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It would be great if when printing an order there were 2 columns of parts instead
of one.

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SpaceODC

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Mar 5, 2024 10:55

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Credit card as prominent as Painpal

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Hi,

I would appreciate if you could feature the "pay with card" on the fee
page:

https://www.bricklink.com/v2/mystore/fee.page

as prominent as the Painpal-Button. Since you use Stripe I guess there is a Stripe-Button
available somewhere. Actually if would be awesome if you could get rid off Painpal
altogether

Thanks,

w.

Author:

SrenB

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Feb 29, 2024 08:49

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Easy link or access for wanted lists

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Would it be possible for users to access other users' wanted lists?
Or for a user to generate an easy link that could be sent to others users so
they can see our wanted lists?
That way we won't have to send a bunch of pictures to people, with whom we
want to trade etc.

Author:

gert1977

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Feb 24, 2024 04:33

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sort by missing parts

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I suggest an option where you can order the wanted list on "missing parts".

Yes, you can order on "have quantity", and so you already have the parts
with quantity 0 easily selected.

But it would be nice if you could easily order/group also the parts which are
partly present.

Kind regards,
Gert

Author:

wildchicken13

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Feb 22, 2024 10:50

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Add Forum Topic - Politics

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Vote YES! The future of BrickLink depends on it. 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇬🇧🇫🇷🇩🇪🇳🇱

Author:

Replika86

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Feb 20, 2024 13:13

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Import order into your inventory

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Is it possible to make an export of your order and import it to your own inventory.
Now I do that manually brick by brick. It would be great if you can make an CSV
file of all the parts you have ordered and import them easily into your own collection/inventory.

Author:

daxio

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Feb 20, 2024 04:20

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Add a bulk discount label to Price Guide ?

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There is already the black discount label on Items For Sale view - would it work
on the Price Guide ?

Author:

wildchicken13

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Feb 17, 2024 21:04

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Merge Forum Topics

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Except for scammers, very few members post in Currency, Mosaick, Translation,
Packing Dimensions, and LANG Español. These topics should be merged into General.

Author:

popsicle

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Feb 17, 2024 20:48

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Variants Topic Charter

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Should there be another topic charter added (even if provisionally) to the Reference
Catalog topic of the Discussion Forum?

To better isolate and handle the added inquires, corrections and concerns of
that ongoing site wide process?

As was done for the question of taxes, when collection was implemented:
https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1244764

Just a thought...

-popsicle

Author:

janzenroth

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Feb 17, 2024 16:34

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Website request - suggestion

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Not sure in which topic this would fit, but I would like to make the following
request/suggestion:

Would it be possible to have the colour already selected if a piece is chosen
from the colour guide.

For example I am in the colour guide for medium blue and searching for a particular
slope. When I find the slope I have and want to put in my inventory I select
the picture and I am linked to the page of that piece. I would like that page
to open up with the colour already selected to save a step. Is that possible?
This would save me a fair amount of time when entering pieces.

Would this be helpful to anyone else?

Evan

Author:

ginatails

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Feb 15, 2024 23:45

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The original MSRP of sets should be added

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On some other Lego related sites, you can see the original MSRP/RRP of sets,
which is just a nice feature for historical purposes. However, Bricklink does
not have this function.
I know this isn't really a feature that needs to be added, but it would greatly
enhance the user experience of the site.

Author:

tmtomh

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Feb 15, 2024 16:00

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Enable photos in private messages

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Apologies in advance, I'm sure this has been requested before, but... when
a buyer requests additional photos of a certain detail of a set/lot/part, it's
very cumbersome to use the existing system of navigating to My Images, uploading
a photo, getting the link, and pasting the link into the message. At that point
it's easier to do essentially the same thing with Dropbox, Flickr. Imgur,
or similar, since those hosts are quicker and easier to use than BL's image
functionality.

So why can private messages simply include a function to drag or upload a locally
stored image from your computer or device right there in the PM composition window?

Thanks!

