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Re: Brickshelf L.L.C.
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lugnet.general
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Fri, 22 Feb 2002 22:34:27 GMT
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Kevin, I hope your employment issue finds a fast and good resolution
and I really appriciate what you have done for the AFOL community this
far. Thanks a lot! I hope you did not loose the job because they
finally "got on" to you officially with the Brickshelf project, that
would really make you a martyr .)
Regarding Brickshelf it has three big uses:
1) Has scans and instructions.
2) Collects (new) MOCs in one place.
3) Gives a form of webspace to those who don't have any via their ISP.
Number one and two are the most important IMHO. I only post my MOCs
and stuff to Brickshelf to make it more easy to find, I also have
duplicates on my personal webpages. I know there are a lot more who
works in this way and others that keep all their images at Brickshelf
even though they have perfectly good webspace via their ISP's.
If I had to pay for using Brickshelf, honestly, I would keep my
pictures on my site alone. It is hard work getting them up to
Brickshelf now when the FTP is down since my ISP only lets me upload
files under 1MB via webinterface so I have to break my image folders
down into several ZIP-files and uploading can take several hours.
The scans on the other hand is a very valuable thing for me and I
might pay for that service. But I don't like the idea of selling other
peoples work (scanning takes a lot of time).
Banners is probably the ticket if they are needed but I suspect they
don't bring much money?
What about Lugnet? Could Lugnet run the instruction scans in a worst
case senario or would that be too much traffic?
This could also mean a better Brickshelf if LEGO OnLines their own
"scans" = high and good quality, no little borther crayon. I really
hope the functionality of BS at least keeps it high standards and I'll
whish for more. But then again...
With best regards from Sweden,
/Tobbe
http://www.arnesson.nu/lotek/
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