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 Author: marlinjc View Messages Posted By marlinjc
 Posted: Jan 26, 2025 11:49
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marlinjc (763)

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There has been a noticeable drop in forum postings since the BL format change.
Is the site being boycotted or abandoned?
 Author: 1001bricks View Messages Posted By 1001bricks
 Posted: Jan 26, 2025 12:01
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In General, marlinjc writes:
  There has been a noticeable drop in forum postings since the BL format change.

Stats?


  Is the site being boycotted or abandoned?

As of right now, BrickLink number of orders for Jan 2025 should be the same as
of Jan 2024, around 310,000. So no, it doesn't show an abandon

But agree there are FAR more important factors in the world than a change of
nav bar, don't you think? So those may have an impact.
 Author: ScubaSteve View Messages Posted By ScubaSteve
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In General, 1001bricks writes:
  In General, marlinjc writes:
  There has been a noticeable drop in forum postings since the BL format change.

Stats?


  Is the site being boycotted or abandoned?

As of right now, BrickLink number of orders for Jan 2025 should be the same as
of Jan 2024, around 310,000. So no, it doesn't show an abandon

But agree there are FAR more important factors in the world than a change of
nav bar, don't you think? So those may have an impact.

well said
 Author: SezaR View Messages Posted By SezaR
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In General, 1001bricks writes:
  In General, marlinjc writes:
  There has been a noticeable drop in forum postings since the BL format change.

Stats?


  Is the site being boycotted or abandoned?

As of right now, BrickLink number of orders for Jan 2025 should be the same as
of Jan 2024, around 310,000. So no, it doesn't show an abandon

But agree there are FAR more important factors in the world than a change of
nav bar, don't you think? So those may have an impact.

comment suivre le nombre total de commandes sur Bricklink ? peut-tu également
suivre le total des commandes, par exemple en un mois comme janvier 2024, soumis
dans un pays spécifique comme Canada??
 Author: Nubs_Select View Messages Posted By Nubs_Select
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In General, SezaR writes:
  In General, 1001bricks writes:
  In General, marlinjc writes:
  There has been a noticeable drop in forum postings since the BL format change.

Stats?


  Is the site being boycotted or abandoned?

As of right now, BrickLink number of orders for Jan 2025 should be the same as
of Jan 2024, around 310,000. So no, it doesn't show an abandon

But agree there are FAR more important factors in the world than a change of
nav bar, don't you think? So those may have an impact.

comment suivre le nombre total de commandes sur Bricklink ? peut-tu également
suivre le total des commandes, par exemple en un mois comme janvier 2024, soumis
dans un pays spécifique comme Canada??

I think on the orders places page you can sort by country and month for orders
placed
 Author: 1001bricks View Messages Posted By 1001bricks
 Posted: Jan 27, 2025 01:08
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In General, SezaR writes:
  In General, 1001bricks writes:
  In General, marlinjc writes:
  There has been a noticeable drop in forum postings since the BL format change.

Stats?


  Is the site being boycotted or abandoned?

As of right now, BrickLink number of orders for Jan 2025 should be the same as
of Jan 2024, around 310,000. So no, it doesn't show an abandon

But agree there are FAR more important factors in the world than a change of
nav bar, don't you think? So those may have an impact.

comment suivre le nombre total de commandes sur Bricklink ?

One way is to take the first order number of the month in your shop, take the
(todays?) most recent one, calculate the difference, then the approx average
orders per day (within those two date), and approximate to the month. Et voilà.
Better if you regularly get orders.

You can do this game with your LEGO orders also... it's just crazy numbers!
And many other places also.


  peut-tu également
suivre le total des commandes, par exemple en un mois comme janvier 2024, soumis
dans un pays spécifique comme Canada??

You can have stats on how many orders you got from Canada (say), but it's
not related to anything else. In short, you can't know.
 Author: SezaR View Messages Posted By SezaR
 Posted: Jan 27, 2025 01:18
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In General, 1001bricks writes:
  In General, SezaR writes:
  In General, 1001bricks writes:
  In General, marlinjc writes:
  There has been a noticeable drop in forum postings since the BL format change.

