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Lestrade's Lounge => The Noble Talk => Topic started by: [Lestrades.com] Nao 尚 on February 12th, 2017, 02:16 PM

Title: Welcome to Lestrade's!
Post by: [Lestrades.com] Nao 尚 on February 12th, 2017, 02:16 PM
...And let's trade!
Title: Re: Welcome to Lestrade's!
Post by: [Lestrades.com] Nao 尚 on February 13th, 2017, 01:14 AM
Testing posting!
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Post by: Forum Conventions on February 13th, 2017, 07:09 AM
Edit: oh hey, worked this time, cool. GJ.
Title: Re: Welcome to Lestrade's!
Post by: [Lestrades.com] Nao 尚 on February 13th, 2017, 07:47 AM
Yeah, it really was a problem with the pretty URLs. ;)
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Post by: ★ DRiM ★ on February 13th, 2017, 08:22 AM
Hello!Keep up the good work Nao :)
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Post by: Caviezel on February 13th, 2017, 09:00 AM
Hello everyone!
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Post by: CMA on February 13th, 2017, 10:53 AM
Nice job!
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Post by: FlyLeaf on February 15th, 2017, 02:00 AM
nice to see the site is up and working! nice work Nao.
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Post by: [Lestrades.com] Nao 尚 on February 15th, 2017, 08:07 PM
Doing my best!

Search engine is now working, I'll put it live once I'm happy with it.
Title: Re: Welcome to Lestrade's!
Post by: XanthiN on February 16th, 2017, 03:28 AM
Hello everyone, thanks for the site and good luck! ^_^
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Post by: lupuscaucasus on February 19th, 2017, 02:01 PM
impressive. most impressive.
Title: Re: Welcome to Lestrade's!
Post by: [Lestrades.com] Nao 尚 on February 20th, 2017, 02:12 PM
Thanks :)
Now all's left to do is (1) rebuild the offer system, (2) wait until we reach enough users for LT to be self-sustained, (3) rewrite the scraper to use the Steam store instead of Barter, (4) disable auto-syncing with Barter, (5) enjoy.
Just hoping it won't take too long... :-/ especially step 2. I think 500 regular users is a bare minimum to the site to be viable outside of a 'companion' site.
Title: Re: Welcome to Lestrade's!
Post by: MrHToast on February 22nd, 2017, 09:34 AM
I hope this gets a good and alive alternative.
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Post by: Fylkia on February 22nd, 2017, 11:50 AM
Thanks for the invite. I'm very impressed by your work!
Title: Re: Welcome to Lestrade's!
Post by: [Lestrades.com] Nao 尚 on February 22nd, 2017, 11:04 PM
Thanks!
Working hard on the site.
Hopefully I can implement the manual list update button before the weekend. I know it's often requested.
Title: Re: Welcome to Lestrade's!
Post by: sklavounos_k on February 22nd, 2017, 11:40 PM
Hi and cheers for the effort you put on this site! :D
Title: Re: Welcome to Lestrade's!
Post by: [Lestrades.com] Nao 尚 on February 24th, 2017, 11:40 AM
Everyone, don't forget to mention the site to your friends!
We need at least 500 regular users to ditch Barter and start considering moving the entire operation to LT's.
I'm already cranking it up to 11 so I'm not gonna advertise more than I did (inviting all of my Steam friends to the Steam group), but I'd hate for all those upcoming features to go unused. :^^;:
Title: Re: Welcome to Lestrade's!
Post by: DARKKi on March 9th, 2017, 08:52 PM
Entered here too and just wanted to poke my head out and say hi! :]

How many users Letstrade has right now btw?
Title: Re: Welcome to Lestrade's!
Post by: Artheus on March 10th, 2017, 11:35 AM
Thank you for invite!
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Post by: dragonfly59 on March 10th, 2017, 03:09 PM
hi :-) i'm here thanks for invit and thanks Rowtan
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Post by: impaler0815 on March 11th, 2017, 02:07 AM
Hi!

Thanks for the invite. Looks like a nice site, keep up the good work!
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Post by: owlx on March 12th, 2017, 12:46 AM
I got an invite to the Steam Group out of the blue and am so happy that this is happening!  I will spread the word!
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Post by: Andrewski on March 14th, 2017, 03:33 AM
Hey, just jumping on here from the Barter bandwagon. Thanks Nao for stepping up and working on this  great alternative.
Title: Re: Welcome to Lestrade's!
Post by: [Lestrades.com] Nao 尚 on March 14th, 2017, 05:18 PM
Thanks guys!
The number of members is indicated on the home page. There's even a dedicated stats page for the forum. (Later on I'll add trading stats to it.)

