Sorry for the break in the LEGO news, but I thought it is important to update you on what is happening with the server issues we experienced last week. According to the server guys the issues have been fixed, however while looking into it they discovered that one of the problems is TBB itself. 😕
When our readers left a comment they had the option to subscribe to any future comments in that thread. This way readers got a convenient email whenever a new comment was submitted by someone else; further discussing the topic, answering questions, etc. As we have several hundred readers subscribed to comments, and we do get a lot of comments, this resulted in as much as over a 1,000 emails per hour sent out by TBB. 😎
The server guys told me that most websites only send out a handful of emails per day. Even though their limit is 1,000 emails per hour, if a website regularly sends out a few hundred emails it raises red flags as the server can get overloaded. The point is; we are too chatty for our server! 🙄
To make sure there are no further issues with overusing our server and getting our account suspended as a result, I have disabled the Subscribe to Comments plugin for now. I know this is an inconvenience, and I’m looking for other solutions that can handle comment-subscription better.
In the meantime I would suggest that you bookmark the topics and articles you are interested in, so you have quick access to them, and can check easily if there are new comments and discussions. And if you have any ideas for me for managing our chatty crowd of LEGO fans better, or have other suggestions for our readers how to best handle staying on top of topics, feel free to share them in the comment section below. 😉
Just to be clear; commenting is still allowed and encouraged as it helps to support the LEGO community. You just can’t subscribe to comments for now. However you can subscribe to our once-a-day email newsletter that will update you on the latest articles: Subscribe to TheBrickBlogger by Email
And now back to the topic of LEGO – stay tuned for tomorrow… 😛
hmmmm… maybe if you opened another separate site for Ninjago since those are the articles that are more heavily commented on that would leave room for the other non-Ninjago LEGO related articles and comments LOL… just kidding 😀 … I don’t wanna get Spinjitzued on!!!
Micho, yeah, you may get spinjitzued over! 🙄
But seriously, what I’m looking for is a WordPress plugin that will allow me to disable comment subscription on individual posts. I don’t see why this would be so difficult, but so far I was not able to find a plugin like that. But I will keep looking.
I do want to put comment subscription back, as it is very useful for readers who ask questions and are not that familiar with TBB yet. They find an article, ask me some question, and have no idea how to get back to it to see if I had responded. 😕
I have a seperate site for Ninjago! ninjaofninjago.wordpress.com
Could you have a place for commenting like a Message Board? Just think out loud! 😉
Thanks admin for shutting it down! I get over 70 emails a day! 😆
LOL! I guess at least somebody is happy about it! BTW, you had full control of what emails you received. But that’s a mute subject right now anyway. 😉
I know, but I needed to be updated with the comments!
LOL! So you wanted them, but didn’t. Well, I guess that paradox is solved for now. 🙄
It was his blessing… and his burden to live with LOL 😀
I get like 100!
I have considered a chat plugin, if you guys are interested. The reason I have not installed one so far is because I’m concerned about the safety of it. Especially since we have a lot of young readers. I know Brickli.me had one for a while and they had to disable it due to the amount of weird comments. And that was a members-only forum. TBB is a lot more open, and we already had issues with some weird people in the past, but I have a lot more control over them in comments that I would have in chat. I might look into sume chat plugins that require membership. I think there are some out there…
That sounds good! But I also wouldn’t like weird comments 😆
I will continue looking into this, making sure whatever we end up using will work for both of our members and our server. 😉
I think it would be a MUCH better idea to create a forum. And then make it be one with moderation. That is posts having to be reviewed before posting. You could then “hire” volunteer moderators. You could set up a review system before accepting moderators though.
Yes, a Forum can be added. I don’t want to do it too soon though. I know of too many LEGO blogs that added a Forum too soon, and the Forums are dead or almost dead. That just doesn’t look good. I don’t think we have the kind of traffic for a Forum just yet, but will consider it for the future. 😉
You dont think so? I know that there is an absolute neurotic following of Ninjago that I think would happily cling on to a forum. 🙂
Hm… maybe you are right, but I don’t know if I want to be the person running that. 🙄
You dont think so? I know that there is an absolute neurotic following of Ninjago that I think would happily cling on to a forum. 🙂 For some reason it keeps telling me I am posting a duplicate comment?
Adding that sentence about duplicates made it stop. weird. 😛
Yes, because you posted a duplicate comment. LOL! 😆
haha! It wasn’t showing up before! 🙂
So the problem is the emails, not the comments themselves, right? If not, I should probably stop writing comments like this.
