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In lugnet.general, Niels Bugge wrote:
> However from a community-perspective, it's a cornerstone of our HISTORY, as
> many has said, it's not our own pictures, but those of others that we've
> bookmarked or linked to - that isn't avaliable elsewhere, and may never
> be...¬ There must be a gazillion posts and links all over the internet that
> is totally worthless right now - and the idea that it should be possible to
> reupload/fix even a fraction of these pictures and links one at a time is
> simply ridiculusly unrealistic.
>
> [So Kevin, if you're reading this:]
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> There's plenty of other possibilities for hosting pictures, and I can
> understand if you have reasons for wanting to get rid of it, but wouldn't it
> be possible to lock it for further uploads and/or turn it over to somebody
> else?
>
> If it was locked for further uploads and if we could be "sure" that it stayed
> up, I imagine that the traffic would gradually drop as people begin to upload
> and link to pictures elsewhere - until only the {vital} traffic caused by
> bookmark-browsing for inspiration was left, together with the occasional hits
> from somebody reading up on old posts.
First, Kevin, you've cost me thousands of dollars. If it weren't for Brickshelf
I'd probably be off doing some boring hobby. Brickshelf was one of the hooks
that drew me in and I'm very glad to be here. For this, I thank you.
Second, as I sit here and look over my list of brickshelf links of good ideas
and then think about the thousands of brickshelf images that are linked from the
lugnet archive, if anything can be done to preserve brickshelf (without further
postings if necessary), I would strongly support/encourage it. Even better would
be publicly viewable, but paid member only posting on brickshelf from here on
out (presumably with Kevin as emeritus administrator, or retaining ownership and
licensing out the site to some sucker or group of suckers foolish enough to take
on the administrative and financial responsibilities).
Third, maybe the days of a custom built photo sharing site have been superseded
by the massive photo sharing sites, but brickshelf has two things that no other
site could ever have. Whatever it is you see on brickshelf, you know it will be
lego related. And brickshelf has been a focal point for the AFOL community, the
site where the majority of AFOL pictures have been posted.
Sure, we can twiddle with the markers on flickr, but that will just increase the
learning curve for a newbe and instead of being front and center, the AFOL will
fade in to the background of flickr. I assume we will also run into problems
posting .ldr, .lxf, .pdf, movies, etc to flickr. Losing the one one stop shop we
have with brickshelf.
So thank you Kevin for providing brickshelf, hopefully it will live on in some
form. And thank you Niels for eloquently expressing your ideas.
Benn
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> Second, as I sit here and look over my list of brickshelf links of good ideas
> and then think about the thousands of brickshelf images that are linked from the
> lugnet archive, if anything can be done to preserve brickshelf (without further
> postings if necessary), I would strongly support/encourage it.
I would be happy if it were possible to buy the entire BS content database on a
set of DVD's or something. Does anyone know how much space the entire BS
archive is? How many 4.7GB DVDs would it take up?
At the very least it would be nice if Kevin could donate the drives that contain
all the BS content to the online community (lugnet, peeron, etc) so that it may
be possible for someone to resruect the site in an archive-only format.
drc
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In lugnet.general, Benn Coifman wrote:
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Second, as I sit here and look over my list of brickshelf links of good ideas
and then think about the thousands of brickshelf images that are linked from
the lugnet archive, if anything can be done to preserve brickshelf (without
further postings if necessary), I would strongly support/encourage it. Even
better would be publicly viewable, but paid member only posting on brickshelf
from here on out
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Amen, brother. And I’m willing to put my $$$ where my mouth is, and I have
emailed Kevin as much.
I thought that it was great that Kevin finally started taking donations, but he
ceased it. It is certainly worth $2.00 a month to me to support Brickshelf.
Heck, throw in another $2.00 for LUGNET. Fiddy bucks a year for sites like
Brickshelf and LUGNET to exist?! Every day, in a New York minute!
I say we flood Kevin with $$$ with some sort of “Save Ferris” fundraiser. We
could scrape up 5 figures in no time.
Come on, Kevin! Give us the word. Give us a PP account addy....
JOHN
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