Shinies, eh.
6 years ago
General
Kind of a dumb place to put that section to be honest, you have to scroll down between Favorites and Watched By to see it and it's kind of a nondescript off-center big ugly box with the way FA's user pages are set up with two columns? You gotta go down to see it, you gotta know where it already is or be looking for it to find it, it takes up a ton of space for what little is in it. I would've thought it'd be better to place it up higher, maybe smaller, more centered, a little Shinies! graphic to put there (or one you can make yourself) to make it more noticeable to the eye. The fact you can't see it on your own page is kind of annoying, too, you could've just disabled the button when it's your own page so you don't accidentally send yourself $5.
I dunno, there were like 30 Shinies journals today I saw and none of them criticized anything and I thought it was criticism-worthy.
But I did activate it if for some reason you want to send $5 instead of $3 via Ko-fi, but ultimately I'd actually prefer if you checked out and pledged to my Patreon instead, that'd help me out most of all, especially since it's under $35 per week again.
I dunno, there were like 30 Shinies journals today I saw and none of them criticized anything and I thought it was criticism-worthy.
But I did activate it if for some reason you want to send $5 instead of $3 via Ko-fi, but ultimately I'd actually prefer if you checked out and pledged to my Patreon instead, that'd help me out most of all, especially since it's under $35 per week again.
Oh yeah. There's plenty of stupid shit involved with this. None of it seems dangerous though, so it's just FA being benevolently incompetent as usual. I'm sure they'll hear (and disregard) plenty of suggestions on the journal they posted.
QuetzaDrake
~quetzadrake
OP
Yeah I mean it probably isn't any more dangerous than attaching your paypal to some other site that everyone's already done before, I just thought the implementation was kind of dumb from a graphic design standpoint. It's also a little weird to me to implement this on-board Ko-fi/Paypal donation button alternative when Ko-fi is hardly some bloated or dangerous and a direct Paypal button integration would've let people send however much money they want, but I guess making it so you don't have to leave the site to do it makes it more convenient for people. But then they put it in a bad spot in the UI where it won't get noticed, so I dunno.
Humbug the Rat
~samanthaweltzin
Yup. Decent idea. Poor implementation. Can't have anything good on FA without a big asterisk next to it. lol
GeoGrey
~geogrey
Really? I haven't seen the button myself yet, so I wouldn't know. I don't know why they wouldn't put as a new tab option at the top of the page (like the ones you see for submission and send note tabs when you get to the userpage).
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