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Re: New Users Guide: Call for Volunteers
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lugnet.admin.general
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Date:
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Thu, 22 Jul 2004 20:08:11 GMT
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In lugnet.announce, Leonard Hoffman wrote:
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Lastly, if there is a piece of LUGNET content that you think needs to be
fixed, updated, or if you have any ideas on how to help, please let us know!
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Hey Lenny,
I’ve got a Few ideas.
First, the personal webpages are a hugely underused feature of Lugnet. On the
front page there is a button for how to go about making a personal page, but
there is no master list (or at least none that is prominent enough for me to
find) of the currently existing Lugnet member pages. So the member pages fly
completely under the radar. As such, fewer people are likely to even make them.
Polls. Again, very underused. You’ll only know of a poll if you happen to see
the initial posting in the newsgroups. Again, some prominent button on the
first page would make polls more accessible, and therefore they would be used
more.
The membership page. If you go to this link:
http://www.lugnet.com/people/members/bylastname.cgi
it takes forever to load - and I’m on a fast connection. I can’t imagine what
this would do to someone on dial-up. There are 2490 members on the list. This
should be broken up into separate pages by alphabet, so you first click to “sort
by name” and then that just has an alphabet and you can then click on a letter.
There could be a “show me the whole list” option for those with some time to
kill. (The same could be said for the “sort by member number” and “sort by
country” versions of the member list.)
CLSOTW. I came out of my dark ages due to three things--a cheap promotional set
at my local Shell station, the fact that my parents hadn’t thrown out my
childhood collection, and CLSOTW. I was supposed to start helping with this a
year ago. It was waiting on some programming issues, and I never heard back on
this. I would still be happy to help in finding sites and writing up reviews of
the winning sites. Even if we don’t have current polls on CLSOTW, we should
still have a clear link to the archives. Right now they are invisible from the
Lugnet home page unless you happen to remember the URL. I would also be happy
to help go through the archives and flag dead links and, where possible correct
any changed URLs (for instance, my site in the CLSOTW still points to the old
dead ozbricks.net address rather than ozbricks.com; I know of several other
sites that have since changed URLs).
Finally, and perhaps the hardest to address, the center panel of the Lugnet
front page needs to have regularly updated content, similar to that seen on
Classic-Castle and FBTB. I see no reason to visit www.lugnet.com and instead
have set my bookmark to news.lugnet.com. Yes, there are currently 3 relatively
new items (Brickfest, AFOL comic, LEGO train book), but in the meantime we’ve
seen a summer catalog, the rollout of new sets, 1000steineland, and other major
news.
Bruce
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