thomas and friends mini series

I think keeping the site you already use would be best for everyone, or is that not possible? Would save a lot of faffing around by users not privy to the chat here.

I recently joined a minis group on fb, and you list is in a pinned comment and seems well used by members (alongside the app)

I agree that would be easiest for the users, but I'm not willing to give anyone else write access to my account, so it won't happen. I'm sorry, but that's the way it is.

If someone's willing to maintain the site elsewhere, I'm more than happy to set up a link to that site way at the very top, including a button to automatically take your whole checklist with you! Users being able to keep their data is really important to me, and drove the whole design of the site (that thing that Pablo mentioned earlier about being able to share a checklist with someone else; and I think someone made an android app that lets you import that data, too, which is exactly what I had in mind for data portability!). So anyone could just download their own copy of the .html and .js files (or get them from archive.org if my site disappears) and use that Share button and modify the URL to point to their own computer instead of my site, and keep their personal checklist that way, even if my site goes away (though I'm all paid up for the next year, so it shouldn't go away any time soon!). Probably more work than is worth it for most people, but it was important to me that it be possible

Understandable. I dont think i am clued up enough, sorry. Maybe see if ucwepn's son would be intersted? Hes good with computers.

There’s someone on a Facebook group that has a bunch of the exclusive day out with Thomas minis. He’s selling them first come first serve. I was able to secure one a moment ago. I think the group is literally just called “Thomas and friends minis!”

I grabbed two, and am also getting one of the carry boxes, and trying to fill gaps in my blind bag collection.

Now released

I agree that would be easiest for the users, but I'm not willing to give anyone else write access to my account, so it won't happen. I'm sorry, but that's the way it is.

If someone's willing to maintain the site elsewhere, I'm more than happy to set up a link to that site way at the very top, including a button to automatically take your whole checklist with you! Users being able to keep their data is really important to me, and drove the whole design of the site (that thing that Pablo mentioned earlier about being able to share a checklist with someone else; and I think someone made an android app that lets you import that data, too, which is exactly what I had in mind for data portability!). So anyone could just download their own copy of the .html and .js files (or get them from archive.org if my site disappears) and use that Share button and modify the URL to point to their own computer instead of my site, and keep their personal checklist that way, even if my site goes away (though I'm all paid up for the next year, so it shouldn't go away any time soon!). Probably more work than is worth it for most people, but it was important to me that it be possible

Pictures are no problem, I think we can find a host somewhere and keep the same file names, just change the target.

I gave it a try by adding 2020 (just a duplicate of 2019) 4 more new tables.
https://pastebin.com/QTFbEU8w

Did you use some kind of editor? I cannot imagine doing this by hand one by one, I have a whole new level of appreciation and respect now, which is also I can see why you don't want to maintain this any longer. It helps adding new features step by step, but if we were to take this over we probably would have to make some changes, unless there is an easier way, like linking up duplicates, etc.  Is that automatically handled by the JS under 

Code:

SettingsDoNotCheckMatchingRereleases

as long as they are defined? But I am curious how does the JS match re-releases since I don't see a unique ID for each release/checkbox?

You do have

Code:

class="rerelease"

But after that it's still not unique, for example you have different bags, where does it look to match them?


PS: Drew & Mods, should we split off the checklist discussion into another thread?

I scrolled through tweets from https://mobile.twitter.com/TF_Minis , and had a go at making a list for next year based on his pics. Some themes we already knew about, some are more recent. Some names might be wrong... too many new characters that are hard for me to tell apart, and the translation didnt always give names. Themes might also be wrong... western and farm could be one and the same.

Western:
Sherrif thomas
Gold miner victor?
Bank robber diesel
Cow girl emily
Cactus? Bill (might actually be poinsettias for christmas theme?)

Farm:
Henhouse toby (wish it had been a new bulgy mould)
Barn/stable annie
Sheep dog percy

Music:
Xylophone charlie?
Piano duck
Headphones diesel 10
Boombox flynn

Desserts:
Cargo car
Shane
Bertie
Gator

Robot:
Kevin

Solar system:
Ashima
Victor?

Tiki/hawaiian:
Samson
Surf bertie
Thomas
Bill
Toby

75th:
Platinum thomas
Rebecca
James
Gordon
Thomas?

Winter/christmas:
Igloo Edward
Snowy Paxton
Snowman Luke
Ice castle Gator

Okay, here's a Proof of Concept of how it could work hosted somewhere else. It remembers your list but does *not* include the pictures (though they could be re-added by hosting them somewhere else (one of the wikis?) or maybe there's a way to add them to codepen or some similar site). Also, you need to have third-party cookies enabled in your browser for it to remember your checklist, which is... not ideal. But anyone could create their own (free) codepen account and add a pretend wave to see what's involved and if it's something you feel like doing a few times per year. If someone went down this route I'd help them optimize this page a little further from this quick-and-dirty PoC.

https://codepen.io/drewbenn/full/jOOyjEx

*snip*

I just had a look at this codepen because I was interested how you made a http link that kept all that user data intact.  Using a bitmap to store the status of the check boxes is clever and means you keep your HTTP GET to a reasonable length.

I was interested in doing something similar and was resigned to storing user data in the DB.

Nice one, and thanks for sharing.

It's really annoying how the 7 packs are basically online exclusive now. Walmart, Target, every other big box stores stopped selling them after 2018 7-Pack #2.