Review the countries that are at the top of the "country" dropdown in the shop

[swaldman]

Title:
Review the countries that are at the top of the "country" dropdown in the shop

Area:
Shop

Summary:
When paying by credit card in the DW shop, one specifies one's country in a drop-down. This drop-down is alphabetically sorted except for United States, which appears at the top.

Suggestion is to review which countries appear at the top.

Description:
It is fairly common for such dropdowns to promote a few most-common countries out of their alphabetical order and put them at the top of the list.

The Dreamwidth Shop does this with United States.

My suggestion is to review which countries appear at the top in this way: are there others that hold a sufficiently large proportion of the DW paid userbase to merit this treatment? I suggest that 3-5 of the most common countries should appear here, and that a separator should then be inserted in the list to make it clearer what is going on.

Poll #13459 Review the countries that are at the top of the "country" dropdown in the shop

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 45

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Should be implemented as-is.
23 (51.1%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
1 (2.2%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
5 (11.1%)

(I have no opinion)
15 (33.3%)

(Other: please comment)
1 (2.2%)

Comments

[subluxate]

I used to use my cane a lot more, and I had a pair of forearm crutches that did me good for a couple of years. But then my left shoulder got absolutely debilitating, so I couldn't use the crutches and switched to the cane... then I managed to--and I don't know how--subluxate my right shoulder blade to the point that it was three inches below where it should be and sticking out by a good inch and a half, and it's never really recovered from that one, so the cane is out... so chair-as-walker it is!

Funny you should mention shaving your head! I just buzzed my hair today--it's about half an inch long now, and I considered just shaving it off--and am wondering if strangers will react differently now. I don't get out a whole lot (part of the reason I adore DW is because of how many friends I've made here, which means I can refresh my reading page every ten minutes and frequently come on a new post), but when we go more than about three and a half blocks, we usually take the bus, which means taking my chair. (I can't really sit on the bus seats without my hips/SI joints/tailbone going, "Nope, we're done." Also, we're often grocery shopping when we go out, and I can't walk through the grocery store most of the time.) I've had people give me filthy looks when I get up from my chair because the bus doesn't have restraint straps I'm comfortable with, I've had people go, "Why are you in a wheelchair?" like it's any of their business, I've had people touch my chair, which always makes me freeze up... (Freezing is because the chair is, effectively, part of me when I'm using it, and would these people just go around touching able people or their things? I am guessing not.) So I'm wondering if the reactions will change, now that my hair is so short.

I've heard of Nucynta! Definitely read good things about it. I'm glad it's working for you. My methadone is for a whole slew of things--the aforementioned screwed-up nerve, the permanent shoulder and leg injuries, the debilitating, intractable migraines (which are a "feature" of EDS, evidently)... and it's done SO much good. I was kinda leery of taking it, since my cousin and uncle (different sides of the family) both have addiction problems, but my pain doc was sure I'd be good on it, and he's been right so far. Except if I forget to take it. Then withdrawal happens. (By the way, NEVER go into opioid/opiate withdrawal when it's a hundred degrees or more inside. I wanted to DIE last summer when there was a prescription snafu.)

Do you have bad ankles? I've found that hiking boots work wonders to stabilize them. I bought a pair of Timberlands on clearance at my last job (brand-new, perfect-condition blue Timberlands in my size and width for about sixteen bucks, after my discount on the clearance price), and they've lasted five years now with barely any signs of wear. Haven't hurt my ankles once while wearing them, and my ankle braces fit inside and still let me lace/tie them. They're definitely something I'd recommend.

[denise]

i used to have horrible ankle problems, and the orthopedist kept telling me to try heavier boots or shoes with more ankle support or try lacing my shoes more tightly, and i kept getting sturdier and sturdier boots and i kept rolling my ankles more and more often, and i thought it was just my body deciding to fuck with me until i made the connection: duh. i'm always, always barefoot at home, have been barefoot as much as possible my whole life, and in all that time i almost never rolled my ankles while i was barefoot. so on the theory that barefoot = better balance due to being able to use my toes properly = fewer ankle problems, i switched from using heavy sturdy boots to the exact opposite end: now when i'm out and about, i wear canvas ballet slippers that are as thin as possible and allow me to both grip the ground with my toes and feel the terrain beneath me. since i started doing that, i've only had an ankle go out on me once!

isn't life with ehlers-danlos fun? trying to figure out what works and what doesn't is so time-consuming.

anyway. we're really getting far afield from dw_suggestions now, lol, so i should stop. but if you want to keep talking about life-with-EDS, you can drop a comment on a recent entry in synecdochic!

[kerravonsen]

I've heard good things about "five fingers" shoes as the closest thing one can get to being barefoot without being barefoot.
http://www.vibramfivefingers.com/