http://forums.ecycler.com/ Let's discuss ecyler.com... en-US Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:26:30 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://forums.ecycler.com/search.php http://forums.ecycler.com/topic/ecycler-communication-options#post-32 Mon, 05 Jul 2010 23:52:38 +0000 recycle 32@http://forums.ecycler.com/ <p>We've added a finer fidelity of choice of communications you are able to receive from ecycler.</p> <p>From the dashboard (discarder or collector) click on the "My Account" link. Under the <strong>Communications</strong> header, you will have the option to check (Opt-in) or uncheck (opt-out) of any of the following options:</p> <p>- Occasional marketing materials (newsletters, offers, etc.)<br /> - ecycler website alerts<br /> - Special announcements<br /> - Friend invite accepted</p> <p>More options will be added in the future. </p> http://forums.ecycler.com/topic/password-retrieval#post-31 Mon, 05 Jul 2010 23:08:02 +0000 recycle 31@http://forums.ecycler.com/ <p>We've simplified the password retrieval process. Now one simple has to enter their ecycler username OR the email address on file. The password will be sent with a database match of one of those two data elements. </p> http://forums.ecycler.com/topic/ecycler-registration#post-30 Tue, 25 May 2010 18:57:28 +0000 recycle 30@http://forums.ecycler.com/ <p>We are in the process of again simplifying the registration process. The following changes have been made in an attempt to streamline the sign-up flow:</p> <ol> <li>Your address will no longer be required at registration. It will, however, be required to complete a transaction. Once in the <strong>Give away recyclables</strong> flow, the system will request your street address in order to notify the collector the location of the recyclables.</li> <li>Your city and state will automatically be identified via the ZIP code as entered during the registration process.</li> <li>We have removed the <strong>Marketing Opt-in</strong> flag from the registration flow. The Marketing Opt-in flag (and several new communication flags) will be more prominently displayed in your dashboard. This allows you to more finely tune the way in which communications occur between you and ecycler.</li> </ol> <p>As always, we would be happy to hear your suggestions to further the ecycler experience. </p> http://forums.ecycler.com/topic/missing-accounts#post-29 Tue, 25 May 2010 18:47:27 +0000 recycle 29@http://forums.ecycler.com/ <p>We had a SNAFU on 22 May 2010 where we "lost" several registered users. If you signed-up at ecycler between 8 May 2010 and 22 May 2010, your account may have been accidentally removed from the system during one of our routine clean-ups. Our database script decided to be a bit too aggressive and wiped approximately 50 users from the system--most have been restored from database backups, but a few are completely lost. We apologize for this inconvenience. If you are one of the discarders or collectors that had an ecycler account, but it is now gone, please sign-up again. For your efforts, we'd be happy to send to you one of our ecycler re-usable bags at no cost to you. Please contact us through the <a href="http://ecycler.com/contact.php">Contact Us</a> form and let us know your username. </p> http://forums.ecycler.com/topic/discarder-multiple-locations#post-28 Thu, 15 Apr 2010 01:02:39 +0000 recycle 28@http://forums.ecycler.com/ <p>The ability for a discarder to be able to "give away" from multiple locations. For example, from a primary residence and a secondary business address (or, a vacation home). </p> <p>The current work-around is to create multiple accounts--would be nice to have everything centralized. </p> http://forums.ecycler.com/topic/ecycler-profile#post-27 Fri, 09 Apr 2010 02:46:43 +0000 recycle 27@http://forums.ecycler.com/ <p>We've enhanced the collector profile and the discarder profile to include:<br /> 1) Additional text to explain collector versus discarder<br /> 2) Favorites (favorite collectors for discarders and favorite discarders for collectors)<br /> 3) Recycling Exchange contributions (discarder only) </p> http://forums.ecycler.com/topic/registration-text#post-26 Fri, 09 Apr 2010 02:39:45 +0000 recycle 26@http://forums.ecycler.com/ <p>We've added clarifying text to both the discarder registration page and the collector registration page. There has been some confusion on the definitions, this should assist in defining each role </p> http://forums.ecycler.com/topic/give-away-recyclables#post-25 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:24:30 +0000 recycle 25@http://forums.ecycler.com/ <p>We've enhanced the "Give Away Recyclables" flow with a little web 2.0 functionality. Instead of the previous long page length requiring scrolling, we've created some roll-up / roll-down functionality.