A goodbye, or pen pal departure letter. Think about it, it's a courtesy your pen pal friend deserves. Have a look at this model, and adapt, edit, or write your own to suit. But do send a Goodbye letter – remember the Human at the other side of that screen.
That opened a new topic, where one of our Reddit users shared their suggestion of a letter for this difficult task. And it was a good one, we had comments and people using it for their own needs. So, time to bring it to our Blog and share with others.
SLOWLY like many other applications we use daily is based on the 'Client-Server' model. Two devices are involved, communicate and each does its part.
Server side is controlled by the service provider, in this case Slowly Communications. The machines are industrial grade, heavy duty, and located in data centers somewhere. In our case, most of them are hosted with Amazon Web Services, the major part of which are located in the USA.
Nowadays ghosting is a common experience for most SLOWLY users, as things are getting worse it seems. New users have reported their despair with this.
Today we have a new contributor to our Blog – with an original story of 3 real life, ghost pen pals attempting a return. Originally a topic on our sub-Reddit for the SLOWLY app.
now I have already received 4 purely female avatars as a bonus for profiles with a male gender
Yes, that happened to me, only once, but it's quite annoying, isn't it? That they would not pay attention to a simple detail like that, and give something the user will never use at all.
I found the Gift thing slowed down the loading of the program, and much prefer to use an older version which does not have it at all.
As potential users even, I remember reading some of them at the time I was just discovering the app, and they helped me see it's potential. There are a lot of happy ones.
However, as we get into using SLOWLY daily, some of us would prefer to be able to NOT see the Stories showing as part of our app or Web Client.
Nowadays ghosting is a common experience for most SLOWLY users, as things are getting worse it seems. New users have reported their despair with this.
My friend and penpal -little-ghost had lots of good ideas and wrote some excellent topics on our sub-Reddit for the SLOWLY app.
While sadly their account at Reddit has been deleted, various important User Tips posts they made have been preserved – and I thought they deserved to appear in a Blog format. So, here is the third one.
A common experience for most SLOWLY users, as things are getting worse. New users have frequently commented about this, and their resulting despair. 😕
My friend and penpal -little-ghost had lots of good ideas and wrote some excellent topics on our sub-Reddit for the SLOWLY app.
While sadly their account at Reddit has been deleted, various important User Tips posts they made have been preserved – and I thought they deserved to appear in a Blog format. So, here is the second one.
They left, sending me a note in their final letter
Inspired by a new topic posted on our subReddit for the SLOWLY app, I commented and ended up thinking this could be a nice Blog post too – the situation is so common, most of us in the pen pal communities can relate to.
So here it is, an extract of the on-going conversations there, plus my full 'Goodbye letter' to a cherished pen pal, who deactivated their account unexpectedly.
Their topic is new, and already received various replies back – the question they asked resonates with people, we have likely experienced similar situations.
I know I have, and I commented and shared some thoughts, suggestions and links to example letters I wrote and later published.
Plus, an example of a dysmal 'letter' which was a last straw in one of my penpals correspondences.
