meh button stats missing
82Why are the meh button click stats missing from the home page? I could understand making it smaller, taking up less room, but why remove it completely? You are breaking the feedback loop for some of your most loyal customers. Click the button, check the total, enjoy a little splash of dopamine. Why have you forsaken us?
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Heads up, they’re in your profile now:
@Cythwulf they’ve always been the haven’t they? I need the instant feedback, I don’t want to dig
@webender
/giphy dig
What button? There’s a button?
@therealjrn
/giphy don’t press the button
@therealjrn
@therealjrn @ThomasF
Oh snap! No monthly calendar of past faces either!
Yeah, we’re simplifying the home page.
They’re in your profile, and as a bonus you can now see other people’s current and longest streaks in their profile pages (unless they’ve locked them).
We never got the monthly calendar working like we wanted (to see more than just this month) but we might try to figure out some other way to see the past faces.
@dave
Sad.
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No more cute colorful screenshots.
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@dave @f00l @webender I agree, I definitely preferred seeing them on the home page. If anything, I’d much rather see my own numbers than how many people visited and clicked meh. They’re rather meaningless to me.
@dave Yes. Not being able to scroll back to previous month faces was frustrating. I did like how the hover text told you when you clicked each face and how each face linked to the deal that day.
It would be super cool to have a separate page that showed all the months in scroll-able, year-by-year calendar format so you could see exactly when your streak was broken. (with the time clicked and links to each deal page too, of course)
@dave
I am much in favor of the previous visualization on the home page. It was fun.
And fun to screenshot.
Even if scrolling back to prev months never worked.
This also made it easy for me to appreciate the wonderful and elegant click-face designs.
I hope you all put this home page feature back.
@dave Could you put the visuals back into the profile as a separate sub-page? (Gets them off the home page, but still available as before.)
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“clicked the meh button xxx times” would make a nice clickable link
Pretty, pretty please?
I think we all (almost) will miss them otherwise.
@dave I liked the face calendar because it was a quick collection of links to the items I missed. Yeah that’s right, I don’t make it here every single day. So my vote probably doesn’t count anyway.
@dave meh…
@dave Well darn. Now I won’t be able to easily check if I clicked the button for the day. Sometimes I forget to click on my morning visit and only notice when I visit in the afternoon. More broken streaks for me coming up.
@dave I don’t want a simplified homepage or to see everyone else’s “streak”. My general interaction with the site is visit homepage, click the button, and scroll down to see if I missed a day.
How much data is being loaded from two pages vs. one? Is minimizing clutter minimizing data transfer?
@dave
boo hiss
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@dave
@dave I’ve been working towards that magic 365 straight Meh clicks for … well … A YEAR. And one day before the finish line, you yank the calendar? ONE DAY BEFORE?!? You let me down, Meh.
I don’t want to screenshot some bland little paragraph tucked away in some dark corner of the site. I want to screenshot that magnificent calendar, right on the home page, as the SOLE REWARD for 365 straight days of visiting your site and clicking your damn button. Incredibly disappointed.
@dave I’ll gather the pitchforks if someone else brings the burning tar torches. Time to rebel.
/giphy pitchfork rebellion
@dave @OnionSoup
@dave Dislike!!
@dave
@dave I’m a vmp member. I don’t even buy anything that postage costs more than the member fee and i don’t even buy abutting most months. Meh is part of my routine. I wake up, click my meh link, click the button, then flick the screen up so i can see all the old faces and if I’ve still got my streak going. I pay $5 a month with no benefit most months to feel like i have ownership of something. I’ve been with meh supporting you guys since the beginning. this was part of my routine. this ruins my experience. put it back. i feel betrayed. nobody gives a damn if it doesn’t work jyst how you wanted it to. it was quirky and slightly broken. like somebody just barely got it working and said ‘meh, it works.’ idon’t want a polished fine tuned site. i want to feel like 3 people threw the thing together in a weekend and it worked so they left it that way. Don’t make it into woot. If i want woot ill go back to woot. put it back. or I’ll stop giving you guys 5 bucks a month for nothing in return but a quirky daily experience.
@dave A “let them eat cake” answer! As a history lesson, maybe you should google the roll out of “New Coke”! How about a new sister site - “meh Classic”.
@dave just noticed this and dislike it very much.
Can we have a profile option to display it?
@dave @espotoaster
Put it back!!
@dave Put them back on the homepage! Just do it.
@dave can’t you make it so that the button does an instant activation of the calendar?
@dave faces belong on home spaces.
Feelz hurt.
Yeah, I’ll miss that. The only way I can tell I missed a day was with the calendar. And usually I missed the day because I forgot to push the button. Meh is part of my early morning insomnia routine.
