 | | Your Thoughts on Image Hosting Sites... —Nelson Yrizarry
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| | | Recent events have put the issue of image hosting in the spotlight. There are a lot of choices out there, from popular sites like Brickshelf and MOCpages to newer sites like MOCShow, YouBrick, BrickImage, and even commercial, non-LEGO sites like (...) (17 years ago, 4-Aug-07, to lugnet.ambassadors, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, FTX) !
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| | | | | Re: Your Thoughts on Image Hosting Sites... —Jim DeVona
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| | | | | (...) Support for hosting LDraw or LEGO Digital Designer and associated files. In other words, models stored in DAT, LDR, MPD, or LXF format as well as the POV-Ray files and others used to produce renderings and custom instructions. Jim (17 years ago, 4-Aug-07, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: Your Thoughts on Image Hosting Sites... —Thomas Main
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| | | | | (...) I think this discussion has already happened. A lot of people gave their input in the last few weeks following the potential closing of Brickshelf. It boggles my mind why the ambassadors would want to restart such a discussion merely to have (...) (17 years ago, 4-Aug-07, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
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| | | | | | | Re: Your Thoughts on Image Hosting Sites... —Nelson Yrizarry
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| | | | | | | (...) Thomas: A lot of discussion HAS already happened - true enough. The LEGO Ambassadors have taken this concern very seriously, as it obviously impacts the community to a very great extent. We are addressing this issue with both the fans, and (...) (17 years ago, 4-Aug-07, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Your Thoughts on Image Hosting Sites... —Allister McLaren
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| | | | | | | | (...) So what do you, as LEGO Ambassadors, propose to do? (17 years ago, 6-Aug-07, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Your Thoughts on Image Hosting Sites... —Timothy Gould
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| | | | | | | | (...) At present is that really that important? At least with a collected list of suggestions it means that an alternate solution has somewhere to find ideas. I think you made it clear you weren't happy paying (what was asked) for BS in its current (...) (17 years ago, 6-Aug-07, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Your Thoughts on Image Hosting Sites... —Allister McLaren
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| | | | | | | | (...) Not really. Not any more important than the original question at least, and no less deserving of an answer. (...) There's a plethora of alternative solutions out there already. Take your pick. (...) I would've thought that particular task (...) (17 years ago, 6-Aug-07, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Your Thoughts on Image Hosting Sites... —Timothy Gould
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| | | | | | | | (...) There's not many things that actually deserve answers, and they usually involve public funds of some kind. (...) I can think of none that offer full Lego related hosting solutions. Most tend to be file dumps or image galleries but not both. If (...) (17 years ago, 7-Aug-07, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Your Thoughts on Image Hosting Sites... —Allister McLaren
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| | | | | | | | (...) I'm not sure what you mean by "full Lego related hosting solutions", but Mocpages springs to mind as one that probably comes close. (...) Who knows? He hasn't asked me yet, if that's what you mean. (17 years ago, 7-Aug-07, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Your Thoughts on Image Hosting Sites... —Timothy Gould
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| | | | | | | | (...) I believe that MOCpages can't yet host certain LEGO-related non-image type files that BS presently hosts. Fortunately with this nice discussion here Sean should have a good idea of what people would like to be able to host there. (...) Does (...) (17 years ago, 7-Aug-07, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Your Thoughts on Image Hosting Sites... —Allister McLaren
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| | | | | | | | (...) True enough, but it seems that he has a pretty good handle on that already, and if not, he seems like a pretty capable fellow and can ask himself without the aid of the Ambassadors. (...) Um, what? I merely meant he hasn't asked me (or anyone (...) (17 years ago, 7-Aug-07, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Your Thoughts on Image Hosting Sites... —Timothy Gould
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| | | | | | | | --snip-- (...) I suspect the Ambassadors may already have been in contact with Sean BICBW --snip-- (...) IJATOP (...) Surely this current exercise is useful for gauging what and how much public interest in an alternative to BS would be. Kevin didn't (...) (17 years ago, 7-Aug-07, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Your Thoughts on Image Hosting Sites... —Allister McLaren
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| | | | | | | | (...) I'm sure they were a great help. (...) We've kinda split the discussion here. I'm discussing the side comment you made: "I think you made it clear you weren't happy paying (what was asked) for BS in its current state, isn't it better to for (...) (17 years ago, 7-Aug-07, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX) !
