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Re: Is Brickshelf slow for anyone else lately?
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lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego
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Wed, 27 Nov 2002 19:13:40 GMT
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You are right, Jon. People need to realize that "free" is relative anyway.
Sure, Kevin did a great deed in setting up the site and helping to build the
community. However, it is part of a community, and it looses most of its
value if the community abandons it.
IMHO Lego fan website owners need to learn to get out of the mentality of "I
provide this wonderful service, and so you should simply appreciate me." I
have seen that quite a bit, in the last year, and it is discouraging. Most
of us will simply move on to some other venue.
Of course, I know what Kevin needs: money. I feel fairly convinced he
doesn't have the money to keep up the bandwidth he used to have (I have no
inside knowledge of that fact, however). But lacking that, paying a little
attention to what his community wants (less aggregious moderation, more
explanations for how he is running his site) would be a good thing.
TLG should buy Brickshelf, and give it the bandwidth it needs. They
probably don't want to touch it because it comes with a hornets nest of
intellectual property problems. However, it is that kind of overly
conservative legalistic thinking that keeps the official Lego sites in such
a poor condition that they are in. Take a chance Lego. Spend some money on
Brickshelf. It could go along way towards keeping the adult Lego frenzy
alive. (Which, if you ask me, just makes more kids drool over Lego.)
Ok, thats about all. ;)
-Alfred
In lugnet.general, Jon Palmer writes:
> In lugnet.general, Jon Palmer writes:
> > Been talking to a few people online and we've all noticed that Brickshelf
> > seems to be considerably slow lately. Is there anything we should know
> > about or perhaps anything the community can do?
>
> I hate to say it but this site is more or less dead to me now. I never check
> the recent additions anymore. I never upload anything to it now (and I'm
> considering revising my website so it doesn't point to anymore images
> there). I honestly don't even like to follow links to it now. I tend to
> cringe when I see the brickshelf url in a link.
>
> It really is a shame. I always considered brickshelf to be one of the
> foundations of the online LEGO community. Before anyone responds to me and
> tells me that "this is a free service" or whatever, realize that I know
> this. I just think it would be nice to at least get some sort of response
> from Kevin.
>
> -Jon
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