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In lugnet.general, Tim David wrote:
> Just been to Brickshelf and it reports
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> Brickshelf has discontinued operation. We apologize for any inconvenience.
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> Maj still seems to be up
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> Tim
Maybe it's been hacked? I can't imagine he wouldn't have given people a chance
to save their images.... :-(
Maggie C.
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In lugnet.general, Maggie Cambron wrote:
> In lugnet.general, Tim David wrote:
> > Just been to Brickshelf and it reports
> >
> > Brickshelf has discontinued operation. We apologize for any inconvenience.
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> > Maj still seems to be up
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> > Tim
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> Maybe it's been hacked? I can't imagine he wouldn't have given people a chance
> to save their images.... :-(
Actually, I can - it would have swamped his server, big time.
It's gonna take ages to fix all the links on my web pages, and that's even WITH
backups of all my pics.
And that's not to mention all the links I have to other people's pics... oh
wait, I just did...
ROSCO
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In lugnet.general, Maggie Cambron wrote:
> In lugnet.general, Tim David wrote:
> > Just been to Brickshelf and it reports
> >
> > Brickshelf has discontinued operation. We apologize for any inconvenience.
> >
> > Maj still seems to be up
> >
> > Tim
>
> Maybe it's been hacked? I can't imagine he wouldn't have given people a chance
> to save their images.... :-(
>
> Maggie C.
I'm glad I kept all my pics--but like Maggie, I have a hard time buying into the
theory that someone would just shut 'er down with little/no warning. This has to
be a hack job...I hope I'm right about this--
Play Well and Prosper,
Matthew
"The Brick Detective"
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In lugnet.general, Matthew Crandall wrote:
> In lugnet.general, Maggie Cambron wrote:
> > In lugnet.general, Tim David wrote:
> > > Just been to Brickshelf and it reports
> > >
> > > Brickshelf has discontinued operation. We apologize for any inconvenience.
> > >
> > > Maj still seems to be up
> > >
> > > Tim
> >
> > Maybe it's been hacked? I can't imagine he wouldn't have given people a chance
> > to save their images.... :-(
> >
> > Maggie C.
>
> I'm glad I kept all my pics--but like Maggie, I have a hard time buying into the
> theory that someone would just shut 'er down with little/no warning. This has to
> be a hack job...I hope I'm right about this--
>
> Play Well and Prosper,
>
> Matthew
> "The Brick Detective"
Kevin has almost never communicated with the lego community at all and he's
barely updated Brickshelf over the years at all. It looked like it was from
1995. I'm not surprised by this move at all.
I'm just hoping it really isn't gone or there is a server backup somewhere. The
internet archive is not an ideal way to find all of the lost content.
Imagine all the years of creations built by builders that have come and gone. If
this is all really lost it's a stunning blow to the community. Seriously lame to
do this with no warning.
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In lugnet.general, Matthew Crandall wrote:
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In lugnet.general, Maggie Cambron wrote:
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In lugnet.general, Tim David wrote:
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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
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Maybe it’s been hacked? I can’t imagine he wouldn’t have given people a
chance to save their images.... :-(
Maggie C.
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I’m glad I kept all my pics--but like Maggie, I have a hard time buying into
the theory that someone would just shut ‘er down with little/no warning. This
has to be a hack job...I hope I’m right about this--
Play Well and Prosper,
Matthew
“The Brick Detective”
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There was a thread a couple of years
ago where there was a suggestion on BS to transfer all your images to Maj as BS
was shutting down, so that should probably have been taken as a warning. Kevin
hasn’t mentioned anything about it since, the message was removed, and all
seemed to return to normal, so you can be excused for thinking BS was going to
stay.
It doesn’t surprise me that he’d pull the plug with no further warning. It’s not
like he’s been particularly interested in running the site for a long time. It’s
good practice to have all your images saved locally anyway.
Allister
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There was a thread a couple of
years ago where there was a suggestion on BS to transfer all your images to
Maj as BS was shutting down, so that should probably have been taken as a
warning.
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But would anyone trust another of his sites now? Remember he did the same thing
with zerostuds.com - suddenly it was just gone.
For a site which he must have known a lot of people check daily and was a
cornerstone of the Lego community, this is terrible behaviour. I mean there were
years of pictures there - you could see how models had changed as new pieces
came out and styles of building developed and spread.
Here’s hoping someone else picks up the torch and starts another site with the
same functionality.
