Pinny Pals Community Resource Hub: Podcast, Chat-Apps and Useful Info

Ayefkay

This Thread is to keep together any and all useful community resources:

Welcome to PAX: Pinny Arcade Episode
A great introductory video into the hobby, culture and community of Pinny Arcade
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lpabnabEvE

PinnyPals Community Trading Website
Created and Hosted primarily by community member Grgemonkey, This is a great site to keep track of your collection digitally, as well as trade with other members.
https://pinnypals.com/home
Keep track of updates here
http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/185078/pinnypals-com-site-updates-and-news/p1

Pinny Arcade Collection Wiki page
http://pinnypedia.org/index.php?title=Collections

PinnyPals Community Podcast
A (usually) monthly community driven podcast, Hosted by Pureval and regularly features Pedroasani, NowHiringHenchman, TheAggroCraig, Frostbyte and on occasion guests from the community.
http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/197380/pinny-pals-podcast-episode-16-she-blinded-me-with-prime-pins#latest
All episodes can be found at
http://pinnypalspodcast.podbean.com/

Whatsapp Chat Group
The original pinnypals mobile chat group, a fun and casual space to talk pins, penny arcade, or anything really,
http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/197444/pinny-pals-whatsapp-group-come-and-see-whatsappinning/p1

Slack Chat Group
Another chat app, mainly consisting of the same members on each, you will find most of us on both apps. There were reasons why the split happened. The choice is now pretty much which app you prefer to use. Choices!
http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/199994/pinny-pals-slack#latest

Discord Channel... Error with previous link, use this one instead
Download Discord and connect to:
https://discord.gg/3yC8RPt

Pinny Arcade Panel Video Recordings
Here you can find a playlist of all the recorded Pinny Arcade Community Panels at various PAX shows:
http://tinyurl.com/pinnypanels

Steam Community Group
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/pinnypals

Dmosinee’s Guide to Convenient, Cost-Effective Pin Shipping
http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/196322/dmosinee-s-guide-to-convenient-cost-effective-pin-shipping#latest

Where to buy 3rd party Pinny Arcade pins
http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/195911/where-to-buy-3rd-party-pinny-arcade-pins/p1

Club PA Pins!
http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/192714/club-pa-pins/p1

Pinmash Voting Tool
Like "Hot or Not" but for pins! click/swipe left or right on your favourite pins, see where they rank in the community
http://www.pinmash.info/

Pinnywise Digital Shadowbox iOS App
http://pinnywise.com/

Pin Print Runs
http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/195539/pin-print-runs/p1

Pin presentation, display solutions, and pictures
http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/184815/pin-presentation-display-solutions-and-pictures/p1

Hingo's guide to creating your own Display
http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/comment/36398497/#Comment_36398497

Pinnypal world map
http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/199196/pinny-pal-world-map/p1

Ayefkay

Requesting thread stickifying, @zerzhul !

If there are any other resources ive missed, anyone feel free to let me know and ill add

fishfishmonkeyhat

Add at least 3 of the current sticky's so we can unstick them.

EDIT: I suggest adding/unstickying

Club PA Pins!
Where to buy 3rd party Pinny Arcade pins
Dmosinee’s Guide to Convenient, Cost-Effective Pin Shipping

fishfishmonkeyhat

If @Capt Wasabi were to update the OP with the totals listed in the thread, Pin Print Runs would be a good add.

grgemonkey

Don't forget Pinnywise, on the go collection tracking.

evil santa

Pinnywise is a pretty useful tool, though it really needs an update

Capt Wasabi

fishfishmonkeyhat wrote: »

If @Capt Wasabi were to update the OP with the totals listed in the thread, Pin Print Runs would be a good add.

This is a great Idea for a thread!
@Ayefkay can you add Pin Print Runs in?

Ayefkay

Soon, (tm)

Ayefkay

added pin print runs, pinnywise

anything else?

Ayefkay

added pin presentations and world map

Hejenergy

evil santa wrote: »

Pinnywise is a pretty useful tool, though it really needs an update

Yeah sorry about that FYI it's now updated and should stay automatically updated as new pins are released. I had a critical bug sneak in right before Prime, along with some server downtime, which blocked me from updating it during Prime. I'm sure there will be more App Store updates over time (for other bug fixes, new features, etc), but the general idea is that new pins are downloaded automatically going forward.

Senno

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/pinnypals

Ayefkay

added

mikegmi2

Can someone please explain how the Pinny Pals "Collected" (Blue circular logo) function works? From what I can see, the only options for adding or subtracting pins from your collection are by clicking the green or red lanyard buttons. I've used the green button to keep track of my collection...but isn't that supposed to serve as a way to let people know what pins you want them to see as available for trade?

TLDR - How the heck do you make the blue collection counter go up? How do you add pins to 'collected', and not to 'available'?

aleph0

mikegmi2 wrote: »

Can someone please explain how the Pinny Pals "Collected" (Blue circular logo) function works? From what I can see, the only options for adding or subtracting pins from your collection are by clicking the green or red lanyard buttons. I've used the green button to keep track of my collection...but isn't that supposed to serve as a way to let people know what pins you want them to see as available for trade?

TLDR - How the heck do you make the blue collection counter go up? How do you add pins to 'collected', and not to 'available'?

There are no blue buttons for complete pin sets, but they exist for individual pins if you scroll down.

mikegmi2

My browser must not be processing something correctly then, because the only blue button I see is the one at the very top, which isn't actually a button. Gonna have to look into this...thanks.

Edit: It was my browser. After updating the blue buttons mysteriously appeared!

fishfishmonkeyhat

@Ayefkay if you could be so kind.

http://tinyurl.com/pinnyarcadepanels

Ayefkay

Certainly, sir!

pakopako

I might need a personalized FAQ, but with the Mobile-chats, PinnyPals.com, and the forums here... is there no overlap? Is there too much overlap?
(I see a #trade room on Slack... not sure how that functions with, well, the above-mentioned resources.)

zerzhul

Forums are very good for conversations with long history, where you want to look back and see what was discussed and always have access to the information presented. Chats are good for spur of the moment right now sort of conversations. pinnypals.com fulfills a totally separate function of having a pin profile for traders.

For example, I might use the trade room on slack to discuss a potential trade, or trade value, or something of that sort. I can refer to people's pinnypals.com profiles during that conversation to talk about what people want for said trades or what I might want. However if I want it known that a particular type of trade is of interest to me, it's more valuable to me to post that on the forum so that it sticks around longer than however fast the conversation on slack may or may not move. Also that post may more easily contain links to my own pinnypals.com profile so they can see what I am offering or have available. If I see someone on pinnypals, I can use that site to make a direct trade offer to them.

There's some overlap, but I think that those three areas all serve their purpose well and complement each other.

crowtales

I run Android rather than iOS and decided I needed a collection app, so the Pinny Arcade Pin Tracker got built and put up on the Play Store.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.galliard.galang.collectionstracker&hl=en

It's not perfect, but I ran it last PaxEast with some success.

darkinfero

crowtales wrote: »

I run Android rather than iOS and decided I needed a collection app, so the Pinny Arcade Pin Tracker got built and put up on the Play Store.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.galliard.galang.collectionstracker&hl=en

It's not perfect, but I ran it last PaxEast with some success.

ran it on a crappy dev android phone and it works great.

Ayefkay

Oops! Slight error with the link there, try this instead!

Discord Channel
Download Discord and connect to:
https://discord.gg/3yC8RPt