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| | | Author: | StormChaser  | | Posted: | Jul 17, 2015 14:31 | | Subject: | (Cancelled) | | Viewed: | 101 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Discarded | |
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| | | | | Author: | randyf | | Posted: | Jul 18, 2015 16:57 | | Subject: | Re: Add Optional Default to Older Listings | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, StormChaser writes:
| | Currently there is an option to revert to the old catalog listings for items.
Please make it optional (via an opt-in in Settings) for users to default to
the older catalog listing instead of having to right-click on the Buy button.
As a frequent catalog contributor I find the new listings page a nightmare.
I need to see at a glance the information in a catalog entry. I understand the
new catalog listings are expected to drive sales. That's great for everyone,
but I really need less clutter when I'm donating my time and effort
to BrickLink.
Thanks!
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I am a frequent catalog contributor, also, and I have the exact opposite opinion.
I would like a couple of things tweeked, but overall I like the new layout. However,
I am always for options for end users, so voted "yes".
Cheers,
Randy
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| | | | | | | Author: | StormChaser | | Posted: | Jul 19, 2015 11:01 | | Subject: | Re: Add Optional Default to Older Listings | | Viewed: | 30 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, randyf writes:
| | I have the exact opposite opinion.
I like the new layout
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If you had no previous experience with BrickLink and were asked to choose which
of the two attached photos shows a catalog entry easiest to use, then would you
still prefer the second photo over the first?
I prefer the first. If I'm opening numerous catalog entries in quick succession
(to view only years of release, for example), then the first photo makes that
easiest for me. The blank space around each bit of information makes seeing
and comprehending that information quickly easier for me.
I did give the new catalog listings pages a workout, by the way, before posting
my suggestion. I'm not reflexively anti-change and I don't tend towards
nostalgia regarding Old BrickLink. I don't hate the new layout and I hope
it drives sales as intended. But I do think that the older page was better suited
for working with the catalog than the new page.
BrickLink isn't a democracy, but if they're going to let the old layout
stay around then we definitely should be able to opt in to use it as a default.
Thank you for your vote of yes, by the way. 
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | 62Bricks | | Posted: | Jul 19, 2015 11:14 | | Subject: | Re: Add Optional Default to Older Listings | | Viewed: | 25 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, StormChaser writes:
| | In Suggestions, randyf writes:
| | I have the exact opposite opinion.
I like the new layout
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If you had no previous experience with BrickLink and were asked to choose which
of the two attached photos shows a catalog entry easiest to use, then would you
still prefer the second photo over the first?
I prefer the first. If I'm opening numerous catalog entries in quick succession
(to view only years of release, for example), then the first photo makes that
easiest for me. The blank space around each bit of information makes seeing
and comprehending that information quickly easier for me.
I did give the new catalog listings pages a workout, by the way, before posting
my suggestion. I'm not reflexively anti-change and I don't tend towards
nostalgia regarding Old BrickLink. I don't hate the new layout and I hope
it drives sales as intended. But I do think that the older page was better suited
for working with the catalog than the new page.
BrickLink isn't a democracy, but if they're going to let the old layout
stay around then we definitely should be able to opt in to use it as a default.
Thank you for your vote of yes, by the way.
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It's difficult to judge objectively because I am already used to looking
where I know the information is on the old page. I do have to hunt a little on
the new pages, but after a week or so I expect I'll be able to find the info
just as quickly.
In addition to the whitespace around the data another difference is that the
data headings are in gray and the data is in black on the old pages. That makes
it easier to focus directly on the data. Doing something similar for the new
page would help with readability, especially now that the headings and the data
are on the same line.
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| | | | | Author: | bb53904 | | Posted: | Jul 18, 2015 21:26 | | Subject: | Re: Add Optional Default to Older Listings | | Viewed: | 35 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, StormChaser writes:
| | Currently there is an option to revert to the old catalog listings for items.
Please make it optional (via an opt-in in Settings) for users to default to
the older catalog listing instead of having to right-click on the Buy button.
As a frequent catalog contributor I find the new listings page a nightmare.
I need to see at a glance the information in a catalog entry. I understand the
new catalog listings are expected to drive sales. That's great for everyone,
but I really need less clutter when I'm donating my time and effort
to BrickLink.
Thanks!
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I vote YES!
Maybe it's just "my"  Safari browser, but the Buy button appears at the
bottom right and I have to double right click on it. That's what I was trying
to make work when Paul came home with his downsizing news the other day.
Also, does anyone else end up with double pages when they use the Buy button
method? I find when I'm ready to log off that all the pages I originally
landed on under the new view are still there and have to be closed.
Hopefully making it an option in "OUR"* Settings would help with both problems.
Thea
Always An Adventure!
*see thread It's All About me, me, me...
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