/giphy I don’t like it
Put. It. Back.
Right. NOW.
Dammit, I come to Meh, first, every single day, and I don’t want to look at my profile just to see the faces I clicked. I may not buy many items on Meh, but I make up for it over on Casemates (and then some). I quit buying stuff on Morningsave because it got boring, but I spent plenty of money there, as well.
Give me back the little faces.
/giphy rat bastard
Dear @Dave:
@Shrdlu has spoken.
You know what to do.
/giphy “you know what to do”
@dave @f00l @Shrdlu
What happened to the Casemates link at the bottom of the page?
Is it the new illegitimate stepchild?
@Dave - know that @Shrdlu speaks for me. Both of me. This is not fun, and I don’t like it. Take away the unrelatable ‘how you got here’ graphic (please), but give me back my calendar of faces.
@Shrdlu Yes! Put it back! Now!
@dave not cool.
@llangley @dave What @Shrdlu said.
This is enough of an annoyance to me that I logged in just so I could say I want the faces back on the home page.
@zquirrelz Wait a minute…don’t you need to be logged in anyway to clicky the facey?
/giphy hmm
@therealjrn yeah but I was on a different device so yeah…
I click meh, I scroll down and see my streak, I feel good.
Today I click meh, I scroll down, I see nothing. IMMEDIATELY FREAK OUT.
I thought we were friends. You took the one joy away from me. Jerks.
“We log your complete Meh button interaction record so you can see how many times you’ve clicked it, and what your longest unbroken streak is. You’ll get obsessive about it. Pretty soon the otherwise passive act of not buying stuff on Meh will start to feel like an achievement.”
… and now that you’re obsessed, we’ll move it.
@danodevaney please make the button itself the key to activating the calendar!!
Add another vote for the totals back on the home page. They’re all the way at the bottom so they don’t really get in the way. Maybe you can make them not show up if you’re not logged in? Or a preferences thing I can select, like the forum options?
*Edit to add that if it meant that I never got an IRK/Fuko ever again, I would rather have the stats back on the home page.
I just realized that it’s harder than hell to find/view the previous day’s deal without the calendar. Too many clicks to get somewhere that used to be so simple.
I am disappointed the face chart is gone! More so than I would have expected. I never noticed how much I enjoyed that little face calendar until it was taken from me!
I am loathe to ever comment on a website, but I’m making an exception. Please bring the stats back to the homepage. It’s why I visit every day, and occasionally find a good deal on something I want is a nice bonus.
I totally agree with @aswood - I don’t comment much, but that stat is an ongoing contest with my husband and I. It’s the reason we come to this page every day. Give me back my imaginary internet points damnit!
pls. bring back.
@snapster
Looks like most people don’t care for this change in the front page
@Cerridwyn Hi. I pitched the elimination of the Meh button.
@snapster Hi, it appears you may have pitched an unpopular idea.
@Cerridwyn @snapster
Not your best idea perhaps? Pls pls???
The little clicky-face calendar is much beloved, and already much missed.
And so cute
And I want it back.
/giphy cute
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V sad now.
It reminds me of the changes in Woot! leading up to the Octopusses Garden.
@snapster @therealjrn
It appears you should have surveyed your client base for this particular site
@Cerridwyn @snapster @therealjrn Is this a demehcracy? The voting booth was hidden from me – VOTER SUPPRESSION!
@snapster Is this site still an “experiment”? I want to see the lab report on this one.
@phendrick @snapster @dave Oh yes, this is a premium ‘ohshit’. Please put my faces back, and let us see the writeup.
Put the face calendar back, please.
It wasn’t broke, why the hell did you try to fix it?
The wife and I both are so disappointed we can’t see the calendar anymore. Part of our nightly routine is to check meh and compare our current streaks. Don’t think I’ll be checking meh so regularly anymore…
@GeorgeSully Hadn’t gotten to your comment yet - my husband and I do the same thing.
very sad about this, i was supposed to hit 100 today
@briamkin damn, that makes it even worse!
While you’re at it, I prefer the video at the top of the page, not in the footer. kthxbai
@curtise Ditto. I also prefer some new videos but barring that, I still want to see the reruns at the top.
Without the calendar, meh is just… meh!
Warm batteries, @dave. Warm batteries…
Um yeah I want calendar back… streak is why I visit
mostly just mad I somehow managed to miss the day after april fool’s. streak was up to 1201
Everything that goes wrong today was definitely part of the plan.
I also notice that you’ve moved down the daily videos as part of cleaning up the homepage. Sad day.
Where the hell is that damn goat?!? This is all the goat’s fault!
@shahnm We can’t even blame the goat for this. This one is over the goat’s head.
