I’m a former MyGiving user, and I now use the EA.org dashboard. I remember having more problems with MyGiving than I do with the new dashboard, but I’m not really a “power user” in either case, so I may not notice some of the changes. What specific functionality do you miss?
Functionality I would like added to the Pledge Dashboard (note: I didn’t use MyGiving):
A comment field next to each donation. Currently I use the “Recipient” field to write the organization name plus extra notes I want to record (e.g. whether the donation was counter-factually matched).
The ability to see total amount I’ve given to each organization I’ve given to.
A way to label each donation as being associated with a certain cause area.
Bar chart of my donations over time, and chart of my donations per organization, and chart of my donations per cause area (by my labeling).
The ability to share one’s donation page with others.
These are all great suggestions William, thanks for providing them. I’ll take them into account as we’re making future updates to the platform – no promises on a timeframe re current tech capacity constraints unfortunately, but I think they’re all very sensible ideas and would constitute significant improvements.
I’m no power user either. I just want to be able to add and modify recurring reservations, which you can’t do with EA.org. (I just learned you can email them with the details of a recurring reservation to have them add it for you, but come on.) You could do this easily in MyGiving. I also find the EA.org interface very bare, unlike MyGiving. I just don’t understand why they needed to make this move when they weren’t prepared to finish it.
I find it much less intuitive and the aesthetic very cold. I liked the pie chart on my MyGiving dashboard… although I understand how diversifying causes made it easy to break that feature.
I’m a former MyGiving user, and I now use the EA.org dashboard. I remember having more problems with MyGiving than I do with the new dashboard, but I’m not really a “power user” in either case, so I may not notice some of the changes. What specific functionality do you miss?
Functionality I would like added to the Pledge Dashboard (note: I didn’t use MyGiving):
A comment field next to each donation. Currently I use the “Recipient” field to write the organization name plus extra notes I want to record (e.g. whether the donation was counter-factually matched).
The ability to see total amount I’ve given to each organization I’ve given to.
A way to label each donation as being associated with a certain cause area.
Bar chart of my donations over time, and chart of my donations per organization, and chart of my donations per cause area (by my labeling).
The ability to share one’s donation page with others.
Agreed! CSV exportability would also be good. So would receipt storage/linking for tax reasons.
Came back to this thread to say I’d really like to be able to export to CSV.
These are all great suggestions William, thanks for providing them. I’ll take them into account as we’re making future updates to the platform – no promises on a timeframe re current tech capacity constraints unfortunately, but I think they’re all very sensible ideas and would constitute significant improvements.
I’m no power user either. I just want to be able to add and modify recurring reservations, which you can’t do with EA.org. (I just learned you can email them with the details of a recurring reservation to have them add it for you, but come on.) You could do this easily in MyGiving. I also find the EA.org interface very bare, unlike MyGiving. I just don’t understand why they needed to make this move when they weren’t prepared to finish it.
Agreed that recurring donation support would be good. But I also like the current interface better aesthetically and, on function terms, equally.
I find it much less intuitive and the aesthetic very cold. I liked the pie chart on my MyGiving dashboard… although I understand how diversifying causes made it easy to break that feature.
Thanks, this kind of specific feedback on features you’d like is more helpful than vaguer comments about it being “so bad.”