The new forum is LIVE and in what I am calling Beta Mode!!

 

The reason I am calling it beta status is because I know there are still some items that need to be tweaked and figured out yet.  Overall, it was a real pain in the butt and hopefully the last time I will ever need to do this. We both truly believe while it was unfortunate to take the forum down for this long, moving forward, the features and ideas we have for this will be worth it.

 

A few things to note (the bad news):

• All your private messages are not on this forum, you will be starting over from scratch (sorry about that)
• You will need to add your avatar
• We are still working out the single sign on code.  There may be a chance you will see an error when logging in from the main site and visiting the forum (this is especially true for new members that have never been to the forum yet)
• Polls are gone
• I am sure there are things I have not noticed yet in the overall setup of the forum.  The features here are 1.2 billion times more robust than the last one
• I need to tweak the template to work better on mobile devices
• I will get the latest forum posts on the home page as soon as I can
• Links to old forum in Google or other search engines will be erratic for a bit until the search engines can reindex the new forum and forget about the old one.

Brickpoints

Brickpoints are still here, but there will be a little bit of work to transition everything to the new style and a few rules may change.  I will be removing the current Brickpoints page and log for bit since it will not be updating like it did before.  Ed and I will have an update on Brickpoints once everything is fully clear to us. 

 

NOW FOR SOME SUPER GREAT NEWS!!!!!

• This forum auto saves as you are typing, which is great if there is failure and you lose the page, etc.  You will not lose your work
• Images and video in the posts.  You will be able to insert images and youtube videos directly in the posts.  This should be a nice feature and hopefully not beaten to death to slow down the pages.  Just paste in a Youtube share link and the forum will automatically convert it and add the player
• Lots of features for finding the latest content since your last visit.  I know lots of you will enjoy that so you can see what you missed while you were gone
• I will post more as the features come to me.

 

There are more things we will be making active once we know the forum is solid. Hopefully everyone like the newer technology and we appreciate the patience while we go through this.  Once we get through the next 24-48 hours, I think things should be pretty solid. If you are running into major problems, please send me an e-mail: [email protected]

 

 

Thanks!!!

Thank you, LFOW. I appreciate the compliment as much as I enjoy browsing your gallery (both here and on Flickr). Keep them MOCs coming!

My personal opinion is that forum rank should be calculated, or at least weighted with, reputation.

The idea being your rank is more indicative of the general quality of your posts versus the sheer, cold amounts of posts you make.

TOK is an example of both quality and quantity coming together, so he's a prime example of someone I'd expect with an extremely high forum rank if his overwriting Moderator tag wasn't present.

 

While I think your idea is good, it can also open a whole bunch of issues.  People will argue that they think their posts deserve a better quality and mine should be higher because I think their posts aren't as good as mine.  Sometimes when things get too complex, it is no longer fun and people lose interest.  This is a forum about LEGO investing, sales, collecting, fun, etc.  What you said about TOK is true and that is why he is a mod as well as the other people are mods.  Sure more members qualify as mods, but we don't need 25 mods right now.  Hopefully one day we will. 

 

For now, the forums will stay as they are.  We will add more awards (some are for fun, some are true awards).  Some of the awards will be there to allow members to see who post "quality".

 

There are two really big projects being worked on now and I still need to circle back to the brickfolio and add features there.  So Ed and I take note of all the suggestions and talk about them all.  There are some we know we want to implement in time.  We just want to get through some of this other stuff first.

That's fine, I said it because I actually think they have too many.

Agreed. Breaking down moderators by theme and having regulators complicates things. I mentioned that page because I liked the layout and structure of how they explained the ranks. They do have lots of awards and ranks that really becomes confusing since not all of them are listed. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

Agreed. Breaking down moderators by theme and having regulators complicates things. I mentioned that page because I liked the layout and structure of how they explained the ranks. They do have lots of awards and ranks that really becomes confusing since not all of them are listed. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

They have a whole heaping load of tags that do not make much sense either, and nothing is shown when you 'mouse over' any of the tag icons either so no help there either. It's more confusing than it needs to be in my opinion. I just like things to be straight and right to the point.

As a casual/daily visitor to this site, how does one advance in rank? What are the levels of these ranks? Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you

It must be getting late... just wasted a few minutes reading through Jeff's first post before noticing that this was from a few months ago.

As a casual/daily visitor to this site, how does one advance in rank? What are the levels of these ranks? Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you

Ranks are determined by the number of posts you have.

 

This picture shows the different ranks. I am not quite sure, but I think these are the rank advances:

Brickpicker (0 posts)

Brick Broker (100 posts)

Brick Troller (250 or 300 posts, I can't remember which)

Brickulator (500 posts)

Brick Adviser (750 posts)

Brick Analysist (1000 posts)

 

With these next ones I'm not as sure, just guessing based on what I've gathered:

 

Brick(folio) Manager (1500 posts?)

Brick Trader (2500 posts?)

Brickvestor (5000 posts?)

Chief Brick Officer (7500-10000 posts?)

Chairman of the Brick (20000 posts?)

 

Hope that helped give you a rough idea of how one advances in rank.

looks pretty sweet!

Brian is pretty much spot on.

 

Brick Troller is 250

 

These are also right I think:

 

Brick(folio) Manager (1500 posts)

Brick Trader (2500 posts)

 

Not sure but we have someone hitting that 5k soon

Brickvestor (5000 posts?)

 

Don't know but probably about right:
Chief Brick Officer (7500-10000 posts?)

Chairman of the Brick (20000 posts?)

With the old setup, I had all the basic ranks figured out but now I have no idea.

Not sure but we have someone hitting that 5k soon

Brickvestor (5000 posts?)

I know, I'm so excited! Just like Stevie Nicks, "I can't wait!" :wink:

I think it is currently setup like this (number of posts):
 

BRICKPICKER 0

BRICK BROKER 100

BRICK TROLLER 250

BRICKULATOR 500

BRICK ADVISOR 750

BRICK ANALYST 1000

BRICKFOLIO MANAGER 1500

BRICK TRADER 3000

BRICKVESTOR 5000

CHIEF BRICK OFFICER 7500

CHAIRMAN OF THE BRICK 10000