I looked at 346 F&%$ing speakers for what? Meh to kick me in the teeth. Screw you, fix your page!
I like the face calendar. I hope it gets restored…
As someone with an unbroken-since-day-0 streak, I’m really not on board with this change. This will end up being the thing that causes me to miss a click. Not my dad dying, not finding out about an affair, not getting blackout drunk for weeks in response, not my dogs or cat dying, not being in BFE on a forced camping trip, not even a fucking “blizzard” and ice storm that knocked out the electricity for a bit. Nope. It will be this. I hope you’re happy with yourself.
Also, while I’m complaining, not only is the forum still fucked up on mobile (one reason why I’m never here anymore) recently the main Meh page is a weird desktop/mobile hybrid that extends to the right, too. I love you guys, but ugh.
/giphy this sucks
@PurplePawprints I don’t have the streak you do, but yeah… What he said
@PurplePawprints Damn. You’ve had a run of bad luck, huh? Hang in there.
Oh, and there needs to be an Ohshit report about this whole fiasco, so say we all.
@shahnm @Dave @snapster
Only every watched the video because it was at the top. Only ever scrolled all the way down past the description of the item because of the calendar showing the streak, sure not going to scroll down to see the video now and without the calendar why bother clicking?
Hope the staff is enjoying the “change for the sake of change”, not looking very popular out here in the ether.
I’ll throw my hat into the ring and say I agree with every sentiment already posted here. I was ready to screenshot my 100th click streak in a few days and now I won’t be able to…plus I really liked being able to easily click the faces to view past deals. This is a poor change, even if it was done with good intentions. Please put it back :C
What they all said.
You have just taken away a special and unique piece of meh… one that has been the reason for many community threads, goat blames, obsessions, and something that drives some people to your site every day… The calendar allowed us to admire past faces. It isn’t just the stats that matter, but the faces too.
It’s clearly popular as there has not been one comment so far in favor of this change. Heck make a poll if you need more feedback on this. You might want to think twice before throwing away a cherished tradition.
To have to temporarily enable my profile to see my stats is a PITA. To not easily have a place to click to see what was sold earlier in the month is a pain (especially since the search function isn’t all that great either - yeah I know outsourced to google - but still flawed). To not be able to see past faces in the calendar is sad. They will be missed. Please rethink this decision.
Likely clicky face calendar. Miss stats. Want back. Fear change. That is all. Return to your homes and businesses.
What’s the next new brilliant decision? Sell to Amazon?
@richmondhokie no… probably to walmart
@Kidsandliz @richmondhokie Rakuten.
@richmondhokie Would Amazon want it?
@Mothersnakes Amazon bought Woot…
Jeff’s already had breakfast octopus. I’m guessing it didn’t turn out to be something he’d buy over again.
I’m not the type to whine and curse and threaten to leave if things aren’t as I want them… However, having come from the long history of “the before”, I will hazard the guess that if you have this many upset mehtizens (especially including @shrdlu, who was quite plain on the subject), it would be best to fix your problems quickly, keep the populace happy, and see what changes can be made in the future. Plain and simple.
Never forget.
@TheFLP how’d you do that?
@llangley
I realized I still had the home page open from before the change, and that it was a sight we’d never see again.
Meh is so Meh to me now.
@evantribley exactly. Aside from the awesome forum, why bother coming here Every. F’n. Day.
Guess it will devolve for me like Woot did. I rarely look at anything there unless I get a head’s up, even with app notifications.
OWLS! TOWELS! JOWLS! AWESOME!
@mediocrebot hey now not in the mood
you’re an all-star
@mediocrebot Screw you, mediocrebot.
Well that was a fine how-do-you-do this morning. Why did I even click the Meh button? Why did I even load the page? Why did I even wake up?!!!
I don’t say much around here but I stop by every day. I know most days I’m not going to buy anything but I keep coming back. Why? To click buttons, to see my streak, to see the previous funny faces. I go to casemates every day too. I spend way too much money there. Every day I go to casemates I wish there was a button for me to click and see my stats. This change sucks. Eventually I won’t bother stopping by every day because you are removing the fun from a site that sells bags of instant regret.
@ElKabong @snapster yep. This.
Going to chime in as well (this might very well be my first community post) and say this sucks. I payed for the really expensive internet on my cruise just to be able to click the button.
685 day streak down the tubes I guess. Who’s mediocre idea was it to remove? They should win weakest employee of the month award.
I want to add something witty, snarky, and awesome, but I simply have to agree with the comments above, and probably, below this little yelp in the ether of the interwebs.
I cannot believe ANYONE, especially Dave who seems to be quite in tune to the psychology of the customer would think removing this was a good idea.
