They say that the way you start a year, is the way it will be for the rest of it. If that saying has any truth to it, judging by the amount of activity and newly added improvements, it seems Colnect is getting ready for a blast of a year to come :)
So what did we have in this year of 2013?
This year must have gotten some good luck when we celebrated our catalogs reaching
1,111,111 collectibles, which is seven lucky numbers one. Since then almost 300,000 additional items have been published on the catalogs.
This year had many new categories joining, from
Lottery Tickets to
Medals, from
Drink Labels to
Video Games, and from a familiar game changing
Functional Cards to a the sister catalog to Teabags -
Tea Labels.
The New Year 2014 is now expected to bring with it
New Categories that were waiting in the wings to be launched. We will have the highly anticipated
Sports Cards category, and also
Paper Clips,
Milk Cup Lids,
Kids Meal Toys and
Music CDs. Many more were already suggested and are sure to join in the upcoming year.
There could never be too many helpful features and additions. In everything having to do with collectors and Colnect, the more helpful tools is definitely the merrier. We've just now added some cool helpful hands to the
Inventory Notes. That's not the only feature we've added though, we did much more throughout the year. We've
opened up the Personal Customs lists to all, so you can put your collection any way you'd like. We parsed the seas and
divided the collectibles into Continents. We've made it easy to find items through
Face Value. We sped things up with
Quick Filter options. We've diversified the catalogs with adding
Variant support. We even put a looking glass right into the catalog and
added a Zoom into the pictures.
Each collectible category is unique and has it's own specific needs. Many categories got tweaked and improved, decorated and streamlined. You can see that on the Postcards category that finally had
Theme Collectors give out a sigh of relief, Phonecards that has
split in two, following much debate, and Hotel Key Cards that got a cool new
Aggregation Feature added to it's catalog.
Our community kept reaching new heights, we have marked the occasion of having
56789 collectors on Colnect, and had the opportunity to thank the
666 contributors on Colnect making it a better place for collectors every day.
Finally, December ended on an especially heart warming note, when the wonderful Colnect Coordinators, were able to gift Free Premium Memberships to some 100 happy collectors.
Colnect has been preparing to welcome the New Year in style and festivities. It has been an eventful December, that will undoubtedly lead to an exciting January 2014, full of new features, new categories, more options and more collecting.
