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Thanks for posting these. Although I have absolutely no use for them I find statistics facinating. I had a brief look at the Korean pages you mentioned, all seem very professional but of course completely unintelligable (even with the Korean fonts (...) (22 years ago, 22-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Our company decided that all of the webhosters are too restrictive, so we went the serverhosting way, where man can have lots of freedom without any additional payments. RH Enterprise + 700gbs of traffic monthly for relatively low price. I can (...) (22 years ago, 22-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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(...) From a technical point of view, nothing at all. And maybe Pair would be cool about it, I dunno. ISPs like to charge for stuff like that, is all. Hopefully, we'll eventually have an arrangement which gives us more control. (22 years ago, 22-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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(...) ? I'm for moderation. But _everybody_ would be one. You'd vote for 'offtopic', I'd vote for 'offtopic', somebody else would do so... and voila, link is removed. The only problem remains in setting the good rules with good weights. (22 years ago, 22-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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(...) Why frame this negatively with the words 'power centralization?' Think ... what 'power' would link administrators have? Approve/reject links to be made public. Its in the best interest of creating a comprehensive directory to link to as many (...) (22 years ago, 22-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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(...) "If we just ignore the spammers, they'll stop sending Email" Trust me, the above statement is completly false. I think moderation is neccessary to avoid the link page from being overrun with ads for "free" medication and "foolproof" get rich (...) (22 years ago, 22-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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(...) Hi, I think I proposed the very same thing in my previous post from 'Fri, 20 Feb 2004 15:41:56 GMT' in this thread too. (22 years ago, 22-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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(...) Sorry, this doesn't sound too 'open' to me as I fell this is 'power centralisation' (your opinions may differ, of course). I still think that crowd may have 'better' {and definitely faster} decisions than few chosen ones. I think that total (...) (22 years ago, 22-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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(...) I don't know anything about current situation, but this is beyond my imagination? What's that 'expensive' on one dns record and one mod_rewrite line in Apache config? (22 years ago, 22-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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(...) Sorry about my repitiveness but heres the pictures again because they havent worked Heres my Idea! I know it doesnt look much different -- Jeff The small “MY LUGNET” lego smiley referrs to this post (2 URLs) this is my second idea (URL) (22 years ago, 22-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) SNIP (...) I tried to come up with a few simplified & fun designs for pages, my fave being this (within this thread, but linked so you don't have to wade thru posts again): (URL) one of the great suggestions i got was that the images may be a (...) (22 years ago, 22-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Man am I behind in my reading/posting. The Spacers have a Seed Part of the Month... it seems to generate some (a LOT OF!) neat creations. Not all seed parts are "cool", IIRC, some were chosen to be "challenging" to incorporate, so maybe it's a (...) (22 years ago, 22-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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(...) You designs are good but the problem I have with them is color, too much of it to be specific. Notice how LUGNET's current main page is all one color theme with localized centers of other colors. This, to me, is more pleasing to the eye than (...) (22 years ago, 22-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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(...) I agree. -Tim (22 years ago, 22-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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(...) Depending on the software you use, I guess - I think that webalizer allows you to specify what _isn't_ a page :) (...) Always fun :) Here are the stats from end of March 2003 to the end of January 2004. Average hits (that's images, pages, (...) (22 years ago, 22-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I think it'd be good if people's ideas use (URL) as a base. (22 years ago, 22-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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(...) It's hard on Lugnet, since pages aren't all handily suffixed with .html. But I think it's around 18.4% -- the majority is definitely graphics. (...) I'd be curious to see the ones for peeron, if only because I'm in a web server stats geek mode (...) (22 years ago, 22-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) heh :) Though, I believe since around the time that LDraw.org moved to be hosted on Peeron's server, we stopped using partref's pictures, and started using LDraws - any referrer's from us to LUGNET after, say, April 2003 or so are either (...) (22 years ago, 22-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general) !
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In lugnet.announce, Todd Lehman wrote: much great stuff snipped Todd- I think this is fantastic! It's great to see your enthusiasm and the great new ideas! Please let us know where, how and if we can be of any help. We'd love to work closely with (...) (22 years ago, 22-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.org, FTX) !
