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About 18 months ago I had a dangerous thought - "what would I do differently if I were to start again?". The answer was "a lot"! The first 5 years of Rebrickable has taught me so much about building and running a large website, I learned about fields I didn't even know existed :)
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.
I'm very happy (and exhausted) to finally announce it's here!
A big thank you to all the testers over the last few weeks who submitted over a hundred bugs and suggestions for the beta site. Also huge thanks to the admin team who have been providing invaluable input and guideance over the last 6 months, and keeping the ship running while I've been pre-occupied!
What's New - Major Changes
Over the following weeks, I will write some posts that highlight and describe some of the new features and changes in more detail. In the mean time, here is a high level summary.
New Look with Responsive Design
- Cleaner, more consistent design
- Works well on mobile/tablet devices (40% of the traffic!)
- Better support for power users with wide screens
- A far more personalised experience with many more options to control how you use Rebrickable
Greater Build Engine Integration
- Faster, more accurate, more flexible
- Designed from scratch to be more easily integrated into other site features
- Instantly see what parts you have or are missing on any inventory
- Mark sets/MOCs as assembled to virtually remove the parts from your buildable collection
- Better accounting of lost parts and sets-within-sets
Badges/Levels/Points
- Have some fun with your account and show off how much of a LEGO fan you are!
- Be rewarded for contributing to the Rebrickable community
Improved Part/Set Price Integration
- Far easier to find what you need and manage buying from multiple vendors
- Better filtering and relevancy of store searches
- Easily see average prices for parts in any inventory/list
- Now searches available stores for sets as well as parts
- Easily see which parts are/are not in the store you are interested in
- BrickLink search improvements with more accurate suport for duplicate lots and bulk lots
- Significant Multi-Buy improvements - run on much larger lists of parts, better algorithms, easier to use
MOC Designers
- Grow your followers faster with easier to use Like/Follow buttons
- Better Bricksafe gallery integration with automatic slideshows of your Bricksafe pages
- Better promotion of Premium MOCs with more options coming soon
Manage Your LEGO Collection
- Improved Brickset integration - synchronise your sets to/from Brickset easier than ever
- Find your sets/parts easier with improved filtering and display options
- See estimates of what your LEGO collection is worth!
Other Features
There are far too many changes to list everything. Some of the other changes worth mentioning are below.
- New end-to-end technology stack and hardware - Every single line of code is brand spanking new
- Better integration with Brickset/BrickLink/BrickOwl - Keep your LEGO Collection synchronised and accurate across sites
- Custom Lists - create general-purpose public or private lists of any Sets and/or Parts
- Set Watches - be notified when LEGO Sets drop below the price you desire
- Part Photos - we will start to collect more images of parts, including submitted photos
- Improved Set/MOC/Part submission process and approval workflow
- Improved searching/filtering of Sets and Parts
- Multiple Inventory versions for Sets that change over time or region
- Improved regional support - all currencies and times are displayed according to your local country/timezone
- Personalisation options - everyone likes different things, customise your Rebrickable experience the way you want it
- Faster automated MOC approvals if you have a history of accurate submissions
- Completely new API based on a proper REST framework plus support for multiple API keys per account
Action Required
If you already have an account you will need to do a few things:
- The avatar images were cropped to square images during conversion. If your profile image does not look good anymore, please update it.
- MOC designers should review the descriptions on their MOCs. All HTML has been converted to BBCode, and if the source HTML had errors or was too complicated it may not have converted very well. Look for the Admin tab on your MOC's page to edit it.
- Designer Profiles and User Profiles have been merged. So if you have submitted public MOCs, you should check that your user profile has the correct URLs and display name. All old MOC URLs should redirect to the new ones so you should not need to update any external links pointing to Rebrickable.
- Check your settings - especialy security and notifications. Make sure your old settings converted across ok, plus there are plenty of new options available in v3 to set if you don't like the defaults.
If you encounter any problems, please use the Forums to submit bug reports or find help from others. Despite the extensive testing undertaken, there are bound to be some issues on a project this large so please be patient while things get settled in :) I'm sure there will be more changes in the coming months as I continue to tweak and improve the experience for everyone.
I know change can be hard, but I hope you all enjoy the new site as much as the old, and find it better than ever!
Welcome to Rebrickable v3!
41 COMMENTS
However, it seems that all the private MOC's I uploaded last year have completely vanished since the new Rebrickable was launched, and I can't find the option to submit a new private MOC either. As someone who solely uses Rebrickable to manage LDD builds in order to be able to order the parts needed for them and doesn't want to make the MOC's public, the option to submit a private MOC is vital to me. Is anyone else having this problem? Am I missing something? Is the private MOC option still there or can you only submit public MOC's which require approval now?
The admin-part of this site is greatly improved. Much more user-friendly and easier to keep a good overview. Especially adding spare parts is much easier and less error-sensitive.
Great work on all the new functions!
I think it would help if the font was a bit darker against the white background. I have quite decent eye sight, but it's straining to read pages, especially with the light green against the white.
Kudos for a huge undertaking. Keep up the great work. Huge undertaking you are doing, so I understand that tweaks will be needed to be made.
(PS: Please use Forum for bugs reports)
the color of the parts is not mentioned in words anymore! so I search the set I want to build or sort and now I can only see the color on the picture of the part ( if there is a picture available) but I really miss the color in words espescially when there is now picture of the part available but also with picture because for instand the difference of the black or dark gray parts are hardly visible on screen I really loved that in the previous layout please add the part color in words again!
Many thanks to the develloper of this side! I love it!
Thank you for being willing to improve and not stay static.
Very Grateful!
I just miss "hottest mocs" section on the top page. That is where I see the most interesting new MOCs. To me, that was the most important feature, now it is sort of missing, or there are only 4MOCs (recommended).
If there is a way to add parts from the parts list page itself, it is not obvious.
And adding parts by searching the parts requires constantly going back to the search page rather than just having the parts list on the search page like in the previous version.
Now I had to scroll all the way down just to move left/right to see more colour options of the part.
How to change the sorting back to previous behavior? It doesn't make sense to show largest sets, instead should show sets with the largest quantity of that part I'm searching.
Have you looked at your personalisation options? There are some wide screen settings which you might prefer.