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In lugnet.general, John Neal wrote:
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Yeah, that I’ll admit, but I never really looked for things past just
browsing the recent pages. What I liked was the one-site shopping, and that
it was an AFOL site, too. Flickr is bigbox. I like the corner drugstore
guy;-)
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A bit off-topic here, but I’d hardly call Flickr a “bigbox”. From their earliest
days they have been a community oriented company in a way that nearly every
other company around can learn from. They built a fantastic tool always keeping
in mind community needs and actively community feedback.
They did so good at it, in fact, that they were acquired by Yahoo!. This has
been a big help for them in dealing with precisely the same scaling/bandwidth
issues that I assume are causing Kevin to turn off Brickshelf.
I understand and agree that supporting an AFOL-created site is a great thing to
do. But the problem with that option is that once a community grows beyond a
certain mass, you’re left with precisely the sort of situation we have here now.
I keep harping on the Flickr API and the specialized “Flickr Viewer” application
(not something I could probably create personally) is that the likelihood of
Yahoo! going away is drastically less than anything any one of the AFOLs could
create specifically for the AFOL community. If we can find a smart solution(s)
that helps give a Brickshelf-like user experience, while also creating something
that we can reliably and safely assume will exist into the foreseeable future,
it’s a win-win.
Even if Brickshelf were to return at the top of the hour, it’s always going to
be at an ongoing risk for closure. Brickshelf (and really, any photo sharing
site) is a victim of its own success. The more usage it gets, the
business/financial risk grows exponentially. On top of that, any entirely free
site should be considered a limited time activity. I’ve yet to think of a
project on the Web that has been (mostly) ad/sponsor-free, subscription free,
and major contributor-free, and still been around much longer than a few months.
Kevin has done an amazing thing for many, many years. But perhaps it’s time to
really work on a solution that will comfortably last us all another 8 years (or
more) and let Kevin retire with grace.
Jake
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Jake McKee
Private Citizen
“Keeping hope alive”
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| (...) But you are a wiz-kid, Jake, and I am but a simple, old-timer:-) (...) Yeah, that I'll admit, but I never really looked for things past just browsing the recent pages. What I liked was the one-site shopping, and that it was an AFOL site, too. (...) (17 years ago, 16-Jul-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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