo point since the calendar is back now.
@carl669 Because you cannot rely on the button. If it shows the face, you don’t know if it really accepted it or it’s displaying a cached copy of the face.
Looking on the calendar, it still shows a black circle without a face unless it’s accepted in the database. That’s how I knew before that I didn’t press it, there was a face missing in the calendar.
@cengland0 that makes sense. i guess i never ran into that issue, so wasn’t quite getting it.
@carl669 @cengland0 Also if you are not logged in (sometimes meh logs you out) and you click the face appears. But if you come back to the page later it will be gone. That is another way you can lose your click.
where’s my steak
Yeah, I could correct the typo, but …
/image steak
/image streak
@narfcake don’t correct it. otherwise my latest comment will look stupid. you don’t want me to look stupid, do you?
no wait… don’t answer that.
@carl669 Remember, the last time I fixed a pic that was rotated 90 degrees was to make it rotated 180 degrees.
@carl669 @narfcake Was that a pic of Fenris?
@PooltoyWolf Possibly. I’ve “fixed” a few that way from time to time.
/image I fixed it.
@narfcake You have my thanks!
Yup. I lost it too.
Longest streak I think I ever had was 6 days anyway. Never paid much attention to it.
Steak on the other hand… unaffected.
I unsubscribed from the mailing list and refuse to check back every day on principle. I put a lot of effort into ensuring my streak never surpassed seven days, and I refuse to put even more in. Bring back the calendar or I’m out.
@Asviloka it’s already back.
@Asviloka @carl669 The calendar was only back for one day this week. It’s not showing on my page and I don’t know why?
@Asviloka @growyoungagain odd… it’s showing fine when i go to the home page.
@Asviloka @carl669 @growyoungagain the calendar will only show when you have a streak of 7 click days in a row or more.
@Asviloka So you can’t see the calendar because you won’t click for seven days in a row but you need to see the calendar to make sure you don’t click more than seven days in a row.
@RiotDemon look at you with all your fancy knowledge and what not.
@Asviloka @sammydog01 You just buy a calendar and draw a meh face on it every day that you click the meh face. Duh.
@Asviloka @carl669 @RiotDemon I lost my small streak when I forgot to click Thur.face. I usually don’t like change.
@0carl669 @RiotDemon
@Asviloka
One year later, meh, and my calendar is still missing.
I’m serious, I’m not coming back until sub-weeklong streaks count. My game may not be the same as most others’, but it was mine and you took it away from me.
And… what happened to the 'past deals" list?
Well, I missed on Easter and am pretty convinced I’ll never see the calendar again. Checking on Sundays is not a habit.
Damn, I didn’t even know my steak was missing. I just looked for it in the freezer and it’s not there!
Damn.
A year and a month later and my steak is bigger and beefier than ever!