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Godzillabot Primal wrote:

MightyMagnus78 wrote:Probably been suggested a million times before but...

Could you not get the site sponsors on board and have monthly giveaways/competitions?

Or maybe members could get/win discounts from site sponsors on purchases?

Despite the fact that sounds awesome, the sponsers probably wouldn't be comfortable with giving out free toys/coupons to only certain people. I mean it would be great to win a set of all the Hercles figures, but that would set back the company about 700 dollars

OK fair point, but a small discount surely wouldn't be to hard for them to swallow?

EDIT: Or maybe have competitions were the first prize is for example, a 20% discount off your next purchase at... (insert site sponsor)?

MightyMagnus78 wrote:

Godzillabot Primal wrote:

MightyMagnus78 wrote:Probably been suggested a million times before but...

Could you not get the site sponsors on board and have monthly giveaways/competitions?

Or maybe members could get/win discounts from site sponsors on purchases?

Despite the fact that sounds awesome, the sponsers probably wouldn't be comfortable with giving out free toys/coupons to only certain people. I mean it would be great to win a set of all the Hercles figures, but that would set back the company about 700 dollars

OK fair point, but a small discount surely wouldn't be to hard for them to swallow?

EDIT: Or maybe have competitions were the first prise is for example, a 20% discount off your next purchase at... (insert site sponsor)?

Excellent point, This would be a awesome addition

plus a live chat would be epic!

allow us to favorite articles and like articles and have notifications if someone makes a reply on your article that you have made.

skywarp55 wrote:allow us to favorite articles and like articles

I'd like to see that too.

have notifications if someone makes a reply on your article that you have made.

You can get e-mail alerts when someone replies to a thread you've created/posted in. When you post you'll see Options beneath "Save" "Preview" "Submit" and one of those is "Notify me when a reply is posted" Just tick that and you'll get an e-mail notification.
(You can also turn it on or off by default via your control panel)

Or were you suggesting something else like an alert at the top of the page? (Similar to how Facebook works)

Burn wrote:

skywarp55 wrote:allow us to favorite articles and like articles

I'd like to see that too.

That is a great idea.

RhA wrote:

Burn wrote:

skywarp55 wrote:allow us to favorite articles and like articles

I'd like to see that too.

That is a great idea.

If there was a 'like' button, I'd like this.

restrict the font sizes so that we don't have to copy blocks of text in people's posts and paste them elsewhere to read them properly?

Clean up some sticky thread maybe? Seibertronians have not had a journalistic bone in them since august, appearantly.

Live chat would be the bumble bees knees!

An idea for the UCP. I think it would be cool to see how many posts I need before I am no longer a Mini-con. This could go right on the Overview section of the UCP.

Banjo-Tron wrote:

RhA wrote:

Burn wrote:

skywarp55 wrote:allow us to favorite articles and like articles

I'd like to see that too.

That is a great idea.

If there was a 'like' button, I'd like this.

As Seibertron.com already has a Facepalm page with 'Like' buttons et al, would that not mean the clicking of buttons on the main site would be linked to Faceache, so to 'Like' an article you would have to sign up or be logged in?

i use some other websites to track figure but i think your website could do that as well -espically with the galleries you have for the characters -adding something like http://myfigurecollection.net/ system to track figures you own would make this website even more useful -mainly because the other sites don't have as good a listing of transformers-with pictures

No answer here, so moved my question to the 'Problems' thread?

I was looking thru the custom/posing thread and a thought occurred to me. Include those in the caption contest.

Any chance of going back to the old thumbnail style in the galleries? The new ones aren't even proper thumbnails, just cropped images, makes it very hard to tell exactly what you're going to be looking at (and how it differs from other similar images) before clicking through to the full image.

Would it be possible a notification system for when someone quotes your post? Ex. usage: I post something on a front page'd thread of, say first in-hand images, but don't want to trawl through 10+ pages to see if someone has a response to my thoughts.

ArmadaPrime wrote:Would it be possible a notification system for when someone quotes your post? Ex. usage: I post something on a front page'd thread of, say first in-hand images, but don't want to trawl through 10+ pages to see if someone has a response to my thoughts.

Hm. That's an interesting idea. Not sure how it would be implemented. It'll be something I think of for a while on the back burner.

Posting images is not possible with my iPad. What with Seibertron himself working to make the site better for mobile surfing, I figure this is something good to bring up.

Nemesis Maximo wrote:Posting images is not possible with my iPad. What with Seibertron himself working to make the site better for mobile surfing, I figure this is something good to bring up.

