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In lugnet.announce, Sean Kenney wrote:
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In anticipation of the new image
hosting and of lots of new users, MOCpages is getting a spiffy new web server
tomorrow (that kicks the pants off the old one).
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Following up to my last message... The new server will be set up this
afternoon, so I want to apologize ahead of time if there’s any downtime during
the transition.
MOCpages will also be running at reduced speeds during non-peak times over the
next few days... It’s automagically downloading all the photos that had been
linked from MOCpages to Brickshelf... they will be hosted on MOCpages at least
for now. So if you have a MOCpages account, your pictures are safe! No need to
recreate your pages.
Sean
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MOCpages admin
www.mocpages.com
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Sean,
I was just thinking about how cool it would be if MOCpages automatically pull
the images over from BrickShelf. Thanks for doing this!
I also have a few questions:
Will the service be limited to MOC-related pictures? Will we have to use some
other service to store non-MOC related LEGO images? (Such as events, people,
collections, boxes, set reviews, etc.)
Will it be possible to mass-upload images?
Will you allow deeplinks?
Thanks,
Akos
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In lugnet.publish, Akos Kostyan wrote:
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Will the service be limited to MOC-related pictures?
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While MOCpages will always be MOC-centric, I won’t restrict the service to just
MOCs. It would be great if you could casually peruse photos from big events
like Brickworld or of people’s LEGO storage systems, because these things all
tie back to the same thing: doing greatness with the brick.
The MOCpages Directory has changed a bit to better support the categorization of
things like set reviews and events. Let me know what else you think should be
there.
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Will it be possible to mass-upload images?
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Mass-upload: Yes, but not immediately. (Read: Not within the next 2 weeks.)
The upload feature was written on a lot of coffee over the past 36 hours, and
right now it only supports JPG files. First on the priority list to expand it
to include other images formats (GIF, PNG, BMP, etc), as well as LDRAW and LDD
formats.
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Will you allow deeplinks?
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For now, yes, deep links will work. But this might not remain permanent,
because I want MOCpages to remain a LEGO community... and not become a file
server. Deep linking increases traffic while decreasing exposure to monetizing
features like onscreen ads or other things. That said, it might be possible to
enable deep linking for members subscribing to the “full” service... I’d like to
see how traffic flows over the coming weeks before committing to an answer on
this.
Sean
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MOCpages admin
www.mocpages.com
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In lugnet.publish, Sean Kenney wrote:
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In lugnet.announce, Sean Kenney wrote:
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In anticipation of the new image
hosting and of lots of new users, MOCpages is getting a spiffy new web
server tomorrow (that kicks the pants off the old one).
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Following up to my last message... The new server will be set up this
afternoon, so I want to apologize ahead of time if there’s any downtime
during the transition.
MOCpages will also be running at reduced speeds during non-peak times over
the next few days... It’s automagically downloading all the photos that had
been linked from MOCpages to Brickshelf... they will be hosted on MOCpages at
least for now. So if you have a MOCpages account, your pictures are safe!
No need to recreate your pages.
Sean
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MOCpages admin
www.mocpages.com
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That is such great news. While I don’t mind creating new pages using a different
image host, the thought of changing my existing page was a bit forbidding. When
I read the same info on the site I just thought, behind that simple message
there’s been a lot of consideration and hard work. Thanks
Tim
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In lugnet.publish, Sean Kenney wrote:
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First on the priority list to expand
it to include other images formats (GIF, PNG, BMP, etc), as well as LDRAW and
LDD formats.
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Please don’t allow BMP. It annoys me greatly when I ocassionally see those
space and bandwidth waster on Brickshelf.
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In lugnet.publish, Sean Kenney wrote:
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In anticipation of the new image
hosting and of lots of new users, MOCpages is getting a spiffy new web
server tomorrow (that kicks the pants off the old one).
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MOCpages’ new server was installed at our data center yesterday (Tue) afternoon.
Later today (Wed) the database will be migrated to the new server... Hopefully
there won’t be any downtime, but there might be some slowness while everything
is being copied over. It’s all for the better :)
Sean
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MOCpages admin
www.mocpages.com
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In lugnet.publish, Ka-On Lee wrote:
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In lugnet.publish, Sean Kenney wrote:
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First on the priority list to expand
it to include other images formats (GIF, PNG, BMP, etc), as well as LDRAW
and LDD formats.
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Please don’t allow BMP. It annoys me greatly when I ocassionally see those
space and bandwidth waster on Brickshelf.
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Well, MOCpages will allow you to UPLOAD bmp files, but it will convert them to
JPGs for web viewing. No sense making the site’s traffic go up (and your wait
time go down)!
Sean
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MOCpages admin
www.mocpages.com
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