Rick

For everyone with issues with new or unread items, you can set your own preferences by clicking the Activity tab, My Activity Streams and then selecting "Create new stream" if the preset streams don't offer what you're used to or looking for. One of the settings relates to whether clicking unread items takes you to the top of the page or to the last unread comment that some have been mentioning in here. Moreover, you can replace the "Unread content" button (in the top right corner) by one of these streams by checking the checkbox next to the title of a stream once you click it (when you hover over it, it says "set as default").

TLG seems to have a 4 x 4 block in mind with it's release pattern of one corner building for every 2 straight buildings.

While I don't mind the discussion going a little off-topic once in a while, it is going too far recently. There are members checking here for news about the upcoming modular building and this speculation is going to lead to confusion. I also doubt a lot of people have information about the upcoming modular as TLG has been able to contain leaks relatively well and we have not heard a lot about new exclusives until very close to the release date.

Weird, your account had to be approved, which I have done now. Is there anything you changed (like your password, that you maybe missed a validation e-mail for) before this happened?

I'm not sure what kind of a response you're expecting. It has been said a couple of times now that Hinckley is going to tackle some of these remaining theme issues when he has time. He has other obligations besides Eurobricks.

Thanks for the clear report. Permissions for new members (< 10 posts) were messed up. They could not reply to topics in Community. This should be fixed now.

I agree with you, but you've read Invision's stance on the issue... We'll all have to find a way to deal with it for indices, etc. Good thing about the new editor is that you won't actually see the junk code it creates. I suppose at some point it could cause issues when you keep editing bloated code over and over again though. Normally you'd then dig through the BBcode to find the source of the problem. Thinking towards solutions, it'd probably make sense to either keep an offline version of your stats and edit them with an editor that supports BBcode or a simple plain text editor (e.g., Notepad on Windows) and paste the full result of your edits in a post instead of trying to edit the post itself. Alternatively, use an offline RTE, like a word processing program, to keep track of your stats and paste that in a post. Or... who knows, the new editor might not be so bad and WYSIWYG editing might not be so bad after all. I guess we'll find out through using the new board software. This takes some getting used to but is actually desirable behaviour in my opinion. It makes it easy to create "true" paragraphs, instead of having to hit enter twice and still allows you to have a simple line break within a paragraphs using shift-enter. As Hinckley explained earlier, the behaviour of the return key is configurable but makes quotes and merged posts hard to read, so it's very likely we'll keep the behaviour of the return key this way.

It's stored as HTML, yes. If you read the statements from Invision that I linked too, they're not thinking in the direction of users being able to edit source code at all, so don't expect any developments in that direction.

On the mobile version the site collapses the menu to the button with three horizontal lines. It's supposed to overlay the menu on the page then, but that's not working for me on mobile yet either. The menu shows up when you swipe right though (it loads "next" to the page on the right). It's device (or browser) dependent though, so I'm not sure how easy it will be to fix that. I'm sure Hinckley will eventually get to sorting issues like these, but fine-tuning the desktop version has priority now.

On the BBcode issue: Unfortunately, BBcode is no longer fully supported by the new board software. If you want to read Invision's (the board software vendor) reasons for dropping BBcode support, I suggest you read through this thread on their boards (pages 3 and 4 have some statements from Invision representatives on the issue). In summary: you can still enter simple BBcode, but posts will no longer be saved as BBcode, i.e., you won't be able to edit BBcode. This is a massive drawback for those that used to format indices, etc. in BBcode and the staff, obviously, are not happy with this change either. Unfortunately, there is no way around it as we had to upgrade because the old board software was no longer supported by Invision. Support for copying/pasting from (rich) text editors like Word, etc. should be a lot better though, so perhaps that offers a solution for some of the problems.

It is to reduce load on the server. Alternatively, you can always use Google and start a search with "site:eurobricks.com" All the theming had to be redone entirely from scratch. Hinck worked on that pretty much on his own. I'm sure he'll read through your comments and tweak the theme here and there based on all of your feedback. Over time we made some changes as to what counts towards your post count and what doesn't. Most notably, posts in Community do not count anymore. Probably the board upgrade caused a recount and some of your old posts in Community are now ignored in your post count. It probably was a caching issue then as the Plesk control panel showed up for a short while when Bonaparte was working on the server.

Check the notification settings.

With the release of Collectable Minifigures Series 16, it is time for Reviewers Academy Teacher WhiteFang's traditional review again. Head over to the Special Themes forum for his usual in-depth review.

There have only been two three-bay fire stations. 347 (1970) and 357/570 (1973). As a kid I always wondered why LEGO choose not to include an empty bay in their fire stations, so you'd have a place to store any additional fire engines you'd buy, but I guess they like to sell "complete" play sets. Compared to the more recent variation in police stations, fire stations have largely been more of the same. Even if they choose not to vary the theme (airport, rural/forest), a bit of architectural diversity and variation in colours would be welcome. But I guess fire stations should be red...

I removed it from your post in the basic editor without a problem.

I guess they include a model every day, but next day's pieces are added to it to build something else, so that you have less than 24 complete models at the end. For example, the dog and reindeer seem to share the same pieces.

Based on demand, TLG decides to do additional production runs. The modulars have sold out roughly in order of release, with Pet Shop being a notable exception as I believe it got more additional production runs than some later modulars (Town Hall and Palace Cinema). TLG strive to always have at least three modulars available. A modular street, consisting of the three most recent modulars, always features prominently on the back of the box.

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Mestari shows that not all modulars need to be blocky. His Palm House in neoclassical style is home to an indoor botanical garden. Check out more pictures in the Town forum.

The one-year limit is in place to avoid big server search loads, but you can search for older posts by using the start and end dates on this advanced search page, which is accessible from the little gear icon next to the search field in the top-right corner.

So why make a new topic for it then instead of asking to have the other one reopened or contact the staff about it?

The General Discussion & News forum if it's about prices of exclusives in general or the Special Themes forum if it's specifically about the architecture line. I bet there are topics where this is discussed already, so you'll have to do a little searching to see if a topic already exists.

Please stay on topic. Thank you.

Moreover... Why is this in the Town forum?

Rumours and baseless speculation are two different things.