I don't know if anyone's talked about this yet, so I figured I'd set up a topic about it.
LEGO.com has reached a new low in its devolution. Nearly every feature and activity has been taken away from the site. What little there was left of the galleries is completely gone. Themes no longer have dedicated sites or product pages, making finding what you want extremely difficult. There is no longer any way to search for or filter anything on the website, besides filtering content by themes, making it quite literally a disorganized mess of free-advertising, what little passes for a "game" these days, and a confusing jumble of images and videos that are impossible to sort through. Oh, and to make matters worse, the only thing you can judge games or videos by is the thumbnail. There are no longer any titles for anything.
So, to recap: LEGO has completely sacrificed its website's organizational features, its website's intelligibility, and really any sort of fun you can have on it... and for what?
So that it could bombard children with a constant stream of random, meaningless images of different products, sets, and videos. And MAYBE if they're lucky they can actually find that game they DID want to play.
...I just don't know what to say. This is a complete travesty. The non- "Grown-up" portion of the site is completely unfunctional now. HOW DUMB DOES LEGO THINK KIDS ARE?! Nobody's gonna be happy with this!
I don't know if anyone's talked about this yet, so I figured I'd set up a topic about it.
LEGO.com has reached a new low in its devolution. Nearly every feature and activity has been taken away from the site. What little there was left of the galleries is completely gone. Themes no longer have dedicated sites or product pages, making finding what you want extremely difficult. There is no longer any way to search for or filter anything on the website, besides filtering content by themes, making it quite literally a disorganized mess of free-advertising, what little passes for a "game" these days, and a confusing jumble of images and videos that are impossible to sort through. Oh, and to make matters worse, the only thing you can judge games or videos by is the thumbnail. There are no longer any titles for anything.
So, to recap: LEGO has completely sacrificed its website's organizational features, its website's intelligibility, and really any sort of fun you can have on it... and for what?
So that it could bombard children with a constant stream of random, meaningless images of different products, sets, and videos. And MAYBE if they're lucky they can actually find that game they DID want to play.
...I just don't know what to say. This is a complete travesty. The non- "Grown-up" portion of the site is completely unfunctional now. HOW DUMB DOES LEGO THINK KIDS ARE?! Nobody's gonna be happy with this!
Most kids probably don't even view Lego.com, they use the Lego Life App. The only kids that would view Lego.com are those that do not have access to the App because they don't have a mobile device(such as smartphone or tablet).
The kids part of Lego.com is creatively designed but is not functional.If I find something on it one day how am I gonna find it again on another day?
Perhaps the way kids think and do thing these days is different.
I don't know if anyone's talked about this yet, so I figured I'd set up a topic about it.
LEGO.com has reached a new low in its devolution. Nearly every feature and activity has been taken away from the site. What little there was left of the galleries is completely gone. Themes no longer have dedicated sites or product pages, making finding what you want extremely difficult. There is no longer any way to search for or filter anything on the website, besides filtering content by themes, making it quite literally a disorganized mess of free-advertising, what little passes for a "game" these days, and a confusing jumble of images and videos that are impossible to sort through. Oh, and to make matters worse, the only thing you can judge games or videos by is the thumbnail. There are no longer any titles for anything.
So, to recap: LEGO has completely sacrificed its website's organizational features, its website's intelligibility, and really any sort of fun you can have on it... and for what?
So that it could bombard children with a constant stream of random, meaningless images of different products, sets, and videos. And MAYBE if they're lucky they can actually find that game they DID want to play.
...I just don't know what to say. This is a complete travesty. The non- "Grown-up" portion of the site is completely unfunctional now. HOW DUMB DOES LEGO THINK KIDS ARE?! Nobody's gonna be happy with this!
Most kids probably don't even view Lego.com, they use the Lego Life App. The only kids that would view Lego.com are those that do not have access to the App because they don't have a mobile device(such as smartphone or tablet).
The kids part of Lego.com is creatively designed but is not functional.If I find something on it one day how am I gonna find it again on another day?
Perhaps the way kids think and do thing these days is different.
Eh... I don't think that's it.
I don't think kids have changed the way they think.
I think adults have changed the way they think about kids.
Most kids probably don't even view Lego.com, they use the Lego Life App. The only kids that would view Lego.com are those that do not have access to the App because they don't have a mobile device(such as smartphone or tablet).
The kids part of Lego.com is creatively designed but is not functional.If I find something on it one day how am I gonna find it again on another day?
Perhaps the way kids think and do thing these days is different.
Eh... I don't think that's it.
I don't think kids have changed the way they think.
I think adults have changed the way they think about kids.
I agree. Kids youtube videos these days are as much of a mess as lego.com.
I can't believe I had the same awful signature for nearly 8 years. Sorry for disappearing for 2 months, life happened for a bit.
I don't think kids have changed the way they think.
I think adults have changed the way they think about kids.
I agree. Kids youtube videos these days are as much of a mess as lego.com.
