Site changes

Can I request that an all-encompassing tag be added for parts which are part of either a creature or a minifig or anything of that nature? Its kinda annoying having to individually filter out all the "creature", "creature component", etc, tags when browsing through colours, especially since there's a limit on how many tags you can exclude and that limit isnt high enough to filter out all of the creature/figure parts.

Thanks @Huw !

Awesome web site just gets better and better :-)

Nice

This is super great. Thanks a million!

@Huw - would it be possible to have an option to put newest comment first or split into pages? On items with a lot of comments it takes a long time to scroll to the last one.

Thanks for this Huw.

Fantastic!
More checkboxes is really useful,
and adding them to minifig entries will be life changing for me!!!
MANY THANKS HUW.

Sorry, maybe it is just me, but I can not get the “Minifigs missing” funktion to work. It is checked on the site, but nothing appears on the minifigures.

I'm probably being daft, but I can't find anymore in the settings the option to remove themes we don't care about (e.g. Duplo and Star Wars in my case) from searches and listings.

This is a great addition, along with the more accessible notes being recently added. I have been using a Google Sheet to keep track of all of my son's sets, duplicating the info here, but with a notes field so I could keep track of who got him each set and when (e.g. "5th birthday present from Uncle Mike"). The notes field now being more present (I did not know they were there previously), and these check boxes should go a long way in helping eliminate the need for an external list.

My only comment, is that I can't seem to sort on the new checkboxes, as then I could create 2 sub lists for my sets and my son's sets, w/o the need for two separate accounts or a mixed bag of owned sets. But that's a "me" problem and a nice to have. :D

Love the changes and the site, Huw. Thanks for your continued passion and involvement in the community!

Awesome update. Thank you for working hard to make an already great site even better.

Any chance of getting these exposed via the API? :)

@Huw said:
" @KyloRen0806 said:
"Sorry, maybe it is just me, but I can not get the “Minifigs missing” funktion to work. It is checked on the site, but nothing appears on the minifigures."

They are removed immediately but the next time you use the site, or add a set to your collection the flag should be taken into account and minifigs in the sets so marked will not appear in your minifig collection."

Last time this topic was around it did not work either. I can not see what I have done wrong. It has not worked for me at all.

@Huw said:
" @Dieselville said:
"My only comment, is that I can't seem to sort on the new checkboxes, as then I could create 2 sub lists for my sets and my son's sets, w/o the need for two separate accounts or a mixed bag of owned sets. But that's a "me" problem and a nice to have. :D"

You can't sort on them but you can filter: there will be options in the 'Collection' drop down that enable you to view flagged sets and there are links on the My Sets page.

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Awesome! And I did mean filter, not sort, so that's great and I'll check it out. Thanks, Huw!

Thank you for the new flags, Huw!

@Huw said:
" @KyloRen0806 said:
"Last time this topic was around it did not work either. I can not see what I have done wrong. It has not worked for me at all."

Contact me via https://brickset.com/contact and explain what you've tried and I'll help get it sorted.
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Thanks, but that is unneeded. Just tried again and now it strangely enough worked. Thanks anyway. :)

Is there any chance of enabling emoji in these comments? Or would that bloat the database too much... or open doors for weird ASCII quirks (and emoji abuse) that you don't want to deal with?

I like the way emoji helps me convey tone, but I can understand if you don't want them in here. Just curious, though.

Just a few days ago I thought "would be nice to have more categories available". Now I can't remember for which purpose I've wanted to use them...
What a luxury.

*Please* no emojis! Maybe it's just me but I consider them incredibly trashy, if nothing else from an esthetic/typographic point as full-color emojis sticks out like sore thumbs among otherwise all-black text (personally I think the Unicode project jumped the shark when they started focusing on these). If you need to convey tone you still have the perfectly usable :-) , :-( etc, I prefer to be able to use these without them being converted to garish color icons.

BTW, is there a reason you've closed the Osprey comments *again*? I could've understood temporarily closing them if you had no-one to watch over the discussion at night, but got disappointed they weren't opened again today. The only remotely bad I could see was two or three users having a needlessly lengthy discussion about the appropriateness of a rumored Colosseum set, and the main reason it became so lengthy was 'cause everyone insisted on quoting all previous posts in their entirety. Maybe you should add a "trim your quotes" note to the "read the entire thread before posting" part?

