Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | yorbrick  | | Posted: | Nov 26, 2019 04:26 | | Subject: | Re: "Fast Shipper" badge for Sellers | | Viewed: | 43 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| I don't think it is necessary. If you have a bad experience then leave appropriate
feedback.
Having a badge will do nothing, as sellers will find a way around it. Plus it
will need policing, which is impossible unless everyone reports tracking information
to BL, which will increase postage costs for buyers. Plus the tracking information
will still need checking to find out if it is genuine.
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| Author: | Rob_and_Shelagh | | Posted: | Nov 26, 2019 04:21 | | Subject: | Re: "Fast Shipper" badge for Sellers | | Viewed: | 47 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, searme writes:
| | Dear Bricklink,
There are certain dishonest shops that really ruin the BL experience for shoppers.
It's hard to prove, but some sellers apparently sell pieces they don't
have in their stock and only order them from elsewhere when you place an order
with them. Apologies if that sounds like unfounded accusation, but my LUG is
aware of a number of shops whose stock is always suspiciously similar to current
LEGO PaB stock, who delay shipping when PaB runs out of stock, and who generally
take around 3 weeks to ship anything, no matter how common and widely available.
Because I see no reliable way to denounce such sellers, I suggest a different,
easily implemented solution. Just like sellers who offer instant checkout are
marked with a special badge, why not create another badge that marks sellers
who ship e.g. 3 days after payment on average? We as buyers have no access to
sellers' shipping times, we can only look up their feedback and see if people
are complaining about slow service. But your system has dates of all payments
and shipments. Simply calculate days between payment and shipping for all seller's
orders and you can get a nice average. And I'm sure this average is going
to show that certain shops typically ship after 2-3 weeks while others ship after
2-3 days. Hell, I had a seller ship an order 30 minutes after payment once. Quality
service deserves recognition, and we as buyers deserve the right to be informed
whether a particular seller provides such service or not. Transparency is the
name of the game. Right now there in no reliable way to determine that, and picking
a wrong seller can mean that your MOC will get hold up for weeks.
I sincerely hope that you will consider this simple, easy to implement request
that would drastically improve Bricklink's overall transparency for buyers.
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This has been mentioned before and I certainly support identifying and warning
buyers of stores who do not operate by the rules of the site - you must have
all listed stock on hand.
The suggested solution however is not foolproof as cheating stores can simply
mark orders as shipped before they have been. IMO Bricklink should force sellers
to commit in their terms to shipping lead times at least so buyers can avoid
slow (for what ever reason) stores if they need parts quickly. Unfortunately
with any system there will always be stores that try to cheat as well as genuine
postal delays to deal with of course.
As a lug you can at least share your data with other members so they can least
favourite these stores and favourite those who have proven to ship as promised.
Robert
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| Author: | searme | | Posted: | Nov 26, 2019 04:10 | | Subject: | "Fast Shipper" badge for Sellers | | Viewed: | 163 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Dear Bricklink,
There are certain dishonest shops that really ruin the BL experience for shoppers.
It's hard to prove, but some sellers apparently sell pieces they don't
have in their stock and only order them from elsewhere when you place an order
with them. Apologies if that sounds like unfounded accusation, but my LUG is
aware of a number of shops whose stock is always suspiciously similar to current
LEGO PaB stock, who delay shipping when PaB runs out of stock, and who generally
take around 3 weeks to ship anything, no matter how common and widely available.
Because I see no reliable way to denounce such sellers, I suggest a different,
easily implemented solution. Just like sellers who offer instant checkout are
marked with a special badge, why not create another badge that marks sellers
who ship e.g. 3 days after payment on average? We as buyers have no access to
sellers' shipping times, we can only look up their feedback and see if people
are complaining about slow service. But your system has dates of all payments
and shipments. Simply calculate days between payment and shipping for all seller's
orders and you can get a nice average. And I'm sure this average is going
to show that certain shops typically ship after 2-3 weeks while others ship after
2-3 days. Hell, I had a seller ship an order 30 minutes after payment once. Quality
service deserves recognition, and we as buyers deserve the right to be informed
whether a particular seller provides such service or not. Transparency is the
name of the game. Right now there in no reliable way to determine that, and picking
a wrong seller can mean that your MOC will get hold up for weeks.
