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Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
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lugnet.general
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Thu, 12 Feb 2004 14:37:16 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Huw Millington wrote:
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> "Jindroush" <jindroush@nospam.seznam.nospam.cz> wrote in message
> news:402B7020.38BAFC84@nospam.seznam.nospam.cz...
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> Jindroush, you raise some good points, but to answer one in particular,
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> > What's the difference between guide on Lugnet and BrickSet? Isn't that
> > just a mere duplication?
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> It is partly thanks to Brickset that the Lugnet guide is as good as it is
> today. A few years ago there was a degree of 'friendly rivalry' between
> Brickset and Lugnet, and following a major enhancemnet of Brickset, I
> believe Todd felt the need to beef up the guide in response.
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> Competition is always a good thing...
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> At the moment the guide has some advantages over Brickset, and vice-versa.
> Myself and Grahame Reid continue to maintain Brickset because it gives us
> pleasure to do so and judging from the usage stats, an increasing number of
> others are finding it a useful resource.
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> Of course, if LEGOFan.net provides high quality images and information on
> every set produced since the year dot including promotional, regional and
> other rare sets, and produces it in a timely manner on or before set
> release, I'll be happy to throw in the towel, or maybe adapt Brickset to
> take its data from a XML web service or whatever else is provided by
> LEGOfan.net
Or better yet, perhaps Brickset (and others) is where much of the data for a
single, integrated set guide is pulled from!
Jake
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Jake McKee
Community Liaison
LEGO Community Development
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