Delete Winners permission changed to Manage Winners permission. Now allows the ability to undelete winners, and to change feedback state.
Nice, that feels like preparation geared towards the heavy re-rolling free games will likely receive. Now... If i can just get support to take care of the 4-5month old tickets needing entrances removed. :P
Comment has been collapsed.
Another recent change which for some reason is missing from the list, is that the notification counter at the top updates as soon as new messages are posted. Previously it was only updating a new page was loaded.
Comment has been collapsed.
Interesting. I have new feature disabled by default. I wonder what enabled this one?
Comment has been collapsed.
the header refresher is older then the disabled by default feature. (header refresher 4.5 / disabled default 4.7.3)
so it was kicked on before the disabled by default was added. xD
Comment has been collapsed.
I only noticed it a few days ago. How unperceptive of me :-)
Comment has been collapsed.
Is there something new about the deleted comments? D:.
Comment has been collapsed.
😮👍
April 18, 2017
Miscellaneous updates for upcoming e-mail notifications.
Comment has been collapsed.
Minor changes to account page.
Quick glance, I see no difference. Any explanation of what changed?
Comment has been collapsed.
I think Giveaways and Referrals were on a different section.
Comment has been collapsed.
Love the new email notification! (and that space cat avatar is awesome)
Comment has been collapsed.
Thanks for the implementing of email notifications, cg!
Comment has been collapsed.
Emails should be opt-in not opt-out as we haven't previously agreed to receive them.
Comment has been collapsed.
you already agreed to it. (last edited over 2years ago, so that's not new)
Comment has been collapsed.
That's agreeing to have my email address provided to the giveaway creator if I win. It's not agreeing to receiving emails from the site.
Comment has been collapsed.
sentence one is vague enough to cover this too though, as well as sentence two of the terms of service:
The Website is offered subject to your acceptance without modification of all of the terms and conditions contained herein and all other operating rules, policies (including, without limitation, SteamGifts' Privacy Policy and guidelines that may be published from time to time on this Website (collectively, the "Agreement").
Comment has been collapsed.
About the email notifications for when your giveaway ends. Are you sending one for every single giveaway? This may not be good for people that make mass giveaways. I don't know anything about programming or websites, but it may be a good idea to put some kind of limit on the number of notifications that can be set within a certain time period. Maybe set it so that it checks and doesn't send a notification if one was sent in the past 10 or 20 minutes. That way if someone puts up 100 or 200 giveaways for an event, they won't get flooded with emails, but they will still get one if they want it.
Edit: I also don't know how email accounts get marked as spam/junk, but I would imagine if you send out too many of the same thing to people that had a lot of giveaways end, the emails may get moved to the spam/junk folder and people will not get them unless they manually add the email address.
Comment has been collapsed.
yeah the spam thing is a big one - years ago when we sent a mass mailout, and things went a bit wrong, we were flagged as a spam source and kicked from our email provider :P - not sure how it works now, but not something steamgifts would want to be identified as I think :)
Comment has been collapsed.
Hello d3m4n,
5 of your giveaways have ended.
all 5x were seperate GAs with the exact same end time, but only one single email. unsure what happens in cases where end time is only a minute apart each though. ^^
Comment has been collapsed.
E-mail notifications
Not criticizing, but I do find it interesting that you felt informing us about the impending [BundleStars] referral change was worth doing [despite being pretty normal element for a website to have], and yet didn't give forewarning (and pre-implementation of the account settings component) for e-mail spam, something which is not only pretty universally understood to be disagreeable, but which is especially well-recognized to anyone familiar with SG [ie, "no generic thanks"].
Also, adding in e-mails-on-win while also stating that bot-use is against site rules sends out pretty conflicting messages (as the entire purpose of sending out e-mail notifications is to cater to inactive users). Now that things are so in favor of such an approach, perhaps you should implement Captcha, as per previous suggestions. As long as you make it a once-per-(random, average of 10)-entries thing, it'd be minimal stress to normal users, while locking out auto-joiners after just a few giveaways.
Well, or just add it to any entry within the first minute of a giveaway having been posted- that'd cut out most auto-joiners right there, at least until the scripts compensate. :P
Comment has been collapsed.
Starting with your latter point, a vague reference in an edit to an existing thread a couple of days beforehand.. that's well far enough out of the scope of what I was discussing that it's essentially irrelevant to it. Similarly, there never was an announcement- there was an 'I think e-mail notifications are nice. Do you think e-mail notifications are nice? Yeah, they're kinda nice.' entry within the holiday announcement, but that didn't give any element of forewarning. Hell, if 'Plans' hadn't been at the top of the section, we'd not even known he was actually considering ever implementing such, given the abstract phrasing used. :P
Also, you seem to have overlooked a key point of my comment- that the ability to toggle off the setting beforehand was missing. A proper announcement would have only been the minimal gesture, allowing users especially disinclined toward notifications to have edited their giveaway plans off of the notice (and again: two vague, half-hidden comments don't count toward that). More appropriately, there should have been a proper announcement, along with a chance to opt-out beforehand.
