JoJo Chan: please don’t close the site. Thanks for all the work you’re doing, but in my opinion having multiple votes for an idea is not what matters. As somebody pointed out, lots of ideas were approved even with a low amount of votes and this is what keeps me adding new ideas, in fact I don’t care about the votes and when I find a possible new idea for a stamp I just add it despite the fact it will get votes or not, because I know the Slowly team will add a new stamp for example if it’s proposed for an important event even with only 5-10 votes.

I also noticed about 150 proposals have just been removed, I can understand that people with multiple accounts may ruin the votes system, but is it possible to check if their ideas were good or at least give us a list of what has been removed? In this way we can re-add some of the proposals to the site, if they deserve it.

Madmax: lots of ideas made by locals are being ignored. I don’t see why proposals should be made by locals only, so basically if locals don’t have ideas they don’t deserve stamps in your opinion? This is so nonsense, also because having tons of ideas for a single country doesn’t mean they deserve tons of stamps. Some countries are not using slowly obviously, so what? Should they just be ignored for this reason?

Slowly team did a good job in the past, but this doesn’t mean they can’t do better, they clearly said they wanted to complete the flag collection, but they didn’t. They made a feedback site to get suggestions and they made different statuses to the various proposals, but now they are ignoring suggestions and they forgot about the statuses, so I don’t see why we should just thank the slowly team and shut up.

ASRandASR: We can continue to propose, that's why there's a feedback site. They didn't stop you from proposing either, I can see some of your suggestions are released. Or you expecting every requests has to be fulfilled? Then you have to manage your own expectation.

ASRandASR: For me, I can see lots of them are released. https://feedback.slowly.app/stamp-requests?status=complete

Madmax: the “Under Review”, “Planned” and “In Progress” proposals have been in those statuses for more than a year, that’s what I’m talking about.

Some of my ideas became stamps, lots of them actually I agree with you, but are we sure they became stamps because they were proposed? I made tons of proposals and only less than 10% have been approved, many of my ideas are just in the usual kind of stuff they add, so they may could have added them in any case even if I didn’t propose them. Plus, we shouldn’t talk about myself, because it isn’t my post actually. Even if they were only adding my ideas, people would have the right to say “hey, stop giving so much attention to ASRandASR and start considering other people’s ideas too”.

We can continue to propose of course, but it’s a lot of time consuming to make researches and add new posts, so I think it’s fair to ask that all the ideas must be taken into consideration and it’s also fair to complete what is easy to complete, for example flags… once, the flags only had a single post where all the proposals were added, but during the last months lots of us noticed that the comments in the post were ignored, instead new posts became stamps for no reason and what is even worse is that local people asked for their county flags but they have been totally ignored, as we saw new flags for local regions and territories which should have been added later… the main reason people is upset is because they only add ~20 new stamps per month and guess what? They add stamps for events in 6-10 months instead of adding events for the next month or they add food sets for countries with many stamps and ignoring the very cool ideas for location stamps in countries with 0 stamps at all…

You can say they can decide what they want, of course, but we have the right to point out what should have priority when they add this low amount of new stamps. If they added a fair amount every month like 50 or more, no one would say anything and probably we would be all happy

ASRandASR: Trust me, when they make 50 or more every month, there will be sth else to blame; or someone will still ask for more, endless.

If we're talking about this post, I think they should close it because it's a statement, not a proposal.

However, I believe this post will stay here for a long period ( They can't close it because the baby will cry harder / they can't complete it because this can never be "completed" ) and the only contribution will be setting up a negative vibe. Well done 👍

One year later you can create another post saying OMFG it's already one year, this post is still OPEN! No one is listening to me! SHOUT OUT TO EQUALITY!

please continue. how many stamps before the last one? how many Slowly users in your country? and you are paying Slowly to create those stamps?

please think again. I don't care about your personal opinions about me. My point, as I repeat is, that you are not entitled to your perceived justice among virtual post stamps.

he and the so-called collectors who buy up any shit that Slowly produces. he doesn't care about the fact that 1/4 of the countries still haven't received local stamps, nor that this is the fourth set of desserts in a row. i even know who liked his comment, people who have 8 premium stamps in a local store. these people have no idea what diversity is!

Bajaja: keep your opinion to yourself. this topic is not for you and people like you!

Bajaja: did you realize this site is literally called FEEDBACK.slowly? Ok, you may use slowly.canny, but this is clearly a feedback site. It’s made for users to suggest something new for the app, if people believes the suggestions are ignored, what should they do? Just shut up because we don’t pay?

By the way, I have a secret for you, many of the stamp collectors buy coins to buy stamps, but who knows, maybe you checked on the Slowly accounting and saw Bea didn’t spend much…

They do something bad by producing stamps only for the countries they like, it’s called diversity and inclusion. Imagine if they start adding only stamps for Russia and satellite countries, pro war and stuff like that, would be it be still ok for you? I don’t think so, obviously forgetting about Africa, Caribbeans and Oceania could be reasonable somehow, but it’s still reasonable to go to a feedback site and ask for something else than what they are doing.

