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Re: What's happening at Lugnet?
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lugnet.admin.general
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Mon, 17 May 1999 19:23:19 GMT
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Well at least we can be sure you're keeping yourself busy and not
slacking off Todd :)
Seriously though...that's great. It sounds like a lot of great things
are happening with Lugnet!
-Tim Culberson
Todd Lehman wrote:
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> In lugnet.admin.general, timcc@geocities.com (Tim Culberson) writes:
> > I'm just thinking back (quite a ways) to when I first read the big
> > "document" about what lugnet was going to be. I'm just wondering Todd,
> > at what stage you consider Lugnet to be at in terms of the various
> > "phases" as outlined in the plan document:
>
> It's not really possible to pinpoint a position, as things haven't proceeded
> linearly (not that they were really strictly intended to). Things are in
> various places in various stages.
>
> For example, there are several Phase II things in place in various forms
> (but little of it is solidified), and there are many Phase I things in place
> which are solid and/or solidifying but have turned out much more robust (in
> depth of coverage) than originally planned. There are also a few Phase III
> things in various stages of planning/development.
>
> One example of a "sharp detour" is that it was never part of the original
> plan to implement a real NNTP newsgroup/newsserver subsystem, so the
> creation of this service has, from a certain standpoint, placed the overall
> timeframe back by several months (last year August to present), but in doing
> so has stimulated an incredible wealth of positively charged byproducts and
> and community and has resulted in a much more solid overall infrastructure/
> core/base than would otherwise have occurred.
>
> What's on the horizon:
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> - Restructure the web interface for the newsgroups so that the newsgroups
> (which are actually the core of the entire system) actually look and act
> and feel like the core of the system.
>
> - Each newsgroup gets a meaningful URL associated with its name. For
> example, the lugnet.legoland.california newsgroup will change from the
> unsightly
>
> http://www.lugnet.com/news/display.cgi?lugnet.legoland.california
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> to the more logical
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> http://www.lugnet.com/legoland/california/
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> and will have links to related resources right on that ng homepage.
>
> - Coalesce all messages in any sub-hierarchy of the ng system into a single
> virtual group that can be browsed much like a regular group, and give
> "sound bites" for each of these messages, with links to the full messages
> and their full threads. A by-product of this is that the root homepage of
> the site will be an extremely active page and will show snippets of things
> going on all about the system. (This is somewhat like the way Slashdot
> works -- it's great for beginners who just stumble into the homepage.)
> The old LUGNET homepage will go away completely and be replaced by
> something hierarchical (not completely unlike Yahoo) and will be
> interface-consistent with the individual new ng homepages.
>
> - Open the doors for paid (one-time lifetime fee) memberships: sign up to
> be an official LUGNET member (as opposed to just a casual user of the
> system) and be able to interact much more closely with the server. Not
> much will be offered at first, since other stuff will be going on (being
> developed) at the same time, but some of the early things will be:
>
> - Associating/listing/identifying oneself with various user groups in the
> system (for example Trains or MindStorms or Fabuland or San Francisco or
> New Zealand).
>
> - Ability to have automated offers collected for things posted as
> sale/trade/wanted items. This is a simple form of a classified ad
> and borders on almost being an auction, except that the final
> decisions remain subjective.
>
> - Ability to snarf copies of lugnet news articles/threads and retain them
> on one's own member page as a collection of yellow-sticky-pad style
> notes to share with others who stop by (who can also snarf copies of
> what you have snarfed, and so on). This is a simple form of
> collaborative publishing and will tie in with a few of the other core
> concepts including group resources.
>
> We have a nice little prototype of the map/house thingy but are still
> missing the high-level structure that ties it all together, so that
> probably won't happen for a while yet. We're still also debating whether
> to have one large "urban sprawl" or to have smaller towns or worlds.
> If we go with towns, the first one may be called Jamestown in honor of
> LDraw's creator.
>
> - Organize relevant/topical links into the various ng/group categories (this
> will be a long, ongoing thing).
>
> - Integrate FAQ entries with their ng's -- mostly on the website but also
> in some form of postings (this will also be a long, ongoing thing).
>
> - Restructure the sets-DB to more closely mirror and integrate with the
> topic groups.
>
> - etc....
>
> --Todd
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