Automatically Apply Upgrades should default to OFF

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We just had someone asking what happened this morning when four of their five hard earned challenge upgrades were applied to things they didn’t want to use them on. We try to get the word out on WDD that this setting should be turned off, but why isn’t OFF the default?

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This option should be removed completely. It is a remnant from the early days of Wayfarer. Now that you can distribute upgrades manually, it is no longer necessary.

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This happened again today to a new explorer who was very nice about it, and @altertobi reminded me of this post. Please either default to OFF, or use his suggestion and remove the toggle so that Upgrades must be manually applied. Now that the “Upgrade next” button has been removed, always manually upgrading is the better fix.

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The elimination of the upgradenext button is a great update! I was fed up with explaining to newbies how to use the upgrade button vs. the upgradenext button and that there is a trap. In the past, the upgradenext button was restored at the request of a very small number of people who wanted to upgrade in their sleep, but I think it was very confusing.
Anyway, congratulations on the elimination of upgradenext! Simplicity is the best!

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i just earned my first upgrade and it was sadly automatically used on something i didnt want to :frowning:

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Hello and welcome @mqnstxr

Although not what you wanted, I hope that wayspot has a sucessful resolution.
Do make sure that for the future you go to settings on the wayfarer site and ensure the auto upgrade is toggled to off.

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yeah dw i did

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I got lucky with the auto-upgrade being defaulted to On, as I started submitting before reviewing. Once I found the Wayfarer website and Settings, I didn’t like what auto-upgrade was offering and turned it off before I ever got an upgrade.

I do agree that it should be defaulted to Off for new Wayfarers. If they do want to turn it on later, they have that option. Not really fair for a new Wayfarer to lose their 1st upgrade, especially if they want to pick and choose what they upgrade.

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