And would posting less smilies help?(Just thinking of ways to help out.)
Nick, thanks for the ideas and help! One time one of our youngling readers decided to post a comment with several hundred smilies. That almost broke the site. The page just wouldn’t load! But a few smilies here and there will cause no harm. I like them and use them myself. 😉
You don’t happen to be refering to that time with me and nace … are you?
No, I think it was a while ago 😉
LOL! Naw… 🙄
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Nick, that is correct. The issue was the huge amount of emails that were triggered by comment subscriptions. The number of comments themselves don’t seem to be a problem. The Ninjago posts have as many as 7,000 comments on a single article and the server guys didn’t complain about that. At least not yet. 🙄
I’m looking for a WordPress plugin that will allow me to turn on and off comment-subscription on a post by post basis. I think this way I could manage the amount of emails being sent out, turning off subscription on posts that are getting too popular. 😉
He-he. So we broke the server, huh? All power to TBB! 😀
I have nothing to do with this! I dont subscribe. 😀
Can’t trust snakes! 🙄
Tim, the server breaking was not our fault. However while the tech-guys were fixing it they discovered the huge number of emails TBB was sending out. 😈
They gave me a slap on the hand and told me to do something about it; I was given the option of getting rid of the plugin or upgrading to a larger server. Right now I can’t afford a larger server, so the plugin had to go. But at some point I know we will have to upgrade…
Well, that’s good that you disabled email notifications for comments because I clicked that check mark one time. I thought I was just going to receive emails for comments that were just a reply to my comment, but afterwards, I got emails from this server and none of them were replies to my comment.
Jasper, sorry for the misunderstanding! Comment subscription subscribed you to all the comments on a particular post. You did have a way to manage your subscription, but it is dead now anyway, so no use of discussing it further. 😉
That’s what I thought at first too. . . and then I saw that I was wrong & unsubscribed from most things 😉
So all along it was… us? wow. does that mean you won’t be sending us the updates on articles anymore?
Taryn, article updates are a separate thing. Those you can still subscribe to, and I encourage everyone to do so. It is only one email a day. The link is right at the end of the post.
I always heard that LEGO fans are kind of to-themselves, minding-their-own-business, solitary folks. Not around here! 🙄
lol who ever heard of the brick blogger getting too popular?
today it was confirmed that the hobbit would be three films, not just two. I’m so excited.
Oh, that is wonderful! Can’t wait! 😀
cool.
I know!!!
I have two ideas: 1 is that it only sends an email for when it’s a reply to your comment . 2 is that it only sends emails on the most recent post, like it would send you the emails on comments for this one but once there’s a new post it stops. Anyway, just some ideas, not sure if they would actually work though. 🙂
Quad, thans for the suggestions. The first one I may be able to implement. I think I saw a plugin for something like that. I will have to check it out again. 😉
The second suggestion might work for regular readers, but please remember that about 50% of our visitors are brand new, coming from search engines like Google and Yahoo. They land on an article that may have been written months ago, and they have a question about it. Like for example your article on the LEGO Water Techniques. Somebody may read that today the first time and would like to ask you a question. With the comment subscription feature, you were notified if a new comment or question landed on that article. Unfortunately that is no longer the case. 🙁
Of course I still get notified as I see all comments on all posts in one place, so I could probably let you know that, but it can be a lot of extra work. Expecially now that we have so many contributors.
That you have taken the time to think about solutions is very much appreciated! With all the comments and suggestions from all of you, we should be able to find something that works. 🙂
Hmm, how about you send an email once every 10 – 15 comments? That way, if it’s a really hot topic, people will be notified. Those topics that aren’t that active can be checked by people who want to.
Yes, that’s what I would like to do! However I’m not a programmer. Someone has to write a plugin that works with WordPress. I have looked throught the current ones and I couldn’t find one that does that. But I will keep looking. 😉
Okay, sounds good! 🙂
Try hiring someone to make the plugin. It probably wouldn’t be that difficult to do. If you have enough extra money left over from ads why not try it? I’m sure you could find someone willing to do it. 🙂 I’d do it myself if I could but sadly I cant. 😛 🙂
Yes, I may try that. I like to go one step at a time. I just want to make sure this new server is working right. I think we should know that by tomorrow, and definitely next week, when we will be unplugged from the old server. I’m also testing in two weeks, so I really have to focus on my training right now. After that I can start tackling issues like that. 🙂
Getting Popular?!?!?! Come on you get News late like those comic con figures I saw them 1 week ago before posted it and lots other news is like 2-3 days late. -_- I barely even go here anymore
Ninjago fan, TBB is not a LEGO news site. There is plenty of those. Why repeat what others are already doing? TBB is for LEGO fans to discuss topics that mainly focuses on sharing the passion of the LEGO hobby, which may include tips, tutorials, ideas, opinions, and naturally at times some LEGO news. TBB also facilitates LEGO fans who like to publish their own in-debt articles without going through the trouble of running their own blog, or getting burried in a Forum.