</p> <p>Simply click in the materials' checkbox and the section will "roll-down" so the number of containers may be selected. If a material is deselected, the section will "roll-up". </p> http://forums.ecycler.com/topic/state-machine-rebuilld#post-24 Thu, 25 Feb 2010 01:01:43 +0000 recycle 24@http://forums.ecycler.com/ <p>We've completely gutted and rebuilt the ecycler State Machine. Among some minor issues, this will solve two major problems:</p> <p>1) Deleted accounts were causing issues with existing transactions. The new state machine addresses those deleted discarders or collectors and their transactions.</p> <p>2) There was a bug when a new discarder created a transaction and refreshed the screen before verifying his account. Previously, this "screen refresh" advanced the transaction to accepted and sent out the "new transaction" email to the selected collector. The new state machine solves this problem... </p> http://forums.ecycler.com/topic/updates-to-home-page#post-23 Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:48:59 +0000 recycle 23@http://forums.ecycler.com/ <p>We've made several important updates to the ecycler home page:</p> <p>1. List of the five most recent Recycling Exchange entries and a quick link to the full Recycling Exchange list.</p> <p>2. See who has joined the ecycler recycling revolution: a) Five most recent discarders that have joined ecycler, and b) Five most recent collectors that have joined ecycler.</p> <p>3. Call to Action block (static text). </p> http://forums.ecycler.com/topic/streamline-registration#post-21 Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:23:04 +0000 recycle 21@http://forums.ecycler.com/ <p>We've made an effort to streamline the registration process. We've removed the &lt;i&gt;profile&lt;i&gt; field. Now, the username is both the login username and the profile. In doing this simplification, an email address is no longer a valid username.</p> <p>More on the migration effort for existing users in the next posting.</p> <p>Reminder: <a href="http://ecycler.com/username" rel="nofollow">http://ecycler.com/username</a> </p> http://forums.ecycler.com/topic/new-feature-view-details-of-feedback#post-20 Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:46:16 +0000 recycle 20@http://forums.ecycler.com/ <p>We've added three new pages to help you better view (review) your feedback comments and ratings:</p> <p>1) Combined Feedback of both received and given<br /> 2) Feedback you've received<br /> 3) Feedback you've given </p> http://forums.ecycler.com/topic/new-feature#post-19 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:31:19 +0000 recycle 19@http://forums.ecycler.com/ <p>We've added a new feature that allows a site user to cancel (or delete) one's own account. To Cancel your account, follow these three steps:</p> <p>1) Once logged in, navigate to your Dashboard<br /> 2) Click on the “My Account” link<br /> 3) The “Delete My Account” link about half-way down the page (above the Change Password section).</p> <p>We would be interested in hearing about your experiences with this new feature. </p> http://forums.ecycler.com/topic/ideas-for-getting-started-as-a-discarder#post-18 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:08:40 +0000 craig 18@http://forums.ecycler.com/ <p>ecycler has two users, Collectors and Discarders. Discarders make recyclables available from the home or business and Collectors pick up recyclables from discarders. Collectors redeem or sell the recyclables to a buyback or recycling center of their choice.</p> <p>If you are new to ecycler here is how to get started as a <strong>Discarder</strong>...</p> <p>The next step is go to ecycler, click on “Give away recyclables” and post a bag of recyclables. If you don’t have recyclables ready, we still ask you to post the choice: “I don't have recyclables right now but am willing to save them to give away, please contact me”. By choosing this, prospective ecycler collectors will see your posting and contact you via the site to pick up the recyclables. This way, you can continue to recycle the way you currently do and possibly switch to an ecycler collector when one contacts you. </p> http://forums.ecycler.com/topic/ideas-for-getting-started-as-collector#post-17 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:07:49 +0000 craig 17@http://forums.ecycler.com/ <p>ecycler has two users, Collectors and Discarders. Discarders make recyclables available from the home or business and Collectors pick up recyclables from discarders. Collectors redeem or sell the recyclables to a buyback or recycling center of their choice.</p> <p>If you are new to ecycler here is how to get started as a <strong>Collector</strong>...</p> <p>Start marketing yourself locally with your poster or business cards that can be downloaded and printed from your dashboard on ecycler.com.</p> <p>To attract residential customers--typically those who live in single family homes--we suggest placing your custom poster in coffee shops, grocery stores or any place that community postings are allowed.