Keep inviting your friends to the steam group, we need at least 500 regulars to get proper matching and barter had 1100 to 1300, so that's the goal for this year. ;)
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Post by: rodobodolfo on March 14th, 2017, 06:35 PM
Hi, good job! this is awesome! If you need any help testing let me know!
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Post by: [Lestrades.com] Nao 尚 on March 14th, 2017, 07:42 PM
I'll need help testing once the trading system is in place... I was hoping to open it today but it's unlikely now. Too many bugs to fix today. Also added the real-time sorting mechanism and had to make it solid. So much work left...!!! Rome wasn't made in one day I'm afraid.
Title: Re: Welcome to Lestrade's!
Post by: /u/humpaaa on March 14th, 2017, 08:18 PM
Quote from Lestrade on March 14th, 2017, 07:42 PM
I'll need help testing once the trading system is in place...
Would be happy to help out =)
Title: Re: Welcome to Lestrade's!
Post by: impaler0815 on March 14th, 2017, 09:53 PM
Quote from Lestrade on March 14th, 2017, 07:42 PM
I'll need help testing once the trading system is in place... I was hoping to open it today but it's unlikely now. Too many bugs to fix today. Also added the real-time sorting mechanism and had to make it solid. So much work left...!!! Rome wasn't made in one day I'm afraid.
No need to rush things! Take your time, we can wait. ;)
Title: Re: Welcome to Lestrade's!
Post by: [Lestrades.com] Nao 尚 on March 14th, 2017, 10:56 PM
Yes, I did rush things a bit last weekend. I canceled a visit to the Eiffel Tower with my kid (his mom ended up going alone with him) so I could work on the site, and ended up not releasing anything on that day-- that was extremely frustrating. Then I gave myself a goal of releasing in time for the new Humble Bundle, but they didn't have a new bundle this week ahah. Tomorrow I'll be busy IRL but I'll still devote as much time as possible to the trading system.

I wanna get done with the whole damn thing!
Title: Re: Welcome to Lestrade's!
Post by: ♫Quilly Shiba on March 15th, 2017, 06:53 AM
Thank you so much for this site Nao, really grateful for your hard work! Please take care of yourself as well :)
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Post by: Nedkelly on March 15th, 2017, 11:43 AM
Thank you Nao for taking the time and effort to make this site, and keeping the community from barter together. I have not been trading for so long, but met so many friendly people through this, that has made it fun to be part of the trading community.
REALLY appreciate your work! :cool:

As Quilly said, please take care of yourself as well :)
Title: Re: Welcome to Lestrade's!
Post by: KaoTiKo on March 15th, 2017, 11:45 AM
Thanks for the invite and thanks for all the hard work!!! ;-D
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Post by: gamecreature on March 15th, 2017, 01:49 PM
I'm back! I'm guessing we all have to start at zero again?
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Post by: [Lestrades.com] Nao 尚 on March 15th, 2017, 05:29 PM
No, you'll be starting with your Barter game lists.
If you're talking about stats, I'm keeping those on the side. I'll show them at one point in user profiles, just for reference. I'm not going to import offers from Barter, no. Way too many!
Title: Re: Welcome to Lestrade's!
Post by: gamecreature on March 15th, 2017, 05:51 PM
Quote from Lestrade on March 15th, 2017, 05:29 PM
No, you'll be starting with your Barter game lists.
If you're talking about stats, I'm keeping those on the side. I'll show them at one point in user profiles, just for reference. I'm not going to import offers from Barter, no. Way too many!
Good to know. Thanks!
Title: Re: Welcome to Lestrade's!
Post by: Forum Conventions on March 15th, 2017, 06:20 PM
I am working on a project to archive all of the offers, but it will be separate from Lestrade's, and is still very WIP. Here's what it looks like so far(http://sayonara-barter.antigravities.net/). I'm still working out some kinks with the scraper though and have prioritized that over fixing the UI, haha.
Title: Re: Welcome to Lestrade's!
Post by: primoedu on March 18th, 2017, 02:44 PM
Hi! Can I trade my games here? :hmm:
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Post by: Knopfdruckoffizier on March 18th, 2017, 02:52 PM
Hi, im on board now too :)
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Post by: eifelkenny on March 18th, 2017, 03:02 PM
I'm here now as well. Happy trading :)

When we can start to trade here btw?