I sincerely hope that you will consider this simple, easy to implement request
that would drastically improve Bricklink's overall transparency for buyers.
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| Author: | Captain_Q | | Posted: | Nov 25, 2019 04:25 | | Subject: | Re: streamline payment process | | Viewed: | 33 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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As BrainOfTheBrick has stated, Bricklink is not like amazon but, imo, more like
a Lego flea market with thousands of different stores with a lot of different
styles of selling. Amazon can combine all your items into one purchase and potentially
combine shipping for some items, if applicable.
If you are looking for quicker ways to purchase on Bricklink then you could stick
to the Bricklink stores that use "Instant Checkout", signified by having a lightning
bolt. That way you don't have to wait for a store owner to send you a manual
invoice.
Regards,
- CaptainQ
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| Author: | Brickwilbo | | Posted: | Nov 25, 2019 01:37 | | Subject: | Re: streamline payment process | | Viewed: | 28 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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Check your email spam folder for invoice emails from @Bricklink.
Probably at least a few of those 21 stores use instant checkout, Bricklink automatically
sends invoices.
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| 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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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Nov 15, 2019 12:23 | | Subject: | Re: Suggestion for extra function in Studio | | Viewed: | 37 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, JLvL writes:
| | 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 of colors in Studio.
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.
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|
Agreed… but the dedicated forum for Studio is http://forum.bricklink.com/
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| Author: | JLvL | | Posted: | Nov 15, 2019 11:58 | | Subject: | Re: Suggestion for extra function in Studio | | Viewed: | 32 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| 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 of colors in Studio.
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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| Author: | JLvL | | Posted: | Nov 15, 2019 11:55 | | Subject: | Suggestion for extra function in Bricklink | | Viewed: | 119 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| 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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| Author: | JusTiCe8 | | Posted: | Nov 14, 2019 08:40 | | Subject: | Re: Daily and monthly downtime - I'd like to help | | Viewed: | 118 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| 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: | Ethan1701 | | Posted: | Nov 14, 2019 06:52 | | Subject: | Daily and monthly downtime - I'd like to help | | Viewed: | 141 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| 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: | cycbuild | | Posted: | Nov 8, 2019 17:01 | | Subject: | Re: Forum Reforms | | Viewed: | 73 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Admin_Russell writes:
| | There are certainly some improvements to be made - pinning posts, notification
/ subscription plans, ability to edit or completely remove posted material -
but most of what you are asking for here can already be done.
First, the BrickLink Discussions Forum is actually many individual Forums all
joined together, including hidden Forums backstage for our community admins.
If you don't wish to read everything, start on this page and read only what
interests you:
https://www.bricklink.com/messageTopics.asp?utm_content=subnav
Second, you can customize the Forum to your exact specifications, including viewing
each thread without the replies. You can also block certain Forums (e.g. sales
posts). See the settings on this page:
https://www.bricklink.com/messageFilter.asp?viewFrom=P
I've never seen a Forum with this level of user customization, and I believe
most members don't even know about these options. Try out these suggestions
and see if that helps your impression.
I have been reading the Forum consistently for over 10 years, and I've noticed
that like rainy and dry periods with the weather, Forum participation ebbs and
flows with time. And if by "community involvement" you mean people like Foster
and Dan/Jon beating each other up on a regular basis, that sort of behavior isn't
tolerated anymore.
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It might benefit the regulars and newcomers if this was added to the top of the
forum with links below to a shortlist of FAQs. And a hide option, if possible.
https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=126
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Nov 8, 2019 14:25 | | Subject: | Re: Forum Reforms | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Admin_Russell writes:
| | […]
| | My point was that forum.bl.com uses a modern, off-the-shelf, forum engine (and,
if I’m not mistaken, phpBB (it uses the Ariki style, designed for phpBB 3.0)).
