05-03-2024, 08:52 PM | #1 |
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A moment of silence for the much ignored Awards feature
As I was enabling the word list on my new Libra Colour (and REdiscovering I couldn’t just copy it from my previous Kobo Clara 2E to the Libra Colour), I noticed that the awards tab was missing in the activity pane. As much as I enjoyed filling those out when I first joined the Kobo family back in 2010, they have been much ignored over these past few years. I’m not surprised to see that Kobo has removed them. Honestly, I feel it’s for the best since most of them didn’t work anymore anyway and just caused user frustration. But still, a moment of silence for our old friend who has moved on to the celestial cloud server. |
05-04-2024, 09:38 PM | #2 |
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A moment of silence for the much ignored Awards feature
Can anybody with a Clara BW or Colour verify this? Thanks.
I can verify that Reading Life Awards have been removed from the iPhone and iPad versions of the Kobo app. Last edited by Cootey; 05-04-2024 at 09:41 PM. |
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05-04-2024, 09:56 PM | #3 |
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I have a Libra Colour and I don't see a tab for Life Awards. Where exactly was it? I'll look again.
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05-04-2024, 09:57 PM | #4 |
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I miss Witching Hour! With the flying witch!
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05-04-2024, 11:42 PM | #5 |
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Here's what I see on the Awards page on my Sage. Some awards I was never going to get since I've never bothered with joining Facebook or other social media.
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05-04-2024, 11:55 PM | #6 |
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Frankly, I'm not surprised. Last year I asked CS about it and they 1) didn't know what I was talking about, then 2) told me to reset my device. I told them "no, thank you". LOL Everything is a device reset with them. Last edited by Cootey; 05-05-2024 at 12:01 AM. |
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05-05-2024, 01:07 AM | #8 |
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I was really looking forward to seeing all these awards in glorious (pastel) color! Even though they were glitchy, I still liked them. Still have them on my Libra 2 for now.
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05-05-2024, 01:14 AM | #9 |
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Using sideload mode disables them even in older firmware, so I haven't seen them for some time.
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05-05-2024, 01:16 AM | #10 |
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05-05-2024, 11:31 AM | #11 |
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[QUOTE=Cootey;4420997]Can anybody with a Clara BW or Colour verify this? Thanks.
Definitely gone from the Clara Colour. |
05-06-2024, 05:20 PM | #12 |
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05-06-2024, 07:25 PM | #13 |
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Awards are gone for good on all devices since 4.39.
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05-06-2024, 10:22 PM | #14 |
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Isn't 4.39 only for the new devices? 4.36 was only for the Elipsa 2E, so I figured we'd have to wait for 4.40 to see new firmware for everything else.
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