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Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
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lugnet.general, lugnet.lego
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Sun, 15 Feb 2004 18:06:06 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Steve Runnels wrote:
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What some people don't seem to understand, is that this isn't just about forums
and links.

Imagine if you will, you have a homepage that you can configure, however you
want, that can give you the latest threads FROM Lugnet, FBTB, Classic Castle,
etc. Imagine it shows you the latest MOCs from your favorite builders and/or
catagories. Imagine it also shows you the latest pics for new sets. Imagine it
would tell you when something on your BrickLink wishlist appears. Imagine just
how limitless this could be if it actually happens! And that's just the
homepage...

And this isn't about replacing ANYTHING, when you click the links on such a
homepage it would take you to the places you know and love now. And this would
allow NEW sites to join in much easier without being forced to pull people away
from the other sites. Everything would be interconnected and make finding what
you actually want to see much easier.

Like I said however, it will take a lot of work. And I'm not sure that it really
would ever happen, but it's nice to dream.

--SteveR

Excuse my ignorance, but what about those websites, like FBTB and
Classic-Castle, that want their visitors to physically visit their forums to see
the latest threads so that they could also visit the main website, to view the
main page and see the news that has been posted there at the expense of time and
effort by the websites administrators?

What about those websites who want to show off the latest pics of the newest
sets, like FBTB and Classic-Castle, who would like the traffic to their sites,
and who want deals with LEGO to display the latest and greatest pictures?

How is taking this information away from these websites not replacing them?

Why bother posting to the website at all if the forum topics are taken to
another website?  Why not just post to that website?  Why would LEGO give their
preview set images to other websites, when these nonreproducable nonrepostable
images could just be given to this new website to which they already have deep
partnership, and severe all contact with the old ones?

Why not go a step further and take the news items on those websites' main pages
and link them to this new website, thus removing any point to the old websites?

If none of the above is to happen, then how is it not about just forums and
links?

Of course, these are all just questions, read into them as you like.

--Anthony
Lugnet member #1312



Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
 
(...) Oh, I understand this. That's part of the "lot of work" that would be involved. How exactly do you implement something like this to the other sites satisfaction? *I* don't know exactly. Yet at the same time I can't help but think this would (...) (20 years ago, 15-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego)
  Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
 
(...) Not in direct response to your post, Anthony, but as general info: LUGNET also has access to many of the latest pics of newest sets, but I've chosen not to pursue getting them into our database in a hurry. This is for a number of reasons, (...) (20 years ago, 17-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego)

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  Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
 
(...) Finally! Someone made the completely ignorant statement I was waiting for! w00t! Ok, I'll put my piece in here I guess. I think this whole idea is a good one, but it's going to take a LOT of work and participation from the other sites. What (...) (20 years ago, 15-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego) ! 

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