Are you returning (or even new) to Neopets? Check out this guide! V2
Are you returning (or even new) to Neopets and have no idea what's going on? Well come right over to for a huge read on how to earn Neopoints, creating goals, account safety tips, and more! A lot has changed, but a lot remains the same for our dear website! Note: This guide is primarily going to be directed at Non-Premium players, so information about Premium will only be touched on lightly. If there’s any clarification needed, feel free to PM, or ask on the subreddit / Discord! Shout out to aredshroom for letting me make a c/p'd update lol and also other friends to help read over. o/
Account recovery tips and information can be found here.
Introduce yourself to the Neopets Mobile-Friendly Beta Launch. As various browsers have released an update that disables Flash by default for security reasons, Neopets is urging you (or has already has transitioned) to use this new interface. Games, Maps, and most site features are slowly, but surely being updated to follow current internet standards. For more information and progress on the Mobile-Friendly Beta Launch, I would refer to the Release Notes page. This page can only be viewed if you are currently already using the Beta, however.
If you cannot see the Neopian Map, Games, Customization Screen, and other miscellaneous content, then you'll most likely need to reenable Flash. Here's a JN article on how to do so.
Secure your account! Set a PIN, and be cautious with links/users. If something sounds too good to be true (cough massive giveaways), it likely is. There have been incidents in the past of users getting in trouble after receiving illegit/stolen items from giveaways. Do remember that TNT is always watching... Also, there is a Hackproofing guide available here! There'll be some basic security tips at the bottom as well.
I would also check out the official Neopian FAQ and this Community Neopian FAQ! The official FAQ is somewhat outdated missing two years of additional information from the NeoBoards, Twitter, Discord, etc.
Know the Neopets Acronyms! If you're anything like me upon returning - "What does RB/RG/WN/UC mean?" - this might be helpful. Here's TDN's TNAATP and JN's Neopian Dictionary!
Note when your pets' birthdays are! You can choose to collect 1 out of 3 cupcakes on their birthday that increases your pet's stats. The Blue, Pink, or Yellow Cupcake (+Def, +HP, and +Str respectively). Note that you can only feed 1 cupcake to a pet per year, so you are unable to stockpile birthday cupcakes from your other pets and feed them all to one pet.
We have a Guide Repository on the subreddit! There’s plenty of good info there, and safe userscripts to enhance your Neo experience. I’ll leave you to trawl.
This subreddit has a Discord server! Go over here to join a real-time chat server and mingle around with others. Discord is accessible on mobile devices too! Just a reminder, that Discord is also NOT an official fansite, so don't mention it onsite.
Getting back on your feet: Earning NPs
One of the most common questions on the sub is about making NP. With the inflation/fluctuation of prices, and daunting price figures (like the Secret Lab Map), this can seem hard. There are plenty of ways you’ll be earning, saving, and spending. Also here are the fun results from an old Strawpoll of how NeoRedditors earn Neopoints.
Trudy's Surprise! It's a relatively new daily that gives you free NP. The amount increases until the 25th day, where any spin will net you 100k even if you don’t hit 3-in-a-row.
Ghoul Catchers is a Neo-mobile app where you can earn 50k a day just by playing the 1st/2nd level 50x a day. Here's JN's Guide and Petpage Guide! The app has been removed from the app store, but you can still play the game through an APK. Security FAQs on using an APK and the APK Download.
The reason to participate in the BD is that it gives you goodies like Tan/Red Codestones, Neocola Tokens, Armoured Neggs, and even Nerkmids (if premium) that you can sell for profit. Each time you beat an opponent, you’ll obtain something from the General pool, Dome pool, or Opponent pool until you hit the limit of 1500 NP + 15 items daily. Here’s a breakdown. The General pool includes Tan/Red Codestones. The recommended starter opponent is the Kreludan Defender, who has an easy starting HP of 14, and drops relatively good items from his Dome + Opponent pool (Neocola tokens, Armoured Neggs, Genius Neggs). The other challenger that beginners frequent is the Chia Clown, who may drop Chocolate Ice Cream.
Play easy 3k games. 3k is the maximum you earn from each Flash Game except during special occasions (such as the week of Neopets' birthday). Check out /~fishyheart for easy quick to play games. Also, /~ChaChaFrancesca tracks NP ratios for on-site games, and /~AnnEstelle provides for mirrored games. Read the disclaimer on the mirrored game petpage (do not play the same game twice in one day)!
The only tip is to bet consistently - you may lose quite a bit, but in the long run it definitely pays out – and with older accounts, you can earn a LOT when you win since you can bet more.
Stock Market is another thing players like investing in. It's recommended that you buy the cheapest stocks (15 NP). You should bookmark this page, so you can easily see which stocks are at 15 NP currently. You can buy a maximum of 1000 stocks a day, which equates to a 15k investment daily.
Keep in mind it's a long-term investment. Most people sell at 60 (+300% profit), but some hold for higher (100+). Neostocks is an informative Stock Market tracking site to see trending stocks and provides alerts if desired.
Try Restocking! Restocking means hanging around in official Neopets shops and playing the waiting game in order to quickly buy profitable items at a lower price, so you can later resell them to players at a higher price. There are restrictions on what items you can see based on your account age, but you can still restock Faerie Quest items, Faerie Employment Items, and other consumables (books, food, etc.) if your account is younger.
Newbie r79 items and below 10 days old r84 items and below 16 days old r89 items and below 1 month old r94 items and below 3+ months old No restrictions
For a more visual guide, here's a reference guide at /~Sanskrits and JN's Shop Directory is great to start learning which items are good!
Creating NeoGoals
Browse around on Neocolours! Once you figure out the species/colour combinations you want for your pets, there are plenty of ways to get them. You can paint, morph, or adopt! Sometimes, we get lucky users here who run Faerie Fountain giveaways as well.
Tip: Always check if a particular Morphing Potion is cheaper than Paint Brushes. It can save you a lot of NP.
Maybe obtain a Secret Lab Map to try for a lab-exclusive colour, or perhaps to zap pound pets into interesting colours to help them get adopted out, or just for the sheer thrill of zapping?
Collecting Avatars! /~Avatiers has a really good visual list. Build up your stats first, and you could drop by the Avatar NeoBoards to (politely) ask for lends. JN's Avatar Checklist provides code for you to put on a petpage, so lenders can easily check what you're missing.
Aspiring for the best Gallery? There are a lot of items to catch up on. JN has a fantastic Item Database where you can search for items!
Customisation? You’ll love Dress to Impress if you haven’t checked them out already.
Want to spruce up your userlookup with game trophies? Here's an awesome score tracker so you know what's a reasonable score needed for Bronze/SilveGold. Just click on the graphs in the rightmost column to view the score requirements for a trophy over the past few months.
Perhaps you just enjoy coding and beautifying your Lookups, Petpages, and more? What about a Neo Portfolio? There are plenty of premade artists around, but I’ll let you roam since there are really too many styles and pages to list. Feel free to ask around though!
This is a non-exhaustive list, of course. Make up your own goals and have fun!
Account Recovery
Here’s an updated FAQ at /~Wispalings on what to do if you think you are frozen, and /~Sarika_ambrielle has all the details of what you should keep track of if you need to send in a recovery ticket. It's a good idea to backup your info in case you ever have to prove that an account belongs to you. We have a revamped Lost Account Guide, to add to those petpages mentioned above! The TL;DR for account recovery:
Check that your account still exists! Your account may have been purged if it’s been inactive for years. Go here: http://www.neopets.com/userlookup.phtml?user=USERNAME, replace USERNAME with your own. If it is indeed purged, you most likely will need to start on a new account.
Once you’ve verified that the account still exists, it’s all about figuring out details to prove that your account is yours, like your birthdate, linked email (and/or pass emails), NC/Premium purchase history, etc. Here's a NeoBoard post explaining what they want really.
The Ticket System is now located at their support address: [email protected].
General tips for getting a ticket response: Always be truthful and respectful. Give as much useful info about your situation/account as you're able, post on the "Highway to Help" thread located in the Help NeoBoard. Keep your ticket updated once per week to show TNT you're an active user waiting. Please read the following petpage, /~Kaizsa, before posting on the "Highway to Help" thread.
Basic Security
Go to your Account Preferences. Block everything you don't want, ALWAYS check the birthday login prompt, and I'd recommend Plain Text Neomail. That makes it so any scripts sent through NM won't run.
Similarly for your PIN Preferences. Set a PIN on ALL accounts (main/sides should all be pinned), preferably different/regularly changed, and keep no exceptions on where a PIN is used. Check all the boxes.
FAQ
Why is everything broken? I can't even see the map.
Have you enabled Flash for your browser? Here's a JN article on how to do so. You will probably need to reenable Flash every time you completely close out of your browser. If it's not Flash related, then a long list of things can be found here.
Why aren't any of the games working?
Adblock is struggling on Neopets, and by struggling I mean racking up multiple thousands of blocked ads and lagging the site. Right at this moment, it's a good idea to go grab uBlock Origin (Chrome / Firefox) for whatever browser you're using and use that over Adblock right now. I would also check out this thread on How to Run Flash Games on Chrome with Adblock.
How do I leave Neopets Beta?
If, for whatever reason, you no longer want to be looking at the beta version of any of the pages we've previously discussed, simply click on the "View Classic Site" button in the profile menu to return to the site as all non-beta viewers see it. To get back into the beta view, click the "View Beta" link that's now on the right side of the "Logout" button for you. Do know that once the transition begins, you will not be able to return to Neopets Classic. tl;dr: Click your pet in the top left corner, there should be a switch button. The Beta Mode will be permanent for everyone soon though.
That is up to you to decide and how active you are going to be on this site to make the most out of it. There are incentives such as Super Shop Wizard (SSW), if you are a prominent restocker, Species Change Perk (once every 365 days upon first use) that allows you to obtain nearly every converted colored species (no Draiks and Krawks) including the rare Ice Bori, and more. Check out JN's Guide on that.
That's it! If you've read all this way, thank you for your time. I hope this helps some players. ^ ^
I'm 32 years old, working as a Product Manager / Instructor in Toronto and making ~$78,000 (CAD)
This is an update of my MD from last year, which you can find here. All figures are in CAD. (Approx. CAD/USD conversion is 1 CAD = 0.75 USD. So my income is ~$58,240 USD. I've tried to note the change since last time where I could! Section One: Assets and Debt
Total NW: $81,100
Up from ~$58,000 last year.
Retirement Balance (and how you got there): $62,230
Up from $45,466 last year. I've been adding to my RRSP since my first "real" job in highschool - while my early contributions were miniscule, it got me in the habit of saving. My previous employer had a good match, which also helped.
