The Rise and Fall of Donation

Wanted to inform you of a change we made on the site a few moments ago. The concept of donations, or passing shots, has been removed. The "Pass Shots" button on user profiles is gone, as is the green bar in the Shot Stats graphic displaying the number of shots you passed. We also removed the lists of those who passed or scored shots.

Additionally, all donations have been deleted from the system. This effectively resets the shot accounting such that everyone is back to having 100 shots as a basis. Your shots remaining is 100 - the number of shots you have dribbbled. In doing so, some of you have lost shots and some of you have gained, but for most users, the total change is pretty small. Apologies for those who find themselves with fewer shots than before.

Why did we do this? We had a lot of ideas as to how donations might work but hadn't implemented any of them satisfactorily. There was no compelling user story for donating. This was something we planned to address going forward, but through feedback and observation, it has become clear that there are other areas of need where we can more dramatically improve the user experience. We didn't want donations to distract us from that work and weren't happy with it lingering there, so it's gone. Apologies if you miss it, but the data indicates it wasn't much of a hit (nor should it have been).

As for shots: We've been discussing various plans for allotting new shots on some regular basis and we'll be coming forth with that in the near future. So have no fear, you'll be able to keep dribbbling.

We have also been collecting your feedback and logging our own ideas for improvements. Much is in the works. Thanks for your ideas and for posting your beautiful work here.

Best swishes,
Rich