| Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | mooreofjake  | | Posted: | Dec 1, 2022 12:24 | | Subject: | Re: My Collection - an absolute useless feature | | Viewed: | 65 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
| In Off Topic, Leftoverbricks writes:
| | I like the idea of MY Collection: a place to keep track of parts, especially
when you are a MOC-er, like me.
Unfortunately it looks like this was 'developed' and written by someone's
11 year old nephew 'who is smart with computers'.
ONE
Wouldn't it be nice and very useful (and logical) if you could add a recent
Bricklink order you placed to your collection? Sure!
But you can't.
TWO
OK, I'll try something else: the import function. I downloaded my recent
orders as a XML and CSV. Now I can add all those parts to my collection!
Unfortunately, you can't, it just doesn't work.
THREE
^ I see, too bad. But let's try a wanted list. You can download a wanted
list as XML file. Now I upload this to my collection, easy peasy lemon squeezy,
right?
Oh my, it won't import.
So what's left of this feature?
Nothing.
What you can do is part out a set to your collection. It does it quickly,
hooray! But then? All you get is a list of parts (maximum 200 per page) but you
can't do anything with it.
You cannot:
- sort
- search
- add notes about location
- perform any other operation upon the items in your collection
The only thing you can do is binge watching your parts. I have around 131,198
parts in my collection (according to Rebrickable, a great site!). And this is
only from sets I own. I own another 200,000 parts from Bricklink orders (rough
estimate).
Basically it comes down to netflixing / binge watching your parts. 200 per page,
300,000 parts divided by 200 is 1,500 screens to watch. Click next screen. Click
next screen....
For some reason I get the idea that Bricklink, owned by the largest toy company
in the world - which we all love, otherwise we weren't here - doesn't
take us seriously.
My hands are itching to offer myself as a software developer at Bricklink but
I'm afraid I have to talk to that nephew of 11 year old.
Sarcasm included, but really....
Martin
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I agree with a lot of your points. There's really good potential in a My
Collection feature that just isn't being realized yet. But all those functionalities
probably take a long time to develop. Especially when integrating with something
like purchases. Let's not forget BrickLink's "Spaghetti Code" handicap.
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| Author: | mooreofjake | | Posted: | Dec 1, 2022 12:21 | | Subject: | Re: My Collection - an absolute useless feature | | Viewed: | 46 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
| In Off Topic, Rob_and_Shelagh writes:
| | In Off Topic, Leftoverbricks writes:
| | I like the idea of MY Collection: a place to keep track of parts, especially
when you are a MOC-er, like me.
Unfortunately it looks like this was 'developed' and written by someone's
11 year old nephew 'who is smart with computers'.
ONE
Wouldn't it be nice and very useful (and logical) if you could add a recent
Bricklink order you placed to your collection? Sure!
But you can't.
TWO
OK, I'll try something else: the import function. I downloaded my recent
orders as a XML and CSV. Now I can add all those parts to my collection!
Unfortunately, you can't, it just doesn't work.
THREE
^ I see, too bad. But let's try a wanted list. You can download a wanted
list as XML file. Now I upload this to my collection, easy peasy lemon squeezy,
right?
Oh my, it won't import.
So what's left of this feature?
Nothing.
What you can do is part out a set to your collection. It does it quickly,
hooray! But then? All you get is a list of parts (maximum 200 per page) but you
can't do anything with it.
You cannot:
- sort
- search
- add notes about location
- perform any other operation upon the items in your collection
The only thing you can do is binge watching your parts. I have around 131,198
parts in my collection (according to Rebrickable, a great site!). And this is
only from sets I own. I own another 200,000 parts from Bricklink orders (rough
estimate).
Basically it comes down to netflixing / binge watching your parts. 200 per page,
300,000 parts divided by 200 is 1,500 screens to watch. Click next screen. Click
next screen....
For some reason I get the idea that Bricklink, owned by the largest toy company
in the world - which we all love, otherwise we weren't here - doesn't
take us seriously.
My hands are itching to offer myself as a software developer at Bricklink but
I'm afraid I have to talk to that nephew of 11 year old.
Sarcasm included, but really....
Martin
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I was wondering where this feature came from and what it is for. My first guess
was that it could potentially be for uploading inventory without opening a store
then someway offering that inventory for sale offsite avoiding seller fees but
then... perhaps not the idea!
Robert
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I'm pretty sure that would be against the ToS
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| Author: | mooreofjake | | Posted: | Nov 30, 2022 15:43 | | Subject: | Re: My Collection feature | | Viewed: | 65 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
| In Technical Issues, pxchris writes:
| | There needs to be an option added to purge your collection completely from the
site.
I tried importing my collection via a Brickset csv file this morning (perhaps
I shouldn't have tried so early with a feature that's obviously still
untested/unfinished) and got an error message that it failed. So I tried again.
Now, it's showing triplicates of quite a few sets, but not all of my collection
is even present.
So not only do I need to purge my collection completely and start over (I'm
not going to spend the time to individually go through and delete hundreds of
sets) but we also need better import tools that state exactly what failed and
why.
I really like the idea of having a "My Collection" feature on Bricklink, but
as it currently stands, it's definitely not prime time ready!
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The only way to do that right now is to upload a blank XML file.
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| Author: | mooreofjake | | Posted: | Sep 22, 2022 19:57 | | Subject: | Re: Item Color on Wanted List | | Viewed: | 20 times | | Topic: | Wanted | |
| In Wanted, Cole314 writes:
| | Is there a way to change the color of an item that's already in your wanted
list. I cant seam to do it. If its not possible is there a reason why? How could
I recommend such a thing?
So for instance I parted out a set and some of the colors don't matter so
I wanted to change them to any. then some of the colors I wanted to swap from
red to blue.
I just feel this would be a nice feature of the site.
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1. Click the Edit button
2. Click the checkbox for the part you want to change the color
3. Click the Color button
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