Savings account balance: $11,290
TFSA up from $9,846 last year. Not a huge improvement - I focused more on my RRSP and Emergency Fund this year.
Emergency Fund Balance: $7,500
Was $1,103 last year.
Chequing Account Balance:
Almost everything gets autotransferred on payday to my retirement accounts, sinking funds, or a holding account where my bills are autopaid from. I only keep my "discretionary spending" money in this account.
Debt: None. I pay off my cc as soon as I make a purchase, and check my transactions/pay off any autopay on a weekly basis. I run all my purchases through my cc to get points toward free groceries.
Additional Questions:
Was there an expectation for you to attend higher education? Did you participate in any form of higher education? If yes, how did you pay for it?: There was expectation, but not from family - I was the first in my family to go to higher ed. They saved and planned to contribute if I did want to go, but what I did after highschool was up to me. I was top of my class in highschool so there was a lot of expectations from the other adults in my life (teachers, school counselors, etc) that I would really make something of myself. My parents paid my tuition for two years of my undergrad, my grandparents gave me a few thousand dollars as a gift toward my expenses and the remainder I paid for myself with my savings from working part time and through summers.
Growing up, what kind of conversations did you have about money? Did your parent/guardian(s) educate you about finances? We didn't have any serious conversations about money, but there was a lot of emphasis on saving long term, saving up for things we wanted, and occasionally if I wanted something expensive (like when I wanted my hair done for middle school graduation), a discussion about how mom or dad would have worked X hours to pay for it. I never felt hard done by, but there were definitely a lot of things other kids had or got to do that we didn't. Once I got my first job I didn't get any spending money from my parents anymore.
What was your first job and why did you get it?: In 8th grade I got a job at my school, cleaning tables during lunch recess (our school didn't have a cafeteria, so kids ate at their desks). The principal offered it to me and my best friend. It paid $50/month. It seems insane now because we were not old enough to work legally. In hindsight I think it was the school finding a way to subsidize the costs of the year-end school trip (a week-long overnight trip out of province) for two families who didn't quite qualify for the school's official aid but wouldn't have been able to afford it otherwise. All the money went to the trip, and I babysat to get some spending money.
Did you worry about money growing up?: Not really. There were some lean times but I never felt like I really wanted for anything. By the time I was in highschool things had gotten much more stable.
Do you worry about money now? Yep. Not about day-to-day spending, but I worry about longer-range money issues like whether I'll be able to own a home, save enough to retire, etc. A lot of my friends are a lot more comfortable and able to buy homes and generally be freer with money, mostly those in dual-income-no-kids situations - and I'm feeling that lag a bit.
At what age did you become financially responsible for yourself and do you have a financial safety net?: I haven't received any financial support from family since I was about 20, but if my parents come to visit me they'll usually bring some grocery items from their Costco runs and refuse to accept payment for it. I currently have about 4 months' emergency fund saved, and could last another 6 on my TFSA if I needed to. Working on bumping this up!
Do you or have you ever received passive or inherited income?: While I was in undergrad and paying my own tuition my grandparents gave me $2000 as a birthday gift to give me a little breathing room in my budget and so "you can do something other than work and study". They were hoping it would enable me to meet a husband and get my MRS (hahaha). It did not, but it did ease my stress about money.
Section Two: Income
Main Job Monthly Take Home: $3,816 after deductions. I got a 10% raise in July.
Deductions: Tax $882, EI $86, CPP $137, Retirement plan $210 (matched by employer)
PTO: 18 days + 5 additional during the holidays when our office is shut.
Bonus: I get a bonus each year from the day job as well. This year, $5500 pre-tax.
Side Gig Monthly Take Home: ~$900 averaged monthly
Varies year to year based on student enrolment and whether I get funding for additional content development time.
Salary Story (Averaged hourly earnings into approx annual earnings so it's more "apples to apples" comparison)
Pre-2010: ~$15-20k per year. Various jobs during highschool and university. Retail, farm and animal shelter work, tutoring, baby/pet/housesitting, factory job in the summers.
2010: ~$35k Intern, Retail, Nanny, Temp. I graduated university and started some postgrad certificate courses full time through summer. Had a PT retail job, a FT unpaid internship after summer classes ended, and was a nanny for a relative's kids in exchange for a steep discount on room and board. After my internship ended I picked up a temp receptionist gig that paid well while it lasted - I was able to save up to move out to my own place after Christmas.
Q1 + Q2 of 2011: ~$22k Freelancer / Assistant. The company I interned for hired me back as a freelancer at $19/hr, and I got a remote job as a "business assistant" (aka whatever they needed) at min wage, but I could set my own hours and work up to 35hrs/week. I crammed in as much as I could because my freelance job wasn't guaranteed.
Remainder of 2011: ~$36k - Digital Assistant. My day job offered me a FT position and I was so grateful for the stability (my freelance hours had been uneven) that I accepted their first offer not realizing it was less than I was making as a freelancer. I remind myself that at least now I have benefits and some security, and I still have my other job. Two weeks later they tell me if I don't quit my remote "business assistant" job I'll be fired since that company is in the same industry, so I do. Pushover!
2013: ~37k - Digital Assistant. Yep, two years, no promotion, small raise. Love working in the arts! /s. After I was forced out of my remote job in 2011 I started babysitting, petsitting, shoveling snow for my older neighbours - anything I could to bring in some extra cash, but I have no idea what I made from that work. Most of it ended up going out the door pretty quick on regular life expenses.
2014: $40k - Digital Coordinator. Promotion at last. I struggled a lot with depression throughout the end of 2013 and all of 2014 after some traumatic events, and I'm so shocked and thrilled that something good actually happened. I don't negotiate because I'm a husk of a person. By this point I'm not functional enough to keep up all my side gigs.
2016: ~$45k - Digital Coordinator / Instructor: After so much therapy I'm starting to realize my company is trash and my industry is a dead end for me, and I actually have the confidence to do something about it. I dump my shitty boyfriend. I get a part time gig as an instructor. My boss tells me in my performance review I have "no leadership potential" and I go home and immediately start looking for another job.
2017: ~$63k - Product Manager / Instructor: After many failed interviews, I finally get a new job offer at $55k - less than a PM typically makes in Toronto, but more than I was making before, and I was so hungry for a new opportunity I just jump on it. My new manager is really invested in my PD, within the first few months they have me speak on their behalf at three conferences and commit to $2,500 of PD spending.
2018:~$76k - Product Manager / Instructor: I get a raise at my day job (modest - about $2500) but it's a crackerjack year for the course I teach - it's a high enrolment year so I have more sections. Less free time, but now that I'm more experienced it's a bit easier and it'd be hard to find another side gig that pays as well for the amount of time I put in.
2020: ~78k - Product Manager / Instructor: Sensing a theme? I'm not much of a job hopper, which I know is impacting my salary growth, but I'm a "craves stability" person and I love my job, they are constantly giving me opportunities to learn and grow and investing in my PD. Plus a 10% raise.
Section Three: Expenses
Rent: $1,505 including utilities - just went up from $1,476 in September. I live solo in a one-bedroom in an old walk-up building.
Renters insurance: $29
Retirement contributions: $1,600
Sinking Funds contributions: $205
Emergency Fund contribution: $500, plus occasional random lump sums if I have discretionary funds left over.
Donations: approx $100/mo, sometimes more. I volunteer about 10-15 hrs/month with different organizations throughout the year, though it varies based on their activities. Been helping with a lot of digital admin/tech support/mailing list stuff this year.
Internet: $68
Cellphone: $48
Transit: About $14/month - I'm working from home, and my neighbourhood has everything I need within walking distance. I use transit a handful of times a month these days, so I just plonk some money on my card when I need to.
Therapy: $540 per quarter for BetterHelp, approx $168/month.
I get $800/year reimbursed under my work benefits.
Subscriptions: $27 - Netflix, Spotify, extra iCloud storage, and a Quip toothbrush.
-------- Diary:
Day 1 - Thursday ($42)
9am - Slept in! I have today and tomorrow off (using up some PTO) and am glad for the extra rest, but the construction work around my apartment building kicks off at 9:01 on the dot, waking me up. I browse the internet before showering and getting the day started. 11am - I have a massage appointment so I mask up and walk over. It’s a sunny fall morning, so an enjoyable walk. I’ve been in a lot of pain the last while after an unexpected hospital stay and medical procedures so I’m really looking forward to some relief now that I’m cleared to have this massage! ($30 tip for my RMT, insurance covers the actual bill.) I was nervous about COVID safety but this is a small clinic and they’re taking it really seriously (face shields and masks for all!), and it’s nice to have a massage - it’s the first “non-invasive, non-medical” human touch I’ll have since March, since I live by myself and have been strict about distancing. I have to say, it feels incredibly weird to be naked except a mask. Like being naked with a watch on. 12:45pm - I feel so much better! I walk a long route home to enjoy the sunshine and stop at a bakery and pick up some pumpkin, apple, and caramel scones ($12 for three, incl tip), since they have a little doorway table for service. Most cafes in the neighbourhood have restored indoor seating and I feel weird about going inside past unmasked diners. Once I get back home I have a scone, spend a couple of hours answering students’ questions for my teaching job, and wash some dishes in the kitchen. The afternoon sort of disappears into that, plus some random internet browsing/YouTube sewing tutorials. 6pm - Therapy call (prepaid - I use BetterHelp and pay quarterly - I’m due to pay in 2 weeks). I am so grateful to be back in therapy. Isolation has been hard on me, and my medical situation really left me raw. It’s scary to have a totally normal day and end it in an ambulance unexpectedly, and I’m still unpacking my feelings about it. 7pm - I sodastream some water, add lavender syrup, and hop on Zoom for game night with some friends. We play Jackbox games together and snort-laugh the whole way through. This is a new group I was just starting to befriend IRL in the weeks before the pandemic. These weekly game nights have been so great to keep the momentum. 9pm - I dress my last tortilla as a pizza, bake it, and then dump the remainder of a box of arugula on top after it’s out of the oven and eat it over the sink like a crispy pizza taco. After eating I text a bit with a guy I met on reddit (henceforth RG - Reddit Guy - same guy from my last MD.) He sends me a video of his dog doing tricks, and we count down and hit play on the same TV episode. We’ve been doing this little nightly ritual since the start of the pandemic, and it’s a nice way to keep this long-distance whatever-this-is going. Things have stepped up from merely flirty to decidedly romantic in the last year, but with the US/Canadian border closed for the foreseeable future who knows where this is going or if we’ll ever get to meet. 11:30pm - I have a quick warm bath before bedtime and after making a nest from all my pillows, fall asleep to a “sleep story” from the Calm app. Some smooth-voiced man talking about an island in Norway takes me away.
