Pretty New Account Page
32@Shawn mentioned that we'd be getting a new account page soon - and it's live! New settings, new look, you can change your payment information!
Check it out.
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@Shawn mentioned that we'd be getting a new account page soon - and it's live! New settings, new look, you can change your payment information!
Check it out.
Nicely done, @shawn!
Way to go @shawn.....it looks great!
@barnabee W.P.S. :)
@jsimsace Remind me to never bet against you.
Hogs 42 - Cats 27 is pretty damn close to the real score. Congrats!
Hey, this means that 'display mode' settings have moved beyond VMP and into us peasants' setting pages as well! Well, not the night/day theme, but the firehose/pagination bit.
Nice!!!
Oh I like that.
@Shawn you the real mvp.
Ah, cool. @thumperchick found the new account pages. I was going to write up something about these on Monday but since they've been discovered...
We've needed a new set of account pages for a while now. Over time as we've been adding features the old account page was getting pretty cluttered.
We went from this:
To this:
Rather than try to cram all the functionality into one page we decided to redesign around a central, read-only account page that points to several editable pages. I like this approach because it feels like it can scale if we need to add more stuff.
Your Info
We're not happy with the name of this page, but haven't come up with something better yet. Other than that, the page is pretty straightforward. It allows you edit your username, password, and email address. You can also add/remove third-party connections (if you'd rather not remember another password and want to sign in using your Amazon or Google account).
Editing your username is a pretty rare thing that happens, but I'm glad we're able to offer this feature since we couldn't at Woot.
Recent Orders
I'm wasn't 100% convinced that we needed this section. I suppose it's helpful if you don't discover the "My Orders" link before you find the "My Account" link.
I went ahead and added it to help prevent confusion with customers unable to find their order history across our different sites. If someone bought a shirt from mediocre.com and then stumbled upon their account page on meh.com it's going to show a helpful message like this:
Payment Settings
This is an important one. Before these new account pages were created your default payment setting when checking out on meh.com was always the last payment setting you used. If you're a VMP, your $5 payment every month was charged to the credit card you used when you signed up for your VMP membership.
This new payment settings page allows you to specify which payment setting you'd like to use as the default when checking out on meh.com and the one to charge your VMP payments.
We briefly discussed if we needed two default payment settings here but quickly decided that would be potentially confusing in a lot of use cases.
VMP Membership
One of my favorite parts of the new account pages is that we're listing out VMP benefits in a more straightforward approach.
We've always had the data about how long you've been a VMP member and when to expect the next charge on your credit card but this now feels more discoverable to me. The link from this page that allows you to quickly change your default payment setting if you need to swap credit cards is redundant but helpful.
Email Subscriptions
Not much to say here other than you can now opt in and out of our newsletters from this page. You can also turn on and off forum mention emails here.
We might add more marketing or transactional email settings here over time. We had an early prototype of this page that offered settings for order confirmations, order cancelations, and order shipping notifications. Eventually we just decided someone would turn these off thinking they never EVER want to get an email from us and then be confused when they ordered something and didn't get a confirmation email.
Forum Settings
We've opened up the "Display Mode" options to everyone now. If you're a VMP member you have access to the light or dark theme setting (which is still a work in progress).
We went ahead and also added the forum mention notification setting on this page (as well as the email subscriptions page). It seemed like someone might look on either page for it.
Hope you guys enjoy. I'm glad to have these complete.
@shawn 'Your info' name suggestion: 'Who the fuck are you!?'
Appreciate the work that went into this, and being able to rename one's self is a very good thing, even if rare… High five!
@brhfl "Who the fuck do you think you are?"
@shawn Does that say that VMP members get priority customer support?
@shawn Even better!
@brhfl @shawn "Who the fuck we think you are!"
@shawn You missed the opportunity to blame the goat for stealing your thunder here, and denying you the chance to write a proper reveal post. Damn you @thismyusername!
@shawn - This is all brilliant! I love the ability to change usernames - that's how I added my K. Hated my woot name and there was too much history attached to change over there.
Thanks for all you do to improve the experience.
@shawn hmmmmm so is that 4/20 just another 42 orrrrrr...
@KDemo That's what the K is for? Trying to fake your way into the Kickstarter cool club?
@shawn My OCD is kicking in because you used the same truck icon twice on the VMP page. twitch
TL;DR @shawn smokes pot and/or knows the answer to life, the universe and everything.
@jqubed - Busted. I wanted to sit at the cool kid's table (and drink the kool aid).
