Migration Day: Today

hi team !!

as a lot of you know already: today is the day we shift into a newer and more intelligent version of our system 🚧

because of this, there may be some things shifted around and/or in places that are new to you. there also may be some growing pains here and there.

we wanted to make a post asking everyone to report bugs or ask questions here so that everyone feels like they have a direct line to us re: the new system.

as a new era of pickaxe begins over these next few days, we also want to say how grateful we are for everyone's activity here in the forum, especially when it comes to reporting bugs and requesting new features.

we couldn't do this without our users letting us know how things are looking with boots on the ground.

happy monday and talk soon,

carson

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How do I get an immediate rollback!?! It breaks absolutly every thing I buildt!! It is a horrible nightmare! That will cost me 100% revenue! ANd creates a shitload of support request because everything is 100% incompatible with previous setups that were beyond 1 or 2 pricing plans!

How can you roll out something so entirly incompatible witha previous version without transition!?!

hi ! @easydeutsch

first off i am sorry about the seeming ‘switch-flip,’ that’s never really something we want to hear !!

if there is something specific you are seeing bug-wise, i am happy to take a look: as are all of us in engineering today.

access management has indeed changed a little.

if you would prefer to record a video/send a longer explanation: info@pickaxeproject.com is the main inbox for support.

thanks for replying here even if it isn’t entirely a ‘good’ community forum response, we will be making fixes as needed.

These 2 short videos go over the new access group system:

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It breaks absolutly everything! I had different old pricing tiers that were set to hidden! Now everything is public to everyone!

I will spent now my entire night. It’s 2:30 a.m. here, where I’m at, Philippines, freaking because you’re so crazy and unprofessional to not even announce that ahead of time and not implementing a transition period where everybody can adjust their old system to the new system. Because switching to the new system, nothing looks like before. None of the access levels is the same as before. I have now 47 different portals now that I need to “Adjust” - F*** me!!, and I don’t know how many access groups and I have to go through them one by one and implement the changes proably around 100x over and over again! My old offers/products people subscribed to were set to hidden. Now, this is a nightmare because it´s all public and not hidden anymore. I’m also handling a free trial so far via API connection. I assume that’s fucked now because there are no more products in the first place, and there is no update to the documentation on this whatsoever.

So you’re rolling out a new system without telling people how it works and giving them, no time, no transition period before it goes live. You just throw it out there. Now I have to spend my night fixing the mess that you created because you could not be professional and implement a transition period where I and everyone else gets the chance to adjust everything to the new system before it goes live. You throw everything live; now everything is broken. I will spent my night fixing that mess!

Not only did we repeatedly announce this change, but we have reached out to you personally to help. We’ve sent out at least 3 emails specifically flagging this change at this time, and packed full of resources to help folks understand the new system.

We’ve offered to jump on a call, and we’ve offered help in other ways as well. Rather than manually messing with 47 studios, or spending time posting here, you should engage with our team and we’ll help fix things for you.

Hello Nathaniel, thanks for your reply… I didn´t get the emails… Yeah teh offer for the call was the earliest possible 6:30 am my time… that´s in 4h from the time of offering. and all otehr times were Midnight to 7am the following days… not your fault that I am in the Philippines right now but not practical…I cannot leave my page in disrepair for that long and even if I have seen those emails it doesn´t change that there is no transition period… I have to make changes after things go live which you have to agree is less than ideal to put it mildly… I am doing it now … have no other choice… I guess I figred out how to set it up in the way it was before but yeah sorry can´t wait for so many hours to get help if you force me to change things on a live page… And I just happend to have a live webinar for sales the hour before the changes were pushed… bad luck I guess… I already got 14 Emails with people being confused with all the additional options that were not mentioned!

My understanding is that a team member has already changed their call booking hours in order to make a conversation work. If that fails, I can speak with you at 7pm PST (10am your time).

In the meantime, we’re actively investigating why so many hidden prices popped up for your studios. This didn’t happen in our tests or with our test users. I expect we’ll have a fix within the next hour that we’ll be able to apply to your account.

It’d actually be really helpful if you’d include in your next email to support more screenshots and product names from ones where you haven’t fixed it yet. We were trying to debug directly from one of your studios, but you fixed it too quickly and we couldn’t see the issue any more.

Yes, I just had the call! They were able to do the call right now and things seem to be fixed! Thank you for the quick reaction. And sorry for the maybe little emotional words but if you are just coming out of a sales webinar at 1am and see the page break down it´s not so easy to keep your head cool. :slight_smile:

I will send an Email with a screenshot! Thank you very much again!

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I am currently locked out and unable to use it myself - same with my users.

In drop-down menus, I can see deprecated old products that are no longer available - I log into the back end then visit my studio and it tells me I need to upgrade - Its my studio! If I click on upgrade, it won’t even let me ‘get’ any products.

I’d really rather you use the approach you did last time you switched over and gave us some time to select the change after the bugs were ironed out with early adopters.

Hey @carsondev

Recovering from the migration. Here’s a meaningful bug/feature request.

The migration had an automation AI assignment logic that combined old system invite only products into MAG groupings that are random ←- hard to figure out who goes where, what goes to what as it’s well, AI logic lol. Glad we have good records to rebuild this lol.

I’m having the rebuild the entire infrastructure from MAG → Users → Pickaxes (now called deployments.) Which is fine except for some UI improvements you’ll get over time.

What I could really use is the ability to select ALL users in a Member Access Group or a Public Access group and move them to another access group.

The same is true for deployments between access groups and also from PUBLIC to MEMBER.

Further, I’m not terribly clear on how website deployments (we could deploy the old master website to a custom domain. I’m unclear on where to find that in the new system.
Thanks, I’m sure it’s a storm over there.

@ecaveo I’m sorry you’re running into issues! We had a number of test users, in addition to our staff, working on the new version to try to prevent as many issues as possible. Can you shoot us an email at info@pickaxeproject.com with any screenshots you have and I can get our engineers on it right away?

Hi Jay,

We’ re sorry you’re experiencing issues with migration! Our team is looking into it.

One way to bring all users into one Members Access Group would be to just add all emails of these users you need to move into that Access Group. (you’ll see a warning message - and if you approve they will be removed from other Access Groups and transferred to this one) Hopefully this helps.

But we will be happy to jump on a call with you and provide further assistance.

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Let’s jump on that call. Are you from Pickaxe?

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seconding what our head of product/design Uli said here @brandbuildersgroup :

thank you for sending a video via loom.

we know unintended changes aren’t entirely the most fun thing to see inside of a workspace and recording a debug video right after can’t have been an ideal use of time.

we are working on a fix and genuinely appreciate letting us know what is going on.

one of us will send out a calendar/meeting link asap :construction_worker:

talk soon,

carson

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BUG: User credits show differently in different places

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thank you doug !

we deployed a fix earlier that was causing for end-user credits to appear as 0 even if not actually 0.

it seems this one is still being a little stubborn and needs a fix in the user panel as well.

we’ll get on it asap :construction_worker:

as always thank you for your help and talk soon,

carson

following up here @dougfresh

just made a fix and deployed, please check again whenever you get a chance.

uses data should now match up in user panel + manage users table itself.

ty for flagging !!

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