Day 2 - Friday ($69)
8am - I wake up before my alarm, laze around in bed reading newsletters and reddit. I open my work email, file away all the automated messages I get from our software, and close it again. I usually check it once a day on vacation just to clear that shit as a gift to my future self. 9:30am - I shower while listening to a podcast and check my messages while brushing my teeth. A neighbourhood pal asks if I want to have a coffee in the park with her before it gets too cold for these outside meetups. I reply and we arrange a plan to meet up. 10:15am - My friend texts and says she’s going to stop at Starbucks on her way to the park - do I want her to grab me anything? I mobile order a caramel apple spice ($5 - I’m off caffeine - doctor’s orders) and tell her it should be there waiting when she gets there. I bring the two remaining scones from yesterday’s bakery trip for us. We hang out at the park for a few hours on our distanced blankets, chatting until our fingertips are thoroughly chilled. Like a lot of my friends, the pandemic has had her and her partner seeking cheaper, more spacious dwellings out of the city. They’re moving in a few months. This is the fourth such announcement I’ve had this fall, so I’m better at being excited for them and asking questions all about their new digs rather than being openly bummed. But inside I’m a little gutted. It’s hard to watch my people move away! 12:30pm: I took the long route home from the park, then settle in with some mint tea and check on my students. I’m teaching online this semester and the course is “asynchronous” - meaning they move through interactive modules of written+video content at their own pace, so I post and reply frequently on the discussion boards, answer emails, and help them along. I have a chatty group this term - there’s a very active kdrama discussion thread in the “non-course related” board. I love when my online students still work at connecting with their classmates - I can’t imagine what it would be like trying to do fully online school and missing out on that in-person experience. 2pm - I whip up a quick chicken soup with some chicken and veggies from the freezer, some egg noodles and a bouillon cube and eat that before spending the afternoon cleaning up - vacuuming, laundry, and online browsing for some sewing supplies. I spend $64 on some additional fabric and bias tape I keep forgetting to buy to finish some projects. I can’t wait to go to fabric stores in person again someday. While waiting for my stuff to finish in the dryer, I do a short Yoga with Adriene video. 7:30pm - After dinner, a friend calls to complain about her boyfriend and we chat for awhile while I organize my craft supplies into bins I picked up at the dollar store last weekend. He’s been a grade-A dingus since the beginning of the pandemic, and just told her one of his roommates tested positive for COVID - on Monday. He stayed with her Tuesday and Wednesday and “forgot to mention it”. DUDE. C’mon! I tell her if she needs anything dropped off at her place - groceries, drugstore stuff, emergency ice cream or baked goods - just call. 10pm - I make some popcorn and queue up Kim’s Convenience with RG, we chitchat about the day and plans for the weekend. After a few episodes I crawl into bed while he tells me all about a COVID-safe date we could go on if we weren’t separated by a few hundred kilometres. It’s a nice daydream.
Day 3 - Saturday ($0)
~1am - My downstairs neighbours are suddenly blasting music so loud my bedframe is vibrating. At 1am. Shoot me. By 1:45 I’m over it and go downstairs to knock on their door. I bang on their door a few times, no answer. One of the other tenants down the hall comes out, we commiserate over the noise. He bangs on the door too, but the music blasts on. We shrug at eachother and go back to our apartments. ~2am - I’m losing my mind at the noise, which seems to be coming from directly under my bedroom. Assuming they maybe have the bedroom door closed and couldn’t hear the knocking, I go to the living room and grab my set of weights and start dropping them on the bedroom floor over and over again like a maniac hoping to catch their attention. It works though - after a few minutes the music is off. Sweet silence! 8:45am - I wake up, roll over, and doze a bit more before getting up to take my medication and instead of staying up, I crawl back in. I chat with RG a bit and send a check-in text to my friend with the crummy boyfriend. 10:45am - I finally get out of bed (I love laying around. If I’m going to be single with no responsibilities I am going to bask in every moment of it) and I eat leftover roasted cauliflower from last night’s dinner for breakfast. Afterwards I clean the bathroom, put away my laundry from yesterday, and log on to my online class to check in on my students and reply to their posts, and review the material that’s going up next week. 4pm - After the day spent with chores I finish putting together a meal plan for the week and grocery order for delivery tomorrow. I actually love grocery shopping in person, but with the uptick in cases recently I’m less interested in going. Afterwards I check my online class forums again (there’s an assignment due tonight so I want to watch for questions) and then go for a short walk around my neighbourhood. It’s nice to get out a bit and see the leaves changing. 6pm - I make a chickpea and lentil curry in my Instant Pot, adding an assortment of random veggies from my freezer, while RG shoots me a text about starting our “together time” a bit early tonight so we can watch Hamilton together. I agree, and after dinner work on some sewing. 9:30pm - Almost completely finished sewing a shirt - I’ll finish the hem another day and the neckline when the bias tape I ordered shows up. I put everything away and I eat some arrowroot crackers with nutella while watching Hamilton with RG. I’ve already seen it a few times but I love it. Midway through I exchange a few emails with a student who is rapidly approaching the midnight assignment deadline and just can’t get her code working. I can tell right away she’s made a teeny tiny typo that’s had a domino effect on her whole assignment. I point her in the right direction, she fixes it, and ends the night happy. 12am - Curling up in bed. I put on another Calm app story and fall asleep.
Day 4 - Sunday ($127)
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Day 5 - Monday ($9)
7:15am - Alarm goes off. I wake up, but mostly scroll Reddit until 8. I desperately miss working from an office with other people and better chairs, but if WFH ever ends I will miss getting to stay in bed as long as humanly possible. 8am - Shower, moisturize and put on some lipstain - that’s the extent of my morning routine these days. I get dressed (I’ve been wearing the same threadbare jeans almost all quarantine. They’re so comfortable, but hideous). I make some tea and oatmeal and move over to my desk. 8:45am - I check my credit card statement online while eating. A return I’ve been waiting on is finally processed (+$41.28) - returns by mail are so slow - I put the parcel in over a month ago. I check my class boards too - no new posts to reply to. 9am - Log into work and post my “hello” message in our staff chat. We have a “Hellos and Goodbyes” room to keep track of people’s comings and goings throughout the day. Our CEO pings me and asks how my time off was. He’s been very attentive since my hospitalization and has been checking in about my workload, how I’m feeling. It’s nice to fee seen. 10am - One on one with my junior PM. We chat on Zoom re: what’s on the docket for our projects this month, and I take her temperature a bit re: work/life balance, how she’s managing our extended work from home and the pandemic. She has a lot of vacation days left and I encourage her to use them even if she’s not planning to go away - mental health and rest is important! 11am - One on one with my manager. She calls via phone since her teenage daughter is doing school on Zoom and their internet is overtaxed. She runs through what I missed last week and updates me on a new project I’ll be taking over from her later this month. I’m currently responsible for ⅗ of our major software projects and this will bring me up to ⅘. (Don’t think I won’t make a big deal about that when it comes time for our next reviews.) 11:45am - Answer a customer support email from someone struggling to use the site. After a bit of back and forth I discover it’s because they’re using a decade-old version of Internet Explorer. I hop on the phone, walk them through upgrading to Edge, and they’re a happy camper. We don’t have customer support at our org - the PMs and Junior PMs manage support for their projects. Some days I hate it, but most of the time it’s satisfying to tackle a small and solvable problem amidst the bigger-picture work. 1pm: Team meeting with my software team. We usually do these in the morning but one of the devs had to take his kid for a COVID test since he’s a bit sniffly - schools here are pretty strict. It’s a short meeting, just getting a sense of how everyone’s moving through the current open projects, and then a show-and-tell of pets, since the aforementioned sniffly kid joined at the end. I do not have any pets and am as delighted by them as the kid. 1:20pm: Lunchtime! I heat up some leftover curry and chat a bit with RG, who’s checking in about my stress level. Since my hospital stay he’s been worried about me pushing too hard and not giving myself time to heal. We talk about our mornings and he tells me he added some new songs he thinks I’ll like to a shared Spotify playlist, so I know what I’ll be listening to this afternoon. 2pm: I spend the afternoon working on spec writing for upcoming development projects while my developers investigate a bug a customer reported over lunch. 5:10pm - I set an alarm on my phone to go off when it’s time to log off for the day. I change into some pants with more structural integrity, mask and jacket up, and go for a walk. 5:45pm: While I’m at the pharmacy picking up my prescription, the pharmacist mentions they have flu shots in, so I get one while I’m there. ($8 for my prescriptions, $1 for the impulse coffee crisp bar, $0 for the peace of mind of being flu-free even if I barely leave my house). While I’m walking home, RG calls from his commute to ask what I’m going to do about Thanksgiving. He thinks I should go - it’s generally safe in my parents’ area (less than 30 active cases in the county), and he gently suggests that the fall is probably going to be pretty hard on me emotionally and it might be a good idea to take the opportunity to go away while it’s relatively safe. I keep thinking it over. 6pm - Cook some chicken and roasted veggies for dinner, and after eating, set up my sewing stuff to finish up that shirt hem and start cutting pattern pieces for another project, a robe, while listening to podcasts. 10pm - I set up my iPad on a stool next to my bathtub and watch Kim’s Convenience with RG on chat while soaking in the warm, bubbly water and drinking some chamomile tea, and eventually dry off and head to bed around 11:30.