Maybe he had a bet with someone about how popular it was, and this is the way to settle it. After this little dust up, he’ll put it back, collect his winnings, and all will be well in the mehverse…Yeah, that must explain it…;)
VAN MURALS! GROUND SQUIRRELS! SPIT CURLS! AWESOME!
@beachhead the octopus admitted up higher in the thread it was his idea
@beachhead @Kidsandliz I thought his idea was to eliminate the Meh button entirely? At least we still have that…for now.
My morning routine is to click the meh button, answer the poll and check the calendar to make sure I did the first step. Without the calendar I may forget to come to the page at all.
Bring back the pong face!
Also, until I read the above comments I didn’t realize the video had moved, I thought that was an ad and skipped right over it.
So no Meh face calendar huh? So what your saying is that your programmers were not good enough to write code that accomplished your web goals huh @dave well it’s time you learned the customer is always right and you bring back the face calendar. The boycot begins today.
@bleedmichigan *you’re
@shawn you are correct the correct your was not used I should have typed you’re. Unfortunately that requires hitting the 123 button on my iPhone keyboard and that is just difficult to do kind of like getting the face calendar to work but hey I won’t delete my post just because it didn’t work the way I wanted it to.
@bleedmichigan @shawn
@bleedmichigan I use android so I’m not too familiar with iPhone keyboards. If you just typed “youre”, wouldn’t it autocorrect it to “you’re”? Or at least give a suggestion as you’re typing y…o…u… and then it suggest “your” and “you’re”?
@cengland0 let’s see youre gives me options of your you’re and youre so yes it does give me the option but that also assumes that I select one instead of just continuously typing. Ultimately everyone knew what was being said it’s like typing “U” in place of you in a text.
@bleedmichigan I want to be clear about one thing. I am not the grammar police and I do not correct people’s typos or grammar issues. I was just curious how the iPhone compares to Android when typing in the “youre” word. Seems it’s the same as Android so you really don’t have to click on the “123” button to get that apostrophe inserted. Glad Apple did it right.
Don’t worry about the typo, there’s bigger things to worry about and anyone that complains about the wrong usage of your/you’re or their/they’re/there, they have too much free time on their hands. Just make sure to get it right on a resume or other important documents but who cares about a meh forum.
@cengland0 No hard feelings, I am not worried about the use of your/you’re etc on a forum. Having said that, I am not sure that students are worried about the use of your/you’re, you/u in papers having just read a few that completely misuse the aforementioned words.
@bleedmichigan Surely your joking?
@therealjrn I can’t believe you went their.
@cinoclav @therealjrn You guys are two funny.
@therealjrn: shorely!
yew no wut, @sammydog01, yore funneh to! Isle Ike ewe!
There’s not even a damn option up top to see the Past Deals. Clicking the barely visible ‘Deals’ link at the bottom just gives you the forum page of deals where nothing is in order.
Wow guys, I think it’s beyond clear that you, how do we say this nicely… Royally fucked this one up. We understand it’s not our decision as customers to how the page should look but it has certainly been made clear as to how customers respond. Maybe in the future you should have a discussion with your customers about these ideas and prospective changes before just jumping feet first into a piranha laden lake.
@cinoclav ah, you’re right. we should sort by date when clicking the “deals” link in the footer. we’ll fix that today.
@cinoclav @shawn
Glad you plan to sort past deals on the forums with the “deals” filter selected by date. Needed option.
That does not make up for the loss of the clicky-face calendar tho. Not at all.
The calendar is beloved. I get (used to get) to see all the wonderful faces. I get (used to get) to see my current performance, cute as can be. I love(d) it.
Hurts to lose it.
If it is gone for good, that will hurt also.
And I might love Meh a little less.
As regards never getting a proper layout of past month calendars working as coding staff envisioned:
If the coding for whatever you had in mind isn’t coming home properly:
What about making that info available in a way that’s simple. Not cool code. Not cool layout.
Perhaps just a page that shows the year-to-date clicky-faces all laid out like a calendar.
And then other pages for previous years.
Not every feature has to be about “look what great coders we are”.
Some things can just work right in a simple way, and that’s fine.
Honor your beautiful and adorable clicky-faces! Make them obviously visible and way public!
If they are stuck away on the profile (which many have disabled anyway, for obvious privacy reasons), we will love them less and notice them less.
And perhaps care about the goofiness that is Meh a little less.
(Not to mention that it’s still tough to load some highly active profiles on mobile.)
I hope I don’t have to start "missing the old Meh already.
/image sad kitty
@shawn
I no longer have an incentive to visit every day. Thanks for breaking me out of that hell.
Making my first ever forum post to request that you bring back the calendar on the home page
@jontauk hi & welcome - thanks for posting.
