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| | | Hi, everyone... With the looming shut-down of Brickshelf, I would like to offer (URL) MOCpages> as a safe alternative for everyone to continue posting their LEGO creations. In light of this, MOCpages now offers free image hosting. Of course, you can (...) (17 years ago, 17-Jul-07, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce.mocpages, FTX) !!
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| | | | | Re: MOCpages, now a Brickshelf alternative —Jason J Railton
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| | | | | (...) Sean - thanks for coming forward with this. I hope you won't be reticent in asking for subscription revenue if you need it to keep going. May I make a request about something that has put me off MOCpages so far? It may be already there, but (...) (17 years ago, 17-Jul-07, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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| | | | | | | Re: MOCpages, now a Brickshelf alternative —Sean Kenney
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| | | | | | | (...) Better review maintenence is coming. :) You'll have the ability to turn them off, or configure them to stay hidden until after you approve them. You'll also have the ability to delete them after they've been published. Sean - - MOCpages admin (...) (17 years ago, 17-Jul-07, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: MOCpages, now a Brickshelf alternative —Nathan Todd
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| | | | | | | | | (...) and not a contributor! God Bless, Nathan (17 years ago, 17-Jul-07, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: MOCpages, now a Brickshelf alternative —Joseph Williams
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) what excellent news! I've been a very happy user of the mocpages site for a few years now, after a fellow local lego nut convinced me to jump into it, and like the voting/comments aspect of it, but the new features you've mentioned sound (...) (17 years ago, 17-Jul-07, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: MOCpages, now a Brickshelf alternative —Sean Kenney
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) Yes, you'll be able to delete comments that are on there now. ...a LOT of people have been asking for this, so it's a long time coming. :) (...) I love your ideas! :) There's a lot of social networking that can be added to MOCpages... the (...) (17 years ago, 17-Jul-07, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: MOCpages, now a Brickshelf alternative —John Neal
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| | | | | | | | | (...) Hey, Sean- This sounds great, and that was one of my issues, but here is another-- the advent of ads. I realize, of course, the reason for them, but if one were a contributing member, would it be possible for the ads not to appear on one's (...) (17 years ago, 17-Jul-07, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: MOCpages, now a Brickshelf alternative —Sean Kenney
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) I don't like the ads anymore than you do, it kills me to see them there. But MOCpages had to shift to an advertising model (from a donation model) to stay alive. It's a sad truth. Over 1,000,000 people visit MOCpages every month... most of (...) (17 years ago, 17-Jul-07, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: MOCpages, now a Brickshelf alternative —Bruce Hietbrink
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| | | | | | | | | | Hey Sean, I've got a question about ads. Do you gain revenue every time I log onto the site and see the ad, or do I actually have to click on it? If the latter, I think we in the community could make the very minor commitment to click on ads when we (...) (17 years ago, 17-Jul-07, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: MOCpages, now a Brickshelf alternative —Marc Nelson Jr.
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| | | | | | | | | | | (...) I don't think you want to do that. It might get Sean in trouble for (URL) click fraud>. Just click on the ads that you are actually interested in. Marc Nelson Jr. (17 years ago, 17-Jul-07, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: MOCpages, now a Brickshelf alternative —Bruce Hietbrink
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| | | | | | | | | | | | (...) Hmm, guess I won't do that then. It does see odd to me. The idea of advertising is the more eyeballs the better. My TV doesn't penalize me for watching the commercials even if I don't buy anything. To the contrary, they are hoping that since I (...) (17 years ago, 17-Jul-07, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: MOCpages, now a Brickshelf alternative —Dan Boger
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| | | | | | | | | | | | (...) It's not like you watching a commercial though - it's like you turning on the TV when you're not home, so that the rating of a show goes up (and therefor it's revenue from commercials). If you follow a link of interest, and end up not buying, (...) (17 years ago, 17-Jul-07, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: MOCpages, now a Brickshelf alternative —Jake McKee
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| | | | | | | | | | | | (...) On top of this, click padding/click fraud throws the whole system off. The core concept is based on a system that tracks, reports, and allows advertisers to respond based on real interest. For instance, if I'm selling widgets and am using (...) (17 years ago, 17-Jul-07, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: MOCpages, now a Brickshelf alternative —Dan Boger