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8am - Did I snooze my alarm for an hour? You bet. I just couldn’t stay asleep last night. When I finally wake up, RG has left a little video message for me, which I watch, and then watch again, and then start getting ready for the day. I braided my hair before bed so I have those great post-braid waves today. 8:55am - At my desk, logged in and ready to go with some oatmeal. I drop a note in the staff Hellos and Goodbyes and peek at my class discussion board before picking up where I left off yesterday. 10am - Client call. This client is hoping to do something a little “off label” with our tools. We chat a bit about what they’re hoping to accomplish and what their goals are, and I answer a few data questions for them. 10:30am - Team meeting! We spend some time puzzling through my client’s “off label” ideas, do some digging on another client’s data issue, and then spend a little time watching a funny news blooper one of the devs screenshares and joking around. I don't mind a little fun in our meetings! 11am - Biweekly all-staff meeting. Our CEO gives a little roundup of how things are going big-picture, and then one by one each of my colleagues gives a brief update of what they’re working on. Many pets and children make appearances - as a group the general vibe with interruptions on zooms is “delight”, which I appreciate. Nobody’s trying to “keep up appearances”. It’s all a mess we’re in together. 12:20pm - Lunchtime. Check COVID case counts again for my parents’ area (still undecided) while chatting with a friend about her thanksgiving plans. She and her husband have been isolating at a family cabin since early summer, when their city apartment building started renovating. They’re planning a “so bad it’s good” movie marathon, so while I eat leftover curry we chat about our favourite bad-good movies. 1:25pm- Reacquainting myself with some material for my 2pm meeting. I’m on an HR Committee at work and we’re meeting to check in on our work/life and wellness strategies as we head into another WFH quarter. The transition to remote has gone (mostly) well for our company, but there’s always room to improve! 3pm - After the HR meeting I put together a custom report request for our database team to run for me, and then pull up our team’s roadmap for the fiscal year and make some tweaks. I share developers with other teams and I know a big project has dropped in for them elsewhere, so I adjust. We’re already close to hitting our metrics for the year so I’m happy to let the other teams keep my devs busy for awhile while I prep and spec some larger feature builds for them. 4pm - My friend with the dingus boyfriend texts. Luckily, both she and her boyfriend tested negative, but since he lives with someone who’s sick, they’ll both need to test again in a few days. She talks about wanting to break up with him. I encourage her to take her time thinking about it. I think they should break up - he’s a dope. But she’s the one in the relationship - not my call! 5:15pm - I log off for a bit. I’m feeling a bit drained today. I didn’t sleep well last night and I know my indecision about Thanksgiving is weighing on me. I do a yoga video and lay on the floor crying afterward. It happens, part of that good ol’ depression life. Sometimes you just need a lil cry. I’ve been really emotionally overwhelmed since my hospitalization, and some close friends have really broken my trust recently. I’m working on it with my therapist, but sometimes you’re just fresh outta emotional juice, and while I love my family, we’re not close - time with them would be nice, but it’s not restorative. 7:10pm - Alright alright. Time to rally. I log on to my online portal and reply to my students’ board posts and questions. They seem like they’re doing a good job grasping the material, which makes me happy. I never wanted to be a teacher but it makes me feel so satisfied when I can see their progress. It cheers me up a little. 8:45pm - Time got away from me doing that work. I throw some fish and veggies into the oven and call my parents. I tell them I'm still undecided about Thanksgiving, Mom complains that I'm taking things too seriously, I text her the graph of cases again. She tells me I can make a day-before decision if I want to, that they'll isolate the rest of the week, for real, but she just needs to know by Friday around noon if I want to be picked up. I appreciate the extra time to consider things. Then Mom asks me to place a grocery click-and-collect order for her (she's not good at internet). I say I will, and she proceeds to slowly text me a grocery list one item at a time for the next hour. LOL. Moms. 10:15pm - I drink some sparkling water while watching Kim’s Convenience with RG on chat. After one episode I’m wiped, so I go to wash up. By the time I’m getting into bed, RG has left me a video message - the first half is his dog adorably snoring. The second half is just him telling me everything’s going to be OK and apologizing that he can’t be here to do our own Thanksgiving. Cry again - happier tears this time.
Day 7 - Wednesday ($0)
8:20am - Cutting it close today, wakeup-wise. It took me forever to fall asleep last night so I snooze a lot today, but when I finally get up, RG’s left me another voice memo encouraging me to get up and kick this day’s ass. I’ll try! I have a quick shower, mist my hair to refresh the curl a little, and get dressed. 9am - Log on and say hi to the team, then help the marketing team with some content for our monthly newsletter. Once that’s done, I make a smoothie with frozen mango and dragonfruit, then head back to my desk to load some data into our internal dashboards for our CEO’s reports later this week. Once it’s loaded, he DMs me and we chat a bit about the comparison year over year, possible insights, nerd out about graphs a bit. 10:30am - Team meeting. Alongside the usual updates I’ve added extra time to discuss some upcoming features and the specs I have in progress. I don’t love speccing something without involving them - they feel a lot more ownership when they’ve had a chance to be involved in the process. They get really excited about the new build and ask if I can reassign them to this instead of the other project they’re pinch hitting on now. Nice try! 12:15pm - Lunchtime! Some colleagues and I hop into Netflix Party to watch an episode of Queer Eye together. When we were in the office we used to have occasional TV lunch parties so we’ve been trying to mimic that in our new WFH life. I eat the last of my leftover curry while our Netflix Party chat goes OFF in full home-porn-drool at the reveal of Bobby’s house makeover. 1pm - Back to work, more data audits for our research team. 2pm - Internal meeting with another colleague about a section of her project I’m pitch-hitting on - super productive. She runs a tight meeting and I really admire her. After the meeting I write specs for the rest of the day based on the meeting this morning. I put on some old episodes of Reply All and get stuck in. 5:15pm - Head out for a short walk around the neighbourhood to get some air and outside time, talk a bit with RG while he’s on his commute. Once I’m back home, I do some tidying up. 6pm - Therapy call, I talk a bit about my Thanksgiving dilemma but we move on to other topics too. Feeling a bit better than yesterday, but a little rough around the edges. These are the kinds of days where I tend to feel tempted to order in, and while I scroll UberEats, nothing really looks that good, so I close the app and decide to just cook what I’d planned. 7pm - Make dinner, chicken and roasted veggies again. What can I say, I’ll party down on garlicky roasted broccoli any day of the week. I wash dishes when I’m done eating. 8pm - Pop online to check out my students’ posts for the day and reply to some emails. I briefly scroll through stuff on the IKEA website. I’ve been hoping to get some inserts for my Kallax unit, but the ones I want aren’t in stock, still. 9pm - Shower and wash my hair. I get out a shower scrub from Lush and really go to town, I do the Aztec Secret clay mask too. Why not! 9:45pm - Post up on the couch with some sparkling water, ready for TV time with RG. We watch the last two episodes of Kim’s Convenience and chat a bit before bed about what to watch next - we have a lot of good options, but decide to just see what we’re in the mood for tomorrow. Weekly Total: $247
Food + Drink: $108
Fun + Entertainment: $0
Home + Health: $38
Clothes + Beauty: $64 on sewing supplies (future clothes + entertainment while I make them?)
Transport: $0
Other: $37 (gift)
Reflections: I keep an MD 365 days a year so I can tell by comparison this is on the lower end of an average range for this year so far - I usually get delivery at least once a week (sometimes twice), but I wasn’t feeling it this week! My average spend has really been ticking down the last couple of months. While the pandemic sucks and the isolation is rough (shoutout to my fellow live-aloners), I’m enjoying not spending as much, and that my spending is really heavily weighted toward things that contribute to my sense of well-being.
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How difficult is it to close your account after cashing out your free share? Lionbridge - Worked with Appen previously. Decent pocket money… Application pending but doubt I’ll get anything at this point. Money apps - Saving Skrill/XendPay/Verse for once I’ve ran out of other offers to take. Matched betting - Similar to above. I’ve also got accounts with quite a few bookmakers already, so not sure how much I’d get out of it. Around £220 in my pocket in my first month and a little more still pending. How’d I do? Any recommendations/sites I’ve missed would be appreciated. I’ve definitely caught the bug and want to keep it up in February.
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Are you returning (or even new) to Neopets and have no idea what's going on? Well come right over to for a huge read on how to earn Neopoints, creating goals, account safety tips and more! A lot has changed, but a lot remains the same for our dear website! Note: This guide is primarily going to be directed at Non-Premium players, so information about Premium will only be touched on lightly. If there’s any clarification needed, feel free to PM, or ask on the subreddit / Discord! Shout out to aredshroom for letting me make a c/p'd update lol and also other friends to help read over. o/
Account recovery tips and information can be found here.
Various browsers have released an update that disables Flash by default for security reasons.
If you cannot see the Neopian Map, Games, Customization Screen, and others then you'll most likely need to reenable Flash. Here's a JN article on how to do so.
Secure your account! Set a PIN, and be cautious with links/users. If something sounds too good to be true (cough massive giveaways), it likely is. There have been incidents in the past of users getting in trouble after receiving illegit/stolen items from giveaways. Do remember that TNT is always watching... Also, there is a Hackproofing Guide! There'll be some basic security tips at the bottom as well.
Know the Neopets Acronyms! If you're anything like me upon returning - "What does RB/RG/WN/UC mean?" - this might be helpful. Here's TDN's TNAATP and JN's Neopian Dictionary!
Note when your pets' birthdays are! You can choose to collect 1 out of 3 cupcakes on their birthday that increases your pet's stats. The Blue, Pink, or Yellow Cupcake (+Def, +HP, and +Str respectively). Note that you can only feed 1 cupcake to a pet per year, so you are unable to stockpile birthday cupcakes from your other pets and feed them all to one pet.
We have a Guide Repository on the subreddit! There’s plenty of good info there, and safe userscripts to enhance your Neo experience. I’ll leave you to trawl.
This subreddit has a Discord server! Go over here to join a real-time chat server and mingle around with others. Discord is accessible on mobile devices too! Just a reminder, that Discord is also NOT an official fansite, so don't mention it onsite.
Getting back on your feet: Earning NPs
One of the most common questions on the sub is about making NP. With the inflation/fluctuation of prices, and daunting price figures (like the Secret Lab Map), this can seem hard. There are plenty of ways you’ll be earning, saving and spending. Also here are the fun results from an old Strawpoll of how NeoRedditors earn Neopoints.
Trudy's Surprise! It's a relatively new daily that gives you free NP. The amount increases until the 25th day, where any spin will net you 100k even if you don’t hit 3-in-a-row.
Ghoul Catchers is a Neo-mobile app where you can earn 50k a day just by playing the 1st/2nd level 50x a day. Here's JN's Guide on how to download and play Ghoul Catchers on your mobile and web browser!
The reason to participate in the BD is that it gives you goodies like Tan/Red Codestones, Neocola Tokens, Armoured Neggs, and even Nerkmids (if premium) that you can sell for profit. Each time you beat an opponent, you’ll obtain something from the General pool, Dome pool, or Opponent pool until you hit the limit of 1500 NP + 15 items daily. Here’s a breakdown. The General pool includes Tan/Red Codestones. The recommended starter opponent is the Kreludan Defender, who has an easy starting HP of 14, and drops relatively good items from his Dome + Opponent pool (Neocola tokens, Armoured Neggs, Genius Neggs). The other challenger that beginners frequent is the Chia Clown, who may drop Chocolate Ice Cream.
