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Re: The future of LDraw?
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lugnet.cad
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Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:37:34 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Manfred Moolhuysen wrote:
> In lugnet.cad, Tore Eriksson wrote:
> > And, worst of all, aren't there any new people joining?
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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 aimed at young adulds, and for me these were rather difficult to navigate
> through. This was due to an almost complete lack of navigation related text,
> that otherwise might have helped me along. The navigation on such sites is more
> like a Iphone or a E-magazine, you have to click on a pictogram or other image,
> and behind that the item one looks for, is hidden somehow. My biggest problem
> with that was, that I often failed to recognise the relation between the image
> and the bit of navigation it was supposted to label. For instance, a trendy
> picture of the building that hosted a venue represented the link where you had
> to register/sign up for the venue.
Yes, maybe it is a generation issue. I followed the link
http://www.brothers-brick.com/2010/03/14/the-future-of-ldraw/ and I didn't like
what I saw. I mean, most of the replies were in deed positive and encouraging,
but the layout of the site... No tree structure but just a linear thread.
Scroll, scroll, scroll down to the latest post. Next time I visit that
discussion, I have no clue on where the last read post is. It feels like if this
is the future, then we're moving backwards into it. :)
But then again, Jesus once said the you cannot pour new wine into old bags so it
must be that same old well-known generation issue...
/Tore
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| --snip-- (...) That structure attracted 6.2 thousand comments last year out of 8.4 million page views. You may not like it (I prefer threading too) but it's here to stay. And between TBB and flickr (same structure) there are already over 40 comments (...) (15 years ago, 15-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) That's the sort of discussion forum layout that I've seen dominate every site I use today, except for Lugnet. Lugnet surely went the hierarchical direction because the best Newsgroup readers supported hierarchical views. Like it or not, that's (...) (15 years ago, 16-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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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)
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