I noted that the number of 'votes' for my reviews has (very) recently decreased. Would that be due to the removed accounts?

I use those boxes for my kids' sets, too, so good to know I can filter by them--thanks!

@ra226 - I found the trick, based on Huw's feedback was that you can filter when you click on Browse -> Sets from the site's header. Under the "My Collection" dropdown, you can filter on the tags (e.g. "Jack's Sets" or "Jill's Sets").

So my process now is "Owned" checkbox for my own sets, and then these tags (and not "Owned") for my kid's sets. So far, it's working great!

why is no one talking about the leaked Star Wars Bespin set?

Hi Huw,

Before I buy a set, I check its inventory to see how many new/interesting parts I get. I am currently reordering the inventory table on number of pieces owned, get a piece of paper, note the ones I don't have/want, and make a decision about buying the set or bricklinking parts.

I would love to have a checkbox in every line, so I can select the pieces and have a dynamically generated total line at the end (No need for it to be saved on the DB). Would you be interested in such a feature?

@axeleng said:
"Maybe you should add a "trim your quotes" note to the "read the entire thread before posting" part?"
Another option is to insert code in the site that automatically removes the rest of the quote tree besides for the most recent part of it. A different site I frequent does this, and it works well.

@Huw said:
" @RikTheVeggie said:
"Any chance of getting these exposed via the API? :)"

Maybe!"

Yes please. Using Selenium to update these gets rather tedious at times.

Thanks a lot @Huw ! Things like those additions really show that this site DOES get the love it deserves (and by doing so, it makes our hobby a bit easier to manage).

Wonderful, this is great, thanks Huw. I've used this feature extensively, keeping track of the exact state of all my sets and always wished we could have more than then 4 customizable check boxes. Let the new enhanced set organising begin!

It seems that the extra categories no longer show on the pages for buying - ex: https://brickset.com/buy/country-ca/vendor-Amazon/mycollection-Flag4 . It is showing the sets I have added Flag 4 to, but it only shows columns for 'own' and 'want' on the right. It used to show cols for all the flags, which is helpful as a visual aid especially when I use multiple flags for a specific meaning.

I get that it might be too 'cluttered' for some people with all 8 flags, but I would like to see them - perhaps that's something that could be turned on/off in a drop down or user profile or something?

EDIT: Also, is it possible to add an option to the filter for 'My Collection' where there is no category picked? I can then easily find sets that I haven't categorized yet. Right now I have to bring up everything from 2020 and go through the whole list to notice ones I haven't already categorized

Thanks so much @Huw ! That's gonna save me so much time

Thanks, Huw,
Often, I don't initially understand what the tweaks to the site are or why people might want them but after I figured out what the extra categories were and how they could be used, I had to ask, "What took you so long?!" Seriously, though, these are a really nice addition. These will help me identify which sets I'm ready and willing to sell. And will help give me something to show the spouse that will prove I'm at least making an effort!

Good morning everyone, and what a new dawn..... sounds mad but I can now sort by wanted again (and therefore bargains) without my cluttered double flag means "to do next" sub sets. Bliss. Thanks again Huw.

The ad spam if you're not logged in is simply horrendous. Every time I go to the page and I'm not logged in, I'm bombarded with at least three embedded pop-up windows I have to close out before the site is able to be decently read. And when I go to a new page, I have to repeat the process.

That much ad spam is going to turn off people new to the site.

@ArtfulDodger said:
"I'm bombarded with at least three embedded pop-up windows I have to close out before the site is able to be decently read. And when I go to a new page, I have to repeat the process. "

Save a cookie and log in once, the ads on the site allow Huw to make this his full-time focus.
I also think that logging in to remove the ads is a good incentive to help combat the spammers Huw mentioned, that little extra effort probably does a lot to keep the trolls at bay.

I have always wanted to include MISB sets into the system (which I'm recording it through a different method). This is in order to separate and filter, my opened sets with the MISB sets.

Now this is possible, very neat features and well done!

@Huw said:
" @masterX244 said:
"Maybe link it to some activity so you cannot edit it unless you showed some useful activity on the site"

That's not a bad idea. Maybe I could make it so it's not editable until you've been a member for a month or something.
"
Would it help to have a the portion of the link non-editable? For example: youtube.com/[channel link here] or twitter.com/[profile name here]

This way the only part that could be modified would be the name, not the entire link.