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Re: Random thought of the day
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Fri, 15 Jul 2005 16:59:22 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, David Eaton wrote:
In lugnet.admin.general, Leonard Hoffman wrote:
But honestly, things get quiet because people stop caring. I mean, Suz has
announced that unless something happens, Lugnet will be shut off on Oct 1.
If anyone had made that claim two years ago, do you think there would be this
quasi-silent acceptance? People just don't care whether Lugnet lives or dies,
and they have more fun on other forums anyways.

To be fair, I think that's what's being gauged at the moment. It's true that in
recent years, Lugnet's importance as *the* place for Lego discussion has gone
down. If I understand correctly, a big part of what's happening now is that Suz
is trying to figure out who'd be affected, and how much, if Lugnet were to shut
down or switch gears. And yes, if *nobody* cared about it, then by all means, it
could go away.

You're right that there probably won't be as much public outcry for preserving
Lugnet as there might have been several years ago. The community has grown since
then. But to say that people just don't care isn't accurate. I, for one, care.

Thank you Dave.

I love LUGNET very, very much.  I remember life before LUGNET.  It was a pretty
lonely LEGO world for me far from any LUG.

I'm very concerned at the consideration of the demise of LUGNET.  If it were to
happen, it would be a huge loss to the AFOL community.

Suz, I volunteer to help in any way I can, if you come up with a plan for
keeping it alive.

For smaller groups like technic, or robotics, someone would have to set up a new
site/sites for these groups.  CAD could move themselves to LDraw.org, but
lugnet.cad *is* currently the official site for official ldraw.org business.
Currently nominations are open in lugnet.cad for the LDraw Stnadards Committee.


DaveE

I stand with DaveE and DaveK.  I love LUGNET.

Kevin



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(...) Ditto! I would like to volunteer as well. Now for somebody or some group to hatch a plan. Perhaps Suz and Todd would be willing to help at least transition into something new to help at least stabalize things? (...) Same here, without LUGNET I (...) (19 years ago, 15-Jul-05, to lugnet.admin.general)

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(...) To be fair, I think that's what's being gauged at the moment. It's true that in recent years, Lugnet's importance as *the* place for Lego discussion has gone down. If I understand correctly, a big part of what's happening now is that Suz is (...) (19 years ago, 14-Jul-05, to lugnet.admin.general)

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