TBB has somewhere between 7,000-10,000 visits a day. That’s pretty good for a blog that is only 1 and a half years old. I’m not running it as a business like large LEGO websites with a dedicated and paid staff. It is simply my personal blog and hobby to share what I know and let others share what they know.
The beauty of the Internet is that there is a great variety of LEGO websites and you can pick and choose which ones you like. If you are only looking for hot news, TBB probably won’t work for you, and that is totally fine. We are not a hot news site. Only a hot chatty site. 😉
I have to say I like TBB MUCH better then hot news websites. I do still check those, but not as much as TBB.
Nick, thanks for your support. I actually look at all the LEGO news sites myself, as I like to know what’s coming. There is no competition, only cooperation and synergy. I’m friends with the owners of many of the other LEGO sites, news or otherwise. In fact I’m planning to write a post about my favorites for your guys. 😉
I like TBB much better then hot news sites.
OOPS
After all, you aren’t really that slow on news – for a long time I got all my news here 😉 And I don’t really like having to look all over for new stuff – so getting it all in one place is nice! 😀
Oh ok :O I just didn’t like the fact that most of the news is late and I also forgot that this is a blog anyways keep up the work 🙂
Thanks! 😀
and boy are we chatty!!! even though I do check two other LEGO blogs, one for news and one for creations this is definitely my favorite one, and where I spend most of my time chatting it up… whaaaaat? The blog is only 1.5 years old??? WOW!!! Glad to see it’s doing so good. When does it turn 2?
Micho, TBB will be 2 years old January 1st 2013. I will probably write a birthday post at that time like I did on the 1st BD, sharing some interesting stats and stuff about TBB and its visitors. 😉
sweet!!!!
Can’t the host move your site’s traffic through a larger server?… or is there a cost involved in that??? Not sure how hosts servers work. But yeah, a chat service would not be appropriate for this site, South Park had an episode about Chat Roulette and what kind of weirdos like to chat… and if it’s on South Park then it must be true LOL
Micho, yes, and that is an option, but it comes with a cost. Thanks for mentioning that about chat! Good to know! 🙄
………………………………i wonder who comments the most?………………….
Jay, I could check if you give me some names of who you think it would be. 😉
Let me guess. . . probably you! 😉
Well, I have got 5,122, but I don’t know if I count as this is my blog. 😉
You are not doing so bad either, with 1,130 😀
Let’s see. . . 1,130 isn’t too bad for 6 months. . . 😉
Yeah, you will catch up in no time! 😉
jeeze, everytime I join something, I bring in the crowd
lol
LOL! 😀
HELP! IM SLIPPING UNCONTROLLABLY INTO THE DARK AGES! HELP! GASP*
I am glad I don’t have to worry about that, I already had it.
me too, just came out of my dark ages last winter Nick
Oh, yeah, I remember you mentioning that! And came out you did! With lots of enthusiasm! I did the same; like wanting to catch up on all the lost years! 🙂
I’m just glad I missed all that Jayko/Santis/Vladek stuff… horrible LOL… I am however sad I missed the Fantasy Era Crown Knights… that’s what I’ve been catching up on, still need Trolls and dwarves though.
LOL! Yeah, the “Rainbow Knights” – that’s what AFOLs called them. I remember looking at them at the LEGO isle with disbelief. What happened to LEGO? Fortunately they recovered their senses and better color taste. 🙄
Fantasy Era is my most favorite LEGO Castle line. It is totally awesome, really worth it and very enjoyable. The big castle is especially nice! Also the dwarf mine and the troll fortress. And all those troll warmachines! It is a creative and a very interesting line. The color combinations are excellent, and the minifigures look really sweet. 🙂
Do you have most of the Fantasy Era stuff Anna?
