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Re: Brickshelf going away???
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lugnet.general
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Sat, 28 May 2005 04:22:37 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Tommy Armstrong wrote:
> The web is wonderful but it ain't permanent or free. If the people who use
> brickshelf think so much of it (and I have always been impressed with it), then
> they should be willing to pay for a subscription to upload and download images.
I'd certainly be for micropayments for uploading images. I don't know how many
images are uploaded each day/week/month, but at $.01 each, I should think the
income might add up, yet wouldn't break anybody.
It'd be nice to keep the ability to view images free, though, since it opens up
the building community to the rest of the world.
Rick C.
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Message has 3 Replies:
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| (...) Agreed. I havent looked much at maj.com, but there are tonnes of other pictures than lego. Micropayments on Bricklink could be the way. But - my opinion - it should be by used storages. Some people upload _huge_ pictures of sizes of e.g. 1MB - (...) (19 years ago, 30-May-05, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Brickshelf going away???
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| (...) Yes I would also support a free to view, pay to upload system on Brickshelf. I don't know how much work it would take to implement this, but you could have a monthly, quarterly, and/or annual subscription fee that may give you (un)limited (...) (19 years ago, 31-May-05, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Brickshelf going away???
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| (...) I think the issue has always been that it just doesn't work in practice. I mean sure, I wouldn't mind paying a penny per picture, but actually having to go through both paypal AND the upload process, I dunno. It would create more of a bother. (...) (19 years ago, 31-May-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Brickshelf going away???
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| (...) The web is wonderful but it ain't permanent or free. If the people who use brickshelf think so much of it (and I have always been impressed with it), then they should be willing to pay for a subscription to upload and download images. Or have (...) (19 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.general)
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