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(...) Also threads with recent discssion are marked visually as being such and there's an Active Topics list available next to View New Posts. I'm going to be a little stirring here and suggest that possibly many of the same people demanding that (...) (15 years ago, 17-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Group discussion comments are very searchable ((URL) Image comments aren't which I agree can be frustrating. And flickr is very good at telling you where there is activity. Which isn't to say it's a good place to discuss LDraw. It is not. The (...) (15 years ago, 17-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Maybe you're missing the 'login' part? When you're logged in you get a link "View new posts" on top right under the banner. You can also (when logged in) select the "Options" menu in the upper right (although a bit lower than the other link) (...) (15 years ago, 17-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | [FreeLUG : French Enthusiast LEGO(c) User Group] Les nouveautés mardi 16 mars 2010
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Bonjour Voici la lettre d'information du site "FreeLUG : French Enthusiast LEGO(c) User Group" ((URL) lettre recense les articles et les brèves publiés depuis 1 jours. Nouveaux articles ---...--- ** Une LGV pour nos trains LEGO ** par Denis HUOT, (...) (15 years ago, 17-Mar-10, to lugnet.org.fr.freelug)
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(...) I have trouble navigating Eurobricks because it requires so much scrolling and clicking on <next> links to find things. I mean, how do you find your way to a particular post when there are 318 *pages* and you have to scroll through them all to (...) (15 years ago, 17-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Shop @ Home Phone Specials for Wednesday, March 17, 2010 to Tuesday, March 23, 2010.
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Item # 9833 LEGO® Mindstorm Transformer 9 Volt Retail Price: $23.99 Sale Price: $4.98 (15 years ago, 17-Mar-10, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) I tend to agree with you... Anyway it may be OK to post images (though I don't like the way we are supposed to browse them), but it's definitely not a place for serious discussion, as comments are not searchable. Philo (15 years ago, 17-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: The future of LDraw?
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(...) I toyed with this a few years back: (URL) (15 years ago, 17-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Sorry, but I'm a little slow. Was it at LUGNET or Eurobricks you couldn't find your way back to that topic? /Tore (15 years ago, 17-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Really? I kinda like to browse Eurobricks. Lots going on there, with plenty of great pictures. Once I tried to help someone with lsynth and then (I'm embarassed to say) I couldn't find my way back to that topic the next day. Even logged in I (...) (15 years ago, 17-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Lego City Police Car - 7236
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(...) There is no single list, but there are some links here: (URL) Eric Albrecht's Technicopedia has Ldraw files for many Technic sets: (URL) (15 years ago, 17-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Not sure which forums you visit but they must be unusually obtuse. Just about everywhere I visit tells you which threads have new posts since you last visited and an unread topics page. --snip-- (...) Tim (15 years ago, 17-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Err, how am I supposed to remember which "dozens of threads" I visited yesterday? Most "forum" software seems pretty aggressive about not showing visited/unvisited links. I don't spend a lot of time in forums, but the only useful one I've (...) (15 years ago, 17-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I'd see LDraw getting a forum system with most aspects of the bulletin board system like user accounts instead of emails *but* having a threaded layout like here on LUGNET. I myself do not know anybody who uses LDraw or even LEGO for that (...) (15 years ago, 16-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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Hi again! I've done some more Lego modelling! This time I'm playing with the Lego City Police Car. I've created some renders using POV-Ray and I've put the LDR/MLCAD files and various other 3D formats of the model on my website. See the following (...) (15 years ago, 16-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I am very tempted to change the subject line of this branch of the discussion tree into "The future of LUGNET?". I know, it was mostly my "fault" the this thread changed subjects. But to me, it's the strength of the tree structure. Then anyone (...) (15 years ago, 16-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I'm reading LUGNET through a newsreader - Outlook Express - which is the same as my email program. I donwload all new posts in a batch (much, much, MUCH, faster than loading web pages) and then I can read the posts at my leisure, I don't even (...) (15 years ago, 16-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Timely info! I'm in the middle of filling out LUGNET's (absurdly long) Member sign-up page, hoping to streamline posting... but that's useless & dead? I was going to suggest LUGNET make memberships free, push the donation requests more, change (...) (15 years ago, 16-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) The bottom line is that LUGNET needs to change how it handles users. At a minimum the authentication emails have got to go. I'm a member and I use the web interface so I can just log in and skip most of the annoying things (e.g. entering (...) (15 years ago, 16-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Yeah, you're probably right. :) I don't even notice that I enter "to" here in the Name and E-mail fields (the rest of my name and e-mail is auto-filled by IE) and check that "I have carefully read... blah, blah" checkbox; that has become a (...) (15 years ago, 