With the demise of the Humble Partner program nobody told us about (yeah thanks, Humble), I remembered I had also signed up at Fanatical so I could link to games with an affiliate code. In fact I did this last year but never actually heard from them, nor did I get an affiliate code, but resetting my password today finally got me access to the partner dashboard and with it gave me a cryptic code like this: https://www.fanatical.com/en/?ref=otu1y2n
Obviously not too memorable. According to the welcome message I got, this can be changed under Assets – Advanced, but of course no such option exists. Nice going there, Fanatical!
Digging deep into crazy web interfaces is somewhat of a hobby, although it could also just be my OCD that makes me do it. Either way, I found the correct place to change that crazy URL to something more memorable:
- click on Programs (there’s only one called “Team Fanatical”)
- this is in fact a link, so click on “Team Fanatical”
- click on Manage SubID and Source (with the little clock icon next to it)
- now choose Referral Code and pick something else
Tadaa – another internet mystery has been solved!