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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...
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> 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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In lugnet.general, Leonard Hoffman wrote:
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In lugnet.general, Samarth Moray wrote:
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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.
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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.
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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
BrickShelf and type in “sofa” (along with “couch” and maybe “furniture” if I get
desperate). That doesn’t work when people host their pics elsewhere.
Just brainstorming here, maybe what we need is a service that doesn’t actually
host pictures, but indexes them. It would provide search capability as well as
features like recent additions. Then people could host their pics on
BrickShelf, or maj.com, or one of the dozens of other photo sites, or on their
own personal site, and others could find their pics regardless.
Such a server wouldn’t have gross resource needs, either. I would advocate an
open-source model, with the server code hosted someplace like SourceForge, so
that if whoever’s running it loses interest, somebody else can pick it up.
Best,
- Joe
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In lugnet.general, Joe Strout wrote:
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In lugnet.general, Leonard Hoffman wrote:
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In lugnet.general, Samarth Moray wrote:
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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.
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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.
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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 BrickShelf and type in “sofa” (along with “couch” and maybe
“furniture” if I get desperate). That doesn’t work when people host their
pics elsewhere.
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I swore not to get into this discussion, but...
I am one of the persons who fall into the catagory of someone who owns their own
LEGO-related website (http://www.humboldt1.com/~hlwells/). I made this site
when I wanted something easier to customize than MOCpages or LUGNET. My site is
mostly a MOC site, containing links to all my MOCs and usually a description
accompanies that MOC. I announce new MOCs on the front page, and archive all my
other MOCs, but I also announce my new MOC to LUGNET, Classic-Castle, and
Classic-Space, depending on the type of MOC. I also host my pictures on
Brickshelf. This way, my MOC gets exposure from a maximum of four different
sites. Though my site has little add-ons like descriptions of my MOCs,
Brickshelf is still the core of my site when it comes to the actual pictures. I
suggest that people who have personal LEGO websites to host their images on
Brickshelf (keeping LEGO-related images centralized), while they feature their
MOCs on their personal sites.
Just my two bricks,
-- Nathan Wells
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In lugnet.general, Nathan Wells wrote:
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I am one of the persons who fall into the catagory of someone who owns their
own LEGO-related website (http://www.humboldt1.com/~hlwells/). I made this
site when I wanted something easier to customize than MOCpages or LUGNET. My
site is mostly a MOC site, containing links to all my MOCs and usually a
description accompanies that MOC. I announce new MOCs on the front page, and
archive all my other MOCs, but I also announce my new MOC to LUGNET,
Classic-Castle, and Classic-Space, depending on the type of MOC. I also host
my pictures on Brickshelf. This way, my MOC gets exposure from a maximum of
four different sites. Though my site has little add-ons like descriptions of
my MOCs, Brickshelf is still the core of my site when it comes to the actual
pictures. I suggest that people who have personal LEGO websites to host
their images on Brickshelf (keeping LEGO-related images centralized), while
they feature their MOCs on their personal sites.
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Well, that’s a fine policy, unless BrickShelf is going away (or going to stop
accepting new pictures or whatever). Kevin still hasn’t been very clear on
that. But if it does, then we need to think up a new solution.
Best,
Joe
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In lugnet.general, Joe Strout wrote:
> Just brainstorming here, maybe what we need is a service that doesn't
> actually host pictures, but indexes them. It would provide search capability
> as well as features like recent additions. Then people could host their pics
> on BrickShelf, or maj.com, or one of the dozens of other photo sites, or on
> their own personal site, and others could find their pics regardless.
Actually, http://www.bricksonthebrain.com/instructions sort of already does
that, but in a much less comprehensive way.
Legoswami
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In lugnet.general, Leonard Hoffman wrote:
> 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.
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 from Brickshelf.
ROSCO
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