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(...) All very interesting statistics! Thanks for crunching the data. I have always thought that Lugnet should allow Google (and perhaps other search engines) to crawl the posts on Lugnet. Even though the data would perhaps be a few weeks old, I (...) (22 years ago, 22-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Today, I got the 2GB of compressed log files representing Lugnet traffic over the past approximately-a-year. After crunching for a while, realizing that I needed to move everything to a faster server, and restarting there, I discovered that what I (...) (22 years ago, 22-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general) !!
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(...) Although, see the post I'm just about to make. (22 years ago, 22-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.org)
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(...) Thank you for your constructive criticism last week, Troy. It made a difference. --Todd (22 years ago, 22-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.org)
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(...) Well, from my point of view, it is broke... But it's very fixable. (...) I feel that way as well. (...) Thanks...although I certainly can't claim sole credit for that. (...) I'm not super-familiar with the LDraw.org system lately, but maybe (...) (22 years ago, 22-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.org, FTX)
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(...) Great news all-around Todd! I am glad to be wrong about change not coming to Lugnet! I look forward to seeing what you and your advisory Committee come up with. If we at Classic-Castle.com can help in any way, do not hesitate to ask. Troy (22 years ago, 22-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.org)
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(...) Same thing goes for the new x-wing, the new Millenium Falcon, the new speeder bikes, the new snowspeeder, etc. I think the builders at LEGO thought they could do better than the first versions they made a couple of years back. In my opinion, (...) (22 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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How about a page that we create ourselves out of options that are kept ion a cookie? Let me explain. The first time you come to Lugnet, you get a general page welcoming you and with a clear menu to personnalize the front page. When you go to the (...) (22 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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Hi, Some clarifications below... --Todd (...) This could also be on a "tab" or something someone selects on the homepage, rather than the very first things someone sees. (...) To clarify this, I meant for there to be submissions and proposals, (...) (22 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Jeff, While this latest version is indeed simpler, it still has one thing to it: it's image-heavy. People on dialup on a slow day are going to get frustrated while they sit there waiting for a bunch of big graphics to load. In my mind, it (...) (22 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) I just picked Hebrew as an example. :) While I agree that we should be aiming for international compliance, I think there's only so far that we can go. It would not be a good thing to just align everything down the centre of the page to make (...) (22 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Heres my Idea! I know it doesnt look much different -- Jeff The small “MY LUGNET” lego smiley referrs to this post (2 URLs) (22 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Only Hebrew reads right-to-left? Huh! Last time I checked, Arabic (which is somewhat common in the world?), is also written right-to-left. And if Lugnet wants to be international, it should take that into consideration along with other (...) (22 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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In lugnet.admin.general, Jeff Szklennik wrote: Try # 4 even simpler (URL) enjoy!, comments encouraged Jeff (22 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) By itself, having a random piece is slightly interesting. But a specifically-picked "Cool Brick of the Week" could be a lot more -- history of that part, some suggestions of non-obvious building techniques, examples of (...) (22 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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(...) posting a .dat file at: (URL) server automatically generates an image (see thumbnails at ldraw.org). thx, w. (22 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) SNIP (...) Peeron.com has a random piece of the day feature Jeff (22 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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Try # 3 thanks for all the imput. I tried to make it less busy, & identify the major groups of stuff for newbies. the left, top, and right 'bars' are the same, as i think they work well on the current site, i just spruced em up a bit (URL) enjoy!, (...) (22 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) If I remember the musings from near Lugnet's beginning, this is sort of intentional -- the logo is specifically not a Lego brick to avoid all risk of confusion with being an official site. Maybe that's not such a worry at this point. (...) Now (...) (22 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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(...) Correct - but all readers of English go left to right. Those that read Hebrew may go right to left, but they won't be doing that here (and if they are it serves them right to be confused). (...) Thanks for posting those. I'll look into it. (...) (22 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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I've attached a link to a good commentary about group dynamics, social behavior, technology, and group structure in online communities. (Article: "A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy") (URL) It is long, but "Part One" and "Three Things to Accept" are IMO (...) (22 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.org, FTX) !!
