Quote from: TornadoTwist on January 19, 2019, 07:08:10 AM

Someone on Twitter also reported it and another one came with a solution that worked for him/her. Just sharing, maybe it works for you as well.

"Hi just chiming in hopefully to offer help tips. I just had similar issues with some of the database pages not loading. (Using Chrome on Windows 10.) I found that clearing the browser's cached images and files, and then reloading the page, fixed it."

Thank you for the tip! Like I said, I'm not very tech-savy at all, so I'll have to ask my husband when he gets home to help me try this. Hopefully it helps I'll keep you posted.

Could you try again? I'm not able to test it on iOS/MacOS, but I'm pretty sure it should work better now.

@katrine2309 / @Taffeta, our apologies if things got wrong worded, please allow me to rephrase.
The nirvana database, at the moment, is not the right name for all ponies in there, we understand. It's our goal to get good documentation and it appears that not all sources that we used were correct. The current release is our first release, and we had a bit of thought before putting in out, exactly for the reasons that were mentioned. Yet we decided to put it online, and I'm glad that this discussion got started, as it will help us approach the 'nirvana' in a better and correct way.

As you mentioned G1 is not G4, and I can't agree more! We have immense respect for those who had the time to investigate the history of local releases (let's avoid nirvana for now) and would like to get in contact with those people. To get the first release out we mainly relied on public sources (and this appears to not be the best approach) and are happy to get signals from you all on improvements. I'm happy to hear that you're willing to help (and we'll definitely take a look at the UK Scrapbook), but we understand that it's not just fixing a few names. Structural changes are needed, and we fully accept that, as our end goal is to get a complete and error-free database.

Regarding the proof, I think it's better to call this 'credibility'. We'd like to prevent to get even more stuff wrong and prefer contact from sources that have already been accepted by the community. No need for certificates in pony-science

Hi all, Ossie here, co-author of MLP Merch and developer of the recent update.

The birthflower G3 page doesn't work: https://data.mlpmerch.com/g3/series/2006/birthday/birthflower-ponies/

Edit - Also the blue Cute Curtsey shown on this page was never released, IIRC: https://data.mlpmerch.com/g3/series/2006/carriage-ponies/

Thanks for pointing this out! The link to the birthflower ponies should work now, and clarified that Cute Curtsey is a prototype.

As much as I love the G4 site, (it is my go to G4 site)  I'm never going to use this for G1 because of the system. It just doesn't work for collecting outside of the US, unless you want to force your collection into the US system (which I don't). I don't want you to get rid of the US system, I would just like to see more integration of ponies.

It's a practical point of organisation which affects a lot of non-US collectors and completely bewilders new collectors coming in from outside of the US.

I used the example in another thread, but if you had Cherries Jubilee and Snowflake as a kid and you got them at the same time from the same store, it's pretty confusing to try to find them on a site using that system, because you'll get Cherries Jubilee in 1985 and Snowflake on some other planet.

The overreliance on the US system is a general bugbear of mine, I admit. BUT with your site especially I think it's important. You might have people coming in new from G4 to G1 and they might have a bunch of ponies they also want to ID at the same time. If they know your site, they are going to want to rely on it because they're familiar with it. It could also be someone cataloguing their childhood ponies. And unless you know a pony is international, how are you going to know? If that makes sense.

 Ultimately it's up to you, but I feel like we shouldn't be segregating mainstream store ponies just on the basis they weren't sold in America. They're not Nirvana ponies :/ they belong with the mainstream.

On a detail note, I think both your pictured Tutti Frutti ponies are from the UK. But it's hard to see their streaks from the picture.

Also, not the NBBE and NSS terms. Please 

I also noticed that what you have put together as "NSS" are actually ponies from three separate sets issued in different parts of Europe/the world at different times. It would be more helpful for people who have those ponies (many of whom will be outside the US) for them to be listed in their actual sets and years, under their actual set names.

The choice to split the nirvana/non-US releases was made a while ago, and I understand the concern that you have with it. We'll keep our ears open for feedback like this, and if commonly heard, re-evaluate if we can create a combined G1 database (we initially had some technical challenges for this).
Regarding the other points, we'll check these errors soon, thanks for checking!

I have an initial reaction to something: the word Gimmick.

I don't particularly like this word, especially when speaking as a collector. And I've generally seen it used in a negative mindset where collecting is concerned. So that's one thing I see that kind of made me cringe.

I'm not aware of anything negative around that word

Looks amazing!

Thanks!   

Thanks for posting about it Wiseman, glad you enjoy it ^^

Allow me to reply to your suggestions:
@Wiseman, as our website started pretty late, we already had a tough job covering all the earlier G4 merch. At the moment it's harder and harder to find stock images of older gens and it would take it a lot of effort and asking around before we could even have a decent database of older gens. I personally think that there are plenty of sites (like Strawberry Reef) who've covered older gens perfectly (but true, they don't have checklists).

@Violet, not a bad idea! At the moment you can see your own checklist/wishlist boxes when you browse someone's wishlist (so you already see what you own of his/her wishlist), but we could make it a bit easier to spot with a gift icon or something

My BF won her as well but we are still waiting for it to arrive if she indeed has an eye printed on her head.

I'll post a picture of her here when she arrives

Oh and I meant to say this earlier. If you know the codes for the A wave you can work out the B wave. All you need to do is take the 24 set codes, cross off the ponies which came out in A and then in alphabetical order you go through the remaining ponies and the alphabetically bit in the B wave.

For example going by the wave 11 codes - the first pony NOT in wave A was Pinkie Pie (Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash were in wave A) therefore she is the first pony in Wave 11B. The second pony NOT in wave A was Big Wig, therefore she is the second pony in Wave 11B.

The only problem that was left was whether Hasbro decided to start from AA again (like 10B), continue at AN or fill in the gaps (like 9B, but that couldn't be the case with this wave). Apparently they continued from AN, which is a new method. At first I thought the codes would be like 10A/B!

Did anyone spot the wave 12 blind bags yet? Heard some rumours that they might be out already! The earlier we start to collect the codes the better

The image shows an Applejack brushable, but this is probably just a trick. A read from our blog corrected me and shared and image of the actual packaging with the Pinkie Pie figure:
http://www.mlpmerch.com/2014/12/mlp-play-n-display-travel-case-on-amazon.html

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