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| | | | | | | | | | | (...) IIRC, Google ads actually penalizes sites that end up with many clicks on ads that do not actually end up in sales? It certainly penalizes the advertisers that have such ads. Dan (17 years ago, 17-Jul-07, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: MOCpages, now a Brickshelf alternative —Sean Kenney
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) It depends on the ad. Some ads pay out on a cost-per-view, and others pay out on a cost-per-click. It is up to the advertiser to decide how they want their ad to work in this regard. This is actually a good thing, because some advertisers just (...) (17 years ago, 17-Jul-07, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: MOCpages, now a Brickshelf alternative —C. L. GunningCook
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| | | | | | | | (...) YouTUBE account often gets comments I wouldnt want my mother to read) but I am also not keen on the "Rating", any chance of turning that off as well? Thanks for stepping up to the plate on this one. As I donated to Brickshelf, because I used (...) (17 years ago, 19-Jul-07, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: MOCpages, now a Brickshelf alternative —Sean Kenney
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| | | | | | | | (...) i don't see why not. :) It's funny, because all those features (reviews, ratings) are what drew a lot of people to MOCpages in the first place. Ah, to each their own I suppose. I'm working on all this stuff right now, so it might be a week or (...) (17 years ago, 19-Jul-07, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: MOCpages, now a Brickshelf alternative —C. L. GunningCook
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| | | | | | | | (...) Thanks Sean, and as they say "cheques in the mail"... smile. Looking forward to the updates, and some free time to upload a few of my MOCS. Janey "Red Brick" (17 years ago, 19-Jul-07, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: MOCpages, now a Brickshelf alternative —Jude Beaudin
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| | | | | | | | | (...) I bet he gets the cheque before I get my toothpicks. ;-) Jude (17 years ago, 19-Jul-07, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: MOCpages, now a Brickshelf alternative —Sean Kenney
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| | | | | | | | (...) Janey, thank you. 5 additional people saw your post and took it upon themselves to send donations as well. I really appreciate it, everyone... every little bit helps. Sean - - MOCpages admin www.mocpages.com (17 years ago, 19-Jul-07, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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| | | | | | | Re: MOCpages, now a Brickshelf alternative —Sean Kenney
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| | | | | | (...) You can now delete reviews that were written about your LEGO creations. It's a first step. Eventually, when you add your LEGO creations to MOCpages, you'll be able to say "Let (1)Anyone, (2) Only MOCpages members, or (3) No one, review this (...) (17 years ago, 20-Jul-07, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.announce.mocpages, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: MOCpages, now a Brickshelf alternative —Sean Kenney
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| | | | | (...) Following up to my last message... The new server will be set up this afternoon, so I want to apologize ahead of time if there's any downtime during the transition. MOCpages will also be running at reduced speeds during non-peak times over the (...) (17 years ago, 17-Jul-07, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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| | | | | | | Re: MOCpages, now a Brickshelf alternative —Akos Kostyan
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| | | | | | | Sean, I was just thinking about how cool it would be if MOCpages automatically pull the images over from BrickShelf. Thanks for doing this! I also have a few questions: Will the service be limited to MOC-related pictures? Will we have to use some (...) (17 years ago, 17-Jul-07, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: MOCpages, now a Brickshelf alternative —Sean Kenney
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| | | | | | | | (...) While MOCpages will always be MOC-centric, I won't restrict the service to just MOCs. It would be great if you could casually peruse photos from big events like Brickworld or of people's LEGO storage systems, because these things all tie back (...) (17 years ago, 17-Jul-07, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: MOCpages, now a Brickshelf alternative —Ka-On Lee
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| | | | | | | | (...) Please don't allow BMP. It annoys me greatly when I ocassionally see those space and bandwidth waster on Brickshelf. (17 years ago, 18-Jul-07, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: MOCpages, now a Brickshelf alternative —Sean Kenney
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| | | | | | | | (...) Well, MOCpages will allow you to UPLOAD bmp files, but it will convert them to JPGs for web viewing. No sense making the site's traffic go up (and your wait time go down)! Sean - - MOCpages admin www.mocpages.com (17 years ago, 18-Jul-07, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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| | | | | | | Re: MOCpages, now a Brickshelf alternative —Tim David
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| | | | | | | (...) That is such great news. While I don't mind creating new pages using a different image host, the thought of changing my existing page was a bit forbidding. When I read the same info on the site I just thought, behind that simple message (...) (17 years ago, 17-Jul-07, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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| | | | | | | Re: MOCpages, now a Brickshelf alternative —Sean Kenney