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In lugnet.general, Allister McLaren wrote:
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In lugnet.general, Matthew Crandall wrote:
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In lugnet.general, Maggie Cambron wrote:
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In lugnet.general, Tim David wrote:
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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
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Maybe it’s been hacked? I can’t imagine he wouldn’t have given people a
chance to save their images.... :-(
Maggie C.
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I’m glad I kept all my pics--but like Maggie, I have a hard time buying into
the theory that someone would just shut ‘er down with little/no warning.
This has to be a hack job...I hope I’m right about this--
Play Well and Prosper,
Matthew
“The Brick Detective”
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There was a thread a couple of
years ago where there was a suggestion on BS to transfer all your images to
Maj as BS was shutting down, so that should probably have been taken as a
warning. Kevin hasn’t mentioned anything about it since, the message was
removed, and all seemed to return to normal, so you can be excused for
thinking BS was going to stay.
It doesn’t surprise me that he’d pull the plug with no further warning. It’s
not like he’s been particularly interested in running the site for a long
time. It’s good practice to have all your images saved locally anyway.
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Ack! Not a good thread to walk into... ...Unfortunately, it’s not just one’s
own photos being lost (if this is true). I keep copies of my MOC images on CD
ROM, and recent ones on my hard drive. But that doesn’t save the numerous MOCs
of other builders that I have bookmarked in an “inspiration” folder (I doubt I’m
the only one to do this). And I couldn’t count the number of hyperlinks I have
on various message boards, blogs, and websites that would now be broken.
Granted, I was relying on a free service to host my images to save on capacity
on my own sites, so one could argue I get what I pay for. But it’s still sad
and frustrating nonetheless (if indeed the service has been lost).
-Hendo
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In lugnet.general, Tim David wrote:
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Ack! Not a good thread to walk into... ...Unfortunately, it’s not just
one’s own photos being lost (if this is true). I keep copies of my MOC
images on CD ROM, and recent ones on my hard drive. But that doesn’t save
the numerous MOCs of other builders that I have bookmarked in an
“inspiration” folder (I doubt I’m the only one to do this). And I couldn’t
count the number of hyperlinks I have on various message boards, blogs, and
websites that would now be broken.
Granted, I was relying on a free service to host my images to save on
capacity on my own sites, so one could argue I get what I pay for. But it’s
still sad and frustrating nonetheless (if indeed the service has been lost).
-Hendo
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the links issue is really too bad, it’s a hard reality of internets life. our
viclug site has a links and tools page that is heavy with brickshelf links and
it won’t be fun updating it. there’s a large array of folders locally here that
are cool images copied off of brickshelf and the likes but it’s sorted by
subject, so finding out the original creator will be nigh impossible. this can’t
be recreated as people won’t know the site is down for awhile if ever and the
archive nature of the site is gone.
plus as a fellow viclug’e pointed out this am, not sure if it’s been mentioned
here yet, that mocpages is crippled by this. the thumbnails still work as
mocpages generated the site, but the images are deeplinked. I’ve already noticed
some people’s avatars as broken links as well, this is a very widespread bomb to
be dropped. sure this is inevitable, maybe predictable, but still really sucks
and hard not to feel pouty about it.
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In lugnet.general, Joseph Williams wrote:
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plus as a fellow viclug’e pointed out this am, not sure if it’s been
mentioned here yet, that mocpages is crippled by this.
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I forgot to mention BrickWiki is also severely
crippled as we were using special templates to link to BS folders and images in
a huge number of articles.
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In lugnet.general, Matthew Crandall wrote:
> In lugnet.general, Maggie Cambron wrote:
> > In lugnet.general, Tim David wrote:
> > > Just been to Brickshelf and it reports
> > >
> > > Brickshelf has discontinued operation. We apologize for any inconvenience.
> > >
> > > Maj still seems to be up
> > >
> > > Tim
> >
> > Maybe it's been hacked? I can't imagine he wouldn't have given people a chance
> > to save their images.... :-(
> >
> > Maggie C.
>
> I'm glad I kept all my pics--but like Maggie, I have a hard time buying into the
> theory that someone would just shut 'er down with little/no warning. This has to
> be a hack job...I hope I'm right about this--
Well, if I hacked the site, I think I'd put a message slightly more flamboyant
than "Brickshelf has discontinued operation. We apologize for any
inconvenience". But I am not a h@x0r, so I have no idea what goes on in their
heads.
ROSCO
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