</p> <p>To attract commercial customers we suggest that you contact them directly and provide them with a business card and your poster. You can direct them to your ecycler profile and point out your positive feedback that you may have received through numerous ecycler transactions to indicate that you are a reliable collector. In many areas single family residential homes have single-stream recycling (aka the city provided recycling bins). In these areas you may have more success approaching condos and businesses and arrange with the manager to collect the recyclables from the building. </p> http://forums.ecycler.com/topic/marketing-ideas#post-15 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:02:30 +0000 recycle 15@http://forums.ecycler.com/ <p>Howdy,</p> <p>Use this area to discuss what works and what doesn't work in terms of marketing yourself as a collector.</p> <p>In addition, there are several tools available to you on your <a href="http://ecycler.com/cdb.php" title="ecycler Collector Dashboard">ecycler dashboard</a>. These include personalized marketing posters and business cards. We are always open to suggestions for other tools that would help you market yourself.</p> <p>-Tim </p> http://forums.ecycler.com/topic/registration-issues#post-12 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:28:25 +0000 recycle 12@http://forums.ecycler.com/ <p>There is an issue with the registration page (both discarder and collector) that prohibits the registration from completing. The error received is "<strong>Profile Name already exists</strong>". No matter if the Profile Name is left blank or filled in with a value, the error persists, ultimately preventing the registration.</p> <p>This bug has been introduced during the process of enabling a feature to allow an ecycler to delete his / her account, this code has inadvertently busticated the registration process.</p> <p>Watch here for the signal that the code has been rectified. </p> http://forums.ecycler.com/topic/collectors-needed#post-10 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:48:47 +0000 recycle 10@http://forums.ecycler.com/ <p>Hello Everyone: To get ecycler going, we need collectors to sign up on the site and start marketing their own ecycler recycling programs. If you have recyclables to give away, please be patient as our base of collectors grows -- and be sure to point potential collectors you know to the site. </p> http://forums.ecycler.com/topic/feedback-link#post-8 Sun, 04 Oct 2009 13:05:53 +0000 recycle 8@http://forums.ecycler.com/ <p>For almost two weeks (13 Sep - 24 Sep), the Feedback link on the left-hand side of the page appeared to function properly. However, the data was not being stored in the database, thus anyone's feedback as lost. Good news, though... The "Contact Us" link has worked flawlessly since day-1. </p> http://forums.ecycler.com/topic/welcome-beta-users#post-6 Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:21:54 +0000 recycle 6@http://forums.ecycler.com/ <p>Howdy,</p> <p>This is a temporary forum to help us through the Beta Process. Feel free to post feature ideas or bugs to their respective forums, anything else relating to the ecycler Beta should be posted here.</p> <p>Enjoy,<br /> -Tim </p> http://forums.ecycler.com/topic/welcome-to-everything-else#post-5 Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:19:14 +0000 recycle 5@http://forums.ecycler.com/ <p>Howdy,</p> <p>If your post doesn't really have anything to do with bugs/troubleshooting and/or feature requests, put it in here. These could include general questions/comments about ecycler, words of praise, or even non-ecycler related stuff.</p> <p>Don't think that we'll place lower priority on these threads just because they're on the bottom of the forum list. We'll keep tabs on these threads as much as we do the other ones.</p> <p>Enjoy,<br /> -Tim </p> http://forums.ecycler.com/topic/welcome-to-feature-suggestions#post-4 Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:15:33 +0000 recycle 4@http://forums.ecycler.com/ <p>Howdy,</p> <p>Use this place as your drawing board for things that you think we should add to ecycler. Your ideas can range from suggestions about our icon selections to the more technical things. Feel free to tell as much (or as little) as you'd like about your idea. We WILL read every single thread that comes through here...</p> <p>Remember, no idea is too taboo-- if it's good enough, we can make it happen. There's no power greater than coders with a limitless supply of caffeine.</p> <p>-Tim </p> http://forums.ecycler.com/topic/welcome-to-bug-reports#post-3 Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:03:00 +0000 recycle 3@http://forums.ecycler.com/ <p>Howdy,</p> <p>Let this forum be the place to dump anything weird that you might notice on ecycler, whether large or small. Furthermore, feel free to give us any info that you think might help us with solving your problem.</p> <p>Before you post your issue, I encourage you to run a search through the forums (upper right-hand corner) to see if maybe someone else has already asked your question(s). Unless it's some super-bizarre catastrophe, chances are someone else has already encountered your problem. Also, please check the Help pages if you haven't already. Many common problems are covered there in detail.</p> <p>We'll try to get to your concerns as quickly as we can...</p> <p>-Tim </p>