Brickset site enhancements

Great news. Thank you Huw.

Good to read that local prices on the set detail pages will return. Just wondering — sets from years ~2012 until 2018 showed about 23 local prices. Then, 2019 sets mostly only showed prices for those 5 big countries.
Where did prices then come from for those sets two (or more) years ago? Did LEGO remove them from their feeds during 2019 and now have re-added?

With regards to removing profile links, I'd be curious to know what sites *arent* obsolete, because I feel like every potential option has some massive glaring problems. What are people actually using these days?

Just wondering, when will the minifigs section for early 2020 sets be updated? Quite a few of the Marvel sets in particular are missing minifig profiles.

@Huw said:
" @magmafrost said:
" What are people actually using these days?"

For sharing MOCs, pretty much only Flickr and Rebrickable."

and Instagram (with it's viewing flaws)

Love things like changing the colours of flags, it just makes it a bit more fun. I would say they are not that easy to find how to change, an option under Sets flagged might get used more. Also as you cant enter values and as there are no set colours it seems impossible to make two boxes the same colour.

A shame about my Flickr page being remoced from my profile but, onwards!!!

A side effect of the relatively brief list of new articles on the front page is it makes it harder to catch up with the site if you are not a daily visitor - as soon as you click on a link, and then go back, all of the later articles have vanished again, so you need to continually scroll down, load more articles, and repeat. Is there some javascript that could be used to maintain the number of loaded articles, so it's preserved and restored when you use the back button? I'm pretty sure I've seen some sites that do this, so I think it's possible. But anyway, keep up the amazing work!

^ Thanks for the reply! And also I realise I misunderstood your announcement above - I thought you meant you had changed the number of articles shown on the homepage by default... but what you mean is that you've added an option to CONFIGURE the number of articles on the homepage. Which is absolutely fantastic, and completely solves (for me at least) the issue I had anyway. :) Perhaps it's worth making that more explicit in your announcement? (FWIW, I also misunderstood what you said about colours - I thought you meant you'd changed the defaults of those too, until I read the comments)

Huw

Do you can put the prices for Spain and Portugal too?

Thank you

Solid updates - thanks Huw!

Nice updated! Great work!

Another feature I miss (and I tried reporting it in, but your form crashed) is that in the bricklist creation there is a button to sort the entries by date - would it be possible to have an option to reverse it (so the newest sets come first)?

Please add the option to select separate nanofigs or bigfogs owned

Thanks, Huw.

Would it be possible to change the name of the additional collection checkboxes from "Flag 1", "Flag 2" etc. to something individual?

^ You can already do that. Go to 'Collection checkboxes' on the right-hand side of the Your Profile page. (Although it still shows as 'Flag 1' etc on the configuration page, it will show as the chosen name elsewhere)

Any chance to get more individual flags somewhen in future?
That feature is so useful to me ... but 4 flags are too little for what i'm doing with them unfortunately.

Currently i'm using combinations of the flags to get more substates (like 0000, 0001, 0011, 0100, 0101, 1000, 1001, ...) but as you can clearly see: that's a pain :-)

@GarethMoore said:
"A side effect of the relatively brief list of new articles on the front page is it makes it harder to catch up with the site if you are not a daily visitor - as soon as you click on a link, and then go back, all of the later articles have vanished again, so you need to continually scroll down, load more articles, and repeat. Is there some javascript that could be used to maintain the number of loaded articles, so it's preserved and restored when you use the back button? I'm pretty sure I've seen some sites that do this, so I think it's possible. But anyway, keep up the amazing work!"

Or just try opening links in a new browser tab. That's the quick fix I've been doing to keep that issue from happening to me.

Thanks Huw!

None of these updates helps or affects me at all but thanks for the work...

Yay for Nordic support as well, good of LEGO to share a few crumbs :)

@huw Is The affiliate program for Belgian lego.com store active as well?

@Huw Thanks I didn't know it used operating system's colour picker, all good on chrome, was trying in work on old internet explorer.

It is a shame URLs for Flickr and other sites got removed. Due to ... spam? Nonsense. Never had this issue nor heard any of LUG members to complain about it. So if there were affected by spam, the reason for those probably weren't Brickset related and had other sources.

Thank you for the enhancements, Huw!

@Huw said:
" @Rato said:
"Do you can put the prices for Spain and Portugal too?"

Yes -- I hope to be able to. I'm just waiting to be accepted onto the affiliate schemes for ES, PT and IT.

"

OK

Thanks

Hi Huw, any chance of adding Ireland to the prices too, I’m not sure if our 23% VAT rate makes any change to the final pricing from Lego

Wheres the changes that allows us to see MORE Clickits and LESS Lego Masters....

@Huw said:
"LEGO does not operate an affiliate scheme in Ireland, I'm afraid."

That’s a shame, but unsurprising seeing as we don’t even have a Lego brand store over here.

Thanks for an invaluable site! I'm here 5 days a week.

my only lego link was to Flickr

As always I thank you @Huw for all your work!

I have a non-commercial website with my works. Like a portfolio. I don't seek publicity and I don't even use Instagram, Facebook or a YouTube channel.
It is your website and your rules, but is just strange not to be able to show some of your works on a LEGO fan's website.
I never entered in the last years on LEGO Ideas and I never will as long as I live because I received a notification from them when I contacted a guy in a comment about our common love for architecture. After this their automatic hook spammed me for a year with a BIG LIE that "people are following your MOC's" but I never had a MOC posted on Ideas. Shame on them.

I will still remain here because of your daily work but it's a pity not to see people's pages if they are on good intentions.

Very nice changes, Huw. However, when I changed my "own" and "want" colors, my owned and wanted lists will no longer load. I hope this is temporary, is anyone else experiencing this?

what exactly is the acceptable protocol for sending suggestions for database augmentations? Is there a user guide or some such I can read?

@Huw said:
"^ That sounds odd. Use the contact form below to get in touch then send some screenshots that show what's going on."

I just let it sit for a few hours and it started working again, thank you!

I don't know when it happened, but I would like to say thanks for giving me the ability to now add more than 99 of a set as an owned quantity. Some of the bulk polybag buys can now be tracked properly!

***edit*** I posted too early. I can now enter a number larger than 99, but it won't retain the new quantity. I look forward to it being increased one day.

Thanks for all of the improvements!

Thank you @Huw for all the improvements, I love the option to change the color of my flags

Regards.-

Could you please change it so one can add a specific number/amount to the wanted quantity?

Thanks!

It's a shame you couldn't do something about all of the pop ups and adverts that the site generates, that have made the page(s) a nightmare to navigate. I clicked on two pop ups alone (that for some reason, my blocker won't get rid of) just trying to log on. All of the above are the reasons why I no longer visit this page unless I'm truly lost for something to do!!!