Play easy 3k games. 3k is the maximum you earn from each Flash Game except during special occasions (such as the week of Neopets' birthday). Check out /~fishyheart for easy quick to play games. Also, /~ChaChaFrancesca tracks NP ratios for on-site games, and /~AnnEstelle provides for mirrored games. Read the disclaimer on the mirrored game petpage (do not play the same game twice in one day)!
Do basic jobs at the Faerieland Employment Agency. You'll have to be fast to get profitable ones, but it's such a fast way to earn spare cash. Max limit is 5 jobs a day.
The only tip is to bet consistently - you may lose quite a bit, but in the long run it definitely pays out – and with older accounts you can earn a LOT when you win since you can bet more.
Stock Market is another thing players like investing in. It's recommended that you buy the cheapest stocks (15 NP). You should bookmark this page, so you can easily see which stocks are at 15 NP currently. You can buy a maximum of 1000 stocks a day, which equates to a 15k investment daily.
Keep in mind it's a long-term investment. Most people sell at 60 (+300% profit), but some hold for higher (100+). Neostocks is an informative Stock Market tracking site to see trending stocks and provides alerts if desired.
Try Restocking! Restocking means hanging around in official Neopets shops and playing the waiting game in order to quickly buy profitable items at a lower price, so you can later resell them to players at a higher price. There are restrictions on what items you can see based on your account age, but you can still restock Faerie Quest items, Faerie Employment Items, and other consumables (books, food, etc.) if your account is younger.
Newbie r79 items and below 10 days old r84 items and below 16 days old r89 items and below 1 month old r94 items and below 3+ months old No restrictions
For a more visual guide, here's a (tad dated, but still notable) guide at /~Briannea and JN's Shop Directory is great to start learning which items are good!
Creating NeoGoals
Browse around on Neocolours! Once you figure out the species/colour combinations you want for your pets, there are plenty of ways to get them. You can paint, morph, or adopt! Sometimes, we get lucky users here who run Faerie Fountain giveaways as well.
Tip: Always check if a particular Morphing Potion is cheaper than Paint Brushes. It can save you a lot of NP.
Maybe obtain a Secret Lab Map to try for a lab-exclusive colour, or perhaps to zap pound pets into interesting colours to help them get adopted out, or just for the sheer thrill of zapping?
Collecting Avatars! /~Avatiers has a really good visual list. Build up your stats first, and you could drop by the Avatar NeoBoards to (politely) ask for lends. JN's Avatar Checklist provides code for you to put on a petpage, so lenders can easily check what you're missing.
Aspiring for the best Gallery? There are a lot of items to catch up on. JN has a fantastic Item Database where you can search items!
Customisation? You’ll love Dress to Impress if you haven’t checked them out already.
Want to spruce up your userlookup with game trophies? Here's an awesome score tracker so you know what's a reasonable score needed for Bronze/SilveGold. Just click on the graphs in the rightmost column to view the score requirements for a trophy over the past few months.
Perhaps you just enjoy coding and beautifying your Lookups, Petpages and more? What about a Neo Portfolio? There are plenty of premade artists around, but I’ll let you roam since there are really too many styles and pages to list. Feel free to ask around though!
This is a non-exhaustive list, of course. Make up your own goals and have fun!
Account Recovery
Here’s an updated FAQ at /~Wispalings on what to do if you think you are frozen, and /~Sarika_ambrielle has all the details of what you should keep track of if you need to send in a recovery ticket. It's a good idea to backup your info in case you ever have to prove that an account belongs to you. We have a revamped Lost Account Guide, to add to those petpages mentioned above! The TL;DR for account recovery:
Check that your account still exists! Your account may have been purged if it’s been inactive for years. Go here: http://www.neopets.com/userlookup.phtml?user=USERNAME, replace USERNAME with your own. If it is indeed purged, you most likely will need to start on a new account.
Once you’ve verified that the account still exists, it’s all about figuring out details to prove that your account is yours, like your birthdate, linked email (and/or pass emails), NC/Premium purchase history, etc. Here's a NeoBoard post explaining what they want really.
The Ticket System is now located at their support address: [email protected].
General tips for getting a ticket response: Always be truthful and respectful. Give as much useful info about your situation/account as you're able, post on the "Highway to Help" thread located in the Help NeoBoard. Keep your ticket updated once per week to show TNT you're an active user waiting.
Basic Security
Go to your Account Preferences. Block everything you don't want, ALWAYS check the birthday login prompt, and I'd recommend Plain Text Neomail. That makes it so any scripts sent through NM won't run.
Similarly for your PIN Preferences. Set a PIN on ALL accounts (main/sides should all be pinned), preferably different/regularly changed, and keep no exceptions on where PIN is used. Check all the boxes.
FAQ
Why is everything broken? I can't even see the map.
Have you enabled Flash for your browser? Here's a JN article on how to do so. You will probably need to reenable Flash every time you completely close out of your browser. If it's not Flash related, then a long list of things can be found here.
That is up to you to decide and how active you are going to be on this site to make the most out of it. There are incentives such as Super Shop Wizard (SSW), if you are a prominent restocker, Species Change Perk (once every 365 days upon first use) that allows you to obtain nearly every converted colored species (no Draiks and Krawks) including the rare Ice Bori, and more. Check out JN's Guide on that.
That's it! If you've read all this way, thank you for your time. I hope this helps some players. ^ ^
Among the more frequently mentioned G+ alternatives at the Google+ Mass Migration community, and others, is MeWe with over 250 mentions. The site bills itself as "The Next-Gen Social Network" and the "anti-Facebook": "No Ads, No Political Bias, No Spyware. NO BS. It is headed by professed Libertarian CEO Mark Weinstein. As the site reveals no public user-generated content to non-members, it's necessary to create an account in order to get a full impression. I thought I'd provide an overview based on recent explorations. This report leads of with background on the company, though readers may find the report and analysis of specific groups on the site of interest.
Leadership
Founder & CEO Mark Weinstein. Co-Founder & Chief Scientist, Jonathan Wolfe (no longer with company). Weinstein previously founded SuperFamily and SuperFriends, "at the turn of the millennium". Weinstein's MeWe biography lists articles published by The Mirror (UK), Huffington Post, USA Today, InfoSecurity Magazine, Dark Reading, and the Nation. His media appearances include MarketWatch, PBS, Fox News, and CNN. He's also the author of several personal-success books. His Crunchbase bio is a repeat of the MeWe content.
Advisory Board
Sir Tim Berners-Lee: Inventor of the World Wide Web.
Jack Canfield: Legendary Founder, Chicken Soup For The Soul.
John Friedman: Founding Partner, Easton Capital.
Cullen Hoback: Director, Terms and Conditions May Apply.
Dianne Morrison: Partner, MorrisonMcNabb, LLC.
Colin Sebastian: Director, Equity Research/Internet, RW Baird.
Brett Shevack: CEO, Brand Initiatives; Former Vice Chair, BBDO.
Marci Shimoff: author, Happy for No Reason.
Sherry Turkle: Professor, MIT; author Alone Together.
Ownership & Investment
MeWe is the dba of Sgrouples, a private for-profit early-stage venture company based in Los Angeles, though with a Mountain View HQ and mailing address, 11-50 employees, with $10m in funding over five rounds, and a $20m valuation as of 2016. Sgrouples, Inc., dba MeWe Trust & Safety - Legal Policy c/o Fenwick West 801 California Street Mountain View, CA 94041 Crunchbase Profile. Founded: 2012 (source) Secured $1.2M in seed funding in 2014. 2016 valuation: $20m (source] Backers:
John Friedman, venture capitalist, founder & MD, Easton Capital, New York, NY.
Despite the business address, the company claims to be based in Los Angeles County, California and is described by the Los Angeles Business Journal as a Culver City, CA, company.
Do you have friends still on Facebook? Share this link with them about Facebook wanting their banking information - tell them to move to MeWe now! No Ads. No Spyware. No Political Agenda. No Bias Algorithms. No Shadow Banning. No Facial Recognition.
MeWe provide several policy-related links on the site:
California Disclosures -- Do Not Track, 3rd-party cookies, and California Privacy Rights.
Your Identity: We protect it to the extent the law allows
Linking to Third-Party Sites: These are your decisions and responsibilities
Security: HTTPS and Encryption
Children's Privacy
Notifications
Privacy Policy Changes
Terms of Service
The ToS addresses:
Your acceptance
Allowable Content and Acceptable Use
Rights Reserved
Who Our Services are For
Privacy
User Content Ownership
Passwords
Misuse of Usernames, Page names, Group names
Fake Accounts (pseudonyms allowed, misleading is not)
More on Spam
Our Commitment to Data Security
MeWe Content Data
MeWe Log Data
Your Data Portability
Deleting Your Account -- Right to Erasure
MeWe Secret Chat
MeWe Invitations and "Add Automatically"
Additional Policies for Pages, Groups, and Events Notifications of Requests for Account Information
Guidelines for Law Enforcement Seeking Customer Data (Worldwide)
MeWe Rights
Indemnity
Ownership In and To the Site and Services
Other Provisions
Effective: November 6, 2018.
FAQ
The FAQ addresses:
What is MeWe (emphasises privacy)
The Politics of MeWe ("absolutely no political agenda")
How can MeWe be free and make money? (additional services/freemium)
Which devices is MeWe available on? (Android, iOS)
What content can I share on MeWe (photos, videos, documents, voice messages, privacy mail, chats, gifs, memes, doodles)
What are some unique features of MeWe?
Who can see the posts I share?
Can I delete my MeWe account and is it easy to do this?
Values
This emphasises that people are social cratures and private people by right. The service offers the power of self expression under an umbrella of safety. It notes that our innermost thoughts require privacy. Under "We aspire...":
MeWe is here to empower and enrich your world. We challenge the status quo by making privacy, respect, and safety the foundations of an innovatively designed, easy-to-use social experience.
Totalling 182 words.
Privacy Bill of Rights
A ten-item statement of principles (possibly inspired by another document, it might appear):
You own your personal information & content. It is explicitly not ours.
You will never receive a targeted advertisement or 3rd party content based on what you do or say online. We think that's creepy.
You see every post in timeline order from your friends, family & groups. We do not manipulate, filter, or change the order of your content or what you see.
Permissions & privacy are your rights. You control them.
You control who can access your content.
You control what, if anything, others can see in member searches.
Your privacy means we do not share your personal information with anyone.
Your emojis are for you and your friends. We do not monitor or mine your data.
Your face is your business. We do not use facial recognition technology.
You have the right to delete your account and take your content with you at any time.
Press
There are a few mentions of MeWe in the press, some listed on the company's website, others via web search.