Stats?


  Is the site being boycotted or abandoned?

As of right now, BrickLink number of orders for Jan 2025 should be the same as
of Jan 2024, around 310,000. So no, it doesn't show an abandon

But agree there are FAR more important factors in the world than a change of
nav bar, don't you think? So those may have an impact.

comment suivre le nombre total de commandes sur Bricklink ?

One way is to take the first order number of the month in your shop, take the
(todays?) most recent one, calculate the difference, then the approx average
orders per day (within those two date), and approximate to the month. Et voilà.
Better if you regularly get orders.

You can do this game with your LEGO orders also... it's just crazy numbers!
And many other places also.


  peut-tu également
suivre le total des commandes, par exemple en un mois comme janvier 2024, soumis
dans un pays spécifique comme Canada??

You can have stats on how many orders you got from Canada (say), but it's
not related to anything else. In short, you can't know.

Thank you very much, but unfortunately, I don't know English.

P.S Actually I had thought to do these calculations but I thought there is a
better and more precise way.
 Author: Stuart9 View Messages Posted By Stuart9
 Posted: Jan 26, 2025 12:02
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I have to say that I too was wondering where everyone has disappeared to, seems
that spam posts are now outnumbering genuine posts.

I don’t like switching back and forth trying to find newest posts, I liked seeing
them all together and choosing which i replied to.

Makes me old fashioned I suppose as the new layout is supposed to be the more
modern type of forum.



In General, marlinjc writes:
  There has been a noticeable drop in forum postings since the BL format change.
Is the site being boycotted or abandoned?
 Author: 1001bricks View Messages Posted By 1001bricks
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In General, Stuart9 writes:
  I have to say that I too was wondering where everyone has disappeared to, seems
that spam posts are now outnumbering genuine posts.

I don’t like switching back and forth trying to find newest posts, I liked seeing
them all together and choosing which i replied to.

Just use this trick; then there's no change, it's as before.
Set it to Forum and simply click on the magnifier whenever you wish, it'll
see new messages.
 
 Author: 1001bricks View Messages Posted By 1001bricks
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In General, 1001bricks writes:
  In General, Stuart9 writes:
  I have to say that I too was wondering where everyone has disappeared to, seems
that spam posts are now outnumbering genuine posts.

I don’t like switching back and forth trying to find newest posts, I liked seeing
them all together and choosing which i replied to.

Just use this trick; then there's no change, it's as before.
Set it to Forum and simply click on the magnifier whenever you wish, it'll
see new messages.

^"it'll show", or "you'll see"
 Author: Stuart9 View Messages Posted By Stuart9
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Thanks for that, completely missed this option.



In General, 1001bricks writes:
  In General, Stuart9 writes:
  I have to say that I too was wondering where everyone has disappeared to, seems
that spam posts are now outnumbering genuine posts.

I don’t like switching back and forth trying to find newest posts, I liked seeing
them all together and choosing which i replied to.

Just use this trick; then there's no change, it's as before.
Set it to Forum and simply click on the magnifier whenever you wish, it'll
see new messages.
 Author: TallyToyBricks View Messages Posted By TallyToyBricks
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Just use this trick; then there's no change, it's as before.
Set it to Forum and simply click on the magnifier whenever you wish, it'll
see new messages.

Thanks! Did not realize you could do that.
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In General, Stuart9 writes:
  I have to say that I too was wondering where everyone has disappeared to, seems
that spam posts are now outnumbering genuine posts.

I don’t like switching back and forth trying to find newest posts, I liked seeing
them all together and choosing which i replied to.

Makes me old fashioned I suppose as the new layout is supposed to be the more
modern type of forum.


Also, once you get to the Forum, you can reset to the optimal page by clicking
the Discussion Forum heading at the top of any page.

Also, Hide Cancelled Messages here:

https://www.bricklink.com/messageFilter.asp?viewFrom=P

~Jen
 
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Thank you.

Now makes me wonder what else I’m missing.



