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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman wrote: (snirp) (...) (snorp) (...) Whatever you do, don't replace the super-awesome Escheristic logo. Further, I'll voice my opinion that the homepage looks just fine and a complete overhaul isn't going to bring (...) (20 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Ya, that's gotta stay. (...) It may not be broken to you, who are familiar with it and have been using it for years...but it's been pointed out by many that it can be quite confusing for first-time visitors. (...) Well, LUGNET was created to (...) (20 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) I agree. I don't know exactly how easy the procedures are in the meantime, but to register a few years ago was somehow odd for me :-) Translations are needed, at least for a "How-To-Post"-Site. As for German, I know that there were offers to (...) (20 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.de, FTX)
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(...) How about an universal umbrella page which can be shared by all sites involved? A common logo (A Fabuland umbrella, perhaps?), available for all, linking either to a central page or a current copy on the local sites' server, which in turn (...) (20 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.de)
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(...) Sorry, don't want to troll/flame, but I wouldn't call 1000steine 'European'. German, yes. European, no. Althought I'm living in the neighborhood, I can't grok a word from that site. That's why I support WorldLUG/LEGOFan stuff, they aim (...) (20 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.de)
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(...) Agreed. In the legofan.net thread there were several posts that sounded offended that anyone would consider another location (posts positing LUGnet as "THE" home for on-line LEGOdom, which ignored other huge sites, or people arguing that other (...) (20 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Okay, I'm an idiot. There's a link right there on the front page to "Build your own web pages". That said, however, this is still a largely unused feature of LUGNET. Bruce (20 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) I have used this feature, and I use (URL) MOCPages>. I would like to see LUGNET offer something more substantial such as MOCpages, or perhaps Sean and Todd could morph something.... JOHN (20 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Exactly. (...) I'm up in the air about keeping 'Top Stories' on the main page of LUGNET. Perhaps it should stay, and have a bit less prominent position. What I'd *really* like to see is a magazine-style news posting system where articles (not (...) (20 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Wouldn't it be just easier to share the info with those pages? (...) yahoo.lugnet.org? ;-)) Just why 'admins'? Let everybody add anything, let others vote, let others veto. Add autotools for periodical link checking. Let the person who added (...) (20 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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(...) snip (...) Yes! - it would be very much like a group blog. See my mockup: (URL) (...) snip (...) This is a great idea. It is a superhuman task for one person, or even a few people to keep up with all the links out there. Marc Nelson Jr. (...) (20 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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how about a wiki? anyone can put stuff on there, but its so easy to remove spam Marc Nelson Jr. wrote: <snip> (...) (20 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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(...) It would be pretty easy to convert the /links/ area from static HTML pages into dynamic FTX content, which would essentially give wiki-type functionality. --Todd (20 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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(...) Sorry too, but that's nitpicking. Would you use the universal language of the UN for LFnet/WorldLUG? Rhetorical question, no answer needed. Leg Godt! René (20 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.de)
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(...) Nope. It's as 'european' as are american stuff is 'world'. For me and _most_ of the younger people here it could be in swahili with the very same effect. There's no way around than to use english (world) or regional sites. It's arrogant to (...) (20 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.de)
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(...) Too much grunt work. The technical solution is too easy not to implement. (...) I agree that anyone should be able to submit a link for consideration, but I believe (strongly) that an administrator should have to approve links to be publicly (...) (20 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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(...) Absolutely! At 1000steine.de you can submit links too: (URL) I have to accept all links and it's not uncommon, that somebody submits links that has really nothing to do with LEGO. So I can delete them before they're public. Leg Godt! René (20 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Also, on a practical level, doing redirects (not just DNS records) as subdomains would be prohibitively expensive with the current Lugnet hosting arrangement. (20 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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(...) Nnnooooooo... ;] Here's the deal: I used to be an avid LUGNET poster, but due to a lot of issues not related to LUGNET or LEGO I had to shelve the hobby for about 2 years. I'm now trickling back to it, at least the purchasing part of the (...) (20 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general) !
