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Hello! (...) Well, most AFOLs already have been LEGO fans as kids and - after a periode of neglecting the brick, the so called 'dark ages' - found back to their old love. That means: For the purpose of growing hard core LEGO fans it's necassary to (...) (22 years ago, 13-Feb-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.publish, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.trains) !
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(...) Ooh! I think I got it! There's a (URL) new piece> that's coming out this year. It's a 1x1 brick with studs on two sides. If you take a plate and a bunch of these new bricks and place them with alternating orientation, you can attach tiles to (...) (22 years ago, 13-Feb-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.town, FTX)
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[ followup-to .publish.html, since this isn't generally interesting. :) ] (...) And that is indeed why I'm confused. I was referring to the phpBB on Classic-castle in the paragraph you quoted. Like all such BB forums, it basically has a big monotone (...) (22 years ago, 13-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish.html)
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(...) You seem confused - I was refering to Lugnet's visual appearance. (...) Yup, confused. Sorry if I wasn't clear along the way. I meant Lugnet was a step up visually from r.t.l., as newer boards are a step up visually from Lugnet. (...) (...) (22 years ago, 13-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Yup, them's the ones. (...) Yeah, but it's neat for them to show up right next to everyone's posts. Or are people doing that in their sigs? I guess I hadn't really noticed since I read/post via NNTP 97% of the time because I *do* like text (...) (22 years ago, 13-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)
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In lugnet.general, Matthew Miller wrote: SNIP (...) I don't like the one-post-under-the-o...n-one-page bulletin boards if that's what you're talking about-they are AWEFUL. LUGnet posting/thread setup is FAR superior in the fact that it is FAR more (...) (22 years ago, 13-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Hey, if you like boring, that's fine with me. To each his own, and all. (...) So, basically, you think BB style forums will die out? Or do you mean that both BB and Lugnet will be replaced by the futuristic VR chatrooms I mentioned? (...) But (...) (22 years ago, 13-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) why not just add a few new links/rearranging the front/homepage of LUGnet to make the central portal for the community? Jeff (22 years ago, 13-Feb-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.publish, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.trains)
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(...) I'm secretly hoping these LEGOfan.net guys come up with a better system! I'm already looking to upgrade the chat system at CC, so it wouldn't be a problem for me to upgrade the Forums as well. Assuming that something BETTER then what we have (...) (22 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) And like I said, I disagree (but at least we agree on the boring part). :-) (...) What part of "boring" didn't you parse? :-) I shall be more forceful in my comparison, Maximum Borosity. (all those who never saw the phrase "maximum verbosity" (...) (22 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I don't need my newsgroups to be pretty. Boring can be ok. (1) I need them to be usable, full of content (ie text) and provide me links to the pretty pictures I want to look at. (1)Apparently LEGO thinks old grey and realistic castles are (...) (22 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Sure. And worse. Like I said, *BB isn't very nice. (...) Now there's a non sequitur. Are you suggesting that virtual reality immerse chatrooms will replace discussion boards? Probably eventually, but not completely -- and, y'know, not in a (...) (22 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I like the thread thing, but I haven't really missed it at Classic-Castle. I imagine that more specific topic areas and enforcement keeps threads from becoming wandering safari hunts sometimes strewn over numerous forums. The graphic avatars (...) (22 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) <snip> What exactly does it mean to be "community owned"? Is the site going to be like a WIKI and anyone can change the content? Is there going to be a controlling body (say, for example, of 9 people) who are going to make all the decisions (...) (22 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.publish, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Yeah, fair enough. I didn't really mean to slam your work; I just wouldn't like a BB-style forum to "replace" the Lugnet group. (22 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Oddly, the things you pick out are exactly the reasons I think Lugnet's design is superior. It uses color well to pick out meaningful information, and it's got a very clever graphical representation of each thread. (...) Plently of color, few (...) (22 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I realy like yor idea, and the challenge you lay before us. It got me thinking and my first (futile) attempt was this: (URL) But that looked more like a buisness fair display stand from the 60's than a midieval wine rack. ¹) Then, it dawned to (...) (22 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.town, FTX)
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[ adding .general, .admin.general, follow-up to .admin.general ] (...) Actually: I've been worried about this for a very long time, ever since back when I was worried that this fancy new Lugnet thing would kill RTL. [*] So, I've asked Todd for (...) (22 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.org, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general)
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After reading all the posts so far on this, and thinking about it some more I came up with a few more questions/concerns. First - TLC, allowing *any* site to have "Lego" in the main domain name is a mistake. Unless Lego owns, the URL (which they do (...) (22 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego)
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(...) Actually, in a lot of respects, Classic-Castle.com drew interes to Lugnet. The goal of Classic-Castle was to improve the on-line experience of the Lego Castle Community, not compete with Lugnet. After Brickfest, there was a general consensus (...) (22 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.org, lugnet.general, FTX)
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