Mrsupersonic8
Roller Poster
Let's start this debacle from the beginning...
I registered my account a while ago out of some vague curiosity to see what kind of coaster counting they offer. I got to the page that said it would take about a week to confirm my e-mail address. So I checked back a week later; nothing in the inbox, nothing in the spam folder. I decided at this point that it wasn't really worth it and gave up. That was until I finally received my confirmation email almost a month later. I figured I'd give it a shot, so I clicked on the link and went to the login screen.
However, I summarily realized that I had forgotten my password. I clicked "recover password", entered my email address, and opened my inbox. I refreshed a few times, but nothing came up. One hour later, I check my inbox again; still, there was nothing. I then checked the spam box and lo and behold, it had gotten caught by the spam filter. Fine then, I'll mark it not spam, click the link, delete the message, enter a new password, and login.
The debacle continued when I started inputting my creds. At first, I struggled to figure out how to add them, but then discovered clicking the red circle was how you added them. A little unintuitive IMO, but I guess it makes sense. Then came the dating system. Really? I don't need to date my creds, I just want to record the order ridden. This then lead my count to be screwed up by the clunky and tedious UI. You have to search for every single cred, which is tedious. Instead, I searched for each park, (again, tedious) and added from the page that disappears every time you add a cred. (Did I mention it was tedious?) Thus, without thinking, I ended up plunking the in creds from the appeared order in the pages instead of the intended order. OK, my bad, I'll just fix the order from my list.
...Or so I though. It was then that I discovered that there's no easy way to change the order from your list. You have to remove and then re-add if you're doing it manually without dates. At this point I just gave up and decided to keep my own count in my own spreadsheet.
While there might be some cool features on the site, it just gets muddled by the terrible user experience. They really need to improve a lot before they can get me back on board. For now, I'll just count my own coasters instead of relying on a badly designed website.
All of this begs this question: am I doing something wrong here, or could it really be the case that Coaster-Count sucks?
I registered my account a while ago out of some vague curiosity to see what kind of coaster counting they offer. I got to the page that said it would take about a week to confirm my e-mail address. So I checked back a week later; nothing in the inbox, nothing in the spam folder. I decided at this point that it wasn't really worth it and gave up. That was until I finally received my confirmation email almost a month later. I figured I'd give it a shot, so I clicked on the link and went to the login screen.
However, I summarily realized that I had forgotten my password. I clicked "recover password", entered my email address, and opened my inbox. I refreshed a few times, but nothing came up. One hour later, I check my inbox again; still, there was nothing. I then checked the spam box and lo and behold, it had gotten caught by the spam filter. Fine then, I'll mark it not spam, click the link, delete the message, enter a new password, and login.
The debacle continued when I started inputting my creds. At first, I struggled to figure out how to add them, but then discovered clicking the red circle was how you added them. A little unintuitive IMO, but I guess it makes sense. Then came the dating system. Really? I don't need to date my creds, I just want to record the order ridden. This then lead my count to be screwed up by the clunky and tedious UI. You have to search for every single cred, which is tedious. Instead, I searched for each park, (again, tedious) and added from the page that disappears every time you add a cred. (Did I mention it was tedious?) Thus, without thinking, I ended up plunking the in creds from the appeared order in the pages instead of the intended order. OK, my bad, I'll just fix the order from my list.
...Or so I though. It was then that I discovered that there's no easy way to change the order from your list. You have to remove and then re-add if you're doing it manually without dates. At this point I just gave up and decided to keep my own count in my own spreadsheet.
While there might be some cool features on the site, it just gets muddled by the terrible user experience. They really need to improve a lot before they can get me back on board. For now, I'll just count my own coasters instead of relying on a badly designed website.
All of this begs this question: am I doing something wrong here, or could it really be the case that Coaster-Count sucks?
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