A Midsummer Night's Dream (Summer 2014 Secret Santa) Discussion

[elizabethrose]

Whew! Hooray that makeup talk is back! Although I can't find anything as of yet. Ha ha ha. I'll figure it out eventually right?

I had a fabulous spring break last week (& part of this week). My hubby is finally back from military training & we are a full family again. To celebrate we all hopped on a plane & headed to Disneyland & his parents house for the week! Although flying for 12 hours each way with six kiddos isn't my favorite thing to do (actually it's a nightmare), Disneyland made up for it!!!! It was packed of course! We spent one full day there & rode only 3 rides & met 3 characters (captain America for my 3 boys & Elsa & Anna for my 3 girls). I've been to disney a bazillion times & I've never seen lines like these before. It took 3.5 hours to get to Elsa & Anna (surprise surprise). But we enjoyed the things we were able to do while we were there. Now we are home & completely jet lagged! Ha ha ha.

Omg!  I want to meet Elsa and Anna!  Disneyland sounds fun, but I do not envy your flight!! Glad you're home and can (maybe?) get some rest!

 

[LadyK]

I ended up using "My Content" to go back and find all the threads I actually wanted to subscribe to (currently- I don't actually need Birchbox January 2014 Spoilers anymore!) and then "Followed" them with a weekly reminder.. we'll see what that means :/... and now my subscription page (which is called "Content I Follow" now...?) actually works.  To make the things un-bold though (like you're caught up on a thread and read the most recent post) you have to click the star to the left of the thread (which takes you to the "last post you read" for me, that's like.. page 2 of every thread for whatever reason.. even though I'm certain I read pages beyond that), and then it will un-bold on your Content I Follow Page!  I think!  At least it's currently working for me!

Thanks!  I started playing around with the my content section and now when I click on the star it takes me where I want to go.  I will try to "follow" the threads I want to subscribe to and see if that helps.  I am pleasantly surprised at how smooth the transition has been so far.  

 

[SOSRedAlertSOS]

HUGS! I missed you all!

 

[puppymomofthree]

I am so excited to get started!  /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

 

[SOSRedAlertSOS]

I am so excited to get started!  /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

Me too! I just love the girls on this thread and I can't wait to shower another person with gifts!

 

[elizabethrose]

HEY GUYS.  I couldn't remember who or where we were talking about notifications and being weird about getting gazillions of emails, but I found out how to prevent that and make your notifications streamlined and what you're looking for!

@@Director wanted me to let a few threads know- so I'm going to where I know we've talked about the transition.  And I'll probably x-post this a few times, and I hope it's helpful.  IF NOT, if there was a downvote button I'd say downvote me forever.

So on the screenshot below, when you click on your Notifications tab next to your username, there's a button that says "Options".  Click dat ish and a whole new world opens up.  You can mess with your email settings and your notifications within MUT- even getting popup notifications when you get a message when you're reading another thread.  Whaddup whaddup.  This has made the site browsing a lot easier for me.  Admittedly, I do not know what the first section is up to (the wording is just plain confusing).  I just kind of picked some selections and we'll see what happens.  But a lot of it is super straightforward and I hope it helps you out.  It did me  !



Edit: Dammit I apparently still don't know how to upload photos.  Here we go.

 

[tacehtpuekam]

Did we decide when sign ups are going to be yet? TOO EXCITED. 

 

[puppymomofthree]

Did we decide when sign ups are going to be yet? TOO EXCITED. 

I think our lovely moderator said it would be soon so that we would have around two months to stalk and shop!  This is going to be so much fun.  I always find myself grinning like a loon when I read this thread--I am so happy to hang out with you all!  :wub:

 

[kawaiisofoxy]

Hi all! I am trying to get them up within the next day or so, but I know we have a lot of people having issues adapting to the new site so it might end up being delayed. I promise there will be plenty of time for sign ups and I'll be doing my best to spread the word so we'll have lots of involvement!