Bajaja: I agree with you. I think slowly co. must have their own reason for prioritizing some countries instead of others. Through selling stamps with coins , Slowly co. generates profits. They publish new stamps maybe for (generous user in) particular countries that spend big amounts of coins. If I am the owner of Slowly Co, I'd definately would do the same. I publish new premium stamps that will generates profit. The company have to gain something to continue their service, right? Some people here need to think as entrepreneur to understand their reason.

chickaz: Do you agree with him because there are 8 premium stamps in Indonesia? Would you still agree with him if your local stamp store was empty? so hypocritical! I spent $200, where are my stamps?

chickaz: this is nonsense, lots of countries by very few users or even 0 already have stamps and I tell you a secret: rich people travel a lot, they go on cruises to many Caribbean countries, Oceania, on trips to Africa, there are even cruises to Svalbard, did you know it?

If I go on holidays in a very small country one thing I would do is log into slowly and reply to my penpals so they receive a very special letter. Also, imagine seeing the flag of this small territory ready to be purchased for coins, you would probably buy it because you won’t stay there on the flag day or you can buy premium stamps as well. Also, local and commemorative stamps from all the countries can be purchased too, users who spend coins probably knew this already.

mapuo: Hi Yana. Long time no chat with you. Hope you are doing fine wherever you are now. Anyway, about the stamp.... I am not going to whining like a child or fight with you. This is their company. They can not make everybody happy. They can do whatever they want. If my country have no stamps, I will propose some but if they don't publish it...that's okay too. We can not get everything we want, right?

chickaz: at least we could try!

ASRandASR: Rich people don't have time to log on Slowly 🤣😄 Rich people don't travel through VPN like some of people do. If they travel to any location and can not find stamp on the local store, do you think they will be mad and complaining to Slowly Co ? I don't think so 😂 Well I am not rich but I have more than 12.000 coins to spend. If you want any stamp, i can gift it to you. Premium Single, Premium set.. you name it 😉

mapuo: yes we could try, we even discussed some stamps proposal together last year if you remember. But the decision is still on their hand.

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Same if the idea collected enough votes? I am not sure which country you're in, but did you propose sth for it and being ignored? What was it?

chickaz: Exactly. esp. "premium".

I challenge you to name one single game by those giants you've mentioned that designed virtual items for over 37 countries.

How about the biggest game that rely on IAP to run? Fortnite? Look inside the virtual item store and see how many items they have designed for Africian? West Asian?

After that, think again who is better promoting equality.

btw, I believe Slowly released much more than "37 countries" and there are currently 193 countries by UN definition.

Nonethewiser: I still can't believe we will not get a set of Greek gods😭😭😭

Nonethewiser: I must agree with you about those dessert sets and I will mostly focus on the European food sets, as they are the cuisines I know and have experienced the most.

From my POV, French, Italian, Romanian and Turkish sets could easily be split in-between main dishes and desserts. They all have a wide range of starters, main dishes and desserts. Also, I still wonder why there was no croissant in the French one but that's another subject.

Still, I was definitely surprised about the Dutch and German sets, which aren't worldwide known for their cuisine, to say the least and I feel they were a miss. Like ASRandASR pointed out ironically in the topic "don’t worry, the next food set is for UK…".

Also, I don't agree with the direction regarding the Greek gods set and Ganesha requests. Adding a second Brazilian set is a thing, but choosing the desserts instead of the folklore request (which is under review) is another. We should have more diversity in sets / preniums, which should represent in the best possible way the culture of the focused country.

Hopefully it will take a better direction soon !

Kazaah: quote from changelog 1 year ago "The lines between religion and mythology are often blurred, and we are trying to establish guidelines to help our team differentiate between the two. Until then, the review and production of stamps with religious or mythological themes will be suspended unless it is a festival or public holiday (regional release) designated by the local government or a credible organization." https://feedback.slowly.app/changelog

they don't know that both American continents and Europe are Christians. request for Nordic mythology was closed due to "we are too lazy" https://feedback.slowly.app/stamp-requests/p/nordic-mythology

Norse Cosmology still opens but even not under review https://feedback.slowly.app/stamp-requests/p/norse-cosmology

same with Mexican legends https://feedback.slowly.app/stamp-requests/p/mexican-legends-premium-stamp-set

Irish Mythological Creatures https://feedback.slowly.app/stamp-requests/p/ireland-irish-mythological-creatures-premium-set

my idea for Roman Gods https://feedback.slowly.app/stamp-requests/p/roman-gods

and European Mythological Creatures https://feedback.slowly.app/stamp-requests/p/european-mythological-creatures-premium-set

Kazaah: the irony is that this contradicts the criterion from the changelog https://feedback.slowly.app/changelog/welcome-to-the-brand-new-user-feedback-site

mapuo: The saddest part is people got excited about mythos / legends and they asked amazing requests as you can see on this topic. I recall indeed this statement that Slowly team made regarding the lines in-between religion and mythology.

You can also see the comment on the Ganesha request, mentioning making religious stamps in a detourned way, actually I think it's quite unfair for the people and culture that didn't got specific mythos or religious stamps, while others did.

Kazaah: it's another irony because but we will choose only what we like

none of these religious festivals depict a deity as it was conceived with Ganesh, so why is it unfair?

Nonethewiser: So they released the castle series is a miracle, not they are listening. wow. :)

Madmax: They listen, but only do whay they want, which makes a joke out of this site. The majority here wanted mythology stamps - Slowly hated this and even released a statement about it. Same goes for literature stamps (although no statement). So yes, them releasing so many non-food stamps is wow.

mapuo: don’t worry, the next food set is for UK…

ASRandASR: 😭😭😭😭😭