Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | Smron  | | Posted: | Apr 20, 2017 18:57 | | Subject: | Re: Make Classic Layout the default | | Viewed: | 40 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, helge writes:
| | In Suggestions, TallyToyBricks writes:
| | For Orders Received, especially when the I have clicked on "View Classic Layout"
over 20 times in one day.
Please! I am wasting so much time on my tablet.
Joe
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I click on the "View Classic Layout" a lot more than 20 time per day, and I am
getting both frustrated and sad about the development.
I have contacted customer support about this. The answer is that they intentionally
will not make it possible to set the classic style as default. "This is the intended
action so that users get used to the new style" So I guess that we just have
to get used to having a lot worse working environment...
Helge
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I guess if I was forced to eat garbage every day eventually I would get used
to it, but that doesn't mean that eating garbage will become tasty.
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| Author: | Smron | | Posted: | Apr 20, 2017 18:54 | | Subject: | Re: Make Classic Layout the default | | Viewed: | 42 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, viejos writes:
| | In Suggestions, JayBeeOnline writes:
| | Voted NO. Use a PC instead. This site is not made for tablets...
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Funny you say that, because their rationale for spacing everything out like they
have is so that it's easier to use on phones.
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I find the new look is hard to read on every platform I've tried.
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| Author: | Smron | | Posted: | Mar 20, 2017 17:24 | | Subject: | Re: Cross reference multiple parts with their set | | Viewed: | 29 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Kenopolis writes:
| | I was going through a used lot of LEGO I purchased, and I thought,
"How cool would it be if Bricklink had a feature that show the sets that parts
might have come from."
Example...
I have 3 red 2x2 cones, and 4 Green Hinge plates, and 2 Yellow 1x6 Wedge plates.
If you could enter these parts into a query, and have the system give you a list
of sets that contain those parts, it could possibly increase sales for many stores
by people wanting to complete sets. Increased sales for Bricklink sellers, means
more income for Bricklink.
You already have a feature that lists all the sets with specific parts, so I
imagine it wouldn't be too difficult to cross reference multiple parts.
But I know nothing about coding, so...
What do you think?
Kenopolis
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I think it would be a great feature.
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| Author: | Smron | | Posted: | Mar 15, 2017 22:41 | | Subject: | Re: Better Forum | | Viewed: | 50 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, FigBits writes:
| | In Suggestions, ranarn writes:
| | Good Question, and of course i should have stated some examples, instead of just
saying that it's bad.
First, the tree approach, it's not a bad thing, and works pretty good when
a discussion is kept relatively small and you read each post.
But when more and more people join, and you get multiple levels of replies, each
tend to go it's own way when it branches out from the main tree. And a tree
structure makes really hard for someone that is coming into the discussion later
to see the latest "talk" or get a overview what has been replied earlier, you
often need to check each branch of the tree. I am more into the "reddit" approach,
where the hot or popular replies is what is showed at the top. Or the "standard"
flat forum approach with pages and not creating branches of replies.
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I very much disagree there, at least compared to a flat view. Having a branching
tree is a huge benefit. One improvement would be to be able to collapse a branch
(as on reddit). But if this is your major concern, I think you are way off. The
branching structure is a huge benefit of the current format. It is not a fault
at all.
| | Second is style, it looks outdated and not very modern. I know that the "CORE"
users of the forum at the moment like it, and is happy with what it is, but to
broaden the usage from new users, it needs to be made more modern and easier,
explainable icons instead of text links maybe, Simplicity is the key.
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To me, that's largely irrelevant. I care much more about content than style.
For the site itself, the style is important, because it's a commercial website
that is looking to make money for its sellers (myself among them). But for the
forum? Who cares. The appearance is neither a positive nor a negative. It's
irrelevant.
| | Some technical features that would be nice is, notification, unread message tracking,
templates, tags, ability mention or reference other people, online status of
users, avatars etc...
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Notifications and message tracking, absolutely. Those should be added. Tags already
exist for catalog items. Referencing other users: meh. Online status of users:
meh. Avatars? Please no. There are way too many juvenile forums where 50% of
the "content" is animated gift and signature files. That contributes nothing
to actual discussions, and we are better off without them.
So ... Yes, we could use the ability to track read/unread status, and receive
notifications.
That's about it.
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Marc.
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More or less agree. I'm not sure we need a 'new forum', but our current
forum could use some upgrades.
Top things I would like to see...
1) Ability to collapse threads.
2) Ability to edit posts
3) Deleting cancelled posts
4) Notifications/mentions/user tags
5) Ability to find a post 'helpful' or not. (This one isn't really
important, I just wanted to get my list to 5 things...)
