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Subject:	Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
Newsgroups:	lugnet.general
Date:	Thu, 12 Feb 2004 19:49:59 GMT
Reply-To:	mattdm@mattdm&nomorespam&.org
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Bruce Schlickbernd <corsair@schlickbernd.org> wrote: > 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 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 Today don't know any better. *sigh*. Anyway, I appreciate that stuff gets posted to Lugnet too. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@mattdm.org <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>

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		Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
(...) "Lugnet is a nice site, but the forum software is ugly. How on earth are you supposed to read all this text? It's ugly, there's no attempt to make it interesting or highlight what's important..." Not that I actually think that, but remember (...) (20 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)

		Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
(...) The simple answer to that is that it took over the web because it is freely available and easy to setup. phpBB, which classic-castle uses, comes with cPanel (and possibly other such programs) which is used by hosting companies to set up shared (...) (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.
(...) 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 (...) (20 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)

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