I spend a lot of time nowadays thinking: I am not the target audience for this.
This is the first time I've ever had that thought in regards to Lego. I
just signed an insane acceptance agreement (100+ pages?), lost my ability to
personalize my Bricklink account, accepted a whole batch of new cookies to monitor
my hobby, and was forced to merge two accounts I had absolutely no interest in
connecting.
Why? Near as I can tell ... so that some administrators can control me more.
I looked up: What are the benefits to the merger? And after I had to enter
my birthdate for the 15th time while watching the website repeatedly crash, I
got the wonderfully ironic: It'll make your lego experience smoother with
increased cybersecurity. Really? You just crashed Bricklink and can't even
figure out how to properly set up a page script and that's your selling point?
So much for having a pressure-free hobby for relaxation.
I spend a lot of time nowadays thinking: I am not the target audience for this.
This is the first time I've ever had that thought in regards to Lego. I
just signed an insane acceptance agreement (100+ pages?), lost my ability to
personalize my Bricklink account, accepted a whole batch of new cookies to monitor
my hobby, and was forced to merge two accounts I had absolutely no interest in
connecting.
Why? Near as I can tell ... so that some administrators can control me more.
I looked up: What are the benefits to the merger? And after I had to enter
my birthdate for the 15th time while watching the website repeatedly crash, I
got the wonderfully ironic: It'll make your lego experience smoother with
increased cybersecurity. Really? You just crashed Bricklink and can't even
figure out how to properly set up a page script and that's your selling point?
So much for having a pressure-free hobby for relaxation.
Come. Come ye of little faith.
There are loads of benefits.
For starters there's....um...err... and then there's...oh... and... hmmmm...
and Oh look up there! It's a parrot!
I spend a lot of time nowadays thinking: I am not the target audience for this.
This is the first time I've ever had that thought in regards to Lego. I
just signed an insane acceptance agreement (100+ pages?), lost my ability to
personalize my Bricklink account, accepted a whole batch of new cookies to monitor
my hobby, and was forced to merge two accounts I had absolutely no interest in
connecting.
Why? Near as I can tell ... so that some administrators can control me more.
I looked up: What are the benefits to the merger? And after I had to enter
my birthdate for the 15th time while watching the website repeatedly crash, I
got the wonderfully ironic: It'll make your lego experience smoother with
increased cybersecurity. Really? You just crashed Bricklink and can't even
figure out how to properly set up a page script and that's your selling point?
So much for having a pressure-free hobby for relaxation.
Come. Come ye of little faith.
There are loads of benefits.
For starters there's....um...err... and then there's...oh... and... hmmmm...
and Oh look up there! It's a parrot!
I spend a lot of time nowadays thinking: I am not the target audience for this.
This is the first time I've ever had that thought in regards to Lego. I
just signed an insane acceptance agreement (100+ pages?),
There’s actually very little change to the ToS. You can see the previous versions
here: https://www.bricklink.com/v3/terms_of_service.page (change the date in
the dropdown on the top right).
The issue is that it’s shown on a confetti when you merge your account.
lost my ability to
personalize my Bricklink account, accepted a whole batch of new cookies to monitor
my hobby, and was forced to merge two accounts I had absolutely no interest in
connecting.
Why? Near as I can tell ... so that some administrators can control me more.
I looked up: What are the benefits to the merger? And after I had to enter
my birthdate for the 15th time while watching the website repeatedly crash, I
got the wonderfully ironic: It'll make your lego experience smoother with
increased cybersecurity. Really? You just crashed Bricklink and can't even
figure out how to properly set up a page script and that's your selling point?
Let’s be honest: the site didn’t “crash”, they closed it.
But I concur with the rest.
So much for having a pressure-free hobby for relaxation.
I spend a lot of time nowadays thinking: I am not the target audience for this.
This is the first time I've ever had that thought in regards to Lego. I
just signed an insane acceptance agreement (100+ pages?), lost my ability to
personalize my Bricklink account, accepted a whole batch of new cookies to monitor
my hobby, and was forced to merge two accounts I had absolutely no interest in
connecting.
Why? Near as I can tell ... so that some administrators can control me more.
I looked up: What are the benefits to the merger? And after I had to enter
my birthdate for the 15th time while watching the website repeatedly crash, I
got the wonderfully ironic: It'll make your lego experience smoother with
increased cybersecurity. Really? You just crashed Bricklink and can't even
figure out how to properly set up a page script and that's your selling point?
So much for having a pressure-free hobby for relaxation.
We should just refuse to conduct transactions on Bricklink until they give Bricklink
back to the community. We could pool our money so the community could own it
collectively.
Honestly though, it just makes me want to leave the hobby completely. Not just
because of what's going on with Bricklink, but the rest of the anti-consumer
practices they've been doing. I think it started when they canceled the calendar
so we couldn't plan our purchases around sales events, then it's just
gotten worse since then.
I should just spend my time playing my guitar instead of wasting money on Lego
products. None of this stuff is affordable now anyway.
We should just refuse to conduct transactions on Bricklink until they give Bricklink
back to the community. We could pool our money so the community could own it
collectively.
Bricklink has never been owned by 'the community' (whatever that is).
It has always been someone's property, so there is no giving it back. And
if it was owned by 'the community' it would still need to have direction,
and that would likely be at odds with what parts of the community of owners want
as different people want different things. The good thing about being a customer
of the site is that I can just leave if they do things I don't like. Whereas
if I was a very small owner with very little say, it is harder to just leave.
We should just refuse to conduct transactions on Bricklink until they give Bricklink
back to the community. We could pool our money so the community could own it
collectively.
Bricklink has never been owned by 'the community' (whatever that is).
It has always been someone's property, so there is no giving it back. And
if it was owned by 'the community' it would still need to have direction,
and that would likely be at odds with what parts of the community of owners want
as different people want different things. The good thing about being a customer
of the site is that I can just leave if they do things I don't like. Whereas
if I was a very small owner with very little say, it is harder to just leave.
I happen to agree with all. I just spent over 30 minutes trying to get logged
to Brinklink. NOT LEO. The login would NOT accept my email address. Even thought
the login said Username OR email address. It does not do separate from LEGO
as it first was.
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