Lending Teams - Question.

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[stutz]

Hello All,
Is it possible to add existing loans to your Lending Team, or is it a "start anew" situation?

Aw ra best
Jock

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It's a brand new day with these teams, Jock.

We're all starting with

[Evelyn Yvonne Theriault]

I sent the same question to KIVA (they're very busy now but I expect they'll eventually answer).
In my case, I've created Riverside School Board to group our classroom accounts. The reasons I hope that KIVA will provide a mechanism to carry forward the existing loans are:
1. it maintains the history of the individual accounts. When presenting the kiva idea to my school board it would be very helpful for me to show the growing number of classes that join, rather than starting at zero again.
2. I can go to the teacher I helped set up last year and help them transfer the first ones so they see how it's done.
Regardless of whether Kiva can provide this feature, I'm grateful that they developed this Lending team idea.
Evelyn

[saabnet]

The reasons I hope that KIVA will provide a mechanism to carry forward the existing loans are:

I was curious about this and a friend shared a support email from Kiva which indicated that not only would they not credit past loans, but if you checked out without logging in first, your loan would not be credited to your team and there would be no recourse to get a current loan checked out in this method applied to a team after the fact....

I'm totally fine with that myself. I'm already totally in the habit of logging in first and I'm glad we all started on a level playing field with this new toy. 

-Scott

[Evelyn Yvonne Theriault]

Thank you for your insights, Scott 

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Okay, gee you guys, I spend one entire day out
on the breakwater selling chowder, chili, gumbo and
the best darned beer in the world and come
home to find that the Community
lending teams pages have gone all weird on me.

Sorted according to *what* now, whimsy?

No search ability?

Almost no information about the teams listed?

Wut happuned?

[Sengbe Pieh]

This only occurred in the last 2 hours or so. But I noticed the same thing.

There is no rhyme or reason.

It is not alphabetical, by # of team members, # of loans, amount of loans and the "Search" function is also missing.

                                   

I think we might be witnessing Kiva in it's "death throes."

Maybe the engineers just inserted the wrong algorithm.

Maybe the site has been "hacked" by the Bulgarian mafia. Or even worse, by Scott & some of his ilk.

                             

Does anyone know how to get in touch with Kiva's emergency # for nights & weekends.

It would probably be better if they put up the "All Loans Funded" message while they try to troubleshoot what the heck is going on.

                                   

Whatever is wrong with the Kiva site today, it is not good.

[saabnet]

"hacked" by the Bulgarian mafia. Or even worse, by Scott & some of his ilk.
Whatever is wrong with the Kiva site today, it is not good.

I'm off today so it's not me! 

Seriously though, if I had to make some changes on my site that might be problematic but not show stopping, I'd choose a Saturday or Sunday night to do it and if that wasn't possible, sure, Saturday...

Here's what I suspect is up.. The site has been experiencing record traffic and was dog slow on a Saturday morning... Maybe they said, hey, there are a few simple things we can do to recoup some web server performance (I have one huge suggestion for Kiva below, in this regard) so they went for it a short while ago... The site is performing very snappy for me right now and I can't imagine anyone at Kiva believes that the Team Community thing is at all interesting with the listing the way it is now, so that should change too. Let's give them a few hours to work things out.

As for the suggestion, Kiva, consider chucking out your use of Google Analytics. Use your log files for site stats, they are way way more accurate than crappy Google Analytics which is terribly unreliable and loses stats like crazy because not every request to your site = a successful request to the Google Analytics site - it's a poor solution for tracking stats and Google is also slowing down the user experience for the Kiva.org site as we wait for the Google site to respond to every page we request off of Kiva.org... boo!

Off to Infant CPR class!

-Scott

[A Nonny Mouse]

At least while I was looking at it in the last 15 mins (2:45-3:00 PM California time), the teams were listed as newest first...which was rather interesting, as I refreshed the page and saw more teams created by you crazy people!   

...perhaps I should go join the Cats Are People Too team, or the Ice Cream Sammiches team...I can totally support those two causes!


Nonny 

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Ah, it seems fixed now.
And they've added a feature that I was hoping for: the ability to sort chronologically.
All's well in Kiva Land. More or less. Which is more or less all we could ask for.