Mind you, this didn't affect me in any way- I don't ever use e-mail for anything but SG and random internet promos, and I had no giveaways ending or won within the timeframe. Likewise, as I said, I wasn't intending to at all criticize cg- just noting that it seemed a weird difference in perspective that he thought potentially spamming a few unlucky users with e-mails would be less of a faux pas than not alerting us to referrals before implementing them. That runs contrary to my own considerations, and what I've observed of the community's. I may be mistaken on that latter bit- but then, my only point was to note how curious the contrast was, not to make any argument; so there's really no issue even if I am.
In short, my first paragraph in my last post was just an observation, my actual point of discussion in that post was the last section.
Comment has been collapsed.
Well, my point was that this seemed more relevant to make a thread of any sort for, than the last topic did. As I wasn't criticizing, I was more pointing out how cg's valuations for what was worthy of public discussion seemed at odds with my own expectations. Do note you're the one who specifically brought up announcements- I didn't reference them at the start. :)
You can just set your script to check SG every 5 minutes (or even less if you may wish) and it can be done in like 5 lines of code.
Oh, you mean, and give you a prompt directly on your computer?
I thought most auto-join scripts in use were similar to typical SG browser script offerings- freely available, and thus used mostly by 'normal' site users (who'd lack the coding expertise or interest to edit the code in the manner you're mentioning). I really don't know a thing about the structure of those scripts, so I suppose some could already do what you mention. Nevertheless, it doesn't change the impressions I indicated (as is supported by my own mentioning of them)- and impressions were all that were being discussed.
That said, you're actually addressing the lead-in, and not the actual suggestion I was making [of implementing some sort of basic anti-auto-join measures]. :P
Comment has been collapsed.
as the entire purpose of sending out e-mail notifications is to cater to inactive users
i wouldn't quite say that. i think with this in place, we should no longer have to provide proof of contact in order to re-roll or force feedback on gifts. -- at least i would hope that will be a good side effect of this new feature... idk.
Comment has been collapsed.
E-mail notifications are now being sent to users when they win a game, or when one of their giveaways end.
As long as the key is not sent in email and still requires users to login to the site, I'm very much in favor of this change. Thank you!
Comment has been collapsed.
let's keep facilitating the use of automated stuff to win.
these emails encourage me to use autojoin scripts to be on a par with the rest of the userbase. might as well do it since it's not against the rules. 👍
Comment has been collapsed.
You guys finally made the email notification thing! Good job, I love it <3
Comment has been collapsed.
You just confused me so much just now ... Space Cat sending emails now ... I first thought that was a new kind of scam ;-)
Comment has been collapsed.
I like the email notifications, sometimes I'm busy with life things and may have forgotten my giveaways ended an hour ago, or whatever. So I can go send keys faster. :)
Comment has been collapsed.
I don't like the autoplaying video ads that kill performance on my phone browser. I had to re-enable adblock because of those.
Comment has been collapsed.
The email notifications are already showing up as junk mail. I have my giveaway ended notifications disabled, but I received a notification that I won a giveaway 2 days ago and it was in my junk folder. I marked it as not junk so I wont have that problem anymore, but I suspect it will show as junk for everyone else (using Hotmail, Outlook, or Live) until they notice and add the email address.
Comment has been collapsed.
nice 👍
May 9, 2017
If a user's e-mail address temporarily bounces, the site will now wait 5 days, instead of 2 days, before contacting them again.
Comment has been collapsed.
Comment has been collapsed.
lol, i just remembered something else about this change.
Added Manage Winners permission for Super Mods (allowing them to both delete/add winners, and modify feedback of winners).
1 week ago...
Comment has been collapsed.
wait, mod bribes are higher then support, right?
damn........
Comment has been collapsed.
the big question is, does the subscription bribe plan i paid for is still relevant.
it had 3 rerolls + 1 free user 24 hour ban. only used 2 rerolls :(
Comment has been collapsed.
I think that since you bought the Support Bribe Starter Pack in the SG shop, it is now not valid for Moderator types. It is a different menu. But hey, at least they have the Deluxe package available at 20% discount most often. (Or is it one of those things that only level 10 users can see?)
Comment has been collapsed.
Added notification on the giveaways won page, reminding users to activate their wins.
BOI THEY DID
Comment has been collapsed.
I'll keep the below updated with changes to the site, new features, bug fixes, etc.
