| Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | BrainOfTheBrick  | | Posted: | Nov 24, 2019 22:06 | | Subject: | Re: streamline payment process | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Akhoover writes:
| | The process for payment, when buying from multiple vendors should not be so time
consuming. I purchased from 21 vendors, still waiting to hear from one. but the
checkout time was very lengthy, possible look at how amazon checks out.
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You really shouldn't compare amazon and BrickLink. They are two completely
different sites which run completely differently.
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| Author: | Akhoover | | Posted: | Nov 24, 2019 21:58 | | Subject: | streamline payment process | | Viewed: | 78 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| The process for payment, when buying from multiple vendors should not be so time
consuming. I purchased from 21 vendors, still waiting to hear from one. but the
checkout time was very lengthy, possible look at how amazon checks out.
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| Author: | normann1974 | | Posted: | Nov 23, 2019 09:58 | | Subject: | Part out value in local currency | | Viewed: | 98 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| If I'm not logged in (which I'm not on my phone), the POV page
https://www.bricklink.com/catalogPOV.asp
shows prices in USD. Unlike the price guides on all other pages which show my
local currency (DKK). This means when I'm at a store, I must use a calculator
to convert the POV's to DKK. This is rather annoying. Please fix it.
/Jan
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| Author: | axaday | | Posted: | Nov 20, 2019 20:10 | | Subject: | Re: Daily and monthly downtime - I'd like to help | | Viewed: | 100 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| My sister gave me that cat in your sig pic for Christmas last year. I just recently
finished it. I delayed a long time because I couldn’t tell from the instructions
what it even was.
In Suggestions, JusTiCe8 writes:
| | Hi,
not sure it is the right place for this and most importantly, if company such
FB can afford such a yearly uptime, is because they know how to do their job
right (at least in the server architecture). Plus, the lower the downtime is,
the higher it cost, 99% is a lot more cheaper than 99.9999%, 1% of a year is
quite 3.6 days off. Lowest downtime are a few hours or even minutes.
The cheapest and easiest way to remove downtime almost completely would be to
set-up a mirror of everything (web server mostly) they have now, upgrade one
while leaving the other running with old stuff, do the switch (here could be
a minor downtime), then upgrade the other and finally enable both together.
Anyway, we don't know how things has been setup behind the scene and how
they are actually managed, except it is not done according to BL expectations.
In Suggestions, Ethan1701 writes:
| | Hey,
I'm a database administrator (Business intelligence specifically), and I'd
like to help eliminate the daily and monthly downtimes. The way I see it, if
Facebook can have an uptime of 99.9999% while rolling out new features, so can
BL.
Hit me up, I'd love to know what the downtimes are for, and help see if we
can design a better solution for those needs.
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| Author: | Sadler_Bricks | | Posted: | Nov 20, 2019 19:46 | | Subject: | Re: Daily and monthly downtime - I'd like to help | | Viewed: | 67 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| Yes I would agree it would be nice but not sure that BL has the funds such as
a FB but would be nice to see some good improvments on this site as it has some
massive opertunity and doesn't seem like they have capitalized on all that
opertunity but maybe in due time we will see some great changes to make the site
improved for everyone's experience
Sadler_Bricks
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| Author: | Stonemonkey1974 | | Posted: | Nov 20, 2019 13:36 | | Subject: | Re: Better time information on maintenance | | Viewed: | 50 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, sonnich writes:
| | Yesterday at the post office I needed some adresses from BL it was under maintenance
- it said
| | | | Maintenance Time : Nov 19, 2019 12:00 PM - 04:00 PM EST
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When is that according to GMT?
Please add times in GMT at the rest of the world uses - I have no idea what EST
is, not have the majority of the world.
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Google (other search engines are available) is your friend 
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| Author: | HarryPotter71 | | Posted: | Nov 20, 2019 13:24 | | Subject: | Re: Better time information on maintenance | | Viewed: | 45 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, sonnich writes:
| | Yesterday at the post office I needed some adresses from BL it was under maintenance
- it said
| | | | Maintenance Time : Nov 19, 2019 12:00 PM - 04:00 PM EST
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When is that according to GMT?
Please add times in GMT at the rest of the world uses - I have no idea what EST
is, not have the majority of the world.
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EST = Eastern Standard Time
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| Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Nov 20, 2019 04:30 | | Subject: | Re: Better time information on maintenance | | Viewed: | 58 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, sonnich writes:
| | Yesterday at the post office I needed some adresses from BL it was under maintenance
- it said
| | | | Maintenance Time : Nov 19, 2019 12:00 PM - 04:00 PM EST
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When is that according to GMT?
Please add times in GMT at the rest of the world uses - I have no idea what EST
is, not have the majority of the world.
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Could you have just looked it up, for example, here:
https://time.is/EST
If they add GMT, then no doubt others will want their time zone too. It makes
sense for BL to stick to one time - BL time - and do all times in that.
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| Author: | sonnich | | Posted: | Nov 20, 2019 03:25 | | Subject: | Better time information on maintenance | | Viewed: | 150 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Yesterday at the post office I needed some adresses from BL it was under maintenance
- it said
| | | | Maintenance Time : Nov 19, 2019 12:00 PM - 04:00 PM EST
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When is that according to GMT?
Please add times in GMT at the rest of the world uses - I have no idea what EST
is, not have the majority of the world.
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| Author: | JusTiCe8 | | Posted: | Nov 15, 2019 15:04 | | Subject: | Re: Suggestion for extra function in Bricklink | | Viewed: | 72 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| Funny how idea flows in the ether as I think of a similar feature but a bit more
from a practical point of view. I encounter the same issue with the mini/micro
Serenity by Brothers Bricks which use a medium dark flesh modified tile on top
to hold the 3x3 dish, which I don't have obviously  , and while building
it I've figured out colour doesn't not matter at all, one part bought
quite uselessly.
So, I have imagine an invisible brick detection feature, maybe by using a light
source in a brick and by some kind of occlusion, or whatever the right name
is, calculations (lights vector can be computed and some algorithm could be use
to see if the light vector hit a face of a 3D object as it is done for "basic"
rendering technique like in deferred rendering).
If the light source is not visible from outside = bingo, the brick could be any
colour.
If not, its colour actually matters (if the builder also care of following designer
guidelines).
I don't have work enough in 3D rendering to get any kind of solution, I still
offer a way which can actually be done I guess.
In Suggestions, JLvL writes:
| | Hello,
Over the las couple of months i have designed some cars in Studio.
Some bricks in the middle may have a different color than the color I am currently
building. So if the color doesn't matter you select 'not applicable'
for that specific brick.
It always takes quite some time to figure out in the wanted list which bricks
should be on not applicable. I think it is much easier to include the 'color'
not applicable in the list.
As an extra function it is then useful to be able to choose the color of the
'not applicable' bricks. For example, if you are building a model in
red, you can set the 'not applicable' bricks to yellow. Because of the
contrast between these two colors you keep the overview on the model.
Greetings,
JL
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