We have made some important changes to the Blocs Store in order to help Blocs users identify the third party developers who are most active and trusted in the community.
From today the following will take effect.
ā¢ If a developer has logged into the Blocs Store within the last month, their products will display a āTrusted Sellerā badge.
ā¢ Product pages now also display the product developers last seen information in order to help keep customers informed as to how active a developer is on the store.
ā¢ If a third party developer fails to log into the Blocs Store within 3 months, then the buy buttons will be disabled on all of their products and the following notice will be displayed in their place. (Free product download buttons will remain active).
Iām sure everyone will agree these are positive steps in order to help protect customers.
So if you login to the Blocs Store today, which Iām sure most of you do weekly anyway, youāll get your Trusted Seller badge.
We will also be looking to add additional perks for trusted sellers, such as priority in search results and various other advantages to being an active developer in the Blocs community.
No - We donāt log into the Blocs store on a weekly basis - Note: It usually takes 6+ months to get a new bric ready for release & then we will visit the blocs store to update things.
The way to handle āabsentā devs ie. no sell / support of old brics is to directly contact the dev by email or other direct lines of communication and if they donāt reply after waiting a few weeks, then pull the product. Donāt punish all the other devs for the few flaky ones.
I agree, I doubt anyone is logging in every week, unless they keep re adding old stuff
But I donāt think Norm should be manually auditing it either.
This builds trust with the users, who are spending their valuable cash on our products. Itās part of providing a service really. I think the terms are very acceptable.
If it were possible maybe our activity on the forum should be included, itās all about building a healthy community, which is good for business.
I know a few developers now offer products in multiple categories, so I have added categories to seller store fronts today as well. Still a few things to fix with it, but itās almost there and makes it easier for customers to browse your products.
I know there is a search box, but on mobile there is no category filter. I think itās a little difficult to navigate on mobile. Although I do not have the stats on what percentage are using mobile on the store.
Anyone with kids and acting as a part time taxi service, no doubt use their phones a lot