Self-reported articles
The following articles are linked directly from MeWe's Press page:
The page also lists a "Privacy Revolution Required Reading" list of 20 articles all addressing Facebook privacy gaffes in the mainstream press (Wired, TechCrunch, Fortune, Gizmodo, The Guardian, etc.). There are further self-reported mentions in several of the company's PR releases over the years.
Other mentions
A DuckDuckGo search produces several other press mentions, including:
Facebook Alternative MeWe Raises $5.2M, Los Angeles Business Journal (July 7, 2018) "The latest round, as well as MeWe’s total $10 million in fundraising, was predominantly backed by celebrity investors, such as author Marci Shimoff, Rachel Roy, and Lynda Weinman, founder of Lynda.com, which sold to Linkedin in 2015 for $1.5 billion. Jack Canfield, creator of the “Chicken Soup for the Soul” book series, also invested in MeWe."
Full Page "Dear Facebook" Letter In The New York Times from MeWe, the Competitor Mark Zuckerberg Refuses to Name Yahoo Finance/PR Newsire (May 28, 2018) "Facebook competitor MeWe, in its first-ever advertisement on any medium, took a full-page in the New York Times on Sunday, May 27th. MeWe's "Dear Facebook" letter is a direct response to Mark Zuckerberg's letter ad on March 25th, and a response to Zuckerberg's refusal to name a Facebook competitor in front of Congress."
Is building a Facebook alternative worth the effort? MeWe thinks soVentureBeat (July 5, 2018) "[T]here are still companies hoping to make their mark in the social networking realm with “Facebook alternatives.” One of those is MeWe, a “next-generation” social network that positions itself as the anti-Facebook: “Your private life is not for sale. No ads. No Spyware. No BS,” its website proclaims." Continues to mention "modest $5.2 million" funding round. Also a "sister product", MeWePRO, a Slack competitor.
Startup MeWe Launches Free, 'No Ads' Social NetworkeWeek (March 16, 2016) "MeWe, a new network engineered with its users' data privacy built in, is betting that a lot of people will say yes to both of those questions. The Mountain View, Calif.-based startup, whose parent company is Sgrouples.com, launched its freely available social network out of beta March 9 with more than 200,000 members already using it.... Sir Tim Berners-Lee, co-architect of the World Wide Web, found out about MeWe on his own and approached the company about getting involved."
Facebook Alternative MeWe closes $5.2M Series A Yahoo/PR Newswire (July 5, 2018). "The investment brings MeWe's total funding to $10 million, to support the engineering of MeWe and the enterprise version MeWePRO.... The company has relied on high net worth individuals for all of its funding including Lynda Weinman, founder of Lynda.com ...; Marci Shimoff, a #1 New York Times bestselling author ...; Rachel Roy...; and Jack Canfield."
Exactis Data Leak 2018: 340 Million Records ExposedInvestorPlace (June 29, 2018) "'Today's cookies can link your mobile phone to your laptop, to your home monitoring devices, and much, much more. Creepy? Scary? Orwellian? Yes, yes, yes,' Mark Weinstein, the privacy expert and founder of social media company MeWe, told MarketWatch. 'So imagine that Exactis, like Facebook, knows everything about you — really.'"
MeWe Raises $3M in FundingFinSMEs (March 9, 2016) "Sgrouples, Inc., the Mountain View, CA-based developer of MeWe, a social network with neither ads nor tracking, raised $3m in funding."
MeWe Raises $4.8 Million, Launches Next-Gen Social NetworkCision/PRWeb (March 9, 2016) "The company also announced the completion of its $3 million Seed III round of funding at a $20 million valuation, bringing MeWe’s total funding to date to $4.8 million."
This section is a basic rundown of the user-visible site technology.
Mobile Web
The site is not natively accessible from a mobile Web browser as it is overlayed with a promotion for the mobile application instead. Selecting "Desktop View" in most mobile browsers should allow browser-based access.
Mobile App
There are both Android and iOS apps for MeWe. I've used neither of these, though the App store entries note:
MeWe Android 4.4 rating (13.1k ratings). Permissions: Contacts (read), Location (approximate/precise), SMS (receive), Phone (read status & identity), Photos/Media/Files (read, modify, & delete contents), Storage (read, modify, or delete), Camera (take pictures/videos), Microphone (record audio), Device ID & Call Info (read status & identity), and numerous elements under Other.
Crunchbase cites 209,220 mobile downloads over the past 30 days (via Apptopia), an 80.78% monthly growth rate, from Google Play.
Desktop Web
Either selecting "View Desktop" or navigating with a Desktop browser to https://www.mewe.com your are presented with a registration screen, with the "About", "Privacy Bill of Rights", "MeWe Challenge", and a language selector across the top of the page. Information requested are first and last name, phone or email, and a password. Pseudonymous identities are permitted, though this isn't noted on the login screen. Returning members can use the "Member Log In" button. The uMatrix Firefox extension reveals no third-party content: all page elements are served from mewe.com, img.mewe.com, cdn.mewe.com, or ws.mewe.com. (In subsequent browsing, you may find third-party plugins from, for example, YouTube, for videos, or Giphy, for animated GIFs.) The web front-end is nginx. The site uses SSL v3, issued by DigiCert Inc. to Sgrouples, Inc.
Onboarding
The onboarding experience is stark. There is no default content presented. A set of unidentified icons spans the top of the screen, these turn out to be Home, Chats, Groups, Pages, and Events. New users have to, somehow, find groups or people to connect with, and there's little guidance as to how to do this.
Interface
Generally there is a three panel view, with left- and right-hand sidebars of largely navigational or status information, and a central panel with main content. There are also pop-up elements for chats, an omnipresent feature of the site. Controls display labels on some devices and/or resolutions. Controls do not provide tooltips for navigational aid.
My Cloud - Seamlessly organize all your content in My Cloud; it's your personal cloud. My Cloud offers an interactive dashboard for you to control everything you’ve posted or shared - making it simple to delete or reshare.
Unique profiles - Be yourself, free from any tracking and spying. Customize your profile for every group you create or join.
Voice integration (on any or all content) - Post pictures, videos, or documents and include a voice message. Respond to a shared post or just chat. MeWe’s voice integration works for you and your contacts throughout the entire platform.
Universal tagging - This is a new, convenient way to sort and organize all the content you receive and share, making it easy to find everything, anytime.
Enhanced permission control (patent issued) - Manage permissions on a granular level and decide exactly who sees what. You can also remove yourself from the search directory, make yourself invisible to other members online, and much more.
Much More – join MeWe today and take a look inside! MeWe is the next-gen social networking experience designed for you to have fun, stay in touch, collaborate, organize, and simplify.
Community
A key aspect of any social network is its community. Some of the available or ascertained information on this follows.
Size
Weinstein claims a "million+ following inside MeWe.com" on Twitter. The largest visible groups appear to have a maximum of around 15,000 members , for "Awesome gifs". "Clean Comedy" rates 13,350, and the largest open political groups, 11,000+ members. This compares to Google+ which has a staggering, though Android-registrations-inflated 3.3 billion profiles, and 7.9 million communities, though the largest of these come in at under 10 million members. It's likely that MeWe's membership is on the whole more more active than Google+'s, where generally-visible posting activity was limited to just over 9% of all profiles, and the active user base was well under 1% of the total nominal population.
Active Users
MeWe do not publish active users (e.g., MUA / monthly active users) statistics.
Groups
MeWe is principally a group-oriented discussion site -- interactions take place either between individuals or within group contexts. Virtually all discovery is group-oriented. The selection and dynamics of groups on the site will likely strongly affect user experience, so exploring the available groups and their characteristics is of interest. "MeWe has over 60,000 open groups" according to its FAQ. The Open groups -- visible to any registered MeWe user, though not to the general public Web -- are browsable, though sections and topics must be expanded to view the contents: an overview isn't immediately accessible. We provide a taste here. A selection of ten featured topics spans the top of the browser. As I view these, they are:
MeWe Favorites
Music
Entertainment
Lifestyle
Travel
Health & Fitness
Foodies
Cars & Motorcycles
Technology
Fashion and Beauty
Specific groups may appear in multiple categories. The top Groups within these topics have, variously, 15,482, 7,738, 15,482 (dupe), 7,745, 8,223, 8,220, 1,713, 9,527, 2,716, and 1,516 members. Listings scroll at length -- the Music topic has 234 Groups, ranging in size from 5 to 5,738 members, with a median of 59, mean of 311.4, and a 90%ile of 743.5. Below this is a grid of topics, 122 in all, ranging from Activism to Wellness, and including among them. A selected sample of these topics, with top groups listed members in (parens), follows:
Activism: QAnon+++ (2,572), PATRIOT PREPPERS USA (2,430), Deplorables Republic (2,48), The War Drummer (1,898), Patriots for a United America. (1894), Anonymous (1,700).
Alternative Energy: Reiki, Crystals, and alternative healing (2,114), 💜Starseeds & Empaths💜 (345), Living in Colour (365).
Alternative Lifestyle: Natural Healing and Home Remedies (3,045), Backyard Farming of All Things (2,696), WeTheSheeple (2,251).
Alumni Connections: Google Plus Refugees (271), Google+ Refugees (186), Frog Pond (156), Carlsbad NM High School alumni (57).
Animals: I Love My Dog (4,421), Pussy Shots (4,619).
Astronomy: Spherical Earth Truth, Flat Earth is Wrong (278), Nibiru, Nemesis, Hercolobus, The Destroyer (187).
Biology: Trees (344), Field of Birds (104), Patriots of Australia (51).
Culture: Destroying the Illusion Fans (1147), my friends (551), Coffee Addicts (542).
Cyclists: Car Free Cities / Cycle communting (26).
DIY: Homesteading DIY (5843), Prepper Living (3110), Knucklehead Homesteading (2102), 1911 owners forum (1,474).
Dating: 🌸something Beautiful just for you too🌸 (237), Relationship Junction (171), LDS Dating (114).
Education: Q-Anon Patriots (1,616), InfoWars.com (1,217), Constitutional Liberty for All (907), Prepping, Homesteads skills and Community (887), Shamanic Community (756), Truther Talk (665).
Environmental: Geoengineering, Chemtrails, HAARP (455), ShareYourLove (253), The Seasons (193), Near Term Human Extinction Love (174).
Personal Improvement: For Introverts. (1,214), Anarchy, Philosophy, Psychology, and Spirituality (679), Positive Affirmations (447).
Philosophy: In5d Esoteric Metaphysical and Spiritual Database (1,764), Thought Bouncing (1,137), Obtectivists - Galts Gulch - Ayn Rand fans (561).