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(...) I don't know anything about current situation, but this is beyond my imagination? What's that 'expensive' on one dns record and one mod_rewrite line in Apache config? (20 years ago, 22-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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(...) Sorry, this doesn't sound too 'open' to me as I fell this is 'power centralisation' (your opinions may differ, of course). I still think that crowd may have 'better' {and definitely faster} decisions than few chosen ones. I think that total (...) (20 years ago, 22-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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(...) "If we just ignore the spammers, they'll stop sending Email" Trust me, the above statement is completly false. I think moderation is neccessary to avoid the link page from being overrun with ads for "free" medication and "foolproof" get rich (...) (20 years ago, 22-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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(...) Why frame this negatively with the words 'power centralization?' Think ... what 'power' would link administrators have? Approve/reject links to be made public. Its in the best interest of creating a comprehensive directory to link to as many (...) (20 years ago, 22-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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(...) ? I'm for moderation. But _everybody_ would be one. You'd vote for 'offtopic', I'd vote for 'offtopic', somebody else would do so... and voila, link is removed. The only problem remains in setting the good rules with good weights. (20 years ago, 22-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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(...) From a technical point of view, nothing at all. And maybe Pair would be cool about it, I dunno. ISPs like to charge for stuff like that, is all. Hopefully, we'll eventually have an arrangement which gives us more control. (20 years ago, 22-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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(...) Our company decided that all of the webhosters are too restrictive, so we went the serverhosting way, where man can have lots of freedom without any additional payments. RH Enterprise + 700gbs of traffic monthly for relatively low price. I can (...) (20 years ago, 22-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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(...) In the clear cases, there is no argue that they could get as good results as few admins. In the 'grey' cases, the voting of more people can make the result to represent the majority opinion, which may not be the case of few admins. (...) It (...) (20 years ago, 22-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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(...) Very kind of you :-( Please have a look at the homepage as of today and count the flags of the countries: (URL) 18 MOCs from Germany 10 MOCs from outside Germany (4 MOCs from Denmark, 3 MOCs from Switzerland, 1 MOC from Sweden, 1 MOC from (...) (20 years ago, 23-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.de, FTX)
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(...) I'd rather see the link directory be well architected than reflect majority opinion. This would require a few thoughtful, knowledgeable, and fair people to give a little bit of time to maintaining it. This isn't voting on major policy here, we (...) (20 years ago, 23-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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(...) I still think it's german. The majority of content, whole web interface, 99% of forums etc. (...) This is where our opinions are clearly different. I think it's the visitors who can make use of your site. And, definitely, non-german-speakers (...) (20 years ago, 23-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.de)
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Hello! (...) That's true. (...) ...like non-English-speakers can't sufficiently use any English site. Of course there are more non-German-speakers than non-English-speakers in the world :-) (...) Now, that's kind of a political statement that does (...) (20 years ago, 23-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.de)
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(...) Orion, do you have any basis for making a blanket statement such as your first sentence? I'm not trying to defend or condemn anybody, but that's bad logic to just say "trust me.." and not give any reason. Your next sentence provides a reason, (...) (20 years ago, 23-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Well I know that there are some goof balls who take the time to use MichLUG.org's contact form to spam us MichLUGers. So if someone is willing to waste their time on that I can only assume the same would be true of a much larger site like (...) (20 years ago, 23-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, FTX)
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Hello ! Salut ! As you are speaking about european community, I was wondering if some people here knows this website (Eurobricks) ? What do you think of this opportunity ? (create a kind of european Lugnet ?) <www.eurobricks.com> Comme vous parlez (...) (20 years ago, 23-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.de)
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(...) Well, to clarify this issue: I called 1000steine.de an European site as it is indeed located in Europe. Just in contrast to American sites, Asian sites, etc. I never said that 1000steine.de should be the ultimate paneuropean solution to all (...) (20 years ago, 24-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.de)
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(...) Yeah, I want to apologize again, I've read 'The European Site' (the only) instead of 'An European Site' (one of). (...) Rather not, thank you ;-)))))))) Publisher and contentwise responsible: René hoping master Rose way 3 16727 upper (...) (20 years ago, 24-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.de)
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