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Re: Is Brickshelf slow for anyone else lately?
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lugnet.general
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Mon, 2 Dec 2002 16:08:45 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Tim Courtney writes:
> Hi Brian -
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> In lugnet.general, Brian Tobin writes:
> > I'd pay $10 per year IN A HEARTBEAT, especially if it could help avoid
> > advertisments. With the amount of pics I've uploaded in my relatively short
> > time here, I'd almost feel guilty that $10 is too much of a bargain!
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> Yup.
Ditto. Though if the cost is high enough, I'd just bump up my pair.com
account level to compensate for the extra hard drive space I'd need there
and quit using brickshelf.
> > Whatever Kevin decides to do, I will back him and continue to frequent this
> > site.
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> I'm not *that* loyal. If Kevin makes decisions about BrickShelf which
> severely devalue the service for me (such as inclusion of advertisements)
> without soliciting the opinion of the community and providing an ad-free
> alternative, I'm gone. I'll find another way to host my pictures if people
> have to see ads to view them.
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> Granted, Kevin owns the site, but the community uses it. Kevin can do with
> it what he wants; but the _respectful_ thing to do would be to dialogue with
> the users over any major changes or issues before implementing them. If ads
> are forced onto BrickShelf users, it will lose a tremendous amount of value
> for me (and my guess is for a lot of others), and he will lose traffic.
> Either people will find their own places to host images, or something
> friendlier will pop up in its place.
I understand the issue, but ads are pretty easy to ignore. They're
pervasive on the internet and as long as there are no pop-ups (which can be
very easy to set up with advertising companies) and none that make noise
(ditto), I wouldn't really give a rats a**. Besides, I use deep linking 99%
of the time anyway, so ads are meaningless in that context.
Adrian
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www.brickfrenzy.com
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| Well, I think this gets to the point of where Brickshelf is in danger. The biggest value to me is in the "network externalities" of the site. This is the site where practically _all_ Lego images are found. Even people with sites elsewhere use (...) (22 years ago, 4-Dec-02, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Is Brickshelf slow for anyone else lately?
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| Hi Brian - (...) Yup. (...) I'm not *that* loyal. If Kevin makes decisions about BrickShelf which severely devalue the service for me (such as inclusion of advertisements) without soliciting the opinion of the community and providing an ad-free (...) (22 years ago, 2-Dec-02, to lugnet.general)
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