I am creating this thread to start posting some updates or sometimes may solicit some feedback for the upcoming Brickpicker v4.0 update. Progress as been somewhat slow, but continuous for a while. It's funny that I just read the the post by Nathan over @ Rebrickable who just launched his 3rd update of the site.

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For the last year I have been working hard on completely rebuilding Rebrickable from scratch. I estimated it would take me a year, secretly thinking I could probably do it faster. Of course, I seriously underestimated the effort required. 5 years of adding features and tweaking things on Rebrickable adds up to a significant amount of functionality that needed to be rebuilt. There were several times when I considered abandoning the attempt.

Kudos to him. I feel the exact same way. Actually, I think all developers are just a little bit nuts when it comes to expectations and timelines.

This is not going to be an in-depth post, just a kickstarter post to give me a place to where I can go to to share my thoughts and ideas as well as to gather some from all of you.  You may have noticed my new graphic on the forum index that will allow you to post ideas, members can vote on them and feedback can be given.  Its a cool service that allow you to build a roadmap and integrate it with project management software.  The past two years I have learned to use lots of fun tool at my 9-5 job (like Jira), and I have learned to become a less chaotic engineer.

Anyhow, here is a small bullet list of things to expect with v4.0:

• Site redesign.  Everything will finally all look like its part of the same site. 
• Price guide and Brickfolio overall
• Yes, sold sets will finally be there
• Multiple brickfolios for those that have personal and business
• Lots more data to do your own analysis on your collection
• Full syncing with Brickset/Rebrickable (instead of just the import only feature that is currently there)
• Brick Classifieds will be brought into Brickpicker.  (probably my most hated thing I did was create a separate site)
• There will be a premium offering (more info will be released at a later time).

There is much more to announce, but I am not ready to go into details until I actually can show a few things.  There is no ETA announcement just yet.  I will say it will be sooner rather than later, but not ready to commit to date.  I want to make sure I will be able to hit and there is still work and QA to do.

Anyhow, thats what I have for now. Again, feel free to leave some ideas for other members to read, vote on and see if it can be added into the initial release or we can add it to the roadmap for future release.  More to come....

no.  Green = Good....Red = Bad, but i do know what you are saying.  I can make them yellow and purple if you want.

I like purple.

Be careful, with all this creative brainstorming, TLG will be hiring you all for their remakes and rehashes design division!

Should the next X-Wing have red or green flick missiles?

7 minutes ago, Jeff Mack said:

no.  Green = Good....Red = Bad, but i do know what you are saying.  I can make them yellow and purple if you want.

I take it you don't use Twitter, where green is retweet & red is like (heart). Still not sure why there's a dislike though. Seems kinda mean spirited to me.

oh there plenty of posts that deserve one

mine included in that.

oh there plenty of posts that deserve one [emoji4]

I guess I'm just used to my dislike posts disappearing...[emoji4]

By the way, the down arrow could disappear and just go back to the like.  Whatever we were talking about yesterday made me just turn it on to show the feature was here.  I may turn it back that way a little later.  There are positives to it, some were mentioned here.  It is a way the community can police bad posts on their own.  I liked the idea that 'x' number of down votes hides the post.  Not sure how much it would really get used here.  99.9% of the time, everything is good.

5 minutes ago, Jeff Mack said:

 99.9% of the time, everything is AWESOME

Fixed that for you 

I am glad you put it and not me. It was in my head, by then I thought people would feel I drank the kool-aid to much.

I think that the mob delete action might create more trouble than not.

In the past, whenever discussions have gotten heated, and posts start getting selectively deleted - it never goes over very well. So now if there are 2 camps of opinions, with the new ability to actively look to cancel off the other opinions posts, it could get messy.

An option to label a post as being inappropriate might be good (then after a certain number of them, a mod can review/delete if needed). 

Its all back to the way it was.  No more discussion needed on the like (or dislike) button

Its all back to the way it was.  No more discussion needed on the like (or dislike) button [emoji4]

It's like Classic Coke all over again!

How about a "disapprove" button? Does that sound better?

 

I guess the down arrows are necessary if you didn't have mods. I think the mods are what keep the site safe and clean.

 

But I would like to be able to disagree with someone with out having to write an entire post.

 

How about a politely colored "disagree" button? No feelings hurt.

 

Is it a bug, or an I doing something wrong? Whenever I edit a post in the app, it always adds an extra line after every paragraph. Even ones not edited.

10 hours ago, redghostx said:

It's like Classic Coke all over again!

 

I liked the New Coke.

I am not going to waste more time on it. People are too sensitive anymore to get a down vote.  If people post good stuff, no need to worry.  I liked it, but get tired of talking about it. More important things to work on.

33 minutes ago, Jeff Mack said:

I am not going to waste more time on it. People are too sensitive anymore to get a down vote.  If people post good stuff, no need to worry.  I liked it, but get tired of talking about it. More important things to work on.

Exactly.  The vote down option will  just end up causing more time to be allocated to it.  Similar to the other times it was implemented on your forum