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Re: Getting my set list from Peeron to Lugnet
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lugnet.admin.database
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Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:44:18 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.database, Warren Nagel wrote:
> Thank you for your reply, I guess I always thought it would be easy to go back
> and forth with the information so I didn't pay that much attention that I was
> updating Peeron and not Lugnet. I like your idea for Lugnet to automatically
> refresh but I'm not holding my breath. I worry that all of the lego sites
> aren't that stable so the more places I can keep that information the better.
Yeah, I'm not sure how quickly something like that could be done. It's enough of
a bite-sized chunk of work that I could see implementing it, although I
personally seem to have had my SSH key removed from the LUGNET server, so I'll
have to send Rene or Jerry a new one so I can log in again.
As for stability, it's probably a good idea to keep the information in a few
places, certainly. But I wouldn't worry about LUGNET or Peeron going away-- at
least not soon. In terms of sites, I think LUGNET's probably the longest-lived
major Lego site? It's been around for ALMOST 10 years (it'll be 10 years in
another 17 days!). BrickShelf was renamed from "kl.net" in September 1999, but
I'm not sure how long it was around before that (probably about a year?).
Similarly, Peeron's been around for a long time, too, although they started
hosting inventories around November 8th, 2000?
There's also BrickSet (been around since roughly Dec 1999), which ~sorta~ does
collection data, but they only allow you to enter a "yes/no" if you own a set--
not a quantity (unless they've changed it on me recently). But that's another
candidate that's pretty reliable.
Anyway, Personally, I'd recommend you do an export of your setlist from LUGNET
or Peeron every time after you've finished updating it. Not only will you have a
backup copy on your computer (in case there IS some sort of disaster with data
loss for both sites), but you'll also have information on how your collection's
grown. I've kept different versions of my own collection file starting around
October 2001, so it's occasionally handy to gauge things like how I've been
spending and how my collection's been growing.
DaveE
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