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Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
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lugnet.general
Date: 
Thu, 12 Feb 2004 19:09:23 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Brendan Powell Smith wrote:

   FBTB and BZ Power have a much more limited scope, and in my opinion, would have been better off simply linking to the appropriate LUGNET discussion forums rather than host their own lesser and competing forums.

I’m not so sure that it shouldn’t be the other way around. Fans of specific themes have gone out and organized their own sites because Lugnet wasn’t enough for them, for whatever reason. I’d say well over half the original lugnet.castle posts are later repeats of Classic-Castle.Com posts - it’s become a mere duplication of effort. One starts to wonder if lugnet.castle shouldn’t just be a link to Classic-Castle.Com. The reverse is that Lugnet, by maintaining it’s own castle forum, retains the broad-based general information link and still have the visiblity of the traffic flow, which helps cross-pollination. There’s also a difference in tone - Lugnet is primarily for AFOL, and for those that don’t really understand those initials, that’s Adult fans of Lego. There’s a much higher young person participation in Classic-Castle, so clearly Lugnet does not meet the desires of every fan.


-->Bruce<--



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  Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
 
(...) Classic-Castle is a nice site, but its forum software is nasty. How did this "BB" style forum software take over the web? Ugh. It's a lot like a trying to have a conversation using a *literal* bulletin board and post-it notes. And Young People (...) (20 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)

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  Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
 
(...) What about when someone has a terrible or very misguided idea, writes a module, uploads it, and everyone suffers? An obvious danger of a community owned site is that only a certain percentage of that community's ideas are going to be worth (...) (20 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)  

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