@jontauk
/giphy hi!
well everyone else was whining… #blame @dave
96 comments so far, with up to 27 stars each…
And could not find a single favorable comment about killing the Meh face calendar - at least from anybody without a conflict of interest.
Conclusion: it was an evil trick to stir the pot and get the Mehtizen circulation pumping.
It worked. Now put it back, please.
Honestly, i feel free. No longer shackled to the fear of forgetting to push the button and being mocked for it.
@srloomis
Didn’t check your profile, but the new method actually exposes you to ridicule for clicking/non-clicking since your data is in your profile. (The calendar view of your clicks is only visible to you.)
Is refraining from scrolling to the bottom for that Meh face calendar all that difficult if you don’t like what you might find there?
The calendar view is the best of both worlds since you can choose to screencapture and display it in all its graphic glory!
@srloomis Yeah, I hear ya. I quit clicking a while ago. But the button is a kind of institution around here.
I’d rather they drop the stupido polls. There. I said it.
@therealjrn I have no issues with the polls but am now stuck in an answer no more mode at “1234” polls answered.
@RedOak Ha ha. The struggle is real.
@RedOak I meant mocked by the site for breaking my streak. I’m hardly losing sleep over it.
I do think not having the calendar is a bummer. I’m mostly just surprised they took the counter away because of the psychological impact it must have had on keeping people coming back.
Re experience of profile on mobile
(For those whose profile is unlocked)
/giphy “page loading”
I’m a little sad.
@jsh139 Why so long in the face?
I don’t know if I can go on living. I feel betrayed. I never thought meh would betray me, but they have. An electronic dagger has been plunged deep in my heart.
My will to live is sleeping out the open wound spraying my blood figuratively in the air: Coating the ceiling, the floor, the inflatable sheep.
My life’s soundtrack is now a sad elevator Muzak tune on constant loop with a strange static buzz around the 15 second mark.
I may never recover from this.
Never.
It’s just all not worth it anymore. I will sell all my electronics, build a hut and go live like a hermit somewhere in the third world… Perhaps a few miles outside Macon Georgia.
One day when you meet me deep in the woods wearing a coonskin hat and pronouncing “pecan” weirdly, remember, it’s because you did this to me meh.
@OnionSoup Inflatable sheep?
@PooltoyWolf they poop less than the real thing.
@OnionSoup Absolutely true!
Beyond meh, meh. @snapster, just admit you fucked up and fix this, please. Thank you.
I don’t think he ever does that.
To further echo everyone’s sentiment so far, please bring back the meh faces calendar and our streak as it was before. Meh is the first thing that pops up when I go to safari and my morning routine is to click meh face scroll down to make sure it registered, answer poll and possibly order. While I haven’t been the most active in these forums, while I wasn’t here Day 0, and while I understand sometimes companies want to move on, this is a part of meh history and tradition. Sure, I haven’t ordered every day but I’m pretty sure between meh and casemates, my “lifetime value” dollar amount and rank is pretty high. I’ve stopped visiting all the other deal-a-sites because there’s no attraction, no catch, no appeal. Likely that’s what will happen here as well. Many thanks for your further consideration for this emotional topic.
Actually forgot to mention that the most important part of removing the calendar is removing the ability to verify we successfully clicked the meh button that day. Going to our profile only gives us our streak without confirming we clicked it today. And yes that’s why I have a broken streak in between my current and longest streak - bad internet with no way to verify successful meh click. Yes our activity tells us if we clicked but when in a third world country with spotty connection, each click is precious.
@hammi99 Uh, the face changes when you click on it, just look there?
@sammydog01 nope. Sometimes it just spins forever
@hammi99 @sammydog01 souldn’t still be spinning on a page refresh.
@hammi99 @Ignorant Yes, refresh and it should show if you clicked it.
@Ignorant @sammydog01 once again, bad internet connection in some parts of the world
As someone who has a perfect daily streak of Meh faces, the Meh tracker’s removal is disappointing. While the calendar might be causing issues, having the stats on the front page is, to me, essential.
So let’s have some fun and as a community make our own calendar. Through the novelty of the internet, we can grab the link to the meh button and write a little code and make our own calendar then post it to the meh forum or even better the Woot forum, or someplace else for us to enjoy. Oddly enough the old links for the past deals faces still remain so lets get to work.
@bleedmichigan If you want to see all the past faces, you could visit @lichme 's site called mehstalker.com . It’s not quite in a calendar format but all the previous faces are there.
@bleedmichigan @cengland0 @lichme
Thanks to @lichme, at least, for continuing to honor the superb clicky-face designer and all that elegant work.
Anyone remember who that is? I have forgotten where to look for the name or uid.