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| Author: | Smron | | Posted: | Mar 14, 2017 01:27 | | Subject: | Re: DO AWAY WITH PRICE GUIDE....... | | Viewed: | 120 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| | | In Suggestions, thewolf06 writes:
Well, its only as much nonsense as the rest of the posts, actually this might
make more sense. If a buyer can not compare the prices in a wanted list to other
sellers, then what is the point of a price guide? People keep trying to throw
in the, ohhhh its extra to have a good seller, its costs to have good customer
service,...... oh to pack an item correctly you have to pay more......etc etc....
Well, its very simple! TAKE THE ENTIRE PRICE GUIDE AWAY
That way, every seller can price EVERY SINGLE ITEM, based upon their own preferece
of PRICE, what kind of service they offer, packing, and sentimental value. A
simple 1x1 white brick might be 3 cents to you, but they are my favorite and
I pacakge mine in a titanium wrapper, so my brick is $75.
NO COMPARISON FEATURE, NO NEED FOR A PRICE GUIDE
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No need to have a meltdown. Millions of transactions have been made without the
price comparison feature. We used the price guide. It worked. You have to do
some math and stuff.
What if you had been using the price comparison feature to pick a store, and
then go to that store only to find that you pay a $3.00 fee for placing an order
on a Monday, or a $4.00 fee for ordering only red bricks? Ridiculous examples,
I know, but there are stores with so many different types of fees that you need
to hire an accountant to know if it's a good deal or not.
How is it fair to anybody to have some sellers undercutting everybody on their
prices, and then piling on the extra charges, therefore taking advantage of customers
who don't hunt for the best overall deal, and also avoiding BrickLink fees
by doing it this way?
Until such time when a price comparison feature can also indicate what kind of
extra fees you would be paying, it's better the old way.
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| Author: | Smron | | Posted: | Feb 19, 2017 16:37 | | Subject: | Re: What is EDT? | | Viewed: | 54 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Suggestions, Smron writes:
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Everyone should know where they live in relation to GMT, if they can't, the
education system has failed everyone.
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To nitpick, a time zone is defined relatively to UTC (Universal Time Coordinated).
GMT means “UTC+0 time zone” (most of the time, because “GMT” covers several definitions,
hence why it was replaced by UTC)
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Fair enough. When I was growing up, it was explained to us as GMT +/-.
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| Author: | Smron | | Posted: | Feb 19, 2017 12:34 | | Subject: | Re: What is EDT? | | Viewed: | 54 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, WILYKAT writes:
| | In Suggestions, sonnich writes:
| | When I read:
[REMINDER] The site will be down during the monthly maintenance scheduled at
02/22 from 01:00 AM to 02:00 EDT.
Just what is EDT?
Please use GMT - that is understood worldwide.
WBR
Sonnich
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Should be EST, daylight savings time hasn't started yet. And using GMT isn't
going to work with everyone, not everyone knows where they live in relation to
GMT. EST is -5 hours for example.
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Everyone should know where they live in relation to GMT, if they can't, the
education system has failed everyone.
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| Author: | Smron | | Posted: | May 8, 2016 15:39 | | Subject: | Re: Inventory Change Request for Minifig sp002 etc | | Viewed: | 31 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests | |
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| In Inventories Requests, jennnifer writes:
| | In Inventories Requests, viejos writes:
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You need to ask the Inv Admin to add a note to the inventory similar to what
was done here:
It is quite likely that later copies of this figure did have the blocked stud,
but at this time the catalog is not accepting different minifig entries based
on the type of head stud.
Russell
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I added the note. Thank you!
Jen
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Hi Jen,
I actually have several more minifigs that need the note added. I was going to
start a new thread until I saw your reply to this post.
They are...
SP055
SP051
SP033
SP054
SP054b
SP036
SP001
Thank you.
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| Author: | Smron | | Posted: | May 5, 2016 18:23 | | Subject: | Re: Inventory Change Request for Minifig sp002 | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests | |
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| In Inventories Requests, RobErNat writes:
| | In Inventories Requests, Smron writes:
| | Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Change 1 Part Yellow {3626bp01 Minifig, Head Standard Grin Pattern - Blocked Open Stud to 3626ap01 Minifig, Head Standard Grin Pattern - Solid Stud}
Comments from Submitter:
All instructions that include this minifigure depict the solid stud version of this head. No evidence to suggest the blocked open stud version was ever used.