Thanks for all of your patience! /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

 

[meaganola]

Hi all! I am trying to get them up within the next day or so, but I know we have a lot of people having issues adapting to the new site so it might end up being delayed. I promise there will be plenty of time for sign ups and I'll be doing my best to spread the word so we'll have lots of involvement!

Thanks for all of your patience! /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

No kidding about the site design. No way to upload photos from a phone? That's going to make our gift reveal pictures pretty much impossible for a lot of people, and the format of the desktop version is making the forum very close to unusable for me! If it wasn't for this swap, I may have very well bailed on the forum as a whole already. I wonder how many people already have. /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

 

[SOSRedAlertSOS]

No kidding about the site design. No way to upload photos from a phone? That's going to make our gift reveal pictures pretty much impossible for a lot of people, and the format of the desktop version is making the forum very close to unusable for me! If it wasn't for this swap, I may have very well bailed on the forum as a whole already. I wonder how many people already have. /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

I totally feel you on all of this! The new forum design is way less user friendly to me! And I hope that soon we will be able to post from mobile devices because that is all I have ever used to add photo's.

 

[Lolo22]

No kidding about the site design. No way to upload photos from a phone? That's going to make our gift reveal pictures pretty much impossible for a lot of people, and the format of the desktop version is making the forum very close to unusable for me! If it wasn't for this swap, I may have very well bailed on the forum as a whole already. I wonder how many people already have. /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

Agreed!  Seems like there has been a lot less posting all week.

But yay that I found this thread again! I keep getting so confused on what threads I have forgotten to re-follow and searching the names of threads doesn't seem to work.

 

[kawaiisofoxy]

If it helps, they're working on main site functionality right now, and then they'll work on the mobile site. I really hope a lot of people don't drop off the site, because it's improving every day! Hopefully by the time the present reveals start (in July!) the site will be back to the simple awesomeness we've all gotten used to!

 

[DragonChick]

No kidding about the site design. No way to upload photos from a phone? That's going to make our gift reveal pictures pretty much impossible for a lot of people, and the format of the desktop version is making the forum very close to unusable for me! If it wasn't for this swap, I may have very well bailed on the forum as a whole already. I wonder how many people already have. /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

I find myself more and more frustrated with the new layout, it's not very user friendly. It wouldn't surprise me if people are just staying away from the site in general until things are fixed or in a better state of functionality since there's still bits that aren't working correctly yet.

 

[puppymomofthree]

Hopefully we will be back to full fabulousness soon!  At least we still have many of our fabulous selves around!  :wub:

 

[Elizabeth Mac]

Every time I go shopping and see a value set for makeup/skincare/nail polish etc., I convince myself that I need to purchase it by rationalizing that I will "have some extras to add to my summer secret santa gift." It's been quite fun! 

 

[gemstone]

I have not been trading some items from my sub boxes that I normally would so I will have more stuff to fill out my girl's box  ^_^ /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

 

[tweakabell]

Congrats @@LadyK ! Sorry so late, it took me forever to find my way back /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

 

[SaraP]

Every time I go shopping and see a value set for makeup/skincare/nail polish etc., I convince myself that I need to purchase it by rationalizing that I will "have some extras to add to my summer secret santa gift." It's been quite fun! 

I love this logic!

 

[kawaiisofoxy]

Ok all, there is a current issue with several members being unable to send/receive Private Messages. At this point, I'm delaying starting sign ups til Monday because the current sign up method is to 1) post on the sign up thread and 2) PM me with name/address info to be passed along to your Fairy Godmother once assigned. I'm looking into setting up a Google Doc to put names and addresses in to bypass the PM system, but I will need to familiarize myself with that method to make sure I have everything safe and secure. By Monday I'll have the sign up thread up with either PM's (if improvements are made over the weekend) or a Google Doc link.

If anyone has used Google Docs for a Secret Santa or other swap situation, can you point me towards a good tutorial? I think they were used for the circular Swaps last summer, maybe @@tgooberbutt can help me out? Or @@meaganola?