Micho, yes, I do. I’m not a collector though, but a MOC-er, so they got incorporated into other stuff. I don’t have much interest in keeping sets as they come. I usually build them once, then either make them better, or take them apart and build something else. 🙄
If you are into castle Fantasy Era has a great selection of parts for castle-building. And of course not to speak of the minifigs. But I think they are quite expensive now. Kingdoms is okay as far as the sets, but it is not nearly as interesting as Fantasy Era. 😉
yeah, I think I have 14 total crown knights, including the Royal family… I need a fully Golden Knight and the trolls and dwarves, not really into the skeleton army but they do have great accessories. I’m more of a collector, so I try to keep my sets complete, and I like to build them up or build around them… I have a medieval Village made up of the Medieval Market Village, the Windmill Village Raid, the Blacksmith Shop, and have added custom minifigures, a river, a bridge, and a carrot patch. I had a blast building it up, since it took me like 3 months to finish and order parts and all that good stuff you know about. I plan on doing the same for POTC as soon as I get the last two sets I need to complete the whole collection, Cannibal escape and Fountain of Youth… oh and the Captains Quarters so 3
Micho, that’s a nice collection. Also they complement each other, so you should have an excellent selection of parts to expand any of those themes. Yes, the gold knight is very sweet! If you have a chance I would recommend getting one. He is one of my favorite minifigs. 😉
I got out last summer.
Oh wow!!! We were like re-born from TFOLs into AFOLs LOL … well I’m not sure how old you are Nick maybe you’re a KFOL who was re-born into a TFOL idk LOL… wow so many acronyms
Yeah, I guess the dark ages is like chicken-pox; you usually only get it once in your life. 🙄
No! Not you! Quick, do something! Guys, pull him back up! 😥
Well, it might not be this way with you, but I am glad for my dark ages. After it, I seemed to like lego even more. (possibly because I was just watching star wars for the first time, my liking of the cars and cars 2 movies, and then LOTR). So I think it helped me out in an odd way.
And then seeing Lotr lego pictures I mean.
Just ignore these three comments by me. I forgot to write some of the point in the first comment so it was kinda useless
I’m slipping down into darkness also….. Its so sad, but I will come back. 🙂 Its mainly cause of too much Minecraft
too little money, and too much of a desire to keep stuff built. ( BTW when I saw you say “HELP! IM SLIPPING UNCONTROLLABLY INTO THE DARK AGES! HELP! GASP*” I thought at first you meant the dark ages of history. weird. O-O
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BTW I’m probably getting the LOTR Helms Deep set for my B’day! 😀 WHEEEE!
If you do get Helms Deep, it will save you from the Dark Ages. 😉
The most I get for my birthday is $30 worth. . . 🙁 😉
Same here
Yeah, I wouldn’t suggest you give into the Dark Ages Force… because when you come out you will have to invest a LOT more than if you stuck around. Trust me, I regret it everyday!!!
You mean, they won’t let you send out to many notifications? I’m sorry but I don’t really understand the problem. :/
That is correct. I was told that the number of our readers subscribing to comments resulted in too many emails being sent out for a shared server. 🙁
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You’re gonna have to do something harder than that.
Noah, your blog is very nice! 😀
Thank you! Whats TBB’s theme? And how do you do the thing were the catergories have different posts in them?
I think TBB’s theme is LEGO.
I usually don’t subscribe to comments. There’s just too many emails. I do come back to the site and look for more comments. The number of comments is listed at the end of the post. So I check that number when I visit the blog, when I check the site later I just look to see if that number has increased.
Me too!!!
Yeah, same here! (Sometimes I do forget the number though. . . 😉 )
Chris, that’s a really good suggestion! Thanks for sharing! BTW, your post is ready and will be published tomorrow. 😉
Cool, once it’s posted I’ll share it on my pages and FB.
FB????
Thats what I some times do too!
Facebook.
same here, i used to get too many emails when I suscribed, so I just check back in the whole day 😀
I’m glad you guys don’t mind too much that the feature is gone. I also suggest favoriting or bookmarking the posts you like to follow. That way you can easily get back to them. That’s what I do with blogs that don’t have a comment subscription feature. 😉
Like mine. 😉
Please delete this comment it is for changing my site address.
Its a wrong address.
I have an idea admin! You should set up something so the writers for TBB can know when someone comments!
LOL!!! Are you kidding??? 😀
Why would we need that?
So we are updated on comments
OOOOH you mean the bloggers!!!! I thought it you meant the guest’s comments LOL… that’s why I thought it was redundant LOL… my bad
Yeah, it did sound the other way. . 😆
New contest on Ninja of Ninjago website!
Anyone can enter!
Could you approve my comment?
I did and remember to add the spinner too! 😉
I did now. Could you approve that?