Oof. Don't even get me STARTED on those! I haven't directly watched any of those videos but I'm aware of the culture surrounding it. Downright disturbing is what it is.
I can't believe we're living in a day and age where people actually should be worried about who is 'teaching' their kids...
And the worst part is, a lot of them aren't. That, or they're outright misguiding their children themselves.
I don't know if anyone's talked about this yet, so I figured I'd set up a topic about it.
LEGO.com has reached a new low in its devolution. Nearly every feature and activity has been taken away from the site. What little there was left of the galleries is completely gone. Themes no longer have dedicated sites or product pages, making finding what you want extremely difficult. There is no longer any way to search for or filter anything on the website, besides filtering content by themes, making it quite literally a disorganized mess of free-advertising, what little passes for a "game" these days, and a confusing jumble of images and videos that are impossible to sort through. Oh, and to make matters worse, the only thing you can judge games or videos by is the thumbnail. There are no longer any titles for anything.
So, to recap: LEGO has completely sacrificed its website's organizational features, its website's intelligibility, and really any sort of fun you can have on it... and for what?
So that it could bombard children with a constant stream of random, meaningless images of different products, sets, and videos. And MAYBE if they're lucky they can actually find that game they DID want to play.
...I just don't know what to say. This is a complete travesty. The non- "Grown-up" portion of the site is completely unfunctional now. HOW DUMB DOES LEGO THINK KIDS ARE?! Nobody's gonna be happy with this!
I completely agree. When I joined the old MBs in 2016 (and before then, when I used to play the games on there with my little brothers), the site seemed so nicely organized. Now it's just a mess, I've only been there a few times since the galleries closed down. I feel that Lego Life was just the beginning of a huge downward spiral....
Darth|Tallium "Just because my path is different doesn't mean I'm lost."
I don't know if anyone's talked about this yet, so I figured I'd set up a topic about it.
LEGO.com has reached a new low in its devolution. Nearly every feature and activity has been taken away from the site. What little there was left of the galleries is completely gone. Themes no longer have dedicated sites or product pages, making finding what you want extremely difficult. There is no longer any way to search for or filter anything on the website, besides filtering content by themes, making it quite literally a disorganized mess of free-advertising, what little passes for a "game" these days, and a confusing jumble of images and videos that are impossible to sort through. Oh, and to make matters worse, the only thing you can judge games or videos by is the thumbnail. There are no longer any titles for anything.
So, to recap: LEGO has completely sacrificed its website's organizational features, its website's intelligibility, and really any sort of fun you can have on it... and for what?
So that it could bombard children with a constant stream of random, meaningless images of different products, sets, and videos. And MAYBE if they're lucky they can actually find that game they DID want to play.
...I just don't know what to say. This is a complete travesty. The non- "Grown-up" portion of the site is completely unfunctional now. HOW DUMB DOES LEGO THINK KIDS ARE?! Nobody's gonna be happy with this!
I completely agree. When I joined the old MBs in 2016 (and before then, when I used to play the games on there with my little brothers), the site seemed so nicely organized. Now it's just a mess, I've only been there a few times since the galleries closed down. I feel that Lego Life was just the beginning of a huge downward spiral....
The worst part?
Somebody was payed to do it.
For what it's worth, I did visit the "grown up" portion of the site, which still has some semblance of functionality, but it is little more than an obvious marketing tool that has no heart or soul behind it, much like the kids' version of the site.
I don't know if anyone's talked about this yet, so I figured I'd set up a topic about it.
LEGO.com has reached a new low in its devolution. Nearly every feature and activity has been taken away from the site. What little there was left of the galleries is completely gone. Themes no longer have dedicated sites or product pages, making finding what you want extremely difficult. There is no longer any way to search for or filter anything on the website, besides filtering content by themes, making it quite literally a disorganized mess of free-advertising, what little passes for a "game" these days, and a confusing jumble of images and videos that are impossible to sort through. Oh, and to make matters worse, the only thing you can judge games or videos by is the thumbnail. There are no longer any titles for anything.
So, to recap: LEGO has completely sacrificed its website's organizational features, its website's intelligibility, and really any sort of fun you can have on it... and for what?
So that it could bombard children with a constant stream of random, meaningless images of different products, sets, and videos. And MAYBE if they're lucky they can actually find that game they DID want to play.
...I just don't know what to say. This is a complete travesty. The non- "Grown-up" portion of the site is completely unfunctional now. HOW DUMB DOES LEGO THINK KIDS ARE?! Nobody's gonna be happy with this!
Oh no! I just went to check out what's wrong and it's horrible! I haven't been on much since the galleries shut down, and now...this.
I actually thought for a moment that LEGO.com may have been shut down. I should be glad that it wasn't, but I rarely ever visit the site anymore now that both the Message Boards and Galleries have ended, so really, I don't even care about it at all. Even worse is that the mods simply told us that shutting them down was to "make way for the exciting features of the future", but then we got LEGO Life. Worst of all is that the mods constantly told us that "LEGO Life is not replacing the LEGO Message Boards" like a broken record, but when the Galleries got closed, the announcement told us to go to LEGO Life.