I saw this lastnight... But didn't comment... however.... I didn't post it first :) Congrats looks great... is that why @hollboll always saves mine for when she's in a bad mood? Granted... they aren't always bad support requests. :)
This is so not mediocre. Keep this shit up and we'll all eventually come to have expectations.
@Pavlov
Don't worry they do all kinds of good things then have something like sell 3K of items and only had 100...
@sohmageek
Exactly. Where's the fun in them having enough of an item?
@sohmageek Thanks for making me spend 30 minutes watching clips of that old MadTV skit.
Wait, VMPs get priority shipping (out of the warehouse, not once it's out of the warehouse)
Didn't know that. Neat.
Love the new account page. Nice work.
@Collin1000 I wonder if this means that if it was to oversell would the orders from VMP's be fulfilled first? That would give a bonus to VMP's... Also wonder if this has any weight on fuku (I think I know the answer is "NO, WTF sohma why did you say that!")
@Thumperchick do you have some kind of secret Meh magic tool that alerts you every time a post is made? Or was this pure coincidence?
https://meh.com/forum/topics/improve-the-forum#56884a06a9d8af7805d036ee
@RedOak no secret tool, just good old fashioned coincidence.
hasn't it been live for a few days now? i think @shawn mentioned it in a different post. when i checked a few days ago, it was already updated. or maybe i was hallucinating? which would be weird, because hot wings have never made me hallucinate before.
@carl669
It's because you didn't offer to share them.
It's only 2 AM here. I could do with some hot wings.
@FroodyFrog i tried to share, but no one showed up. i blame @thismyusername
@carl669 I was here.
@Barney you might have been at my neighbor's. our houses do look very similar. actually, i do remember them saying something about a random person showing up and asking them why their house wasn't purple.
@carl669
What time did you offer it?
@carl669 And I was hungry...
Edit: I'm still hungry.
You aren't going to feed me-- I'm going to bed.
@Barney
I have purple cauliflower and purple cabbage if you want...
@Barney @FroodyFrog sorry folks. i already ate all the wings. but, the account page updates should still make you do a happy dance.
@FroodyFrog Yuck.
@carl669 Double yuck. Nite-nite.
@Barney
Well I'm not sharing my GOOD food with you. We're not at that stage yet.
@carl669
@shawn I can't find any websites that will let me purchase anything with your "4242" CC info. Are you sure the security code is correct?
@jsimsace
Unless you're using a site which automatically calculates what kind of card it is, it's probably not actually a Visa.
I have someone on the inside working on getting the correct info, but it may take a little time.
@jsimsace The problem with using the card that was provided is that the number seems to be invalid. There is no institution for the number "424242" (I checked). Even worse? That's the wrong CVV for that number (even if it had been valid).
Here you go. You can generate your own, if you like.
http://www.getcreditcardnumbers.com/
(ETA: There is no list of valid IINs on Wikipedia. Far as I know, it was deleted a day or two after it was added).
@Shrdlu
So now @shawn is getting orders to go through despite having a fake card?
GASP
@Shrdlu You never cease to amaze me with your limitless fountain of knowledge. I hope you write a book someday, or let me know if you already have so I can buy it. :)
@jsimsace @Shrdlu just Google the number
@katylava Thank you for another kernel of knowledge.
I've been a VMP member since my first purchase, long ago. I noticed I was charged more than I'd expected in December, but was busy & didn't take the time to check. When I did inquire about it, I was told that my credit card charge didn't go through so my VMP membership was cancelled. I wish Meh would've sent me an Email regarding this when it happened so that I could've addressed it then. Now I'm contemplating rejoining or just leaving it all behind. Getting my little Meh button faces was a habit, but I could sleep through the night if I didn't have to worry about the possibility of the loss (again!) of the elusive Fuku.
I discovered that somehow my VMP was cancelled before my time was up - likely when the new page switched over and then it also was not auto renewed. As I have been VMP for a while and never cancelled it this is odd. I only discovered this was the case when I made a purchase yesterday. I think maybe in the switchover there were some data screw-ups. I did email support to get this fixed, but if it happened to me likely I am not the only victim of a data screwup. I would not have realized it had I not bought something and saw that my VMP was gone and had to buy it again (so lost money since it wasn't otherwise due to expire yet). Yeah I realize there is the badge but I don't usually pay attention to that and recently I haven't been on the forums much due to other things going on in my life.
Found an issue with the responsive design...on mobile in portrait mode the message at the bottom only says "Slow down tiger. You've got some" landscape shows the full "Slow down tiger. you've got some errors to fix."