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(...) Ayiee, mine eyes!! ;] I find it overwhelming. One of the trends that I notice in home page design is that people are increasingly trying to link to every single page of their site's content (and affiliate sites' content) from the home page. (...) (22 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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(...) You do realise there's nothing *natural* about that? Not even half the worlds population read text in the direction we happen to be using. Also, with the way most advertisements show up on pages, many people tend to ignore both the left and (...) (22 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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(...) Sure. The only stuff that's online at the moment: The logo for Bill Swanberg of Bartering The Brick: (URL) A collection of practice ads done for a ficitious company: (URL) And the RoboticsResources.com logo: (URL) I have a bunch of small stuff (...) (22 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Nnnooooooo... ;] Here's the deal: I used to be an avid LUGNET poster, but due to a lot of issues not related to LUGNET or LEGO I had to shelve the hobby for about 2 years. I'm now trickling back to it, at least the purchasing part of the (...) (22 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general) !
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(...) Also, on a practical level, doing redirects (not just DNS records) as subdomains would be prohibitively expensive with the current Lugnet hosting arrangement. (22 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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(...) Hi Mike - Glad to hear you're interested! I'm curious, could you link us to some of your past work? -Tim (22 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Absolutely! At 1000steine.de you can submit links too: (URL) I have to accept all links and it's not uncommon, that somebody submits links that has really nothing to do with LEGO. So I can delete them before they're public. Leg Godt! René (22 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) I had the same question after I got Mos Eisley Cantina. Although I'm not thrilled with some of the new design, I also recently acquired one of the original 7110's....I hadn't remembered that the 7110 was actually in a tan color scheme, but it (...) (22 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Added, to their own group at the bottom. So they're not necessarily lowest priority :-) Bedtime. -Tim (22 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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(...) I don't mean to be rude at all, but this is way too image-intensive and busy. The goal here is making a main page that's easy to follow for new users - if I were a new user, I would not know how to navigate this site. .02 -Tim (22 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Too much grunt work. The technical solution is too easy not to implement. (...) I agree that anyone should be able to submit a link for consideration, but I believe (strongly) that an administrator should have to approve links to be publicly (...) (22 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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(...) TRY # 2 colors, bricks, poll, expandibility (could get taller as i made it 800x600 to start-this made it a little tight, but can easily be remedied) (URL) Enjoy Jeff (22 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Wouldn't it be just easier to share the info with those pages? (...) yahoo.lugnet.org? ;-)) Just why 'admins'? Let everybody add anything, let others vote, let others veto. Add autotools for periodical link checking. Let the person who added (...) (22 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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(...) Here's a few more of mine. These are entirely newsgroup features, and aren't necessarily high priority _or_ easy. But I would like to see 'em get into at least the bottom of the wishlist somewhere. -- Display identity-images (avatars, or (...) (22 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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(...) Excellent. I just did a homepage image count and found six, including the BrickFest logo. If we were to have button links for a bunch of major sites, this could get heavy fast. That's why I aimed at 100KB - but the lower the better. (...) (...) (22 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Great list. Makes it much easier to summarize ideas and thoughts. Thanks for putting that together. (...) I have no experience with the LUGNET stuff but I've worked with CSS before. I'll volunteer as your graphic designer. -Mike (22 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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Hey, The new Mos Eisley Cantina #4501 comes with Luke Skywalkers' Landspeeder. Why is this one different compared to the original #7110 Landspeeder? Isn't it supposed to be the same? The way I remember it, it is the same in the movie. Erik Bush (22 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) OK, I went through the thread and compiled suggestions, and roughly prioritized them. The prioritization is based on my opinion of importance combined with feasibility. So, something important might appear lower simply because I know it will (...) (22 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Be my guest. :) You can start an FTX page for this in your own member page area or one could be started within a common area. --Todd (22 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) I was thinking more like 50KB or less. The current homepage weighs in at 44.2KB, of which 27.7KB of this is images. It's pretty easy to keep small images down to 1 or 2 KB each (or even less) if care is taken. Many of the LUGNET toolbar icons (...) (22 