This past year has been a year of many additions, from collectible categories, through features to the very inner workings of the system for Colnect. Colnect has grown, both as a community and as a catalog, network and website, and with it it learned, improved and bettered itself. Just as 2012 begins and ends with the number 2 which symbolizes togetherness, Colnect began and is ending it's year peaking with it's greatest strength - cooperation.
Many collectible categories joined the Colnect ranks in 2012, to proudly represent and cater to all their collectors. Categories such as
Pocket Calendars,
Sugar Packets,
Lego Sets,
Stickers and
Trading Card Games are each now holding their place with a respectable catalog of their own. All these categories were established by collectors and with collectors that
initiated,
maintained and contributed to make it all happen.
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| Year 2013 Pocket Calendar, from the Colnect Catalog |
Some categories are in the works now, to be made public in this coming year of 2013, such as
Drink Labels,
Medals,
Video Games and
Functional Cards. All collectors interested are welcome to join and contribute to the new categories by contacting the respective category coordinators. We wish all these categories and their coordinators luck and success in the new year. All the process of construction of new categories has been available since this year on the new "
New Categories" forum, where everyone cam follow new suggestions of categories and suggest some of their own.
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| Year 2013 Pocket Calendar, from the Colnect Catalog |
The Colnect community itself has been increasing in size, as more and more collectors are discovering all the advantages it offers. Only last month Colnect marked it's latest milestone of
40004 collectors registered. The community members have also been reaching out to each other more on the personal level, and were afforded the comfortable opportunity to in the new
Meetings and Events forum.
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| Year 2013 Pocket Calendar, from the Colnect Catalog |
The expanding catalogs have been benefiting from the many generously active helping hands of collectors around the world, and have also marked milestones of their own. The
Stamps category reached
300303 Stamps, the
Coins category now superseded it's previous milestone of
30003 Coins, while the
Phonecards category has achieved the number of
400004 items on it's catalog.
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| Year 2013 Pocket Calendar, from the Colnect Catalog |
Possibly the most important and influential changes introduced to Colnect are in the added features and the improvement of the system. Colnect has been working to make itself smoother, more accessible, easier and friendlier to use. New features included the valuable
Best Matches option, the
Colnect Item Score for collectible items and the
5 Star Contribution system.
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| Year 2013 Pocket Calendar, from the Colnect Catalog |
The most exciting part of this changing year is that 2013 is sure to bring with it much more revolutionary changes, improvements and many more very welcome additions. Already now we are expecting great potential from the results of the work on the
Colnect API, the
New Method to Add Items and
Colnect Marketplace.
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| Year 2013 Pocket Calendar, from the Colnect Catalog |
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Thank you to all are continuously helping to realize such a wonderful, useful and effective tool for collectors of so many items around the world. There is no room to thank each one individually, but we hope this will be a great year for each one of you and for all of us together.
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| Happy New Year 2013 ! |