/giphy embarrassed
@f00l it was kylethephotoguy, no clue who’s in charge of that now.
@Ignorant
Thx.
I am very disappointed in the removal of the face calendar. While I sucked at keeping a streak it was one of the motivating items that kept me coming back at midnight. Having to go to another page makes it annoying and is going to cut down on my visits.
I’ve been working up to this night for a full year, religiously swinging by every single night, clicking that Meh button, scrolling to the calendar to make sure it took, and … believe it or not, sometimes buying crap I never would have thrown money at if I weren’t coming by the site to click that button. And now, on the anniversary of my 365th straight Meh, this shitty screenshot is all I have to show for it …
The first time I came to the site, I said to myself, “Someone at Meh is a marketing genius.” The face reveal on the Meh button? The calendar? The streak? Brilliant. But now I’m left saying to myself, “Someone at Meh’s completely out of touch.”
Repercussions? My motivation to swing by the site day in and day out just evaporated. And those spontaneous purchases will evaporate too. Yes, there’s a bottom-line impact from letting web developers take over user experience. Please hand the reins back to someone who gets customers.
@jimgar Definite bummer. But, congratulations anyway. You still did it!
Slowly, the reasons for coming back are disappearing!
Of all the unnecessary things cluttering up the page, perhaps dumping the “How’d You Get Here” might have been a better idea? I know how I got here, but frankly, Snapster, I don’t give a damn how anyone else did.
Well, that was harsh, but heartfelt.
I understand why Meh needs to know the metrics of who & how, and what drives the customer to the site. I just never quite figured out why Meh thought the rest of us cared which device a stranger used to check out the daily deal.
Change can be a good thing. Then again, change for the wrong reasons can make people awfully crabby, and when there’s an invasion of crabby people…well, anything can happen.
Seems pretty clear what the people prefer @dave and @snapster. I know some of us have been a bit harsh but it comes directly from the heart. Do either/both of you have any thoughts you’d like to share at this point?
@dave @snapster Well, do you??
If you have a deal a day sales site, why get rid of or hide a feature that motivated people to checkout your site every day?
I’ll give it one more day. After that, what once was fun will be dead to me. You don’t want me to visit the site and buy your crap, that’s fine. Without the face, calendar, and streak incentives, I won’t be back. Take someone else’s money I guess. Your move, Meh.
You know what? There is too much raging up in here. Too many have suggested ‘that was the only reason I bothered to visit meh.com’.
@ruouttaurmind The meh face calendar is part of drawing in these onlookers.
As for the rest, it’s the perceived anonymity of the internet. “I can act like a whiny child and get away with it.”
@ruouttaurmind
@Mehrocco_Mole Like that?
@ruouttaurmind I think one of the issues is that the community has evolved into something that matters to some of the people. The meh click face in intertwined with that. It is one of the major iconic symbols of meh and was tied to tradition, entertainment, boasting rights, things that mattered in ways that some people didn’t completely realize until it was surgically removed without warning. As a result some people are bleeding. And so they are pissed off.
@sammydog01 Exactly!
I can’t believe we forgot this:
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@snapster Been with you since almost the beginning of that other site. You’ve
been one to listen to your customers. I think the people have spoken since there are very few who are not unhappy with this change especially since there was no advance notice. Not only did it become a reason to visit the site daily when possible, but it also served as a way to see what you may have missed on a day you didn’t visit. Please chalk it up to a bad decision and bring it back!
Nope, don’t give a shit about these stats.
@cinoclav AMEN!
@cinoclav couldn’t agree more.
Dear @Dave, you have taken ‘disincentivize’ to a whole new depth. Please reverse your decision.
I have to agree with most all posts above.
There’s got to be a way to bring back our reason to ‘click’!
Clicking and seeing the days I screwed up & forgot on the calendar was a reason to check out meh.
I miss the old meh.
Plus one for both bringing back the faces and WGAF about the visitor stats.
It’s the age of “all about me” - why would you think we care about stats relating to anyone else?
I just don’t … why? Is there a single person who is happy with the change? Some cabal of vindictive trolls who missed a click one day and threatened to never return unless the calendar was removed?
I could understand perhaps if there were a technical reason, server load, the clicky database was corrupted? The total lack of reasoning or communication is probably the thing people are finding most frustrating. For me at least it’s just as bad as the removal itself.
“I am moving your cheese. Pray I do not move it further.”
Where’s my calendar? How am I supposed to know if I’m getting close to accidentally clicking more than 7 days in a row? WHAT IS GOING ON HERE? WHAT HAPPENED TO MEH?!!
Anyone else notice something different about the home page? I feel like there used to be… different stuff there. Eh, it’s probably just me.