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| | | | | | | Re: Your Thoughts on Image Hosting Sites... —Scott Wardlaw
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| | | | | | To me, this is a topic that the Ambassadors should be looking into and using their influence on. I am very grateful that they are polling the community to be sure that they have everyone's input before acting. Just reading through the other posts (...) (17 years ago, 4-Aug-07, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: Your Thoughts on Image Hosting Sites... —scott Frischmann
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| | | | | (...) Support for LEGO Creator World and Model files in addition to those mentioned by Jim DeVona. I know that's a really old program, but that doesn't mean no one uses it anymore. Support for .PDF files and option to view them as web pages, one (...) (17 years ago, 4-Aug-07, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: Your Thoughts on Image Hosting Sites... —Ondrew Hartigan
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| | | | | (...) a simple interface like brickshelf. sign in, upload, done. (...) the ablity to change folder names not just discriptions have an account with user information "I.E. real name, city, state, age, club affiliations" that can be made public if (...) (17 years ago, 4-Aug-07, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: Your Thoughts on Image Hosting Sites... —Øyvind Steinnes
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| | | | | (...) There will never be an ideal image-hosting site since everyone has diffrent opinion on what that is :) But MY view on a ideal image-hosting site is like Brickshelf are today but with some added features like; 1. Owner being able to put comment (...) (17 years ago, 5-Aug-07, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: Your Thoughts on Image Hosting Sites... —Jonathan Wilson
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| | | | | My thoughts: 1.Should limit non-paying users to only upload files (of any type) of a certain maximum file size (not image size, file size). 2.Should limit non-paying users so that they can only upload a certain size of files total (i.e. all the (...) (17 years ago, 5-Aug-07, to lugnet.ambassadors)
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| | | | | Re: Your Thoughts on Image Hosting Sites... —Steven Asbury
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| | | | | (...) I agree with most of the comments others have written. I would also like to add that I like the way Brickshelf allows you to see a lot of images on the same page – without excessive scrolling. When I'm browsing, I can see 30 images on the same (...) (17 years ago, 5-Aug-07, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: Your Thoughts on Image Hosting Sites... —John Neal
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| | | | | (...) I just want Brickshelf to survive, that's all. If Brickshelf can be improved with more features, great. If Brickshelf needs to charge fees, fine. But for me, I don't want another Johnny-come-lately, just what has worked in the past and will (...) (17 years ago, 5-Aug-07, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: Your Thoughts on Image Hosting Sites... —Roy Gal
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| | | | | I'd like to see: 1. Not only the ability to tag photos with a pre-selected list of keywords (as BrickShelf does) but see only folders/photos tagged with those words (like MOCPages). Also filtering by filetype. If I don't use LDraw (for instance), I (...) (17 years ago, 5-Aug-07, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: Your Thoughts on Image Hosting Sites... —Kelly McKiernan
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| | | | | What's really being asked, I think, is more than just image hosting. That's a cheap commodity through various services. If it was just about putting images on the web, that problem's been solved. But it's more than that. I think at least three (...) (17 years ago, 6-Aug-07, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX) !
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| | | | | Re: Your Thoughts on Image Hosting Sites... —Jason J Railton
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| | | | (...) I'd like to see support for pictures as well as LDRAW and Track Designer Files. Automatic reduction and file size optimisation, or just an outright ban on people uploading large pictures or BMP formats. Thumbnailing for galleries. Mid-size (...) (17 years ago, 30-Aug-07, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
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