Iâve been thinking about the wheel and wanted to offer a suggestion, and request.
Part 1:
As things stand, you have to wait (24 hours I believe?) to spin the wheel after youâve spun it the previous day. This is all well and good when you can be very on-point about trying to time your spins the same every day. Where this becomes an issue is if life happens, and you miss your window, then youâre potentially spinning it 6⌠10⌠12 hours after you normally would which pushes your next spin back to that same time the following day also. Meaning, if you happen to have a long day, and find yourself spinning the wheel at 3am just before getting some sleep finally, the next spin is going to be at that same godawful hour, or even later when you wake up.
[The biggest issue is the potential for messing up your login streak, as an aside]
So hereâs the suggestion:
Can we please just streamline feeding times? Since things are set within Ribblr using GMT (which also gets confusing when trying to set pattern sales, but thatâs for another topic), could we just have the feeding reset at the same time every day?
Essentially, make feeding a ânew dayâ for Ribbot at midnight GMT and be open through 11:59pm GMT. This would count as a full day, and then if that full day window is missed it resets just like it would if you missed more than 24 hours. It gives everyone reliable times, without any guesswork, for when the daily feeding works out. It also cuts out the excess hours if you canât do your feeding at a normal time you usually would.
Part 2:
Could we please have the spin again option removed from the wheel? A lot of wheels that have spin again options tend to give some sort of reward followed by the spin again option. Generally those kinds of things on wheels are intended to be a double-dipper for prizes. In Ribblrâs case, itâs just a looping mechanism and Iâve wound up stuck on it 3 times in a row before.
A little side request:
As a side-note, I really would love the option to list pattern sales in our own time zones. Having to figure out GMT every time a pattern sale is listed gets really confusing.
I like the sound of all of these, especially the feeding time as Iâve been waiting 3 hours to feed ribbot because I was late yesterday because it was a busy morning.
Thanks for sharing!
I believe you may be confusing Spin to Win with feeding Ribbot, as Spin to Win is only once every 7 feeds (or 5 if you are a Ribblr+ member).
We do have a fair grace-period which means you wonât lose your streak right after 24 hours, plus we let you feed slightly less than 24 hours so you can adjust your time. However, I understand your main issue is around convenience of wanting to feed the same time every day, even if somedays you get to feed only late. Is that right?
@Ribblr Hi! I want to clarify my request because I think my earlier explanation and request caused some confusion.
As things stand, Ribbot uses a rolling 24-hour timer. That means the next feeding unlocks exactly 24 hours after your last feeding. If youâre busy and feed late one day, the next feeding time shifts later too. Over multiple days, this âdriftâ accumulates.
To show how far feeding times can drift while still maintaining your streak, here is a 7-day example using the maximum possible drift (feeding as late as allowed each day while âtechnicallyâ still counting as logging in/feeding for that day per the current system setup):
Day 1: Feed Mon 9:00 AM
Day 2: Feed Tueâs feed at Wed 8:59 AM (still within the 24-hour window)
Day 3: Feed Wedâs feed at Thu 8:59 AM
Day 4: Feed Thuâs feed at Fri 8:59 AM
Day 5: Feed Friâs feed at Sat 8:59 AM
Day 6: Feed Satâs feed at Sun 8:59 AM
Day 7: Feed Sunâs feed at Mon 8:59 AM
In just one week, the feeding time has drifted almost 144 hours (nearly six full days) later than the original schedule, without missing a single roll in your system.
This delay also pushes back the âevery 5th/7th feedingâ Spin-to-Win by the same amount, even though I fed Ribbot every system day. Because the timer resets from the moment you feed, I can also log in on a calendar day but be unable to feed because the timer hasnât unlocked yet, causing the streak to undercount my actual login days.
Thatâs why Iâm requesting a fixed daily reset, where any feed during that calendar day counts for that day. This removes cumulative drift and aligns streaks and spins with real calendar days, which is standard for most daily check-in systems.
Hi! When you first click on it, it starts a 24hr timer but if you re-load the page itâs actually a 20hr time now. So you can feed Ribbot four hours earlier than you did the previous day, and just repeat until itâs ready to feed at your normal time again. Depending on how late I feed it, it only takes me a day or two to get back to my usual time (and you can be up to four hours late without it having any impact).
Thatâs good to know (since the timer countdown does still show 24), but doesnât change the overall nature of the request, which is that streamlining it would just be way less of a headache and also work how nearly all other platforms work when it comes to daily login type of deals.
The only problem with a fixed time is that people are in different time zones, which means that what might be 11:59pm GMT would actually be 10:59am for me. Iâm not sure if Ribblr is able to adjust to local times (hence GMT is used to set pattern releases and sales), so it might cause a lot of confusion for people if their fixed âend of dayâ time for feeding Ribbot was at midday for example.
It covers 24 hours. So thatâs not very confusing at all, and itâs how all other daily resets work. It doesnât take long to learn that the reset is at (insert x-time here) every single day. Thatâs much easier than trying to figure out when your rolling time happens to be and having to track that on a daily basis.
As a side note, Iâm on EST, so itâs not like midnight is midnight for me either. Itâs just easier to know that your 24 hour window can be used at any time in that 24 hours, rather than trying to remember when you can feed, etc. Itâs also easier from an engineering standpoint.
Iâm not sure how it would be significantly easier, considering that there is a countdown which lets you know exactly how long until it can be fed again (refreshing the page or re-opening the app will show the accurate amount of time left so no calculations are needed).
Thereâs already a lot of leeway on top of the four hours, my normal time is 10am but I once forgot to feed Ribbot until 5pm and my streak was fine (it did take me a day to get back to being ready to feed at 10am, though). I like the flexibility of being able to choose what time suits me, but thatâs just my opinion
The thing is, it literally wouldnât affect you at all. You have 24 hours with which to have flexibility. Iâm not understanding what youâre not understanding about the logic of having a 24 hour period which is open. It doesnât affect people like you at all, who want to choose. It significantly affects those of us who want to know the window in which we can feed Ribbot, without having to flex times, figure out when itâs ready, when it isnât, etc. So whether or not you see how it would be easier, it simply is, especially for those of us who have things like ADHD and time blindness. No calculations are necessary if you know you have a 24 hour window, either. So again, it wouldnât affect you the way you seem to think it would.
Your normal time being 10am literally doesnât change anything for you. You can still do it at your normal time. What part of a 24 hour window somehow takes away your flexibility, when it literally just offers even more flexibility, but with a very predictable window?
It would actually affect me because I sometimes run late with feeding it, in which case using the system you described would cause me to my loose my streak if Iâm more than 59 minutes late. Additionally I wouldnât feel comfortable feeding so close to the reset time in case I was late, so the current level flexibility would be reduced as I would have to pick a new time accordingly.
Iâm still not sure how you canât currently determine the window of time there is to feed the Ribbot when there is a timer that says exactly how long, but I agree to disagree.
I also struggle with ADHD symptoms, which is why I use an alarm to remind me to feed Ribbot. Otherwise Iâd never remember to click the button
Yes that saved my streak as of late a few times lately cause I was sick and awake at weird times but still kept my streak cause it took 4hrs off the time so I could feed it at 3am and then 11pm next time instead of waiting while sick for it to be 3am again when my body was willing to let me sleep early cause I was sick
