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Re: Brickshelf and the AFOL community
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lugnet.general
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Date:
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Tue, 17 Jul 2007 06:44:08 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Jake McKee wrote:
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In lugnet.general, John Neal wrote:
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In lugnet.general, John Gerlach wrote:
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I completely agree with John’s last point - I’d hit the ‘recent updates’
link on Brickshelf a couple times a day.
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And it appears that the mass migration is on! If you go to maj.com, its
recent pages are filled with LEGO MOCs...
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Am I the only one that’s a bit nervous about about a mass migration to
maj.com? If a mass migration happens, the maj.com bandwidth shoots through
the roof and Kevin is once again facing overwhelming bandwidth costs. If this
happens, does he shut down that site too, thus leaving everyone in the same
spot they’re in now? Generally, we don’t know if the issue is that Kevin is
done hosting anything or only done hosting brickshelf.com.
Without any communication from Kevin on this matter, I’d be hesitant to rush
to migrate to maj.com. But perhaps that’s just me.
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I’ve decided to start migrating my BS account to MAJ. Fortunately for me, my
gallery is pretty small. What is really needed is a migration bot that
automates the upload process to MAJ after BSbackup utility has finished its
downloads from brickshelf.
I too am a bit nervous about how bandwidth on MAJ will be affected. Without any
stats from Kevin there is no way to tell if MAJ>>BS or BS>>MAJ. It would really
be nice to hear his reasons for deciding to shut the site down. If it is
financial, I’m sure the community could find a solution. If it is simply time,
would he be willing to turn the site administration over to the community?
Regardless of what hosting service people use, I really hope that Kevin
maintains the BS content somewhere even if it is off line. I’m sure that alot
of content will not be migrated and will be lost to the online community.
It would be really nice if he could donate (or loan) the drives where the BS
content is stored to lugnet or peeron or someone in the community
(ambassadors??) for safe keeping until a community administered & funded
solution could be established. At that point, the original BS content could be
restored.
drc
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| (...) Am I the only one that's a bit nervous about about a mass migration to maj.com? If a mass migration happens, the maj.com bandwidth shoots through the roof and Kevin is once again facing overwhelming bandwidth costs. If this happens, does he (...) (17 years ago, 16-Jul-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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