So BL knows about and has experience with modern, off-the-shelf, forum engines
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And our experience has not been good. Very difficult to manage, and a real challenge
to customize.
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Yes, that’s why new ones are always popping up.
| | We had a bug for over year that prevented us from deleting any
post.
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And there are no notifications for private messages (took me months to see I
had some), and those can’t be deleted (well, you can, but they are still there).
I actually rather like the mailing-list / usenet look of this old forum. And
the macro tags and the inventory change messages….
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| Author: | Admin_Russell | | Posted: | Nov 8, 2019 14:11 | | Subject: | Re: Forum Reforms | | Viewed: | 68 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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BrickLink
ID CardAdmin_Russell
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Location:  USA, California |
| Member Since |
Contact |
Type |
Status |
| May 9, 2017 |
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Admin |
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| BrickLink Administrator |
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| In Suggestions, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Suggestions, Admin_Russell writes:
| | In Suggestions, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Suggestions, calsbricks writes:
| | […]
Just like to add that our forum has all the functionality of this one as well
as the ability to edit, add attachments, conduct polls, plus more and its free
software - phbbs forum. It took our web guy an hour or so to get it installed
and me about a day to learn all about it (and I still don't know all there
is to know) […]
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Take a look at http://forum.bricklink.com/ ….
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From the front page:
Most users ever online was 20 on Wed Sep 12, 2018 4:25 pm
That was around the time ADP was announced.
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My point was that forum.bl.com uses a modern, off-the-shelf, forum engine (and,
if I’m not mistaken, phpBB (it uses the Ariki style, designed for phpBB 3.0)).
So BL knows about and has experience with modern, off-the-shelf, forum engines
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And our experience has not been good. Very difficult to manage, and a real challenge
to customize. We had a bug for over year that prevented us from deleting any
post.
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Nov 8, 2019 13:56 | | Subject: | Re: Forum Reforms | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Admin_Russell writes:
| | In Suggestions, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Suggestions, calsbricks writes:
| | […]
Just like to add that our forum has all the functionality of this one as well
as the ability to edit, add attachments, conduct polls, plus more and its free
software - phbbs forum. It took our web guy an hour or so to get it installed
and me about a day to learn all about it (and I still don't know all there
is to know) […]
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Take a look at http://forum.bricklink.com/ ….
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From the front page:
Most users ever online was 20 on Wed Sep 12, 2018 4:25 pm
That was around the time ADP was announced.
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My point was that forum.bl.com uses a modern, off-the-shelf, forum engine (and,
if I’m not mistaken, phpBB (it uses the Ariki style, designed for phpBB 3.0)).
So BL knows about and has experience with modern, off-the-shelf, forum engines
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| Author: | Admin_Russell | | Posted: | Nov 8, 2019 13:35 | | Subject: | Re: Forum Reforms | | Viewed: | 71 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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BrickLink
ID CardAdmin_Russell
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| Location: USA, California |
| Member Since |
Contact |
Type |
Status |
| May 9, 2017 |
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Admin |
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| BrickLink Administrator |
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| In Suggestions, calsbricks writes:
| | In Suggestions, Admin_Russell writes:
| | In Suggestions, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Suggestions, calsbricks writes:
| | […]
Just like to add that our forum has all the functionality of this one as well
as the ability to edit, add attachments, conduct polls, plus more and its free
software - phbbs forum. It took our web guy an hour or so to get it installed
and me about a day to learn all about it (and I still don't know all there
is to know) […]
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Take a look at http://forum.bricklink.com/ ….
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From the front page:
Most users ever online was 20 on Wed Sep 12, 2018 4:25 pm
That was around the time ADP was announced.
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Considering that was from 35 total users at that date and we have a very restricted
membership that isn't worrying. We are still growing there and as things
develop I am sure more will participate. I am not purporting that our forum is
better than this one far from it, but at the same time it shows what can be done
in a short space of time where there is a will.
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My quote was from the Studio Forum, not your Forum.
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