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EDIT2: It did not work, it converted them in the code block as well.
The article titles were truncated, too, weren't they. I'll try and get the code sorted so it works better next time new sets are found.
For the main site I get the Parallels icon in Widows and the proper Brickset on Ubuntu.
Great thing, my brickset's link in the bookmarks seems so "anonymous" before!
Background .. I know a fair bit about interface design and use touch screen devices 100% of the time.
Overall, I find this really painful to use for 3 reasons
(1) Scale - the whole thing is too big. hardly anything fits on my (usually spacious) screen. The whole site is scaled about 15-30% too big.
(2) Wasted real estate - combined with the above, this really does my head in. On a 1366x768 screen, on a set listings page, you can't even see the first item! That really shouldn't happen these days.
(3) Lack of balance - on many screens everything is shouting, and the readability really suffers as a result. Trying to visually scan set names in a list of sets is an obstacle course of big bold icons and things everywhere, the cognitive load is much higher on many pages for no good reason.
Overall, it looks better and is more functional but much of it is worse to use. Just the scale issue alone would swing this.
Anyway, just my 2c, I know Im probably p--ing in the wind :)
Thankfully, I think you are in a minority: I believe the consensus is that the design works well. There's been a vast increase in the rate at which new users are joining since it launched which I think corroborates this.
1. I thought the scale was too large as well to start with, particularly on a widescreen desktop but after having used it for months now, I don't think that's the case at all.
2. The set listing page can be switched to 'classic view' if you don't like the larger layout
3. There's aren't any 'big bold icons' on any pages that I'm aware of. To which page do you refer?
Exactly, I'm expecting that I'm in the minority on any chosen design commitee and certainly don't expect any change at this point in time of course .. Just felt a responsibility to lodge my feedback because one day this design too will get a refresh.
Certainly the weights look different now.
Thanks a bunch!
Don't worry Bing, I am sure it is all meant in good humour...
Could be a cached corrupt JavaScript file.
However, from my initial observations I agree that the data in the BrickLink feed is a bit messy. For example, items marked as new and sealed are sometimes just separately bagged sub-sets from a larger set which is not ideal.
While the system is bedding in I'll be working with BrickLink to try and resolve issues such as this.
The Crooks Hideout, for example, the one with the highest discount in the UK, appears even if you filter to show just new and sealed: http://alpha.bricklink.com/pages/clone/catalogitem.page?view=buy&S=60068-1#T=S&O={"cond":"N","ii":0,"ic":0,"loc":"UK"}
Which might be valid given the actual polybag it's in may well be but it's certainly not what a buyer of the set would expect.
It keeps covering the 'back to top' button and I didn't think it was necessary for members (maybe update the t&c?).
On the ebay site for example, the cookie notice is more irritating as it pushes down the entire page, but once you've logged in, it doesn't bother you, so I don't click it as I always browse logged in anyway.
I was just wondering if this was possible here as I do not see any reason to display it for registered users ( as far as my legal knowledge goes anyway).