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) It would be pretty easy to convert the /links/ area from static HTML pages into dynamic FTX content, which would essentially give wiki-type functionality. --Todd (22 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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how about a wiki? anyone can put stuff on there, but its so easy to remove spam Marc Nelson Jr. wrote: <snip> (...) (22 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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(...) I agree with Frank here 100%. Not everybody has Javascript enabled, and if they have to fool around with their browser settings every time they want to visit, that'll drive people away if nothing will. Showers are great places for thinking. (...) (22 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) snip (...) Yes! - it would be very much like a group blog. See my mockup: (URL) (...) snip (...) This is a great idea. It is a superhuman task for one person, or even a few people to keep up with all the links out there. Marc Nelson Jr. (...) (22 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) I don't see it as an all-or-nothing thing. Setting up a secondary new box as *.lugnet.org is definitely easier and less problematic than setting it up as *.beta.lugnet.com in the near-term, because of various DNS issues. Setting up lugnet.org (...) (22 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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(...) Yep, they're important. I didn't mean to come across as implying considering this was a bad idea. I just would rather see peoples' creative energies put into the transition at this point, and then consider the name change later. That's all. (...) (22 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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(...) Hey, there's plenty of oil and breading. But seriously, names are important. (22 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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(...) I think we have bigger fish to fry w/r/t LUGNET than moving it to .org. That's a decision we can make later, once the new infrastructure for maintaining LUGNET is in place. -Tim (22 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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(...) Moving to lugnet.org is a great idea. However, I think that making lugnet.com a beta site could be confusing -- old links would get broken, and people who are just guessing might pick .com. I think lugnet.com links should eventually (...) (22 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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(...) Todd - I think it would be a good idea to set up a wish list for new LUGNET features and the LUGNET homepage, so we can look at them concisely, and prioritize them. Then we won't have to look through big threads to find all of the suggestions. (...) (22 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Exactly. (...) I'm up in the air about keeping 'Top Stories' on the main page of LUGNET. Perhaps it should stay, and have a bit less prominent position. What I'd *really* like to see is a magazine-style news posting system where articles (not (...) (22 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Hey Todd, This sounds great! Along with all of the ideas being discussed in the other thread, it sounds like we are in for some real growth here. These will also address many of the issues raised in the legofan.net thread. (...) This is (...) (22 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.org, FTX)
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(...) I have used this feature, and I use (URL) MOCPages>. I would like to see LUGNET offer something more substantial such as MOCpages, or perhaps Sean and Todd could morph something.... JOHN (22 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Okay, I'm an idiot. There's a link right there on the front page to "Build your own web pages". That said, however, this is still a largely unused feature of LUGNET. Bruce (22 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Agreed. In the legofan.net thread there were several posts that sounded offended that anyone would consider another location (posts positing LUGnet as "THE" home for on-line LEGOdom, which ignored other huge sites, or people arguing that other (...) (22 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) This is in reply to the new site design and take lugnet to a new level post While the new site is being developed and tested, place it at lugnet.org once it is finalized .org will become the "official" site. This is consistant with developing (...) (22 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Based on experience, it'd be nice if the words could be made out of actual displayed on top of the brick image (which could be made in multiple parts to accomplish this easier), both to avoid contributing to the Pictures of Text plague and (...) (22 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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(...) Big honkin monster kudos to Todd le Man for starting this transition! Way to go, Todd! -Paul (22 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.org, FTX)