16-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Heh, don't apologize - it's great to hear from LUGNET users why they like this place! My view is about 100% opposite from yours ;) Yes, you need a flickr account, but you need to join here too, which we agree is painful. When you joined (...) (15 years ago, 16-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I do realize the fact that LUGNET is a huge deterrent, but I just can't get into my head why. Yes, I recall it was a pain to join LUGNET when I moved from the mailing list that preceeded LUGNET. But I only had to do it "once in my lifetime", (...) (15 years ago, 16-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I very strongly second this. I've been lurking here for years now, but almost never post, and never get involved, because of how awkward, old & user-unfriendly LUGNET is. I think LUGNET is a huge deterrent to any potential LDraw newcomers & (...) (15 years ago, 16-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Here's the last version I gave: (URL) (19.3MB) It's been a year since I gave it so it may be outdated. -Orion (15 years ago, 16-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDTranslator released
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(...) -SNIP- (...) I have just uploaded version 1.0.5.4 of LDTranslator. Please note that due to some problems with the CMS I can not change the text of that pages. But the link still works and now you will get this new version. Please leave a note (...) (15 years ago, 16-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) -SNIP- (...) Thanks for reporting. I'll have a look into this. cu mikeheide (15 years ago, 16-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) That's the sort of discussion forum layout that I've seen dominate every site I use today, except for Lugnet. Lugnet surely went the hierarchical direction because the best Newsgroup readers supported hierarchical views. Like it or not, that's (...) (15 years ago, 16-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) It's been so long since I looked at it, I forgot about the copyright of the images. I'll need to get some OKs first and give credit where credit is due. That semi-truck is 99% Pierre Normandin's design. There are also some personal thoughts (...) (15 years ago, 16-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I'll accept two round-trip tickets and a nice hotel...just kidding. I'd love to see it, but that one is a bit far for me to go this time. I'll be at BrickWorld again this year, but even that is an 11 hour drive. Scott W. (15 years ago, 16-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | GMLTC to display at La Crosse & Three Rivers Model Railroad Show
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(URL) The Greater Midwest LEGO Train Club will be showing this weekend at the La Crosse & Three Rivers Railroad Club 29th Annual Model Railroad Show. Come see the GMLTC’s 18’x30’ ever-expanding modular all-LEGO town & 9V train layout. Judy & Bill (...) (15 years ago, 16-Mar-10, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.mn, lugnet.loc.us.wi, FTX)
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(...) Thanks for the presentation Scott. I'd love to also see yours, Orion. I have been in charge of presentations at the last two national AFOL events in Spain (HispaBrick) and will be for the next one. I prepared a short and basic presentation (...) (15 years ago, 16-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) (April 9-11, 2010 in Fremont, California - see bricksbythebay.com) (15 years ago, 16-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDTranslator released
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Michael, I found a bug. When I start LDTranslator and open a menu but not pick an option but click elsewhere, an Unhandled Exception occurs. See screenshot: (URL) I click "Continue" I can indeed contiunue to use the program. Error: See the end of (...) (15 years ago, 16-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Art Making Robot and Erik¡¦s Plotter
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(...) Thank you for Ultimate RoboLAB. This is the last piece of the puzzle for my next art robot. When I started this project, my first decision was what platform to use. RoboLAB 2.9, Ultimate RoboLAB and Eric’s plotter vi’s had all the parts (...) (15 years ago, 16-Mar-10, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Brick Show 2010 in Ohio!
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ok! We are to step #2 now. We have our designs! We will be doing a number of different projects this year! Another mosiac is in the works now! We will be doing one of two records (still pulling together elements to make this happen) Either longest, (...) (15 years ago, 15-Mar-10, to lugnet.general)
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(...) <snip> (...) That's an absolutely fantastic presentation! Even a grumpy old man like me has nothing to complain about it. /Tore (15 years ago, 15-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I think TBB and flickR have an easier entry. LUGNET is a bit scary to sign up to, and is certainly a pain in the but to remember your username (member #) and password (is this even changeable). Actually, I remember it being a lot scary to (...) (15 years ago, 15-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) You should add it to the ILTCO library. I can assure you that it's still used. Tim (15 years ago, 15-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I've been distributing my presentation by email, whenever I get someone asking about my MOCs: (URL) been meaning to get it posted to the ILTCO database of presentations, but ILTCO already has one foot in the grave. Scott W. (15 years ago, 15-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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--snip-- (...) That structure attracted 6.2 thousand comments last year out of 8.4 million page views. You may not like it (I prefer threading too) but it's here to stay. And between TBB and flickr (same structure) there are already over 40 comments (...) (15 years ago, 15-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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