Author:

tmtomh

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Feb 15, 2024 15:49

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Enable Reaction, Multiquote, Editing in Forum

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Would it be possible to enhance (or better yet, replace) the forum interface
to allow functionality like the following:

- Likes and other reactions to posts and comments (a sometimes useful indicator
of whether a view is widely shared or an outlier; and also enables people to
chime in without having to post their own "me too" comments)

- Ability to quote more than one prior comment (without having to do so totally
manually)

- Ability to reply to more than one comment if the prior comments are in different
sub-branches of the thread

- Ability to edit comments rather than cancelling them altogether and starting
over

It seems there are a good number of simple, plug-and-play forum software systems
around today that enable such features and much more without a whole lot of administrative
setup effort.

Thanks!

Author:

tmtomh

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Feb 15, 2024 15:43

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Search/Find Stores by City and Local Pickup?

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To my knowledge, there is currently no way to search stores by location beyond
the state/province level.

Would it be possible to be able to search down to the city level, or perhaps
by distance from your own location? And would it be possible to add a "local
pickup" checkbox in sellers' store configuration pages so that buyers
could search stores based on that criterion?

Author:

tmtomh

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Feb 15, 2024 15:41

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Directly access store from Orders Placed Page

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If you want to revisit a store you've previously ordered from and you click
on My BL--Orders to get to your Orders Placed page. you cannot directly
access the store. You have to click on the feedback rating of the store, and
then from the resulting feedback page you can click on a link that takes you
to the store.

Since the Orders Placed page already lists the name of each store next to its
feedback rating, can that store name be made clickable so it takes you directly
to the store?

Thanks!

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tmtomh

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Feb 15, 2024 15:32

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Enable Persistent User Settings for Part View

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The settings for how many items to display on each page of your Want List or
a store's selection of your Want List items are not "sticky." In
other words, you have to select your preferred display option for each store
you visit and each time you look at your Want List.

Same for the order in which your Want Lists are displayed: if you select any
sorting option other than the BL default of "Newest," there is no way
to make your preference your own personal default. You have to set it again every
time you view your Want Lists.

Similarly, the order in which parts are displayed/sorted defaults to one order
if you view 25 per page, but to a different order if you change the setting to
view 50 or 100 per page. It would be great if each user could set their default
number of elements per page and their default sorting order. Wouldn't this
just be a matter of writing these preferences to existing cookies that BL sets
anyway?

Thanks!

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tmtomh

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Feb 15, 2024 15:30

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Enable Seller Notes in "Buy" Store Listings

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When using the Buy function from a Want List, seller notes are not visible in
the list of stores that come up as having some or all of your wanted parts.

Of course I understand there's no room for seller notes in the list of stores
itself - but when you click "Select" on a store, that brings up a window
where you can see which of your Want List parts they have and what their prices
are. In THAT window, seller notes do not appear, and so you cannot know if a
part is discolored, scratched, or otherwise damaged.

Can seller notes please be made visible when we are browsing stores during the
Want List Buy process?

Thanks!

Author:

tmtomh

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Feb 15, 2024 15:27

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Enable part no & catalogue link in Shop Cart

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An element/part's number, and a link to its catalogue entry are not available
for items in a shopping cart when you click on the cart from the store's
page.

However, the element/part number and catalogue link ARE available for shopping
cart items if you click on the cart from your Cart menu.

Can shopping cart item element numbers and catalogue links please be made available
regardless of how you got to your shopping cart view?

Thanks!

Author:

TheManGoesWild

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Feb 15, 2024 01:36

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Search for parts in existing carts

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I think it would be a great idea if we could search for parts and see results
(if available) from stores that you have existing carts with, maybe as a filter
in the search results.

Author:

ChrstphrR

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Feb 14, 2024 14:40

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Allow/use WEBP image format for images on BL

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BrickLink needs to use webp image format.