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| | | | | | (...) MOCpages' new server was installed at our data center yesterday (Tue) afternoon. Later today (Wed) the database will be migrated to the new server... Hopefully there won't be any downtime, but there might be some slowness while everything is (...) (17 years ago, 18-Jul-07, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: MOCpages, now a Brickshelf alternative —Ralph Savelsberg
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| | | | | (...) Sean, You're a hero. I've had most of my stuff on MOCpages for a few years now, and while comments people write about my MOCs sometimes annoy me, overall I've been really happy with it. Being able to add a little information to the pictures (...) (17 years ago, 17-Jul-07, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: MOCpages, now a Brickshelf alternative —Jonathan Lopes
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| | | | | (...) Thanks for hooking this up, Sean. Looking forward to a new and improved MOCpages. Very much appreciated! Best, Jonathan (17 years ago, 17-Jul-07, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: MOCpages, now a Brickshelf alternative —brent skadan
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| | | | | This is something I was hoping would happen as a result of the discontinuation of Brickshelf. I for one would gladly pay to use MOC pages -- although my concern is that that would make it difficult for kids to use the site. As for the MOC comments, (...) (17 years ago, 17-Jul-07, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: MOCpages, now a Brickshelf alternative —Duane Collicott
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| | | | | Sean - It looks great. Thanks for that new feature. (17 years ago, 18-Jul-07, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: MOCpages, now a Brickshelf alternative —Brian Darrow
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| | | | | (...) Sean, Thank you very much. Brian Darrow (17 years ago, 18-Jul-07, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: MOCpages, now a Brickshelf alternative —James Garrett
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| | | | | (...) First of all, thank you for providing mocpages. When I posted my Fisher Building MOC on your site, a person from MichLUG left a review and that is how I found out about that club of which I am now a member. I would support your idea of a two (...) (17 years ago, 18-Jul-07, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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| | | | | | | MOCpages? Brickshelf? What should I do? —Sean Kenney
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| | | | | | Hi, everybody. With all that's been going on, a lot of people have been asking me things like: "what should I do?" "Should I stay on Brickshelf or move to MOCpages?" "How do I know if any of these services are safe?" Let me start by saying that (...) (17 years ago, 21-Jul-07, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.announce.mocpages, FTX) !!
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| | | | | | | | Re: MOCpages? Brickshelf? What should I do? —Didier Enjary
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| | | | | | | (...) Hi Sean, and thank you for MOCPages. (...) Basically, I trust people. I trust people from the start. But who runs MOCPages? You and you alone? Not a team? Without the ldraw.org team, Ldraw would have died with Jesse. And that's basically the (...) (17 years ago, 26-Jul-07, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: MOCpages? Brickshelf? What should I do? —Sean Kenney
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| | | | | | | | (...) Is this true? Didn't Tim Courtney establish the LDRAW committee in 1999, well after (and due to) James Jessiman's passing in 1997? Furthermore, James was developing an open standard, he wasn't providing a service or a selling a product. These (...) (17 years ago, 26-Jul-07, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: MOCpages? Brickshelf? What should I do? —Didier Enjary
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| | | | | | | | (...) That's exactly what I wanted to read. Take care of you and beware of the bus. Didier (17 years ago, 27-Jul-07, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | Re: MOCpages? Brickshelf? What should I do? —William R. Ward
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| | | | | | You have said that old postings on MOCpages that use Brickshelf for image hosting will automatically have the images copied to MOCpages and the pages updated to use your hosting. Two questions about this: 1. Is this still true, now that Kevin has (...) (17 years ago, 29-Jul-07, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | Re: MOCpages? Brickshelf? What should I do? —Sean Kenney
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| | | | | | (...) Yes. There are about 130,000 images that were linked to Brickshelf from all the pages on MOCpages. I've now copied all 130,000 of them over to MOCpages and they'll be linked to your pages very soon. This applies to all the images that were (...) (17 years ago, 30-Jul-07, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: MOCpages, now a Brickshelf alternative —Scott Wardlaw
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| | | | Sean, Firstly, thank you very much for adding image hosting to MOCPages and for automatically pulling over our photos from Brickshelf! For some time now, I’ve had to look through both Brickshelf and MOCPages and update both. I can’t thank Kevin (...) (17 years ago, 18-Jul-07, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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