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A little bit of background... I remember reading
this and thinking to myself I think
Flickr is great for surfing MOCs if you know where to look. About a few weeks
ago, I started playing around with phpFlickr, thinking that it would be easy to
build a quick & dirty web-site to find AFOL MOCs. I think one of the problem
with Flickr is if you go searching for pictures tagged with ‘LEGO’ you get a lot
of AFOLs’ photos and everything else -- pictures from the LEGO extremist, to the
mom posting pictures of something she thought was cute that her kids built from
LEGO, but of something that only a mother could love.
So in response, I threw together this:
http://www.brickbuildr.com/
It’s a comprehensive list of LEGO Flickr groups, and a few dozen Flickr users
from the AFOL community. It’s very basic, nothing fancy. And it will evolve
when I get some more free time to play with it.
In the mean time, I’m open to suggestions. Let me know what you think about it.
If there’s something that can be improved, let me know. You know of other
Flickr LEGO groups that should be added, let me know. If you want your Flickr
photostream to be up on the web-site, send me an email. If you’ve got good
ideas on how to improve this project & make Flickr more AFOL-friendly, let me
know.
This project is not a BrickShelf replacement -- thank you for BrickShelf and
your hard work, Kevin, btw. This is not to be yet another image hosting site,
but a more AFOL-friendly view of Flickr.
--Mike.
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In lugnet.announce, Michael Huffman wrote:
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A little bit of background... I remember reading
this and thinking to myself I think
Flickr is great for surfing MOCs if you know where to look. About a few
weeks ago, I started playing around with phpFlickr, thinking that it would be
easy to build a quick & dirty web-site to find AFOL MOCs. I think one of the
problem with Flickr is if you go searching for pictures tagged with ‘LEGO’
you get a lot of AFOLs’ photos and everything else -- pictures from the LEGO
extremist, to the mom posting pictures of something she thought was cute that
her kids built from LEGO, but of something that only a mother could love.
So in response, I threw together this:
http://www.brickbuildr.com/
It’s a comprehensive list of LEGO Flickr groups, and a few dozen Flickr users
from the AFOL community. It’s very basic, nothing fancy. And it will evolve
when I get some more free time to play with it.
In the mean time, I’m open to suggestions. Let me know what you think about
it. If there’s something that can be improved, let me know. You know of
other Flickr LEGO groups that should be added, let me know. If you want your
Flickr photostream to be up on the web-site, send me an email. If you’ve got
good ideas on how to improve this project & make Flickr more AFOL-friendly,
let me know.
This project is not a BrickShelf replacement -- thank you for BrickShelf and
your hard work, Kevin, btw. This is not to be yet another image hosting
site, but a more AFOL-friendly view of Flickr.
--Mike.
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Good work! This sounds like what a lot of people were asking for.
One suggestion is to get the feeds for each Flickr user’s “LEGO” tag - here’s
Chris Giddens’ - so you see
only that user’s LEGO-related images. Another suggestion would be to break down
the groups by theme and the users by letter as the lists grow longer.
Thanks for your efforts, Michael.
Marc Nelson Jr.
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In lugnet.general, Marc Nelson Jr. wrote:
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In lugnet.announce, Michael Huffman wrote:
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A little bit of background... I remember reading
this and thinking to myself I
think Flickr is great for surfing MOCs if you know where to look. About a
few weeks ago, I started playing around with phpFlickr, thinking that it
would be easy to build a quick & dirty web-site to find AFOL MOCs. I think
one of the problem with Flickr is if you go searching for pictures tagged
with ‘LEGO’ you get a lot of AFOLs’ photos and everything else -- pictures
from the LEGO extremist, to the mom posting pictures of something she
thought was cute that her kids built from LEGO, but of something that only
a mother could love.
So in response, I threw together this:
http://www.brickbuildr.com/
It’s a comprehensive list of LEGO Flickr groups, and a few dozen Flickr
users from the AFOL community. It’s very basic, nothing fancy. And it
will evolve when I get some more free time to play with it.
In the mean time, I’m open to suggestions. Let me know what you think
about it. If there’s something that can be improved, let me know. You
know of other Flickr LEGO groups that should be added, let me know. If
you want your Flickr photostream to be up on the web-site, send me an
email. If you’ve got good ideas on how to improve this project & make
Flickr more AFOL-friendly, let me know.
This project is not a BrickShelf replacement -- thank you for BrickShelf
and your hard work, Kevin, btw. This is not to be yet another image
hosting site, but a more AFOL-friendly view of Flickr.
--Mike.
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Good work! This sounds like what a lot of people were asking for.
One suggestion is to get the feeds for each Flickr user’s “LEGO” tag -
here’s Chris Giddens’ -
so you see only that user’s LEGO-related images.
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Okay.. this has been changed. Now you’ll only see the lastest 6 LEGO images
from a person’s photostream. But this also means that people need to tag
their photos correctly in Flickr to get them to show up on BrickBuildr. Right
now, it’s only looking for the tag ‘lego’, but later I’ll add change it to look
for other tags like ‘MOC’, ‘WIP’, ‘Rock Raiders’, etc. (or tags that should be
very AFOL/LEGO-centric).
My idea with the site is to take advantage of tags, by creating different themed
& sub-themed lists of photos -- for instance, for Brickworld, I created a small
floating rock MOC that I could carry on the plane. I started looking on
Brickshelf, MOCPages, Flickr & Google looking for reference photos... good tags
made them easier to find. One idea would be to see what kind of photos people
are searching for (based on tags & text) the most, then turn these popular
searches into predefined photo lists.
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Another suggestion would be to break down the groups by theme and the
users by letter as the lists grow longer.
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Good suggestion. I’ll do this when the list of names/groups become
unmanageable.
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Thanks for your efforts, Michael.
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No problem.. it’s a fun little project.
--Mike.
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A suggestion, that I’m not sure how easy it would be to code, would be to ignore
pictures that are private.
Tim
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In lugnet.general, Tim David wrote:
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A suggestion, that I’m not sure how easy it would be to code, would be to
ignore pictures that are private.
Tim
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Tim,
BrickBuildr should be ignoring your private photos. If it’s not, please let me
know via e-mail.
Thanks,
--Mike.
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