r/seedboxes invasion

After the last few days of relative stablity, I posted an introduction to the r/seedboxes subreddit, inviting more testers and feedback.

Here's the impact of this, in graph form

Prometheus graph showing pod count over 2 day period, from stable 270 to a recent peak of 340

And here's a brief summary of the bugs squashed and improvements made...

Bugz

Password resets weren't working. Turns out the MailPoet Wordpress plugin (which I setup to "improve" email sending), was sending email from the wrong domain (funkypenguin.co.nz instead of elfhosted.com), and breaking DMARC.
PayPal happily plasters its "Pay with PayPal" button all over the place, even when paying for services with ElfBuckz, which can lead to user confusion or worse, actually paying $0.05 for a service, only to find it removed again the next day when PayPal fails to process the renewal!

Instructing users to create an account in order to get $10 ElfBuckz was too clunky, and the username-validation plugin doesn't provide enough output on account creation. Instead, I created a "$ 10 ElfBuckz TopUp" product, with a $10-off coupon code (ELFELFBABY), so that users can just buy the topup, and create an account at checkout - a smoother user experience.
Users were confused about the "manually provisioned rclone mount", assuming it to always be a manual process. I updated the product to indicate that it's simply a conversation about what parameters are required in order to create a new auto-provisioned rclone mount product.
After feedback, I "hid" all 15 BYOVPN variations of the torrent clients, replacing them with an "app group" product per-client, to tidy up the "Download Media" category, which now fits on a single page!

Add a link on the store user account page to the app dashboard
Send email to user with link to their dashboard
Make checkout fields work better with browser auto-fill (is this a Woocommerce/Wordpress issue?)
Add Wordpress caching plugin to reduce load issues (at one point, the DO node running Wordpress stopped responding for 5 min!)

Thanks for building with us - stay tuned!