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I wouldn't go by images too much and rather stick to 'owned sets'
before making such changes. Images are made months before actual release and
setlayouts are made from 'stock' items of the designers, but that doesn't
mean there can't be a differences 'in production'
I suggest you have a look here, to stick to the timeline in regards to head versions:
http://www.leggodt.nl/items/lego/themes-minifigs.php?language=en
And that timeline is pretty accurate when compared to actual setcontents
Cheers, Eric
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Well, I provided the instructions as evidence because I thought my secondary
evidence wouldn't be legit enough for the catalog admin. Basically I have
a large lot of sets containing minifigs of this era, all the heads in the lot
are solid stud. The heads have never been replaced, they are original. So can
I personally verify this by opening a sealed set? No. But given the circumstances,
one can deduce that these minifigs originally came with solid stud heads.
Let's also consider that the inventory for this minifig was created by 'Admin'
in 2003 so I'm guessing they just used a similar resource to the one you
referred to, and did not verify from a sealed set.
So we have the instructions AND a collection of used sets with original parts
that appear to support my change request. I guess I could have said 'verified
from sealed sets' but I'm unclear if that means I or someone else just
unboxed the set 25 minutes ago or 25 years ago.
I think this is sufficient of an argument to make the change. I would be content
to add the solid stud head as an alternate item, but I can only figure out how
to do that for a set inventory, not a minifig inventory.
I have several other minifigs to update as well, just wanted to see how this
one went first.
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| Author: | Smron | | Posted: | May 5, 2016 00:37 | | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Minifig sp002 | | Viewed: | 50 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Change 1 Part Yellow {3626bp01 Minifig, Head Standard Grin Pattern - Blocked Open Stud to 3626ap01 Minifig, Head Standard Grin Pattern - Solid Stud}
Comments from Submitter:
All instructions that include this minifigure depict the solid stud version of this head. No evidence to suggest the blocked open stud version was ever used.
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| Author: | Smron | | Posted: | Jan 31, 2016 13:40 | | Subject: | Re: Inventory Change Request for Set 79015-1 | | Viewed: | 12 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests | |
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| In Inventories Requests, Smron writes:
| | Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 1 Part 18031 Pearl Dark Gray Minifig, Weapon Sword, Greatsword Pointed with Thick Crossguard (Alternate) (match ID 2)
Comments from Submitter:
Verified from sealed sets.
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First time doing one of these so please go easy on me if I did it incorrectly.
Thanks
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| Author: | Smron | | Posted: | Jan 31, 2016 13:39 | | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 79015-1 | | Viewed: | 21 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 1 Part 18031 Pearl Dark Gray Minifig, Weapon Sword, Greatsword Pointed with Thick Crossguard (Alternate) (match ID 2)
Comments from Submitter:
Verified from sealed sets.
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| Author: | Smron | | Posted: | Jan 31, 2016 10:52 | | Subject: | Re: Show parts from Gear | | Viewed: | 22 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Heartbricker writes:
| | Hoping more people vote on this then replied to this...
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Didn't see this until now but I support this 100%.
Although, I think some things that are gear should be listed as sets instead.
Like the pirate chess set for example - I can't think of one good reason
it would be considered gear. It is made up of parts, there are instructions,
you can play with it - all clues point to it being a set.
A quick scroll through the gear catalog reveals a lot of items that have no business
being gear.
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| Author: | Smron | | Posted: | Jan 29, 2016 20:44 | | Subject: | Re: Uniform Fee Disclosure Statement for Sellers | | Viewed: | 58 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, yorbrick writes:
| | Most of it wouldn't bother me. But average shipping and invoice time. Who
fills that in? Automatic or the seller?
And why average? If you have shipping average of 1 day, then if you ship 9 orders
in an hour do you get a whole week to ship the tenth order? After all, you'd
still meet your average.
I'd prefer to see a guaranteed invoice / shipping time.
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Automated would be a nice feature, but could be harder to implement. If the seller
just fills out the average times themselves - and honestly - that should be good
enough. If sellers are consistently taking longer than their self-declared average
times to process/ship orders, I think that buyer-posted feedback would eventually
sort that out.
As far as guaranteed invoice/shipping times, I'm skeptical of putting 'guarantee'
on anything. I'm not expecting buyers to 'guarantee' payment to me
within 5 days of sending invoice. It would be nice, but doesn't always happen,
and often there are good reasons for delays. As long as buyers and sellers are
communicating with each other regarding delays (and it goes both ways), I don't
see the need for this.
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| Author: | Smron | | Posted: | May 20, 2015 17:55 | | Subject: | Re: New Member tutorial | | Viewed: | 30 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Rick_S. writes:
| | ok with all the threads about new buyers and sellers, or a very long thread about
a new buyer, maybe a tutorial should be instituted for both new buyers and new
sellers that they would go thru as part of the sign up process so as to avoid
some of the confusion that is occurring (hopefully).
it could be any one of things from a video tutorial or a written tutorial or
? any of which must be completed before official member status is given.
this is just a suggestive thought.
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This is an excellent suggestion. I was thinking the same thing myself.
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