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Slowly, over the next few weeks, I’ll be rolling out a widget. It’ll sit over on the right hand side, where you now see the Plus Membership block. The
[See the full post at: Coming up: A new Subscriber Status widget]
DaveA, 
abbodi86, 
AlexEiffel, 
Pepsiboy, 
Myst, 
F A Kramer, 
LHiggins, 
SueW, 
ScotchJohn, 
jburk07, 
Seff, 
Zathras, 
Alex5723, 
CADesertRat Sounds like a good improvement for everyone Woody, thanks.
Yep, you’ll be able to continue to use PayPal to extend your subscription — or donate, should you be so inclined.
We’ll be covering Win7 for years to come. I don’t have a magic bullet, but there are many alternatives, and we’ll be exploring all of them.
Nathan, From Woody’s replay a bit further up and my own experience, I am reasonably sure the answer is: yes, one can donate whenever and however often and in whichever amounts one may wish to do it, quite separately from the renewal of one’s subscription. Just don’t get carried away, that’s all.
Ex-Windows user (Win. 98, XP, 7); since mid-2017 using also macOS. Presently on Monterey 12.15 & sometimes running also Linux (Mint).
MacBook Pro circa mid-2015, 15" display, with 16GB 1600 GHz DDR3 RAM, 1 TB SSD, a Haswell architecture Intel CPU with 4 Cores and 8 Threads model i7-4870HQ @ 2.50GHz.
Intel Iris Pro GPU with Built-in Bus, VRAM 1.5 GB, Display 2880 x 1800 Retina, 24-Bit color.
macOS Monterey; browsers: Waterfox "Current", Vivaldi and (now and then) Chrome; security apps. Intego AV
Ab-so-lute-ly.
If you click Extend your Subscription, then your Membership is extended by a year.
Click on Donation, and your Membership (if you have one) stays the same.
We aren’t yet breaking even, so every bit in the tip jar goes a long way.
Wow!! I just refreshed a page, and guess what I saw?? The new widget. Looks great (and is less filling 🙂 ) It certainly makes it easier to renew, and/or to donate. Thanks, Woody!
Wow!! I just refreshed a page, and guess what I saw?? The new widget. Looks great (and is less filling ) It certainly makes it easier to renew, and/or to donate. Thanks, Woody!
+1, Just refreshed and there it was. Great addition to the site.
Don't take yourself so seriously, no one else does 🙂
All W10 Pro at 22H2,(2 Desktops, 1 Laptop).
When I completed the original post, I got the full widget. Through the weekend it changed back & forth, but usually stayed as the full widget. This morning, it briefly went to the baby widget, then back to the full. Pretty sure I didn’t logout & log back in this weekend, but did it this morning. If it occasionally jumps back to the baby widget, I won’t panic.
Bought a refurbished Windows 10 64-bit, currently updated to 22H2. Have broke the AC adapter cord going to the 8.1 machine, but before that, coaxed it into charging. Need to buy new adapter if wish to continue using it.
Wild Bill Rides Again...
I get the small widget on first login also. Once logged in and refresh the new widget shows up.
Definitely a bug.
Try using a different browser – and if the ” x 6″ but appears, at the bottom, set the box to 1. (That, too, is a bug, which the devs already have on their plate.)
I got the new widget. Looks good.
Definitely a bug.
Try using a different browser – and if the ” x 6″ but appears, at the bottom, set the box to 1. (That, too, is a bug, which the devs already have on their plate.)
Rgr a bug, y’all will get it smoothed out. The counter at the bottom of the first page has always been a ‘1’. Then I tick the amount, hit ‘donate’, takes me to the second page to choose a payment method but the amount has incremented up to now a ‘x 7’.
I cleared the browser cache and tried again, again with a ‘x 1’ on the donate page but on the second page it incremented up again, to ‘x 8’ $200, still in French. The rest of the website is still English like normal. I’ll stick with this browser, it will work out.
(I won’t underpay, was a lifetime member with WS and added a donation when i re-signed here at AskWoody.) I appreciate the help with keeping safe from windows foibles (some that i create myself.))
After accessing this site I logged in, first thing as usual. No widget. Then I reloaded the page (is that what “refresh means”?) still, no widget. As you can see for yourselves in the attached screenshot taken a few minutes ago (and, in real life, the twice reloaded browser screen still shows no widget, as I write this…)
In case it means something: I am logged in using my Mac (Mojave) and Waterfox as the browser.
