It's a real pain to donate items right now. You can only donate one at a time, and you're taken to a dead-end page each time, from there you can't donate a different item, another of the same item, or even navigate back to the general donation page.
Such a cause deserves an updated interface, something like the Fragmentizer, Gift Center, or Genetech Lab.
Even without a checkbox based revamp, having the current page refresh with your clicked item gone and a green thank you message added at the top would be a nice change. This way more items can be donated more easily.
Also, the page doesn't show item multiples.
TL;DR Hard to donate. Make it better. [edit] Suggestions implemented, thanks. Please lock
this would be really nice, especially in the fall when the feature is popular
additionally, right now you can donate rarity 202 foods (the account-locked stat eggs), and that should probably be changed
Interesting point! At least it respects inventory-locked items, I checked on that one.
yeah, i figure it's just oversight since most of the r202 things aren't food, but i saw the eggs come up as an option to donate while i was doing drills quests and it... probably shouldn't be a thing lmao
I usually just right-click on each item to open it into a new tab, close them once they've loaded, then refresh the main page.
This, however, would be SO much easier. I get that it's probably MEANT to be tedious as all hell, but I feel that it doesn't really NEED to be.
No support.
If you just want to donate to those who need food, toss it all into the donation center with a one single click on the Donate column on quickstock. Actual hungry pets of hungry owners will be able to get more food that way than if they went to get Free Food directly from Charity, she's wasteful that way. If you want to get any Achievement for it, then it's not meant to be as easy as all the others you have mentioned. Not all Acheivements are the same. Some Achievements are easier to get than others, and you are not entitled to them just because the mechanism displeases you.
I'm fine with it being one at a time, but being taken to a dead-end page is ridiculous. There should at least be a link back, or better yet the page should display all the items you can donate.
It shouldn't be super easy, but the way it is now is ridiculous. Donating one item at a time is tedious enough. It wouldn't hurt to make it a little bit easier by making these changes.
I've always found that you can click multiple items (or the same item lots of times) before the page loads and they all count as donated. But that aside, we really don't need that extra 'thank you' message every time. The cake batter donation event was a pretty decent set up for this sort of thing.
Donating food is currently very annoying, specially since there's no 'back' link immediately after donating the item you've just given in. And that link is only present during Fireside, when it should be all year round, IMO.
I'm adding a link back for our sprint today (should be pushed soon) and will look into making the page, in general, easier to donate when I have more time!