Poetry: Dead Poest (1,407), Palacio de Poetry (451), Poets Corner (412).
Politics: Donald J. Trump 2016 - Present (11,486), The Conservative's Hangout (8,345), Qanon Follow The White Rabbit (5,600), Drain The Swamp (4,978), Libertarians (4,528), United We Stand Trump2020 (4,216).
Pop Culture: The Loftus Party (116), The Walking Dead: The Stalking Dead (100), Tyler, Texas (71).
Privacy: Join the Open/Privacy Movement (3974), Kingsport tn gun trader (1,157), Safer Computing (555).
Self Help: * SURVIVE and THRIVE* (858), Preparedness and Off Grid Living (763), Free (631).
Self-Directed Learning: Exposing the Matrix of Lies (997), WAKE THE FUCK UP (474), Wake the Fuck Up. The Next Dimension (287). WTFU when SHTF (126).
Social Change: Armed with Truth and Knowledge (1,986), VEGANS UNITE (766), ACTIVISM universal headlines ~❉~ (729), Meet Earth's Cosmic Neighbors (MECN) (663).
Space: Space (579), ** THE AMAZING UNIVERSE and OUR WORLD** (546), WE ARE NOT ALONE... (488).
Sports: Australian IPSC Buy And Sell (591), Formula 1 (295), Border War Rifle Series, Iowa PRS Matches (280).
Sports Teams: Liverpool FC (228), GEORGIA BULLDOGS (129), The Black and Gold (89), Dallas Cowboys Fans (80).
Subculture: Neon Revolt (3,696), Redneck Funnies (2,042), Serial Killers And True Crime (724).
Surfers: NZBM BEACH VIBES (416).
Sustainability: Common Sense Home (1,746), The Survivalist (1,603), Barter For Prepping/Survivalism/Homesteading Goods (1,274).
Techies: MeWe Help And Support (948), Geek Time (220), GZOSP (124).
Technology: Apple Discussions (2,722), Linux and Open Source Users Group (3,423), Cutting Edge Military Technology (3,201).
Transportation: Truckers Life (431), Aviation (316), Duramax Diesel (312).
Videos: ♥ MY FAVORITE YOUTUBE VIDEOS ♥ (926), Video Meditations (196), The 80's Again - My Retro 80's Music And Video (180), Deep Space Seven (127), Naked Male Celebrities (74).
To be clear: whilst I've not included every topic, I've sampled a majority of them above, and listed not an arbitrary selection, but the top few Groups under each topic.
Google+ Groups
Google Plus expats (1,862)
Google+ Refugees (186)
G+ Refugees (101)
my Google+ expatriates
The Google Plus expats group seems the most active of these by far.
Political Groups
It's curious that MeWe make a specific point in their FAQ that:
At MeWe we have absolutely no political agenda and we have a very straightforward Terms of Service. MeWe is for all law-abiding people everywhere in the world, regardless of political, ethnic, religious, sexual, and other preferences.
There are 403 political groups on MeWe. I won't list them all here, but the first 100 or so give a pretty clear idea of flavour. Again, membership is in (parentheses). Note that half the total political Groups memberships are in the first 21 groups listed here, the first 6 are 25% of the total.
Donald J. Trump 2016 - Present (11486)
The Conservative's Hangout (8345)
Qanon Follow The White Rabbit (5600)
Drain The Swamp (4978)
Libertarians (4528)
United We Stand Trump2020 (4216)
The Right To Self Defense (3757)
Alternative Media (3711)
Hardcore Conservative Patriots for Trump (3192)
Bastket Of Deplorables4Trump! (3032)
Return of the Republic (2509)
Infowars Chat Room Unofficial (2159)
Donald Trump Our President 2017-2025 (2033)
Berners for Progress (1963)
Sean Hannity Fans (1901)
The American Conservative (1839)
I Am The NRA (1704)
Tucker Carlson Fox News (1645)
We Love Donald Trump (1611)
MAGA - Make America Great Again (1512)
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The terms "left" and "right" provide a few matches, not all strictly political-axis aligned:
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262: Eyes-Left Labour & PP - Social Media (49)
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302: Resistance Against Liberal Socialism (33)
And there are some references to green, laboulabor parties:
97: FRIENDS THAT LIKE JILL STEIN AND THE GREEN PARTY (292)
100: Green Party Supporters 2020 (283)
262: Eyes-Left Labour & PP - Social Media (49)
320: Green Party of Ohio Issues & Discussion Group (29)
Conclusion
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Updates
Various typos and tagging corrections. 2018-11-29 - 30
Added G+MM references count for MeWe to lede paragraph. 2018-12-2
CryCash - CRC - The best adult investment in a childish economy?
Hi everyone,I think many early adopters are not seeing the business use case of the CryCash ecosystem and are focusing purely on the ‘player’ advantages that CRC offers. Or worst case just screaming 'prepaid dlc/skinz'. I just wanted to give a break down of the CryCash ecosystem sticking to the facts and looking at the economy that this system provides to players and more importantly developers and the affiliate user acquisition market. For those who are unsure, affiliate marketing is an economy of its own. Affiliate markerteers focus on selling other people's products in return for a commision. Typically in the gaming industry this is set up as a $value per new usedownload. https://www.emarketer.com/Article/Cost-of-Acquiring-Mobile-App-Use1016688 reports that the cost of finding a user to install your app is $4.12 and this increases to $8.21 if you want them to create a user account, all the way up to $76.40 for a user that will spend money in game. Big business. CryCash and Crytek First thing to say, CRYCASH (CRC) is not Crytek. Crytek are a premium partner offering advice and a starting point for developing the CRC system into existing games. Crytek have had to streamline their business in recent times and there were reports of developers being unpaid for periods of time. However, this has no bearing on CRYCASH. The team at CRC have stated several times in the telegram group that they are already funded, the Plink app (more on that later) is already functional hence no softcap on the ICO and all coins not minted during the ICO (as hard cap was not reached) will be burned. Crytek themselves now seem stable and are working on the highly anticipated Hunt: Showdown. One of the major selling points for the CRC system is USER ACQUISITION and Crytek are giving CryCash a great starting point from which to build and test through games such as Warface Turkey. The ICO 4,211,730 coins were sold during the ICO sale and CRC have stated that the total supply will be this amount +40% so unless they are doing their math a different way we should end up with a total supply of around 5,896,422 coins. The ICO audit is still pending so these figures may change. For the purposes of this post we will just say the circulating supply will be 6,000,000 and any market cap predictions will be based on the price of CRC x 6,000,000. The circulating supply should be lower than this which is good news! Current market cap on the basis of the ico price of 0.0001 ETH per CRC gives us 6,000,000 x $1 (roughly) = $6,000,000 The CryCash ecosystem The team are combing the Plink app with a digital goods marketplace, advertising platform and an E-sports platform. The whitepaper runs over some of the use cases and I have put some of the key ones in bold: “For players this means: Earn CRC tokens by completing tasks set by game developers and advertisers at Plink Pay with CRC tokens within Crytek products (for example Warface Turkey) Pay for products and services on the CRYENGINE Marketplace Pay for games, in-game items and trade with hard-to-get, rare and collectible items Team up with other players at Cybersport platform to create your own game tournaments or participate in third party challengesMake bets for e-sports events and win CRC tokens at Cybersport Betting PlatformMake a cash-out to fiat money or pay within CRYCASH Ecosystem Enhanced security of each transaction with CRC tokens thanks to blockchain technology For developers this means: Gaining a critical mass of users quickly and cost-efficientlyGetting an access to a new efficient and secure way of receiving payments from gamersSignificantly reduced customer acquisition costIncreased customer lifetimeEnhanced engagement of new usersPossibility to use unique gamers targeting instruments (gaming activity, favourite time of playing, gaming experience, age, gender, location and etc)Increase in returns on per user basis due to in-game purchasesHigh growth of LTV driven by gamers hunt for items and accomplish tasks from game developers for CRC tokens” You can see that there is a strong proposition for game developers to engage with the system and also creates a new method of user acquisition. Pay your new users to play and try the game. Keep people playing for longer by giving tangible rewards with real world value. This should raise the quality of each new user a great deal. Team Talk Lets overview some of the team members: Wachtang Budagaschwili is the Chief Executive Office for CryCash. Formerly the Business Development Director for Visa: Europe, Middle East and Africa. The CEO has many years experience in payment processing, user acquisition and the gaming market. Daniel Tamas is the Chief Technology Officer and is also the co-founder and CTO for Idea Studios. They have “reached more than 1 Billion gamers and more than 10 Billion ad impressions on both websites and ingame monetisation.” Michael Levin is listed as the Chief Marketing Officer for CryCash. Why is this interesting? Michael Levin is also managing director for YeahMobi Europe. This is a mobile affiliate responsible for over 90,000,000 new user activations per month across more than 200 countries and regions. Fair to say that they have some expertise in monetising user acquisition! Sally Shen operates as the CryCash Chief Business Development Officer. Sally is also CEO and co-founder of KOL MEDIA who in their own words “provide advantages for companies wishing to expand internationally by providing effective marketing and to create additional opportunities. We are a professional advertising company that prides ourselves in providing a one-stop overseas marketing solution. We bring clients' products from China to overseas market, while we also help clients from overseas to enter Asian（China included）market.” This means they have the expertise in place to take the platform to the lucrative Asian marketplace. Why blockchain and what the token is used for These questions are important when looking at any cryptocurrency to understand whether there is a viable use case for a coin or the blockchain behind it. In this case it is fairly straightforward. Blockchain offers secure transactions for gamers and smart contracts that open up many safe possibilities for monetised competitive gaming, trading and betting. The CRC token will be used for every part of the ecosystem and no more coins will ever be created. The cryptocurrency allows the economy to sidestep the need for banks or credit cards which reduces cost and friction. It also has the added effect of allowing players in less developed areas of the world where banking services are limited or hard to obtain to participate by trading other coins to CRC. The most important takeaway CryCash is being built with a strong business use case in mind. Although there will be many benefits to gamers it is the revolution it brings to user acquisition that will draw game developers/publishers to the platform. CryCash offer an opportunity for them to spend less money, gain more control and transparency over advertising budgets and ultimately acquire more profitable gamers by using CRC as a reward mechanism. We have moved from [pay $x for game] to [pay $x for game + $x for DLC] to [Freemium + $microtransactions] => now we will move to [get paid to play]. This gives game developers a way of cutting out expensive affiliates and taking control of their own marketing programs. This kind of dopamine driven reward mechanism is already well documented. Now imagine Facebook paid you to be active, paid you to see some adverts. Competitors Currently the most notable ‘cryptos for gamers’ are Gamecredits/Gnation (market cap around $200,000,000 with an all time high of over $400,000,000) and the more recent Enjin coin (market cap around $165,000,000 and an all time high around $365,000,000). The gamecredits website states that the biggest advantages for developers are faster payments for games bought on the Gnation shop and what reads to be ‘blockchain cus blockchain’. For games they state the main advantages are being able to buy items without entering credit card information and a vague promise that the Game token will go up in value over time. They have recently announced a partnership with Unity engine, “to begin with, Unity development tools will implement a single-click solution for publishing games to GPlay, the GameCredits mobile gaming store”. Not exactly thrilling. The CryCash SDK will be open to anyone including games built using CryEngine, Unreal Engine and Unity3D etc Price predictions Easy 100x? Lets review the income streams: Advertising spends: $4.12 per install $8.21 per user account, $76.40 per user that will spend money in game. Marketplace commissions: $17 billion spent on in game items Esports commissions: $98 million dollars - however, this should be expected to grow exponentially once regular gamers are able to take part in e-sports where CRC can be staked. Other stats: 2.2 billion gamers globally $108.9 billion in game revenues in 2017 Circa $7.5 billion on mobile app installs advertising spending just in USA Using round numbers lets say developers will be spending around $15 per user (somewhere on the low side between an install and a paying user). CryCash will take 20% of this as a fee so around $3 per user on this low estimate. $17 billion on ingame items across 2.2 billion gamers is around $8 per person. 20% of this is $1.60 $98 million in esports giveaways, I think it would be fair to x10 this figure as ‘E-sports’ should become much more accessible. If you are good at your favourite game, then earn money by betting on yourself or your team! So 980 million across 2.2 billion games is around $0.45 per player. 20% of which is $0.09 Rounding all of that up you get $5 income per user (but remember users have more than 1 game so this revenue can be multiplied many times per user!) it could be double this if you then include commission on game sales if they offer the service. So $5-10 per user multiplied by each game that is trying to get the attention of that user. Clash of clans alone has around 100,000,000 users active each day and as mentioned, YeahMobi are responsible for 90,000,000 new users per month across various platforms. Current CRC market cap - $6,000,000 Competitor current market cap - $200,000,000 Competitor high - $400,000,000 CryCash have a working product in Plink, strong gaming partners in Crytek and a team that completely understand the economics of gaming and payments. Given time this should surpass the competition easily. 100x isn’t actually a joke for this one. Final note - no I don’t work for Crytek/CryCash, I’m not affiliated in anyway with them. Remember to do your own research. Most of these stats are in the whitepaper other than the link posted. Peace!
