Incoming! Too many New Friend's Letters ??!!


As we start the day, Early, a Notification :

On my phone screen, as I fired it up, to turn on wifi and start Slowly to check new mail... and for some coin hunting, as usual.

Things have been very quiet lately on Reddit subs, so I was happy to see an incoming Direct Message. From my good friend -littleghost. :)

And we went from there; very soon I was using my text editor (the free and full featured EditPad Lite, recommended), to write freely without the constrains of the Reddit Chat message entry box.

Writers need unbound space for proper expression, imo. As soon as I had a few paragraphs, I knew Today's Blog topic was at hand — here it is. :)

I have requested and obtained LittleGhost's permission to quote her, use a screen capture in the blog, and as a Good Sport, it was duly granted. Thanks, dear friend! :)


LittleGhost's Incoming Chat message :

Hi Yann, I thought I'd just send a quick message to a long time Slowly user... I am dying internally xD

I decided earlier today I would turn back on my “accepting new friends” feature til I got ONE new pen pal...

I forgot to check, and when I went back I had three despite it being a short while.

Then I scrolled, and realised it was actually five.

Then when I turned it off, I figure a couple people must have still been writing to me because now I have SEVEN NEW INCOMING LETTERS xD

How do you tend to manage when you have too many letters, lol?


And then we started Talking...

Good morning (to me, evening to you) Ghost!! Oh, that is priceless — one of those things you could write a Slowly Stories about, seriously — save some notes and do it, as this is prime writing material.

Hahahahah, I'm glad you think so. Hopefully something good comes out of it but honestly I'm low-key hoping that some users were lazy and didn't bother to read my profile so I have an excuse to talk to less xD

ok, and look what I got for you... fresh from my text editor!!

Now, engaging the Editing Tools for some free writing :

Amazing how quickly that happened, there might be another incoming users wave possibly. Interesting.

I did notice one thing, related to that more or less. I talked my brother into trying Slowly, so I could write to him and forward some interesting letters.

I had Slowly set up on my iPad mini so to get him going, I uninstalled the app there; then reinstalled, and started the new user creation (a bit hard for him), did it all (we have been there before, much easier) and it was up and running. I locked out new friends, so he wouldn't have this incoming mail like you got.

Uninstalled Slowly again for some reason, and then re-installed, this time logging in to his existing account.

And... Hours later, a New penpal message showed in the tablet. What? Yes, reinstalling it did reset the “Accepting Friends” toggle. Something to keep in mind.


Woot ?

On the question of what to do now, for you, let me think out loud, some ideas.


How did we handle Slowly before WEB Mode ?

A good pen pal friend of mine, who I have corresponded with for many months, had a tablet solution – hers being a killer model; an iPad Pro, with a Bluetooth keyboard case. Man, she loved it, and we both had fast correspondence.

This at a time when Slowly Web was something mentioned as an upcoming feature, but no firm Release time frame at all.

I used an Android emulator in my laptop, BlueStacks, under Windows 10, and it was a dream setup too — Full keyboard, large and sharp screen, and all the storage in the laptop ready for keeping photos for sharing, notes, etc. And this, in July 20192 months at least before Slowly Web appeared in mid-September.

Writing a Blog about this is on my clipboard as a To Do item — I know it will be well received, as most people have NO idea this is possible at all. Coming Soon! :)


And we continued from there.

Talking about Blogs, I thank you for your message, which gave me the head start for today's post — this one, as I think it's prime material too. :)

Hope these help, and that you don't mind my appropriation of this for expanding into a public channel. As usual I will not release any details of my interlocutors. :P

And I will be around and happy to help and chat if you want to continue this topic. Turned into a pretty letter, this one, didn't it ?

Thanks, Little Sister! :)

Have a great day, dear friend.

Yann.


Fast Forward, and this page is Born.

A very agreeable chat, and a great start for my day — with a fresh idea, and motivation to get it into Web Magazine Style which I love so much.

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Letters we share, with pen pals all over the World, via the magic of the Slowly App. A modern day take in the traditional penpal experience.

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