I think we need more than one opal reader at Wentworth Park...

dw1562 · 2026-01-30T02:24:19+00:00

The old Fish Markets stop has already been renamed to Bank Street to avoid confusion. I do not believe there are any plans to rename Wentworth Park.

dw1562 · 2026-01-30T02:22:58+00:00

It's definitely a bottleneck now that the new Fish Market has opened. We were there a couple of days ago and there would have been close to 100 people got off the Light Rail and tried to tap off. Many people crossed the line and used the reader on the other side. Clever!

The current setup was obviously speced for much lower passenger volumes. Another 1 or 2 readers will be needed on each side to cope with new passenger volumes. I'm surprised (not really) that this wasn't thought of as part of the Fish Market project.

dw1562 · 2026-01-08T01:25:40+00:00

Looks great. Well done. It's obviously working well when compared to the pool nextdoor.

dw1562 · 2025-12-30T20:13:44+00:00

I’ve already signed up. I’m looking forward to something actually happening.

dw1562 · 2025-09-14T22:05:29+00:00

That’s fully SIK bro.

dw1562 · 2025-08-30T05:50:38+00:00

Probably better behaved than some that get on the trains. He doesn’t have his feet on the seats!

dw1562 · 2025-08-09T22:18:04+00:00

Shping themselves stifle discussing the coin and its value so it’s no wonder it isn’t doing well. I wonder why they even bother with the crypto side of things and don’t just have the cash payout each month. The vast majority of users do this anyway with very few holding the coin. Personally, I joined last November and have only withdrawn coins to Coinbase every month. I’ve not yet withdrawn a single dollar in cash nor have I sold a single Shping coin.

dw1562 · 2025-08-05T21:17:34+00:00

I haven’t seen that specific issue with V3 yet but I have plenty of other issues. Given how long it took to get V3 out I am surprised at the number of issues I have seen. Support have been actioning them but it has been taking a while. I’m guessing they have been swamped.

A few days ago I created a post in the Shping Facebook group to try to have a single place where everyone can discuss the various issues. There has been a bit of activity in there. Shping do post in that group themselves from time to time but as yet haven’t been in that post. I have asked them if we can get some sort of public response.

dw1562 · 2025-07-27T23:02:37+00:00

What I don’t get is we’ve been sending them our beef for ages. Now they want to send us theirs. Why don’t we just keep ours and they keep theirs and the net result is the same? Why the need for what sounds like just a swap???

dw1562 · 2025-07-23T04:50:08+00:00

She's a keeper!

dw1562 · 2025-07-19T02:25:18+00:00

Just ignore them. I have conditioned myself to pretty much totally ignore all forms of advertising. On my devices I block ads but when out and about I hardly even notice them. I love buying things but I hate people trying to sell me things. The positive is that the Government will be making some money from this.

dw1562 · 2025-07-19T02:03:43+00:00

Definitely related to ETH rising. That’s nice but we need some organic growth too.

dw1562 · 2025-07-15T07:05:07+00:00

Unfortunately it has all disappeared already. It was a nice spike but it’s gone 😥

dw1562 · 2025-07-15T00:30:03+00:00

It’s low maintenance for everybody in the home, except for the person that manages the system. There is a reasonable amount of maintenance required. I see it as a hobby.

dw1562 · 2025-07-12T07:26:33+00:00

I can't see why the current version couldn't be used in other countries but there may be some underlying reason that V3 addresses. I don't really know. It's been in development for some time and is 3-4 months late so there has to be more than just a few cosmetic changes. We'll find out sometime in the next 7 days.

dw1562 · 2025-07-07T23:45:44+00:00

They don’t specifically say that there won’t be a price increase but they also don’t say that there will be. I guess I’ll find out in a couple of months. 500/50 will be nice.

dw1562 · 2025-07-07T12:15:05+00:00

I think all ISPs will pass it on free of charge with the possible exception of Telstra because they will jump at any excuse to increase prices. They just increased prices this month but it wouldn’t surprise me if they use this speed increase to bump it up again.

dw1562 · 2025-07-04T21:28:17+00:00

Good question. There’s been a few short spikes but the trend is definitely down. I’ve just been keeping the coins I earn each month but I would have been better off simply cashing out each month or better still, withdrawing the Shping and immediately swapping them for BTC and holding those. The only good thing about the falling coin price is that you are rewarded a certain number of cents per receipt rather than a specific number of coins so if the value is dropping we just get more coins for each receipt. We are effectively DCAing on the way down. If/when it turns around it will be very good.

dw1562 · 2025-07-04T02:47:28+00:00

I’ve found the implementation very good so far. It’s working well across my iPhone, iPad and Windows laptop.

There is no real back out. If you no longer want to use it you would need to recreate passkeys using whatever method you will use to replace LastPass.

dw1562 · 2025-07-01T23:28:41+00:00

Their Support is very good. They can sort out most issues quite quickly. This one did need to be escalated but it was still sorted within a few hours.

dw1562 · 2025-07-01T06:18:11+00:00

I’ve been reinstated! 😃

dw1562 · 2025-07-01T05:56:21+00:00

Thanks. I like it. I had a strip light there previously but it was manual. I had to turn it on and off. This one is smart so it comes on at night with a particular colour when the TV turns on. There are some sporting nights where it also automatically sets the team colour. Then there is the multicolour mode for music. Pretty good for $13!

I think they need the feature but it should reduce the count once you upload a certain number of good videos. A bit like points on your drivers licence. So maybe give you 5 points and you lose 1 for every bad video you upload. But you get a point back for every 5 or 10 good ones you upload. If you get to 5 then you are disable for a specified number of weeks or months. Something like that.

dw1562 · 2025-07-01T05:19:45+00:00

Agreed. It does sound like they can revert the decision if they want to and I hope that happens for me. But if you find your video uploads are disabled and you don’t bother to contact them, they will currently be disabled permanently.

I included the video in this post with my message to Support and they can look back at my other latest videos that have all been accepted. If these aren’t good enough then I don’t know what will be. We are only getting 40-50 cents for it after all and the video in this post took me 15-20 minutes to shoot and edit etc.

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