Ex-Windows user (Win. 98, XP, 7); since mid-2017 using also macOS. Presently on Monterey 12.15 & sometimes running also Linux (Mint).
MacBook Pro circa mid-2015, 15" display, with 16GB 1600 GHz DDR3 RAM, 1 TB SSD, a Haswell architecture Intel CPU with 4 Cores and 8 Threads model i7-4870HQ @ 2.50GHz.
Intel Iris Pro GPU with Built-in Bus, VRAM 1.5 GB, Display 2880 x 1800 Retina, 24-Bit color.
macOS Monterey; browsers: Waterfox "Current", Vivaldi and (now and then) Chrome; security apps. Intego AV
I’m not seeing it for mine at the moment, either. For me, it has come and gone a few times since it was introduced a few days ago – it was there when I logged in a few hours ago…
🙂
It’s baaack!!!!
(At least for now…)
I imagine that my email, listed in the widget, is only seen by me (*), right???
(*) Unless someone else is watching (**).
(**) A perfect stranger ***).
(***) Sneakily, over my shoulder (****).
(****) Quite unnoticed.
Ex-Windows user (Win. 98, XP, 7); since mid-2017 using also macOS. Presently on Monterey 12.15 & sometimes running also Linux (Mint).
MacBook Pro circa mid-2015, 15" display, with 16GB 1600 GHz DDR3 RAM, 1 TB SSD, a Haswell architecture Intel CPU with 4 Cores and 8 Threads model i7-4870HQ @ 2.50GHz.
Intel Iris Pro GPU with Built-in Bus, VRAM 1.5 GB, Display 2880 x 1800 Retina, 24-Bit color.
macOS Monterey; browsers: Waterfox "Current", Vivaldi and (now and then) Chrome; security apps. Intego AV
Oh, I rather like mine. Creates the illusion that I’m part of the furnishings…………………………
Paenitet…
Looks like we got a retrograde bug there. Devs to the rescue…
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+1 for the new widget, Woody! Thanks!
I just noticed that there seems to be a lot of OCD going on around here. 🙂
I’m sure that Woody will take the constructive criticism, and do what he can within the confines of WordPress!
Windows 10 Pro 22H2
I just logged in a few minutes ago and first thing I noticed was thet THE WIDGET HAS SHRUNK! (As shown with the attached screenshot).
I am favorably impressed, as the information eliminated, about the delivery of the Newsletter to Premium members, was something I had commented earlier as being really redundant. If you are ‘Premium’ you’ve already noticed the Newsletter is being delivered to your email address days ahead of anyone who is not Premium. Woody explained that the part about the Newsletter, particularly the inclusion of the user’s email in it, had something to do with juggling different data bases with users information, sometimes containing different addresses. That being so, I do wonder if he and his team have managed to handle that problem differently, or if the shrinking is caused by a bug I just discovered.
I am also somewhat surprised that others have not commented yet on this very unmissable change to the widget. People were rather keen on doing that only a few days ago.
Ex-Windows user (Win. 98, XP, 7); since mid-2017 using also macOS. Presently on Monterey 12.15 & sometimes running also Linux (Mint).
MacBook Pro circa mid-2015, 15" display, with 16GB 1600 GHz DDR3 RAM, 1 TB SSD, a Haswell architecture Intel CPU with 4 Cores and 8 Threads model i7-4870HQ @ 2.50GHz.
Intel Iris Pro GPU with Built-in Bus, VRAM 1.5 GB, Display 2880 x 1800 Retina, 24-Bit color.
macOS Monterey; browsers: Waterfox "Current", Vivaldi and (now and then) Chrome; security apps. Intego AV
We aim to please. 🙂
And also thanks for the change to the color of the text in the side bar. The blue text is much easier on the eyes than the old red-ish text color against the wood panel background.
I realize it has been this way for a while, but I thought it deserved a shout out. Pardon me if I missed a discussion when it happened, but it’s one of the many little things (and a few big things) that adds up to a general improvement to the User eXperience around here!!! 🙂
Windows 10 Pro 22H2
Yes, mine’s been trimmed as well. I admit I hadn’t noticed before. Maybe the widget is losing its novelty?
Naw, I paid to have the devs go in and change it. I think it’s better this way, too.
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