hereβs a spot to leave your feedback on the new mysterious melody format! the setup is designed to group everyone into cozy lil squads of 4, alongside the iconic luminaire queen herself, melody.
iβm super hyped about this change, especially bc of how smooth it was to implement using the same building blocks as the compost feature. thereβs already a great thread with feedback on the kumos site layout, and iβve been working w/ a designer to get it feeling better than the old site. weβre making moves, i promise.
this new format gives us way more data than past years. hereβs what iβll be tracking over the next few days to make sure reality checks my expectations: β’ users joining groups but not sending any items: this will tell me if thereβs a friction issue somewhere. β’ plateaus at 3-item sends: if we see this, iβll dig into why itβs happening.
iβm also watching the value of items contributed, just to make sure my mental math isnβt off (no, iβm not expecting 68 million sP π).

finally, iβll be jumping into individual pools to double-check that melodyβs donations make sense and to catch any clever trolling attempts before they become a problem.
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I only have praises to sing: thank you for bringing this feature back and in such a creative way! Iβm really looking forward to participating :D
I just hope it gets better for mobile. I play 100% from my phone and while small areas to tap are frustrating on the old site, I can deal with that. Iβm so lost on kumos but thatβs partially my fault for not spending much time on it, but it also just seems to not be optimized for mobile yet.
I did one round during the GA test for MM and found it more enjoyable than I remembered MM being in the past. So I am looking forward to it :)
I play a lot from my phone too. I donβt if this will help, but I zoomed out of Kumos on mobile (to 50% zoom on my iPhone in Safari) and it works so much better. It comes out to the actual size I want the site to be.
Melody, buy my Void Scrolls plz
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Iβll have to try that if I have to deal with kumos for an extended period of time. Thanks!
I love seeing the stats on this as a new feature, and I'm really excited to see how this turns out. I think this will be fun c:
Honestly having users be in little squads of 4 (+ Melody) is a fantastic idea. I also love that it's capped at 5 items. I stopped participating in MM in previous years because I couldn't guarantee I'd be online often enough to give a fair amount of items back, so it became more stressful for me than it's worth. I LIKE giving gifts, but don't always have a lot of time to be an active MM. Being able to chuck 5 items into a pile and just wait for them to be distributed is way more enjoyable for me!
cackles I know what it is, hahah! (No, i'm not saying what, I don't want them finding me after.
Despite the visual frustrations on mobile Iβll admit itβs easy to use! (Going to try that 50% thing tomorrow.) I only participated in MM a couple times over my 17-ish years and the huge freedom was part of the reason. I appreciate this is capped so, so much. The only other thing Iβd like is if there was an overall βleaderboardβ for items sent or something.
Or! I see thereβs tag-like things on the site? Mine says Wearable, Booster, Bookβ things like that. If we could prioritize 1-2 types and show those types ranked when we join the group I think itβd really help as a gifter. There are so many items on site; and maybe I get a book-heavy group but only send boosters/wearables. If the group ranking showed 60% book, 20% wearable, whatever, it could influence what I send in. Of course the prizes are random, so it isnβt guaranteed, but itβs the only βhuhβ¦ thatβd be coolβ change I can think of atm.
Regardless, this is awesome and may actually get me to participate more often. (And really cool you were able to base it off the recycling thing!)
Givin it a shot, the testing was fun. Quick group entry, people are contributing, and the sneaky feli is now a festive feli ^.^ Hope everyone has a blast!
these stats are cool to see too! I wonder what those 68mil high end items are lol
definitely agree that the groups and the item cap are very positive, stress-reducing changes that make the whole thing more chill and fun

Could the item value distribution be explained please? Are you saying that a user is limited on how much items can cost per item or total? or am I totally misreading that?
I have somehow contributed 6/5 items to my group pool despite it only displaying 4. I also cannot figure out how to change the items I've contributed. Neither clicking the picture nor the text seems to make any changes, but it keeps accepting new items, anyway?
picking items to throw in gave me the same thought about price ranges, so +1 to this!

Let's see how your stats feel about all these unpriced items I could throw in there lol.
In vault you can edit at the top to Sort by Userprice, next to it, order Descending. This is what I do and it will stay sorted unless you take something out in your same window instead of a different one.
It sounds like the item value distribution is based off of the value of items users are putting into the pool.
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my read of the purpose of 's idea was a tool for finding not the most expensive or least expensive items in our vaults/shops, but a specified mid range of items. I don't want to send junk but I also don't want to send my 100mil valuables. I found it easiest to do descending order (or > a certain point in my shop) anyway and to just skip over the really big stuff, but that could be streamlined with a range tool.

I wish that in our shops and vault, that we could have the option to do price ranges
ie: 1m-5m or 5m-10m or 42m-42,424,242/100m.
I know this, but after almost 18 years... I have so much stuff ( many of which there are several of each item and would rather use what I have multitudes of ) in my vault... that is why I would rather be able to price range. :) Which brings up another point: would be nice to do price ranges and stack size. lol