In General, jennnifer writes:
  In General, Stuart9 writes:
  I have to say that I too was wondering where everyone has disappeared to, seems
that spam posts are now outnumbering genuine posts.

I don’t like switching back and forth trying to find newest posts, I liked seeing
them all together and choosing which i replied to.

Makes me old fashioned I suppose as the new layout is supposed to be the more
modern type of forum.


Also, once you get to the Forum, you can reset to the optimal page by clicking
the Discussion Forum heading at the top of any page.

Also, Hide Cancelled Messages here:

https://www.bricklink.com/messageFilter.asp?viewFrom=P

~Jen
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In General, marlinjc writes:
  There has been a noticeable drop in forum postings since the BL format change.
Is the site being boycotted or abandoned?

They have effectively hidden all useful links. Only the dedicated are remapping
their way and any newer people are unlikely to find us.

~Jen
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In General, marlinjc writes:
  There has been a noticeable drop in forum postings since the BL format change.
Is the site being boycotted or abandoned?

I only boycotted my mirror, I dont like that person who stares back at me
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In General, marlinjc writes:
  There has been a noticeable drop in forum postings since the BL format change.
Is the site being boycotted or abandoned?

Topics are better siloed now so you aren't seeing all the topics thrown together
on one page. Of course the caveat with that is that it's harder (for me)
to tell where all the chatter is so I haven't been commenting as much. Topics
only stay bolded for 59 minutes after the most recent post and I'm not going
to go down the list to check the time stamps to see what's most recently
been talked about.
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Topics are better siloed now

Just for info, that Topics page has always existed (well, at least since topics
have existed on this forum).  It just wasn’t the “default” one.
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This add-on helps alot:

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/bricktinker/pikfjcohcfpohlckdhdggpcpfdkekomf?hl=en&pli=1

You can use it in MS Edge too.


In General, Ziegelmeister writes:
  
Topics are better siloed now so you aren't seeing all the topics thrown together
on one page. Of course the caveat with that is that it's harder (for me)
to tell where all the chatter is so I haven't been commenting as much. Topics
only stay bolded for 59 minutes after the most recent post and I'm not going
to go down the list to check the time stamps to see what's most recently
been talked about.
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In General, marlinjc writes:
  There has been a noticeable drop in forum postings since the BL format change.
Is the site being boycotted or abandoned?

No, they just made the site harder to navigate. It's honestly impressive
how bad they screwed up the update.
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In General, marlinjc writes:
  There has been a noticeable drop in forum postings since the BL format change.
Is the site being boycotted or abandoned?

Forum posts have been trending down for years. Bricklink could do more to promote
the forum but they don't.
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In General, zorbanj writes:
  In General, marlinjc writes:
  There has been a noticeable drop in forum postings since the BL format change.
Is the site being boycotted or abandoned?

Forum posts have been trending down for years. Bricklink could do more to promote
the forum but they don't.

That’s a great idea! Then we could have a larger selection of gummies to pick
from when the spammers show up!
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It's difficult to find. Almost as if they want it to go away.
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In General, marlinjc writes:
  There has been a noticeable drop in forum postings since the BL format change.
Is the site being boycotted or abandoned?

Five extra clicks to find things isn't much fun...
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In General, wahiggin writes:
  In General, marlinjc writes:
  There has been a noticeable drop in forum postings since the BL format change.
Is the site being boycotted or abandoned?

Five extra clicks to find things isn't much fun...

Seems Lego does have something in common with my ex wife...........
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In General, ScubaSteve writes:
  In General, wahiggin writes:
  In General, marlinjc writes:
  There has been a noticeable drop in forum postings since the BL format change.
Is the site being boycotted or abandoned?

Five extra clicks to find things isn't much fun...

Seems Lego does have something in common with my ex wife...........

Ah? Me as long as the site's happy I don't have a problem making extra
clicks.
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In General, marlinjc writes:
  There has been a noticeable drop in forum postings since the BL format change.
Is the site being boycotted or abandoned?

Nah, not really. Sunday is just a dead day here The day of rest so some of
us are taking a break