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(...) I agree. This is one of the problems with the "busy"-ness that you mentioned in Jeff's suggestion: (URL) thing I really like from Jeff's suggested graphic is the use of 1x6 bricks as link buttons. I know, this is also used elsewhere, e.g.: (...) (22 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Which could very easily be changed to send the correct Location redirect header, so that it would be completely invisible to the user... --Bram (22 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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"Andrew Allan" <aallan@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message news:HtDvsD.qBG@lugnet.com... (...) Not in my book... JavaScript seems to cause problems in the browsers I tend to use (somewhat old versions of Netscape and MSIE - perhaps I should upgrade, (...) (22 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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(...) I think this makes sense for non members only. Usually, the members already know what they're looking for, so according to their preferences, they should get the best page. That means page with the stuff they like and few extraordinary tidbids (...) (22 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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In lugnet.admin.general, Tobbe Arnesson wrote: <snip> (...) Looks like the need has gone missing: (URL) played Todd! /Tobbe (22 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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(...) Well played:) It takes a good person to realize when they need to open up a project that was theirs to start with. (...) As Communications Officer to SciBrick, I'm ready to help out in whatever way I can toward establishing a closer (...) (22 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.org, FTX)
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(...) Thank you so much Todd! In recent discussions about the LEGO Fan .net website, I defended the point that people not happy with the current state of LUGNET should work to improve it instead of replacing it. Now, with this transition, you give (...) (22 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.org)
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(...) Heres my Idea! I know it doesnt look much different but I made it in paint so you cant do much more than what I have already done ;-) -- Jeff (URL) The small "MY LUGNET" lego smiley referrs to this post (URL) (22 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Heres my Idea! I know it doesnt look much different but I made it in paint so you cant do much more than what I have already done ;-) -- Jeff (URL) (22 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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Wow. The first thing that springs to my mind is "Nooo!! If it ain't broke don't fix it! LUGNET is functioning just fine!"...but with a committee like you've chosen I know everything will work out dandy. And I heartily echo Ralph's words (except the (...) (22 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.org, FTX)
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(...) Heres my Idea! I know it doesnt look much different but I made it in paint so you cant do much more than what I have already done ;-) (URL) -- Jeff (22 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) <snip> (...) Ditto! Right down to the 'how can we help' bit. And again, anything that gets Suz back into the limelite I'm in favour of :) Dave K (22 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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<snip> (...) <snip> Todd, Let me be on of the first people on the bandwagon of congratulations on the work you and Suzanne have done over the past 5 or 6 years. Even if I never did get my membership package :-) I will continue to view Lugnet as the (...) (22 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Oh, some sort of "Display random past pick" would be cool! Of course this suggests some work to keep the database of sites up to date or disabling dead sites. /T (22 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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Hi! Some quick thoughts; - Something on the mainpage must keep changing, todays system with hot posts is good. A poll might do. - Better info on how to start posting vs. becomming a member. I know Todd had some thoughts on this earlier that sounded (...) (22 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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(...) You are right. The current LUGNET site is very LSI friendly. I enjoy coming to this website not just because of its content but also because I don't have to wait five minutes for a page to load unlike the LEGO site. (...) Again you are right. (...) (22 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Sorry, don't want to troll/flame, but I wouldn't call 1000steine 'European'. German, yes. European, no. Althought I'm living in the neighborhood, I can't grok a word from that site. That's why I support WorldLUG/LEGOFan stuff, they aim (...) (22 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.de)
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(...) Echoing the above, to me the current design of Lugnet is very LSI friendly and logically laid out. In my opinion this makes Lugnet one of the great sites (similar to Yahoo and Google) and I'm by no means unique in my opinion. Lugnet's greatest (...) (22 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) How about an universal umbrella page which can be shared by all sites involved? A common logo (A Fabuland umbrella, perhaps?), available for all, linking either to a central page or a current copy on the local sites' server, which in turn (...) (22 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.de)
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(...) I agree. I don't know exactly how easy the procedures are in the meantime, but to register a few years ago was somehow odd for me :-) Translations are needed, at least for a "How-To-Post"-Site. As for German, I know that there were offers to (...) (22 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.de, FTX)
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(...) Looks sharp! I would be quite pleased with this design, especially if "Top Stories" were listed at the bottom of the page. That's the feature I use most. A minor tweak I would make would be to list the links at the beginning of each bullet (...) (22 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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