I'm pretty sure this is an inherent problem with iOS.

https://www.google.com/#safe=off&hl=en&sclient=psy-ab&q=upload+files+ipad&oq=upload+files+ipad&gs_l=hp.3..0l4.967.3050.0.3247.17.10.0.6.6.0.163.1047.6j4.10.0...0.0...1c.1.9.psy-ab.QNcFuYRBxDQ&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.45512109,d.aWM&fp=640ce3ce870dd884&biw=1920&bih=955

Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Seibertron wrote:

Nemesis Maximo wrote:Posting images is not possible with my iPad. What with Seibertron himself working to make the site better for mobile surfing, I figure this is something good to bring up.

I'm pretty sure this is an inherent problem with iOS.

https://www.google.com/#safe=off&hl=en&sclient=psy-ab&q=upload+files+ipad&oq=upload+files+ipad&gs_l=hp.3..0l4.967.3050.0.3247.17.10.0.6.6.0.163.1047.6j4.10.0...0.0...1c.1.9.psy-ab.QNcFuYRBxDQ&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.45512109,d.aWM&fp=640ce3ce870dd884&biw=1920&bih=955

Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Huh...I guess so. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

Nemesis Maximo wrote:Huh...I guess so. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

It does look like there are some other browser options though that you might be able to try. If anyone has some suggestions, please let us know. Thanks!

Request for 3rd party coverage on Seibertron News:
This has probably already been discussed at length but I figure I'll give my two cents and increase the sample size (or fuel the fire?). Sorry if this is beating a dead horse...


I am disappointed that the news no longer covers 3rd party items. I understand that there is an ethical debate about this and I can respect opinions on both sides. However, I for one am interested in what is happening with 3rd party products, even though I don't buy a whole lot of them due to price. Some of them just look really cool! Largely I am interested in this stuff for the same reasons why I like the Creative Roundup. But due to the lack of 3rd party coverage, I find myself frequenting Seibertron.com much less and instead rely on other TF sites for my news. This makes me a little sad since Seibertron was really my gateway into this hobby and has unrivaled photo galleries that have helped me with a lot of buying decisions over the years.

I can understand why the photo galleries of 3rd party figures have stopped since it is just too costly to buy all the 3rd party stuff. But I would appreciate if the news covered third party figures and reviews etc.

Quaternion wrote:Request for 3rd party coverage on Seibertron News:
This has probably already been discussed at length but I figure I'll give my two cents and increase the sample size (or fuel the fire?). Sorry if this is beating a dead horse...


I am disappointed that the news no longer covers 3rd party items. I understand that there is an ethical debate about this and I can respect opinions on both sides. However, I for one am interested in what is happening with 3rd party products, even though I don't buy a whole lot of them due to price. Some of them just look really cool! Largely I am interested in this stuff for the same reasons why I like the Creative Roundup. But due to the lack of 3rd party coverage, I find myself frequenting Seibertron.com much less and instead rely on other TF sites for my news. This makes me a little sad since Seibertron was really my gateway into this hobby and has unrivaled photo galleries that have helped me with a lot of buying decisions over the years.

I can understand why the photo galleries of 3rd party figures have stopped since it is just too costly to buy all the 3rd party stuff. But I would appreciate if the news covered third party figures and reviews etc.

Thank you for your compliments about Seibertron.com. I'm glad that it brought you into the foray of Transformers fansites.

I understand your passion about 3rd party products ... there is some amazing stuff that those companies knock out. However, we're sticking to our guns on this. We will not be providing coverage to unlicensed 3rd party products for the foreseeable future. 3rd party products have gotten out of control and there seems to be no end in sight.

It's unfortunate that there is so much 3rd party news that official and licensed Transformers related news gets overlooked because of the onslaught of 3rd party news. It's too bad that so many of you feel like those products are appropriate and that many have justified the 3rd party market because it suits their own desires.

Why don't you guys add a search feature like some of these other websites have? Also I think you may be able to do something with google image search, for example someone takes a picture of a transformers face they have and you use the google image search feature just on this website to make a match. Also with a lot of these searches you see on other websites I don't know why they don't allow you to refine your search by weahter the figure is an Autobot or Decepticon.

ToyXcavenger wrote:Why don't you guys add a search feature like some of these other websites have? Also I think you may be able to do something with google image search, for example someone takes a picture of a transformers face they have and you use the google image search feature just on this website to make a match. Also with a lot of these searches you see on other websites I don't know why they don't allow you to refine your search by weahter the figure is an Autobot or Decepticon.

We have a search feature in the top right hand corner of the site, in the header, which is a Google search. Is that what you are looking for?