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%)

Set default country according to IP

[swaldman]

Title:
Set default country according to IP

Area:
Shop

Summary:
When making purchases in the shop, it would be nifty if your country could be defaulted to a best guess based on IP.

Description:
It would be a minor convenience feature, and might involve quite a lot of work/hassle/complexity... but I thought I'd throw it out there in case somebody says "oh, that'd be easy actually" :-)

Drawbacks: Slowdown as the lookup is done; don't know whether this would be significant. Maybe there are some situations in which people would be offended by an incorrect guess?

Poll #13460 Set default country according to IP

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 46

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Should be implemented as-is.
6 (13.0%)

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

Shouldn't be implemented.
23 (50.0%)

(I have no opinion)
16 (34.8%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)