Friends Near and Afar, Letters we Share and Cherish.
The other day, a new user posted a topic at our Slowly app Reddit sub, inquiring about a stamp for Paraguay — which is one of two South American countries I knew are still missing a location stamp of their own.
This topic is an update of my original post from August, 2020 in our SLOWLYapp subreddit, which is also present in my Blog here.
In late April, without fanfarre or being announced, promoted. I think that was for testing purposes, to make sure things worked.
Somehow I found out about it, and started spreading the word.
A button in the Stamp Store, going out to a 'Stamp Request' new site. Introduced on Slowly Web Client version 3.2.9, one click on Stamp Store takes you there. And the site can become quite active if we join...
They imported a number of received suggestions from past emails (for example, there's an entry for a request for Anzac Day stamp, which was accepted and issued recently).
I am happy to see these, and to know that our Reddit community had a role in bringing these to life.
About two months ago we had some discussions about people receiving 'letters' (more like messages, indeed) in languages they have no knowledge of, and which are not listed in their profiles at all.
We were waiting, the collectors community looks forward to the usual release batch arriving near the end of a month, with stamps which will be unlocked soon, in the next month.
That happened, and it is a large batch – ** 16 new stamps in total**, and here they are. 😎👍
We were chatting in another topic yesterday, the collectors community looks forward to the usual release batch arriving near the end of a month, with stamps which will be unlocked soon, in the next month.
That happened, and it is a large batch – 24 new stamps in total, I could not even post images for all of them at Reddit, as it allows only 20 images max in a post. But here they are. 😎👍
We had various recent topics with users who had unpleasant experiences, and wanted to report the offending accounts. We discussed the best way to do that; although it wasn't fully clear how the process worked.
I sent my Slowly contact person a letter and received a prompt, professional and well written reply. This being the official word, now published here so we all understand better how to do it.
And they do work surprisingly well, usually for free, a good service we could possibly use for our Slowly activities?
We had a topic on Reddit recently with a first letter the user received, and which was fully written in Mandarin. Ooops. They copied the text, and used an online translator, just to be able to read it.
A nice stamp from Italy, the 'Carnevale' one now is no longer available.
I feel this is due to Slowly team's sensitivity to the pandemic situation – they probably took it off the stamp store around March 2020, when Italy's Northern region was suffering badly with the first wave of the pandemic.
A lot of older residents died, and it's possible an Italian user wrote and suggest removing it. Or that Slowly staff themselves felt it was better to remove it.
I have written before about the basics of getting free coins by watching short video ads in SLOWLY. That Blog post is the most viewed page here, at about 4,250 views currently (Jan 17, 2022 stats).
Now, here is a new, supplementary post to add more info. Specifically, on how to deal with the occasional 'N/A' (no ads available) problem.