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Re: Compromised Functionality on Lugnet and Brickshelf?
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lugnet.admin.general
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Date:
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Sat, 16 Apr 2005 22:44:16 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Shaun Sullivan wrote:
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Frustrated Comments Ahead:
Is there any summary information available to try and understand how some of
the major AFOL resources are now being administered? Both Lugnet and
Brickshelf seem to have undergone major practical changes in the last few
weeks a months, many of which have seriously jeopardized their utility (in my
opinion).
Brickshelf: Every day or two for the past three years I’ve gone to
Brickshelf and scanned through the recent folders until I’ve reviewed any and
all items that look interesting. This has always been easily accomplished
because the ORDER of the galleries added to the “recent” pages has always
been chronological. Unless a moderator is adding galleries while I happen to
be reviewing them, the relative positions of the galleries on the “recent”
pages remained static, a fact which allowed me to easily navigate back and
forth, into and out of galleries, until I’d seen everything that piqued my
interest. Now the “recent” pages seem to be randomly ordered – a fact which
becomes painfully clear if you click “reload” or the “recent” link while on a
page in the recent uploads area. The galleries all shuffle, making any sort
of logical or progressive review all but impossible.
Is there any easily-accessible summary or explanation for either of these
changes? Note that I’m not interested in sifting through long threads that
have 200 or more posts to them, for I consider that quite inaccessible.
In any case, I find it a real shame that the functionality of these sites has
been compromised so severely through these changes. I have no problem giving
the respective administrators the benefit of the doubt and assuming that
there was a rationale decision for these modifications, but I sincerely hope
that the current state of affairs is only an interim step that leads back to
a higher level of utility.
Shaun
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I don’t know about LUGNET’s highlighting, but as for Brickshelf - when I hit
reload/refresh, the only thing that seems to change is the “ad” that seems to be
randomly placed amoung the folder spots. The folders’ order of appearance does
not change, regardless if I hit refresh for my browser or hit “recent” on the
Brickshelf navigation link.
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