[Table] IAmA: I write Now I Know, a free trivia/interesting facts email newsletter which goes to nearly 90,000 people a day. Yesterday, I announced that it's being made into a book. AMAA!
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Finding stuff isn't all that hard any more. I have 20-something pages of things saved in Instapaper, a bunch of other bookmarks, and readers send me things pretty much every day.
Seriously, PLEASE POST THEM ALL THE TIME. Eventually, someone may point out where it came from or how they learned about it and more and more people will know about Now I Know. And more and more people get to learn the cool facts. And you get karma! I don't need the karma! Take it! The money, whatever, I'll make up for it in new subscribers. Don't worry about it, repost like crazy!
The second one I've answered elsewhere and for the third one, just look me up :) I write nights, weekends, and on the train to work. I wrote today's on the train ride on Wednesday, and had enough time left over to accidentally fall asleep. And my train isn't that long!
1) I had created a sports wiki-blog hybrid with a few friends in 2005 -- ArmchairGM, if you're interested, but it's long dead. A few years later, was working with some other guys on a sports email newsletter. My job on both was to grow readership/audience, and I did an OK job in the first but a terrrible job in the second. Email was really hard, and I wanted to beat it.
2) I think I could have a pretty big Twitter following (by the way, I'm @DanDotLewis) if I focused on something like strange facts or baseball or social media stuff, but I didn't want to focus, because that's not fun. But I like the idea of having an audience where I can share ideas, and I'm willing to work at something to create that. A bunch of stuff came together at the same time, and I realized that people were actually interested in this collection of interesting but generally useless facts that I seemed to gravitate toward. So I turned them into something.
But I have been in the other situation many, many times. The most notable was about a month ago. CS Monitor ran an article about the "world's last telegram" which was going to happen sometime in July, and a few other places picked up the story. That's fantastic, right?
Constantly. The problem is the ads. I need the ads to make this economically viable for me -- it's not and likely will never be a full-time job, but it has to make me something -- and that's what harms the mobile experience. I'm trying to get into subbable and seeing if I can crowdfund this, but I think that's a longshot.
Unfortunately, I don't think I have a real favorite. I have a lot I didn't particularly like for one reason or another, and those end up often being some of the more popular ones, which just goes to show I have really poor taste ... or something.
One that's forthcoming in the book. And no, that's not some ploy to get you to buy it :) I just remember, during the editing process, really liking how it read and what it was about, and I'm typically the type who HATES reading what I myself wrote.
Not because it's too disturbing or dangerous (although honestly, I'm not all that interested in stuff like "how to make a bomb!" or whatever). But I've had to not talk about a few things involving sex and drugs because email spam filters kill those.
For example, there's this thing called Koro -- here's a Wikipedia entry -- where people freak out because they inexplicably begin to think that their penises are going to shrink and ultimately disappear. There's no way to write that without either using the word penis over and over again, or being really childish and using a ton of euphemisms for the word penis.
So I didn't publish it (or write it up, for that matter).
I try to be apolitical, but I don't shy away from politics, if that makes sense. That's not why you read and honestly, that's not why I write. But the crazy part: they took opposite sides! One guy wrote to say that "apparently believing" is garbage, and there's no way Japan would have surrendered, and I shouldn't give lip service to such myths. The other guy was shocked that I'd accept that the Japanese weren't about to surrender, when they so obviously were. Sometimes, you can't win. 3) I take the holidays off because I need the occasional day off like anyone else, and it helps prevent me from burning out. It's easy to just have a blanket policy, too.
Thanks! I answered this elsewhere, but I'll add something I forgot: I really, really like to write. A few nights ago, I was frustrated with this Bud Selig/A-Rod BS, and ended up writing about 3,000 words on why Selig's also to blame for all the steroid use. That's a lot of words.
I don't get bored but I do burn out here and there. I don't write them far in advance at all, usually a day or two. Monday's isn't written yet and I haven't picked a topic.
I don't really right up little facts. I flesh out stories about facts which I've mostly already verified. So the research process just leads to more neat things to learn about. You know when you're reading through Wikipedia and you end up in one of those rabbit holes of neat stuff? That happens to me a few times a week, and when it does, I don't feel the "holy cow I wasted SO MUCH TIME!" regret, because I just turn that stuff into email newsletters. :)
As of right this moment, there are 89,764 subscribers.
Replying to emails isn't a big deal -- I only get about a dozen or two a day. Most people don't bother replying, perhaps because they don't think I will :)
1) It broke even basically overnight, because the costs are pretty low. My only expenses are my server (to handle traffic spikes) and the Mailchimp fees, which are reasonable.
I don't know all that much. It's "Now I Know" -- "I," not "You" -- because I just recently learned this stuff an am fascinated by what I've discovered. I'm decent at trivia but not Jeopardy! good.
The one I wrote Thursday -- the Bambeanos one -- was horrible. Couldn't find anything about it. It's as if the Internet didn't exist in 1975 or something.
When I started off, I created a spreadsheet. My goal was to get to 10,000 subscribers before I had 365 issues written, so I could say "hey, I have 10,000 subscribers and enough content for a Fact a Day calendar, let's make one!" That was motivating but not necessarily an expectation.
Each issue probably takes an hour, maybe two, all said and done. So let's say five to ten hours? And that doesn't include the dozens of hours I spend thinking about it and talking about it and that kind of stuff.
Here's the answer and proof, in the only way I can find it right now (I don't know where my old copy of Trivial Pursuit is). If you want the answer, clicky clicky.
Mental Floss is great and yes, I've worked with them. They've republished some of my article on their website. I've done the same with Smithsonian, GOOD, and a few other places which are going to get upset with me for forgetting.
I have an article in this month's Reader's Digest.
There have been a few but none that really stand out. Last week I wrote "peddle" when I meant "pedal" which changed the meaning of a bunch of things, and that was a pretty big one.
What are you talking about? I'm really JK Rowling.
Seriously, though: Email is pretty intimate, and not in the Victoria's Secret way. You don't like it when strangers email you and you probably don't let friends/family read your email. It's a private, personal space reserved for real people. I'm a real person and I should respect that aspect, so I do by being me.
Plus it helps that I have a pretty common name and can always say "uh... must be some other Dan Lewis."
I have a reader who edits most of them before they go out; otherwise I beg one of my brothers or a random friend on IM. I don't have an assistant and I don't have guest writers.
I'm OK with the inaction on Byrd and in general -- here's why.
I'd have shopped Parnell (who I really like as a fan) heavily because relief pitchers are flighty and largely fungible. (You should see my OOTP teams.) Buck's not worth much so I didn't expect much there.
I think the Mets need to figure out the right side of the infield. 1B could be Ike, Duda, Flores... gotta pick one. If Flores can play second, where does that put Murphy? And then who is at first? And what about JV1 or EYJr, can either of them slot in at second?
I'd be unsurprised if Murph gets traded for a corner OF, they sign Shin-Soo Choo to play RF, Flores goes to 2B, Lagares sticks in CF, Ike gets non-tendered and Duda goes to first.
Bonus fact: Sandy Alderson and I went to the same barber before I moved.
Daily Brilliance, Daily Light Bulb, Daily Idea, Daily Neuron, New Neuron, Now You Know, Half the Battle, Just Got It, Got It, Ah Ha!, Just Found Out, I Just Found Out, This Just In, Now I Know, Now I Know That...
I ended up using Now I Know (obviously) and "That's Half the Battle!" as the subhead.
I write directly into Mailchimp's CMS, then copy it into a Google doc, send that to a reader who edits it for me, and put the edits back into Mailchimp. They I copy it into the Wordpress installation I have for the archives.
I learned about this one from the side of a truck. Really. Kenneth Cole had this delivery truck parked near my office and it had a paragraph of text on it, so I walked through traffic to read it and it turned out to be pretty interesting.
I considered it early on and decided against it. Main reason is b/c a large part of the readership may not be interested in the topic, and that's five days in a row of non-interest.
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