To LUGNET HomepageTo LUGNET News HomepageTo LUGNET Guide Homepage
 Help on Searching
 
Post new message to lugnet.admin.curatorsOpen lugnet.admin.curators in your NNTP NewsreaderTo LUGNET News Traffic PageSign In (Members)
 Administrative / Curators / 637
636  |  638
Subject: 
Re: Would the last person to leave, please turn out the lights?
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.admin.curators, lugnet.space, lugnet.technic
Date: 
Tue, 7 Jul 2009 19:01:02 GMT
Highlighted: 
(details)
Viewed: 
38177 times
  
Jeff Findley wrote:
> In lugnet.admin.curators, Adrian Egli wrote:
> 
> > There are people out there (like me) who still post MOCs on LUGNET but the way
> > we share our photos has changed the last few years.
> > 
> > Since I (and many others) started using sites like Flickr to share photos,
> > viewers can post comments on the Flickr page rather than the old method where
> > we posted pics on BrickShelf and then post our comments here on LUGNET.
> > 
> > What killed off RTL nearly a decade ago was the diversity LUGNET brought to
> > the niches in the LEGO community but my theory of what will kill off LUGNET in
> > the future is its inability to "store-photos-and-share-comments" that Flickr
> > is providing now.
> > 
> > LUGNET still holds value to me (and no doubt many others) as a news source
> > about the LEGO community but, like newspapers, if there aren't any big
> > changes, it will go bye-bye.
> 
> 
> I agree with this.  Lugnet was ground breaking, when it was first launched.  But
> that was eons ago.  We're rapidly coming up on lugnet.space's 10th anniversary
> (<http://news.lugnet.com/space/?n=1>).  It's been a great 10 years for
> lugnet.space with well over 40k postings, but unfortunately, Lutnet itself is
> still largely the same as it was 10 years ago.  It's a great place to host Lego
> newsgroups, but that's so 1999...
> 
> This is why I started this thread in lugnet.space.  The fact is that the vast
> majority of the lugnet.space community has moved on to other websites.
> 
> Jeff
> 
> 
Can I propose twittering with hashtags like #technic_moc or #space_moc
so we can find each others cool stuff now it is moving away from the
lugnet server?



Message is in Reply To:
  Re: Would the last person to leave, please turn out the lights?
 
(...) I agree with this. Lugnet was ground breaking, when it was first launched. But that was eons ago. We're rapidly coming up on lugnet.space's 10th anniversary ((URL)). It's been a great 10 years for lugnet.space with well over 40k postings, but (...) (17 years ago, 7-Jul-09, to lugnet.admin.curators, lugnet.space, lugnet.technic, FTX)

10 Messages in This Thread:




Entire Thread on One Page:
Nested:  All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:  All | Brief | Compact
    

©2005 LUGNET. All rights reserved. - hosted by steinbruch.info GbR