@Collin1000@mschuette It is showing me as VMP August 2014 but my Kickstarter Date was September 2013. It looks like all it is doing is going back to the first VMP but ignoring everything else.
@Collin1000@readnj Yes, it is specifically a continuous membership since date. It’s not an account created date or anything like that. It should match the date you see when you hover over the badge by your username.
@RiotDemon Possible. I did have an expired card that needed updating, but I don’t think I’ve ever skipped a month of VMP or anything. I also had the 12 months of paid VMP from the Casemates Kickstarter, if that matters.
(also none of this really matters that much but I just wanna be annoying)
I wonder what exactly the significance is of the “Powered by Checkout.org” branding. Checkout.org itself was barely used for anything other than a couple of early fulfillment partnerships that Mediocre had made, but MorningSave and SideDeal have both been “powered by” it for a long time now. In those cases I always thought it was meant to deflect the daytime-TV set away from showing up at Mediocre’s main website and bringing their support issues there.
@lljk I appreciate how observant you’ve been! Rather than detour customers, it was simply a more conventional and less distracting brand than Mediocre. Not accidentally, it is evolving to become our platform name for homegrown elements of our infrastructure. We plan to extend this infrastructure with partnerships where the branding will indicate account-services and community-services customers recognize.
Think future pop-up shops where our crowd can participate with the comforts of home. A signal to you without dominating another brand’s experience.
That said, this may be the slowest tech rollout ever. We’re enjoying our pace this go-round.
@snapster I’m reminded of the “Mediocre Laboratories” name and how it kind of was an umbrella term for Meh and the other stores (or experiments in ecommerce, as it were). While I liked its character, I can understand how a simpler name can make more people feel better and more confident about shopping, especially if your future plans include more short-term online stores that’d need some way to signal that they’re not just a fly-by-night operation.
It makes me wonder how aware customers are of the Checkout.org name. If I worked for you, I’d be interested in figuring out some way of using your current infrastructure to measure brand awareness.
@lljk the experimental vibe is not something we want to abandon, but the way the internet evolved to suit the mainstream shocked us into a survival mode. To muddle some corpspeak we’re going to have to level-up to reach a critical mass that allows more freedom.
I like it. It’s big, but it works. Also, what’s up with me being VMP since 2019? I’ve been VMP since day 1 of VMP. #Kickstarter
@Collin1000 I don’t know, but there’s a goat you can blame for that.
@narfcake dammit @eonfifty you messed up my nice VMP badge
@Collin1000 I am interested in what may have happened and will look into it more. Thanks for pointing that out.
@Collin1000 @narfcake
/giphy goat blamed
@Collin1000 @mschuette It is showing me as VMP August 2014 but my Kickstarter Date was September 2013. It looks like all it is doing is going back to the first VMP but ignoring everything else.
@Collin1000 @readnj Yes, it is specifically a continuous membership since date. It’s not an account created date or anything like that. It should match the date you see when you hover over the badge by your username.
@mschuette @readnj But as far as I know, since VMP isn’t sold anymore, it doesn’t make sense to say Feb 2019? I’ve had VMP since forever.
@Collin1000 was there a break in your billing?
@RiotDemon Possible. I did have an expired card that needed updating, but I don’t think I’ve ever skipped a month of VMP or anything. I also had the 12 months of paid VMP from the Casemates Kickstarter, if that matters.
(also none of this really matters that much but I just wanna be annoying)
I wonder what exactly the significance is of the “Powered by Checkout.org” branding. Checkout.org itself was barely used for anything other than a couple of early fulfillment partnerships that Mediocre had made, but MorningSave and SideDeal have both been “powered by” it for a long time now. In those cases I always thought it was meant to deflect the daytime-TV set away from showing up at Mediocre’s main website and bringing their support issues there.
@lljk I appreciate how observant you’ve been! Rather than detour customers, it was simply a more conventional and less distracting brand than Mediocre. Not accidentally, it is evolving to become our platform name for homegrown elements of our infrastructure. We plan to extend this infrastructure with partnerships where the branding will indicate account-services and community-services customers recognize.
Think future pop-up shops where our crowd can participate with the comforts of home. A signal to you without dominating another brand’s experience.
That said, this may be the slowest tech rollout ever. We’re enjoying our pace this go-round.
@snapster I’m reminded of the “Mediocre Laboratories” name and how it kind of was an umbrella term for Meh and the other stores (or experiments in ecommerce, as it were). While I liked its character, I can understand how a simpler name can make more people feel better and more confident about shopping, especially if your future plans include more short-term online stores that’d need some way to signal that they’re not just a fly-by-night operation.
It makes me wonder how aware customers are of the Checkout.org name. If I worked for you, I’d be interested in figuring out some way of using your current infrastructure to measure brand awareness.
@lljk the experimental vibe is not something we want to abandon, but the way the internet evolved to suit the mainstream shocked us into a survival mode. To muddle some corpspeak we’re going to have to level-up to reach a critical mass that allows more freedom.
@snapster
Translation: most of the world is not a bunch of wonky folks like the clowns who hang out here. (But thanks for being polite!)
@RedOak just find us more wonky clowns to hang out here