December 10, 2024
December 7, 2024
December 6, 2024
November 27, 2024
November 26, 2024
November 21, 2024
November 19, 2024
November 18, 2024
November 17, 2024
November 4, 2024
October 22, 2024
October 10, 2024
October 9, 2024
October 3, 2024
July 25, 2024
April 20, 2024
April 16, 2024
February 13, 2024
January 10, 2024
December 11, 2023
December 6, 2023
December 2, 2023
October 27, 2023
August 26, 2023
May 31, 2023
May 3, 2023
March 22, 2023
March 13, 2023
March 5, 2023
March 3, 2023
February 23, 2023
February 22, 2023
February 4, 2023
February 3, 2023
February 1, 2023
January 9, 2023
January 8, 2023
January 2, 2023
December 20, 2022
December 19, 2022
December 3, 2022
September 22, 2022
September 5, 2022
August 22, 2022
June 5, 2022
April 14, 2022
April 13, 2022
April 10, 2022
April 9, 2022
April 8, 2022
April 6, 2022
April 5, 2022
December 27, 2021
August 26, 2021
July 26, 2021
May 6, 2021
December 18, 2020
December 16, 2020
December 11, 2020
December 3, 2020
November 22, 2020
November 10, 2020
November 6, 2020
May 1, 2020
April 28, 2020
April 13, 2020
February 18, 2020
January 4, 2020
December 5, 2019
August 26, 2019
August 24, 2019
May 30, 2019
May 18, 2019
May 16, 2019
March 4, 2019
March 2, 2019
February 12, 2019
February 11, 2019
February 10, 2019
December 9, 2018
December 3, 2018
November 25, 2018
November 21, 2018
October 5, 2018
August 4, 2018
July 25, 2018
May 25, 2018
May 11, 2018
May 9, 2018
May 7, 2018
May 5, 2018
May 2, 2018
April 30, 2018
April 26, 2018
April 13, 2018
April 11, 2018
April 6, 2018
March 27, 2018
March 14, 2018
March 13, 2018
March 9, 2018
March 6, 2018
March 1, 2018
February 23, 2018
February 18, 2018
February 16, 2018
February 2, 2018
January 23, 2018
January 4, 2018
December 12, 2017
December 8, 2017
December 7, 2017
December 6, 2017
November 28, 2017
November 4, 2017
October 26, 2017
October 23, 2017
October 18, 2017
October 6, 2017
September 21, 2017
September 20, 2017
September 12, 2017
September 8, 2017
September 1, 2017
August 25, 2017
August 23, 2017
August 17, 2017
August 16, 2017
August 9, 2017
August 4, 2017
August 3, 2017
July 27, 2017
July 26, 2017
July 21, 2017
July 3, 2017
June 30, 2017
June 28, 2017
June 27, 2017
June 26, 2017
May 21, 2017
May 20, 2017
May 11, 2017
May 9, 2017
April 22, 2017
April 18, 2017
April 7, 2017
March 30, 2017
March 18, 2017
March 11, 2017
March 8, 2017
March 5, 2017
February 28, 2017
February 21, 2017
February 16, 2017
February 15, 2017
February 11, 2017
January 17, 2017
January 11, 2017
December 8, 2016
December 6, 2016
December 5, 2016
November 19, 2016
November 11, 2016
November 10, 2016
November 9, 2016
November 8, 2016
November 3, 2016
October 27, 2016
October 26, 2016
July 6, 2016
June 1, 2016
May 19, 2016
April 27, 2016
April 26, 2016
April 21, 2016
April 19, 2016
April 15, 2016
April 13, 2016
April 12, 2016
April 11, 2016
April 7, 2016
March 21, 2016
March 10, 2016
February 9, 2016
February 8, 2016
January 19, 2016
January 8, 2016
November 28, 2015
November 27, 2015
November 26, 2015
November 25, 2015
November 24, 2015
November 19, 2015
November 12, 2015
November 8, 2015
November 1, 2015
October 24, 2015
October 23, 2015
October 21, 2015
October 18, 2015
September 28, 2015
September 27, 2015
September 24, 2015
August 30, 2015
August 29, 2015
August 28, 2015
August 26, 2015
August 10, 2015
August 6, 2015
August 4, 2015
August 3, 2015
July 31, 2015
July 30, 2015
July 25, 2015
July 18, 2015
May 21, 2015
May 17, 2015
April 21, 2015
April 20, 2015
April 17, 2015
April 16, 2015
April 13, 2015
April 9, 2015
March 31, 2015
March 18, 2015
March 12, 2015
March 11, 2015
March 7, 2015
March 6, 2015
March 1, 2015
February 28, 2015
February 27, 2015
February 26, 2015
February 25, 2015
February 19, 2015
February 13, 2015
February 12, 2015
February 11, 2015
February 8, 2015
February 7, 2015
February 6, 2015
February 5, 2015
February 4, 2015
February 3, 2015
February 2, 2015
February 1, 2015
Comment has been collapsed.