Please bring back, that was a nice way to see what I missed.
I thought April Fool’s Day was over; guess it’s going to be for the whole month?
Happy day…fools. Humans are weird.
I got tired of the whining and unstarred you all. Thought you should know.
@sammydog01 To be accurate, @Shrdlu did not whine. She blasted. Way to go, Etaoin!
@OldCatLady Apologies to @Shrdlu.
Ummmm… Am I mistaken, that after over 190 posts, most of which favored the return of the meh click calendar, we still have no response from the admins?? That lack of respect for the customer’s satisfaction, or in this case dissatisfaction, will drive me away from the site. I pay the monthly fee to support this site and now this site doesn’t support me. Meh.
Also now less inclined to follow sister sites, Casemates and Mediocritee!
Maybe “they” want meh to fold and are putting all their eggs into the two new baskets!
Or, maybe they just want to get rid of VMP members who get all their shipping for $5 a month
@benj “They” already killed it once…
@therealjrn I know. Many of us are grandfathered in, however.
@benj @therealjrn Yeah, because they take that big hit on the $4.99 membership. All those pennies lost. Twelve pennies a year.
@sammydog01 @therealjrn What?
Not to worry, @benj, they make it up in volume. Right @sammydog01?
@benj If I had to hazard a guess, I’d say the majority of the money they make from me is due to VMP. It’s really dumb for me to have it, being not invested in the site and not having bought much of anything in the past several months.
It’s even more consequential if you count the number of times I bought something I probably shouldn’t have because “gee, that’s cheap.”
Wasn’t there a thing where they canceled the program and then everyone was mad, and then they started it back up at $4/mo. instead of $5?
@benj @InnocuousFarmer $4.99. It’s still there.
@sammydog01 @therealjrn My $5 per month pays for all shipping for the month. If meh ships 30 items to me that month, I’m pretty sure they are taking a hit on all that shipping.
What month did you buy 30 items, @benj? I don’t think even @sammydog01 has done that!
@benj @therealjrn I’m not a business person but I have a feeling that if they wanted to get rid of free shipping memberships they would stop offering new ones. Which they haven’t.
@benj @sammydog01 @therealjrn Yeah likely that have pretty good stats about number of purchases a month/VMP and adjust the price of the items they are selling accordingly to take the average number into account (and also to take into account shipping costs).
/image no free lunch
Booooooooooo!!!
The meh button is my favorite feature of this site. I’m glad I can still see my streak on my profile, but it was a lot easier to visualize it with the calendar.
1695 total, 1385 streak. (And now 1 forum post)
Giving you a week to put it back.
We want our meh button calendar back or it’s mutiny!
Hey guys, they picked a special video for you today:
I love streaking…
Put the new profile update on the main page. I don’t want to look at the streak on a second page.
Boo hiss boooo
I want the meh stats on the homepage again. I love the thrill of watching my click stats incrementing every day. Without that, this is just another sales site.
The face calendar is such a silly thing, but it set this site apart from everyone else.
If you don’t have the calendar on the main page, why bother with the Meh button at all? It loses all of it’s utility by not having instant feedback.
@lumpthar don’t give them any ideas…
I keep checking to see if you put it back. I was a supporter of Woot, I was a supporter of the Kickstarter for Meh. I have been a VMP since day one. How you react to all of this customer feedback is important. Will I stop visiting meh? No. But some of the fun and magic of this place has been lost with these changes. Please bring them back.
@Macoland YES!!!
@Macoland i’ve been a vmp for a while and to be quite honest if the homepage calendar doesn’t come back i’m going to cancel vmp.
no faces = feces
Where is my calendar??? WHERE!!!
I visit, every day, to make sure I click the button. Without it I’ll go back to deciding if i should visit based on the last things I remembering you selling!
Toiletry Organizer? screw that
Unisex Clogs? more like un-sexy clogs!
Chiming in to say that I, too, miss the calendar and would rather see that visual that know how many people responded to your tweet to come here. By all means keep measuring that for your marketing team, but bring the calendar back for your customer team.
Please put the stats back on the main page.
I too really miss the stays and calendar. Why on earth would you take it away? It can’t be costing you anything the programming is already done.
Add me to the list of people missing the calendar and stats.
By Monday, everything will be back to normal & meh will announce:
April Fools! Ha Ha!
April: confirmed. Fools: confirmed. Day: confirmed.
@daveinwarsh No they will probably announce we are the fools…
This is my first comment after almost 5 years on meh. Hope it is my last. Bring back the faces calendar.
@phyrn No offense, but all you do is complain when you post. Ha ha!
The calendar has always been so much fun. I am not sure why it is gone I guess you’re supposed to click the button if you decide not to buy but I clicked the button either way. Please bring it back.
