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Really wish they would focus more on SHIPPING Soylent instead of redesigning their website. I am aware that these tasks are not mutually exclusive but still it's been a ridiculous length of time and often without clear/timely updates from the Soylent team. If I knew what I knew now I doubt I would have pre-ordered it.

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I have to agree. I've lost interest, which is disappointing. I was really psyched to try it out when they announced what now seems like ages ago. Then the ship date kept slipping and slipping and slipping, until the magic moment was "end of March". And now, I see it's 10-12 weeks for new orders. So it's another 3 month wait, which is just sopping any interest I had in it.

I'll try it eventually - and I'm still looking forward to that - but not until I can order it and it'll arrive a few days later.

Now that they are (claiming to be) shipping, it seems like a perfect time to introduce their new site. It has new ordering options for getting it sent to you monthly. Once people get their orders, they will have an easy way to order more. The Crowdtilt powered "campaign" site isn't meant to stay long term. This is their transition from it. Makes sense to me.

>> Note: 10-12 week delay on orders

Great they've got a pretty site where people can order something they won't see for 3+ (and you can bet that will be a BIG "+") months...

>> Note: New orders ship in 10-12 weeks | Reorders in 1-2 weeks

I don't know if people who had already ordered from the campaign would be in the "reorder" group. They have said several times that they are trying to make it so people who have it won't run out. Not sure exactly what it means though.

Right, I believe that yes, they would be in the reorder group. That was something the Soylent team has wanted to make sure was possible from the start so that you didn't order some then run out before they could ship you more. In fact in the earlier emails they talked about shipping the month supplies out first so that everyone would have time to reorder more before they ran out.

Here's a blog post about their shipping.

http://blog.soylent.me/post/84472994397/5-1-shipping-update

I am glad that it looks like they are finally shipping (I did get an email on that) but here are a few other emails I received from them:

6/6/13 - "... we're possibly more excited than you guys are for our August ship date"

6/21/13 - "We believe that we will have reached v1.0 by the end of July, giving us the beginning/middle of August to begin manufacturing and shipping"

7/22/13 - "we will not be ready to ship Soylent in August, and are pushing our ship date back to the end of September"

8/27/13 - "We plan to have every Soylent preorder shipped out by the end of the year."

11/7/13 - "Original campaign supporter (May 21 - June 25): January 2014"

1/3/14 - "RFI has assured us that the full Soylent production run will be complete and ready for packaging by the third week of February and that all of the domestic orders will be shipped out by the end of March."

1/22/14 - "Our co-packer is still on schedule to provide the first pallets of Soylent for shipping by the end of February."

3/13/14 - "pushes back first shipping date to mid-April"

4/10/14 - "FedEx will begin shipping the first preorders Monday, April 21st" ALSO "Some Backerkit add-ons removed."

4/24/14 - "Soylent orders will begin shipping 4/25"

5/1/14 - "general Soylent 1.0 orders will begin shipping this week"

So yeah.....

Also, from the blog post you linked:

>> "You’ll surely agree that it’s been a long 11.66 months since we started the Soylent crowdfunding campaign."

Yes, yes it fucking has and it's be exacerbated by updates coming only every 1-3 months.

Yeah, same here. I ordered mine back in... October? November? I don't even recall, it has been that long.

I ordered mine in May of last year, the day their crowdfunding campaign launched [0] and before then I lurked their Discourse forums [1] and even went the DIY route in June [2][3][4][5] thinking I could keep that up until the official Soylent launched (Hahahaha). I ended up ending my DIY Soylent after 3 days due to how I felt on it but that was back before the DIY community was anywhere near as strong as it is today.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5745707

[1] http://discourse.soylent.me/

[2] http://joshstrange.com/soylent-day-1/

[3] http://joshstrange.com/soylent-day-2/

[4] http://joshstrange.com/soylent-day-3/

[5] http://discourse.soylent.me/t/just-started-soylent-today/357...

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