Honestly, we have to just face it. LEGO Life has over 6 million users by now, so there's just no way LEGO will turn back on it anytime soon. We can't bring back the old Message Boards no matter how hard we've tried. At least we still have a way to chat about interlocking plastic bricks.
I'm new here since the galleries shut down. When I tried to use the galleries and saw that they were gone I thought that was the worst thing LEGO would do. Now There's nothing to do at all. I can barely even look at the sets. And I enjoyed it more when the "kids" and "grown ups" sections were together. I had a much better time when LEGO.com was a place that people of any age could use. Now when I go to the "grown ups" section (which is where I usually go) to look at the latest sets, it doesn't list any functions of the sets. All it says is basically a long version of "do your 'little builders' like ninja?" or "do your 'little builders' like space? Then they'll love this set." And that's it. They don't even say anything about the set itself. I would honestly be happy to see LEGO.com get taken down completely. I would prefer to just use shop.LEGO.com at this point.
I don't know if anyone's talked about this yet, so I figured I'd set up a topic about it.
LEGO.com has reached a new low in its devolution. Nearly every feature and activity has been taken away from the site. What little there was left of the galleries is completely gone. Themes no longer have dedicated sites or product pages, making finding what you want extremely difficult. There is no longer any way to search for or filter anything on the website, besides filtering content by themes, making it quite literally a disorganized mess of free-advertising, what little passes for a "game" these days, and a confusing jumble of images and videos that are impossible to sort through. Oh, and to make matters worse, the only thing you can judge games or videos by is the thumbnail. There are no longer any titles for anything.
So, to recap: LEGO has completely sacrificed its website's organizational features, its website's intelligibility, and really any sort of fun you can have on it... and for what?
So that it could bombard children with a constant stream of random, meaningless images of different products, sets, and videos. And MAYBE if they're lucky they can actually find that game they DID want to play.
...I just don't know what to say. This is a complete travesty. The non- "Grown-up" portion of the site is completely unfunctional now. HOW DUMB DOES LEGO THINK KIDS ARE?! Nobody's gonna be happy with this!
I sure ain't happy! But really though, really Lego? REALLY???!?
Most kids probably don't even view Lego.com, they use the Lego Life App. The only kids that would view Lego.com are those that do not have access to the App because they don't have a mobile device(such as smartphone or tablet).
The kids part of Lego.com is creatively designed but is not functional.If I find something on it one day how am I gonna find it again on another day?
Perhaps the way kids think and do thing these days is different.
Eh... I don't think that's it.
I don't think kids have changed the way they think.
I think adults have changed the way they think about kids.
I agree. Kids youtube videos these days are as much of a mess as lego.com.
Oof. Don't even get me STARTED on those! I haven't directly watched any of those videos but I'm aware of the culture surrounding it. Downright disturbing is what it is.
I can't believe we're living in a day and age where people actually should be worried about who is 'teaching' their kids...
And the worst part is, a lot of them aren't. That, or they're outright misguiding their children themselves.
I'm new here since the galleries shut down. When I tried to use the galleries and saw that they were gone I thought that was the worst thing LEGO would do. Now There's nothing to do at all. I can barely even look at the sets. And I enjoyed it more when the "kids" and "grown ups" sections were together. I had a much better time when LEGO.com was a place that people of any age could use. Now when I go to the "grown ups" section (which is where I usually go) to look at the latest sets, it doesn't list any functions of the sets. All it says is basically a long version of "do your 'little builders' like ninja?" or "do your 'little builders' like space? Then they'll love this set." And that's it. They don't even say anything about the set itself. I would honestly be happy to see LEGO.com get taken down completely. I would prefer to just use shop.LEGO.com at this point.
Welcome! I will take lego shop any day over "LEGO.COM!!"
I actually thought for a moment that LEGO.com may have been shut down. I should be glad that it wasn't, but I rarely ever visit the site anymore now that both the Message Boards and Galleries have ended, so really, I don't even care about it at all. Even worse is that the mods simply told us that shutting them down was to "make way for the exciting features of the future", but then we got LEGO Life. Worst of all is that the mods constantly told us that "LEGO Life is not replacing the LEGO Message Boards" like a broken record, but when the Galleries got closed, the announcement told us to go to LEGO Life.
Honestly, we have to just face it. LEGO Life has over 6 million users by now, so there's just no way LEGO will turn back on it anytime soon. We can't bring back the old Message Boards no matter how hard we've tried. At least we still have a way to chat about interlocking plastic bricks.
I'm not even that mad. I'm mostly just surprised that any corporation would be capable of doing something so fundamentally foolish. They basically took everything out of the website that made it remotely functional or attractive and threw it out the window expecting people to be happy to rummage in the trash that was left.
But really though, really Lego? REALLY???!?
I will take lego shop any day over "LEGO.COM!!"