Add me to the list of the folks who want the calendar and stats back.
You’re going to lose a lot of subscribers if you don’t put the meh buttons back on the home page. The change was a very stupid move.
@lisameh I doubt they will lose any subscribers
@lisameh @tightwad They will lose at least one. I know it may seem petty, but without the calendar or the amount of clicks in a row, I have no motivation to click the button which means I have no reason to visit the site or pay my MVP $.
I wonder what drove this decision in the first place. @snapster briefly mentioned that he’d considered removing the meh button entirely, and you don’t eliminate a core feature of the site without some very good reason behind it. Could it be that MorningSave has become Mediocre’s main source of revenue, enough to where the cost of drawing a new meh button face every day could be better put towards marketing to and developing features for the MorningSave daytime TV crowd? Or maybe they’d like to or need to refocus Meh on selling things first instead of producing a community first? (Similar features like the poll and the video have also been reduced in prominence.)
If business needs dictate these changes, I’d understand. I understood and sympathized back when the videos were changed from new videos daily to new videos once every week or two. The key difference there was that Mediocre employees talked about what was going on and explained that the cost of producing the videos was too much to do it day after day, whereas with the meh calendar we’ve gotten near-complete silence.
@lljk A while ago they already said that meh was only a tiny portion of their revenue.
They’re probably about to do something really sucky… and everyone is gonna hate and bitch about it. Then… suddenly, your stats thingy will be back to divert attention away from the really sucky thing.
@lseeber I know a Trump university grad when I see one.
@gobnu huh?
Bring back the calendar or or I’ll bring back memories…
That calendar was only purpose I woke up everyday…and now there is no meaning in my life…
Come on Meh, the mob has spoken!
/giphy simpsons monorail
Bring back the calendar. Got to be the only reason to check in although I did occasionally buy something
Well, if you are going to remove a popular feature, at least tell us who won.
Oh, the coincidence! I finally broke my record, and literally the calendar went missing at the same time. I thought it was a “feature” of on a winning streak. WTF, Meh?
Bring it back. Bring it back
meh
I guess this is Meh’s first “white night”.
The “feature” of hiding your profile from others being to see it - also means I cannot see it either. Privacy means I have access to it and can see it, and no one else does, not MEH can see it and no one else can.
I wish there was SOME kind of feedback from the powers that be to better explain the rationale.
@richmondhokie It’s only fair, you wanted private, you got private. I don’t see the problem.
@therealjrn I want private from YOU (and every one else), not me…
@richmondhokie Maybe it’s best you don’t know…one of life’s little blessings…
@richmondhokie You go to your account, scroll to the bottom (forum settings), choose edit, click the box to unhide it, save, go look, rinse and repeat to re-hide everything.
@Kidsandliz Um yeah - I know…
@richmondhokie oh - from your post it didn’t seem like maybe you did. It’s certainly a PITA when you have chosen privacy (I keep mine locked down too).
@Kidsandliz My post was a gripe that “privacy” should be one-way - private from others - not also private from me.
@richmondhokie Ahh… And I agree!!!
On a similar note, why is there no link to Casemates in the redesign?
@awilkey
Indeed, an odd choice… could it be Mediocre doesn’t want Casemates.com sullied by its odd ball cousins?
@dave, @snapster?
… and yet, inconsistently, the forum menu includes it.
(I’ve given up attempting to make the Meh image upload to work as expected on mobile. In this case, the second image didn’t show up the first time I uploaded it… so I uploaded it a second time… and now it shows up twice… even tho when editing the comment, there are only two total image links in the comment!?!)
My calendar is back.
@sammydog01 Well then, you can ignore my post.
@sammydog01 I went 2 days without even realizing it was back.
Dear Meh,
Thank you, you heard us and, more importantly, you listened to us.
@webender they didn’t listen.
/giphy thanks!
Many thanks, Meh overlords!
I just noticed it was back. Thank you so much for unbreaking my heart
Mine is still missing
@uchua need at least 7 in a row for it to show up.
so i had like 20+ in a row…missed two days…and now i lose my calendar again?..wtf…this game sucks…esp since I didnt know we were playing one…also…weekends out of town will always knock me out i guess…
@amehzinggrace GoldiLOCKS! GoldiLOCkS! GoldiLocks! COME ON EVERYBODY!
@therealjrn I dont get the reference…
yep! this sucks. i don’t have the streak to really complain but i hate the change.
@winfield apparently @therealjrn wants us to rally/riot again…
@amehzinggrace @winfield GoldieLOCKS GoldieLOCKS GoldieLOCKS!
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@amehzinggrace @winfield I think @therealjrn is the new mediocrebot.