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Subject: 
Problems with Brickshelf?
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Date: 
Sat, 14 Jul 2007 22:06:39 GMT
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Just been to Brickshelf and it reports

Brickshelf has discontinued operation. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Maj still seems to be up

Tim



Message has 19 Replies:
  Re: Problems with Brickshelf?
 
(...) Nice of Kevin to give us some warning. Jeff (17 years ago, 14-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
  Re: Problems with Brickshelf?
 
(...) Good job giving everyone time to back there stuff up, Kevin Everyone else, get on Flickr. Brickshelf has sucked since the 90's. (17 years ago, 14-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
  Re: Problems with Brickshelf?
 
(...) Maybe it's been hacked? I can't imagine he wouldn't have given people a chance to save their images.... :-( Maggie C. (17 years ago, 14-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
  Re: Problems with Brickshelf?
 
(...) i just sent off an email with the 2 main questions everyone is asking. hopefully we'll get some answers. ondrew p.s. is there anyone who could temporaraly host brickshelf for lets say 2 weeks so people can backup there photos? (17 years ago, 15-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
  Whiners Re: Problems with Brickshelf?
 
This is not directed at Tim, but rather some of the whiners that responed to his post above... When I first saw that BrickShelf was down, I was all gung-ho to see what I could do to help bring it back up. As the host for Classic-Castle, I do have (...) (17 years ago, 15-Jul-07, to lugnet.general) !! 
  Re: Problems with Brickshelf?
 
(...) Looks like it's gone for good... :( I would happily pay a fee (like the Lugnet $10) to be able to post my photos again, if it meant keeping Brickshelf online. Dan and Jennifer, thank you for trying to find a solution with Kevin. Maybe you guys (...) (17 years ago, 15-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
  Re: Problems with Brickshelf?
 
It would have been nice if only the accounts of people who didn't donate money to Brickshelf were gone. I imagine that doing that would have reduced the number of files on the site to about 1% of what it was. As a Brickshelf member who donated to (...) (17 years ago, 15-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
  Re: Problems with Brickshelf?
 
Sounds bad. I keep local copies of anything I upload on the internet, but a lot of good stuff on there will have been lost if this is genuine. I don't think it was hacked, as the Zerostuds forum went down the same way last year. The general image (...) (17 years ago, 15-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
  Re: Problems with Brickshelf?
 
(...) If this turns out to be permanent, I am glad that there are alternatives out there. But when I started out here on Lugnet, it was because of Brickshelf. Had I not had a free service with which to use to upload my LEGO related photos, I don't (...) (17 years ago, 15-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
  Re: Problems with Brickshelf?
 
(...) The loss of Brickshelf, even for a temporary period, is a serious loss to the LEGO community. I visit the site every day and depend on it a great deal. Without knowing the circumstances or the facts, some of you have attacked Kevin based on (...) (17 years ago, 15-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)  
  Re: Problems with Brickshelf?
 
(...) After reading this thread I am a little confused. I had always thought that the ads such as Amazon.com or personal Lego sales such as is on Bricklink paid the cost of these sites like Lugnet and Peeron. Peeron asked for donations to speed up (...) (17 years ago, 15-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
  Re: Problems with Brickshelf?
 
(...) Although there are many other picture hosting site can anyone recommend a site that will allow you to upload other file types such as Lego CAD files? Tim (17 years ago, 15-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
  Re: Problems with Brickshelf?
 
(...) Well, the discontinuation of Brickshelf is a big bummer. As people have indicated elsewhere, it has been a major pillar of our AFOL community since the beginning. Flickr Schmickr. What I valued most about Brickshelf is that it was one-stop (...) (17 years ago, 15-Jul-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
  Re: Problems with Brickshelf?
 
(...) <https://www.brickshelf.com/ Try this.> Click OK to be able to view it. (17 years ago, 15-Jul-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
  Re: Problems with Brickshelf?
 
I'm not sure where to post this in this thread, so I'm just going to throw it out there. If anyone here decides they want to take action (as I said, I'm not sure what) to build or rebuild the sort of service we had with BS, I want to make one (...) (17 years ago, 15-Jul-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)  
  Re: Problems with Brickshelf?
 
(...) There is something I think we all need to think about for a moment- it's still the weekend. If we don't get any word by, say, Monday afternoon then it's off to MAJ, Flickr, or whatever works for each of us. Adr. (17 years ago, 15-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
  Re: Problems with Brickshelf?
 
(...) Per the Brickshelf terms of service, still available at (URL) 13. MODIFICATIONS TO SERVICE Brickshelf reserves the right at any time and from time to time to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, the Service (or any part thereof) (...) (17 years ago, 15-Jul-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
  Re: Problems with Brickshelf?
 
"Tim David" <talltim@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:JL6w33.4L7@lugnet.com... (...) I've been using imeem to share photos and videos. Here's a sample video I uploaded: (URL) also financially (and bandwidth) stable because they just inked a (...) (17 years ago, 16-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
  Brickshelf and the AFOL community
 
For those of you who don't know me, I've been in the AFOL community for a long time. I'm also one of the largest hosters of LEGO clubs and other LEGO-related sites. Most of these sites are donated to help the clubs have an internet presence, Some of (...) (17 years ago, 16-Jul-07, to lugnet.general) !! 

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