Author:  Admin_Russell  Posted:  Apr 17, 2024 00:53  Subject:  Re: Variants Thread - April 16  Viewed:  90 times  Topic:  Catalog Cancel Reply

BrickLink ID Card Admin_Russell Location:  USA, California Member Since Contact Type Status May 9, 2017 Admin BrickLink Administrator

In Catalog, axaday writes:    In Catalog, rickcraine writes:    In Catalog, axaday writes:    In Catalog, Admin_Russell writes:    Hello everyone, I thought it would be good to give people an update on the variant project. As of now, everything we announced would change in this post: https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1454437 has been completed, EXCEPT the decorated minifigure heads and new Help pages. Link for the overview: https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=2625 Scheduled completion date is still the end of May. I didn't realize 32064b was on the chopping block. Wasn't there that whole controversy with that guy who claimed to have used it in a "moc on top of a stud so therefore it was useful" even though it cannot fit on top of a stud 32064b could go on a hollow stud. I would have spoken up on it, but I didn't realize it was on the block. We definitely could have talked about it on the catalog panel if the catalog panel had EVER been consulted about this. The catalog panel was informed of this merge project months before it was announced publicly. But the purpose of the panel is to bring community voice to the development team, not contribute to catalog policy. We do address catalog policy when it comes up, but it's definitely a sideline issue, as are all issues that relate to other BrickLink teams, like Marketplace and Studio. Panel meetings are not the place to debate proposed variant merges. The Forum is, and there was plenty of debate and even opportunity for more debate.    There went a double handful of my catalog work and all the give-a-darn that I had stockpiled. I think I'll go touch grass and see if it is everything people talk it up to be. We knew the hardest thing about this project was having to undo some work that the community had done. The important thing moving forward, though, is that no one is going to keep investing in that handful of variants that we removed. This will also force us to consider more closely the addition of variants in the future, to avoid this happening again. And, like I said clearly before, we have a complete record of all modern inventory change requests. They are all preserved in the Forum for those that want to see what you discovered in your sealed sets. And the vast majority of your work is still completely intact and helping other members, so let's not paint this as a total loss.

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Re: Variants Thread - April 16 - axaday (7302)

[...] 32064b could go on a hollow stud. I would have spoken up on it, but I didn't realize it was on the block. We definitely could have talked about it on the catalog [...] (1 month ago, Apr 16, 2024, to Catalog)

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Re: Variants Thread - April 16 - axaday (7302)

[...] The important thing moving forward, though, is that no [...] This is a serious understatement. From now until I don't know when, I'm not investing in any of [...] (1 month ago, Apr 17, 2024, to Catalog)

Re: Variants Thread - April 16 - jennnifer (3535)

[...] Unless there was a meeting I missed somehow, I do not recollect that we were informed of this project or asked to give any input or suggestions. There was a brief mention [...] (1 month ago, Apr 17, 2024, to Catalog)

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