Also did!
admin it was a joke havnt you realized who comment sthe most? 😕 and whens the new post? 😕
who comments the most?
Jay, we need to wait until the website is fully transfered to the new server to post anything new. So sorry for not catching your joke. I have been a bit overstressed due to the server problems, so I don’t catch funnies as fast. 😉
me duh…..
2,393 comments from the Mouth of Lightning – Unbeatable Chattering Champion!
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wait youre SERIOUS!?!?!?!?!?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😯
if you were serious which i am guessing you were….woooohooooo almost 2,400!!!!!!!!!! 😆 XD
Yeah, I checked…. 🙄
LOL! (who has the silver and bronze medal?) 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 ;lol: 😆
Three more and you will be at 2,400! 🙄
I’m not sure about the runner-ups. I would need some suggestions and I can look them up. Otherwise there is just too much data to look through.
How many comments have I made?
yeah i cant think of anyone close to me 😕 maybe lexi not sure though 😕 no she wouldnt
396 😉
How many do I have? 30 some? 😛
144 😀
I’ll see your 2,400 TBB comments and raise you 7,710 Tweets LOL
Wow! That’s a ton! 😉
i entered kai 😉
What are you talking about Jay?
i ment ntk abought entering his contest 😉 🙂
Admin, could we get an article or a conversation started on why Toys R Us does not discontinue LEGO??? I just came back from my local TRU and they had all kinds of LEGO laid out on the floor for restocking… on the shelves among the sets… Kingdoms Mill Villages, Atlantis Temples, Atlantis Portals, Pharaoh’s Quest Pyramids and others, and Toy Story trains and others all at above manufacturer suggested prices.
I asked the manager and assistant manager…
“Hi ladies, I was wondering if you could answer a question for me? How come TRU does not discontinue or clearance out LEGO? There are sets here that got discontinued at Wal Mart, Target and LEGO.com since December.”
The response I got was…
“Oh, I don’t know how other stores do their clearance, but LEGO is so popular here that we can’t keep enough of it in stock that’s why it never goes on clearance, it’s just so popular”
She was obviously making up a story since I have seen the same would be discontinued sets there for half a year now after everyone has clearanced them out…. I was wondering if anyone here has an answer to my question, I do know that buying LEGO at TRU is a no no, but I remember back in 2002 I bout my Red Beard Runner there at $50 clearance pricing, why don’t they do that anymore???
Micho, that is a good topic and a good question. Maybe you can write a post about it. 😉
I have the same experience as you though. I don’t have a definite answer for you, but I believe there are several factors involved.
One thing is the amount of space TRU has for LEGO vs. department-stores. Walmart, Target, and other places usually have one isle for LEGO, and they are pressured to move out old merchandise to add new one. TRU does not have this problem. They have a huge section just for LEGO, plus also random places in other isles and display racks. My TRU (which is actually quite small compared to other ones) still carries the full line of Pharao’s Quest, along with all the new sets. There is plenty of room for them all.
An other thing to remember is that the vast majority of LEGO fans never thought about looking for LEGO online. We know what is old, what is new and what is coming, but most LEGO fans, expecially the casual ones, only see what’s at the stores. When they think of shopping for LEGO, they think of Toy Store, not department store, or online store. When they think of Toy Store, they think of TRU. They go there and get dazzled with the huge variety. They don’t know and don’t care that Pharaoh’s Quest is from last year. It may be totally new for them. So it makes sense for TRU to carry as much as they can – both old and new.
In addition, their prices are usually significantly higher then anywhere else. When they put LEGO on sale it just means they are actually selling stuff for the price other retailers have been selling them all along for. 🙄
I believe the TRU employee you talked to is correct. TRU has no need to put things on sale as they sell plenty, nor do they have the need to move out older items as fast as department stores because they have lots of space. It also looks better to have a greater variety – which can lead to more sales.
The online LEGO community constantly complain about TRU, and we all know it is a bad place to shop for LEGO. Bu we are in fact a very small percentage of actual LEGO consumers. Yes, we are loud, but in the bigger sceme of things we are in fact a small percentage of all the people who buy LEGO regularly for their children and grand-children.
I’m pretty sure TRU knows what they are doing. They have been running their operation like this for quite some time now, and they seem to be doing quite well. I guess their philosophy is if they can sell more stuff and for higher prices, why discontinue them? Or why put them on sale?