I've noticed the beta version of the site is displaying PNG format images,
and the O.G. site is using SVG images where possible to save on data transfer.

webp images will, in general, be smaller than any of JPEG, PNG, or GIF.

I've made this suggestion to the dev team at Trello years ago, and... they
did take a long time to implement it, and even had replied saying it was a low
priority.

But they did, within the year, and ... it has a host of benefits.

- this image format supports both lossy and lossless image compression
- transparency/alpha-channel support
- well developed libraries to implement webp into BrickLink's codebase have
been around for a decade
- wide file support on most modern web browsers the past decade
- much smaller file sizes than JPEG, PNG, or GIF

This last one matters most:

- webhosting costs would be reduced (bandwidth both up and down)
- file limits, file size limits could be relaxed for users
- smaller files mean that the pages sent to browsers can render faster, giving
the user a better, faster experience

Please consider adding webp support. Even if it's only pushed into the newer
beta interface!

Author:

Poncke

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Feb 9, 2024 05:05

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Option to save search criteria.

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Can you please for the love of god implement an option to save your search criteria?

Every time I need to click the same parameters for my search. Would be so easy
if you could save that a a default or something.

Suggestion: Option to save search criteria.

Author:

EeeTee

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Feb 9, 2024 00:39

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Internal movability of various lists

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Sure would be great if I could just download a wishlist and then re-upload it
to my collection! Not sure if the latter has comments allowing me to keep track
of whether I have built the set or not, but still. Seems odd that the collection
upload won't recognise the downloaded wishlist XML regardless of how many
fields I remove from it. Just keeps giving me "could not find in catalog"
for all sets, whether xxxx-1 or xxxx.

Author:

typocorrecto

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Feb 8, 2024 05:25

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My Collection, Sort By Release Date?

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Is is possible to add sorting by release date in the My Collection section?

Thanks.

Author:

PurpleKangaroo

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Feb 7, 2024 19:07

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Proposed Alternative to Catalog Consolidation

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So there's been some heated discussion about the recent decision to consolidate
certain Bricklink part entries. For example, the merger of certain parts with
open studs and parts with blocked studs. Much has been said about the fact that
people rely on Bricklink as a catalog as well as a marketplace, and how the removal
of this information is detrimental to the future success of the LEGO hobby. But
I think what has been missing from this conversation is a reasonable alternative
to the current status quo. Instead of simply deleting the nuanced information
that has been carefully curated over decades by an army of dedicated volunteers,
I have an alternate suggestion:

Go ahead and consolidate part entries. Do it. Even the ones with stickers. Put
'em all in one place. 2x3 Slope? One entry. But wait! What's this? A
drop-down menu! This one lets users look at the many different colors that the
part comes in. And Hark! I spy another drop-down menu beside the first! This
one seems to list the different mold variants! Avast me hearties! A third drop-down
menu! With the different stickered and printed variants! That's right--I'm
proposing treating mold variants, printed variants, and stickered variants in
the same way that colors are currently handled.

Each drop-down menu would be filtered according to the selection made in the
other two drop-down menus. For example, suppose a part came in both a glossy
and a matte finish. However, the sand-blue version of the part only ever came
in the matte finish. So when a user selects "Sand Blue" from the part's
Color drop-down menu, the Mold drop-down menu would automatically filter to only
include the Matte option. Perhaps the same part also came in the color green,
with both Gloss and Matte mold variants. Then when selecting "Green"
from the Color drop-down munu, the user would still have the choice of selecting
either Gloss or Matte from the Mold drop-down menu.

Of course, each menu would have an "undetermined" option, which would
be the default option in order to allow sellers and buyers ease of use.

My point is that the solution to this catalog complexity is not the removal of
crucial information. There is a better way, and I believe the incredible Bricklink
team has the opportunity to simultaneously simplify the user experience while
retaining the nuance that has made Bricklink the defacto LEGO parts catalog for
so many wonderful years.

Am I crazy, or is there room for compromise?

Author:

Dars

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Feb 7, 2024 17:50

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Pre-order times

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