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Re: Brickshelf going away???
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lugnet.general
Date: 
Tue, 31 May 2005 18:49:55 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Samarth Moray wrote:
In lugnet.general, Bryan Wong wrote:
to transfer/exchange more "standardized" and better quality files.  For those
that are unwilling to pay to use this service, there are other (free) hosting
services and picture hosting sites out there...

True, but I don't want to have to go through a hundred other sites to find one
cool MOC a day. A centralised place is much better.

This has already happened.  More and more, when people get serious about the
online community, they get their own website(1).  In order to keep up-to-date on
MOCs, etc, I usually check four or five websites a day.

-Lenny

(1)= For example, http://www.neutronbot.com featuring the work of Soren Roberts,
Kevin Blocksidge, Tim Deering, Lenny Hoffman, Jonesy Heckel, and Roy Grieg.



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  Re: Brickshelf going away???
 
(...) That's very unfortunate, though. As Jason pointed out, it's easy enough to host your own pictures -- but there are great advantages to having them all in one place. When I want to find a good idea for making a sofa, for example, I go to (...) (19 years ago, 31-May-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
  Re: Brickshelf going away???
 
(...) That's true, but I for one still put my pics on Brickshelf, and link there from my site. This is partly because Northstar's free web hosting has a 100MB limit, but mostly because I like the idea of people being able to also search my gallery (...) (19 years ago, 31-May-05, to lugnet.general)

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  Re: Brickshelf going away???
 
(...) I think that this is a very important point. IMHO big images are just a waste of bandwidth (people get frustruated anyway when they realise the dimensions of the image, and hit back in disgust) as well as space. Also, delete unused accounts, (...) (19 years ago, 31-May-05, to lugnet.general)

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