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The future of LDraw?
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Sun, 14 Mar 2010 03:58:45 GMT
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There is a discussion in the Lugnet group at facebook on the fact that people
leave Lugnet.com in favour for other, often theme specialized sites. Questions
like "Why is it so and what can be done to get people back to Lugnet?" are
discussed.
Some say the just CAD related discussions there at Lugnet nowadays, and yes
they're quite right. But even that activity has decreased a lot IMO. The few
posts there may be read hundreds of times, but responses are few and from very
few people. While theme geeks may have moved to theme specific sites, were have
LDrawers moved? Away from LCad I'm afraid? And, worst of all, aren't there any
new people joining? Or is there some new, large and vivid LDraw discussion forum
that I'm unaware of? LCad is such a great thing, but do we attract new
enthusiasts, or are we even scaring them away somehow?
People complain about Lugnet.com being outdated and stone age and inconvenient
to access and participate in. I don't agree on that, but that doesn't help
Lugnet. And I think it's closer to the truth if it has been LDraw.org described
that way. I have never found LDraw.org attractive or easy to navigate, or even
to access.
What do you think?
/Tore
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Message has 11 Replies:
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| (...) There are plenty of people still using LDraw and plenty of newcomers to it.In some ways I think it's a victim of its own success. The software is well developed and easy to use and the parts library is vast and easy to install. As such people (...) (15 years ago, 14-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
| | | Re: The future of LDraw?
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| (...) Times changes and also the behaviour of the people. The internet changes much quicker. But I think the most important item is that LUTNET and also LDraw.org does not make adverticements. So how should be people find us. The new possibilities (...) (15 years ago, 14-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
| | | Re: The future of LDraw?
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| --snip-- (...) I felt you were preaching to the choir here so decided to broaden the questions and broaden the audience. Hopefully this will give us a bit of an idea of how the broader community deals with LDraw. (URL) (15 years ago, 14-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| LDraw/LCad etc. are not nearly as dead as you think they are! The pioneering days are long gone, and the package of tools has entered the world of "mainstream software". People simply trust everything to work, and will only make themselves known (...) (15 years ago, 14-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| (...) (URL) This article> gives some answers to this question. (...) I think there are still as much activity on the subject as before. The activity is simply divided but spread. For instance, I'm amazed about the recent work by Sergio Reano (SR3D) (...) (15 years ago, 14-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| (...) I'm with you on this Tore. I sure I've said this before but I despise the flat posting style of forums like phpBB and I like threaded discussions. Threads allow the conversation to wander to 2 or more different but related discussions while (...) (15 years ago, 15-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| My turn to respond: IMHO LDraw is certainly not dead. In fact here in the Netherlands it’s is alive and kicking. With me presenting it to the public at LEGOWORLD in Zwolle every October I think there are many users who have joined since 2002 when I (...) (15 years ago, 15-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
| | | Re: The future of LDraw?
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| (...) As fas as I understand young people, it might have something to do with a high proportion of text matched with a low proportion of visuals. It seems that new generations prefer it to be very much the other way round. I've looked at some sites (...) (15 years ago, 15-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
| | | Re: The future of LDraw?
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| For whatever reason, I've never made the shift to MLCad or other platforms, and I've been served very well James Jessiman's foundation programs. Lars Hassing's L3Lab and Kevin Klague's LPub have been invaluable as well, but everything I do that's (...) (15 years ago, 19-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
| | | Re: The future of LDraw?
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| In lugnet.cad, Tore Eriksson wrote a big lengthy post. Maybe we could have a chat channel for LDraw? I myself would suggest of creating an IRC channel for users to sit, ask help for and just chat in. As LDraw itself is free software (even though (...) (15 years ago, 22-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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