TRU does have excellent sales for the holiday season though as at that time people are more in the shopping and comparing mood. They check the ads, clip cupons and in general will go to the store that has the better deals. Although I have to say that this past holiday season Barnes & Noble beat them by a mile. But who thinks about going to a book-store to buy LEGO? Not very many. Most people just stumbled upon it, so TRU probably still did just fine. 😉
Yeah, I think that’s right. When I thought “buy LEGO”, I always thought of TRU (for a while, of course. Not anymore 😉 )
between the ages of 9 and 12 I used to save my $5 weekly allowance all year so that in the summer when we went on vacation to a bigger city I could go to TRU and blow it all on Ninja Turtles and LEGO… now I am smarter than that LOL… now when I think about buying LEGO I have to put my hunting gear on LOL
$5 weekly alowance! I’d almost go crazy if I got that much! 😉
This was back in 1992 LOL
1991 actually I just did the math LOL I was nine back then… my brother and I had to dust all the furniture in the house once a week and take out the trash… if we misbehaved on a certain week we would not get an allowance 😀 No allowance= Less LEGO in the summer LOL
I do the dishes once a week and clean the kitchen and cook twice (6 meals). I do get about $20 a month, but only from “extra” chores. . . 😆
OH SNAP!!!! You do a lot more than I used to do!!!! You Gid617 deserve a raise!!!! LOL… but seriously good job!!!
Thanks Anna, that makes a whole lot of sense, I knew there was some animosity between the community and TRU but didn’t fully understand until yesterday… I would love to write a post for your blog… maybe this weekend since I have nothing going on, my wife and I cleaned house last weekend so I have a restful weekend waiting LOL. I might make some calls to a couple of TRU and see if I get different answers. Maybe you can use it as a filler when there’s not much going on. I saw a store in Las Vegas in April that still had every POP set in stock, I wonder if they still have them? They also had the LARGEST LEGO space I have ever seen in a non LEGO store… 2 and a half Isles plus end caps. That will be one of the stores I call.
Micho, sure, whenever you like you can write. I think it would be an interesting topic. If you can include some pictures as well that would make the article even more interesting. 😉
Yeah, it sounds interesting. I thought we had a lot of old sets down here (in Chile, SA). . . but no POP! 😀
POP?
Prince of Persia
How many comments have I made?
327 😀
I’ve got more comments then him?
How many did I do? I would guess around 1500
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admin i think i have made 2,400 😆
2,402 😉
Was that for me?
Oh, sorry, I forgot to look up yours. You have 204. 😉
Wow! I thought I had a lot more than that!
Perhaps you changed your name or email address? I checked it by your email address and that’s how many came up. 😕
lol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 woooooooooohooooooooo! 😆
oh boy, I think I am around 25 comments.
How many comments has my sister done?
Please tell me you have TKG’s permission to use the picture at the top of this post. As fan’s of Lego let’s not be part of the internet problem of using pictures that are someone else’s property making the use of them illegal!
Awesome job on Lego News! Keep up the good work!
Shellz Bellz, yes, we do have permission to use LEGO’s images, and we are affiliates with them. As long as the images are not marked as confidential. (The New York Toy Fair images from earlier this year are an exception as LEGO spaced out and displayed LEGO boxes with confidentiality stamps, yet allowed people to take photos and videos of them. I don’t think they will make that same mistake again.) 😉
The Kentucky Group???
LOL, it does seem odd! 😉 Probably just that the K is next the the L, though. . . 😉
LOL! I think we have the persimmion of The Kentucky Group too. Whatever that means. 🙄
LOL… yeah I figured since the “K” is next to the “L” on the keyboard, that was just me being a goofy goober LOL… just wanted to give Shellz Bellz a hard time because she sounded so concerned… a little Internet BUUURN LOL
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It seems a lot less people are commenting admin! Maybe because you shut down email reminder! 😕
I didn’t notice less comments in the back-end, they are just more spread out between posts. Yesterday there was a total of 360 comments, which is actually almost twice as high then we used to get a month ago. Having said that I do expect comment numbers to dwindle down eventually with the recent change. There is nothing I can do about that right now though. Less comments is actually not a bad thing. I think the change will encourage more serious and thoughtful comments, and help reducing TBB being used as chat, with “is anyone on?” and such comments.
I’m planning to move TBB to a larger server, probably in January, and I can put back comment subscription at that time. I do believe it is an important feature that makes it more convenient for our readers to see if anybody responsed to their comment. In the meantime you can bookmark the posts you are watching, or save them in your favorites. That way you can get back to them easier and see the discussions. I’m also planning to ad a comment feed in the meantime, that is quite similiar to email subscription, but it goes through your feed-reader, rather than email.