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Re: Is Brickshelf slow for anyone else lately?
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lugnet.general
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Wed, 4 Dec 2002 17:48:26 GMT
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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 Brickshelf, so it can be a central point for:
- discovering new building styles
- finding info on what the community is building
and so forth
I see two things which allowed brickshelf to become the defacto lego image
archive:
- it was free
- it had almost no restrictions on what could be posted
This made it both 1) accessible to a large group (including kids-they won't
be paying even $1.00 a year) 2) immensely flexible
Now the recent moderation has reduced the flexibility. If it isn't free in
some acceptable form, then people are just going to go elsewhere, but no
necessarily to the same place.
Anyway, I think Tim's suggestion that it be free (with ads, maybe) but allow
people to pay to not have ads and no moderation might be a good way to keep
the accessibility and flexibility while alleviating the problems Kevin has had.
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Anyone buy my argument? Not sure if it works. I never think through these
posts as much as I would really like.
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-Alfred
In lugnet.general, Adrian Drake writes:
> In lugnet.general, Tim Courtney writes:
> > Hi Brian -
> >
> > 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!
> >
> > Yup.
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> 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.
<snipptiy snip>
> Adrian
> --
> www.brickfrenzy.com
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| (...) Not completely true. There are other, albeit smaller, galleries, like 1000steine.de and the fbtb.net customs page. There are also major Lego builders who don't post to Brickshelf--for instance, I don't think that Eric Harshberger posts there. (...) (22 years ago, 6-Dec-02, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) 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. (...) I understand the issue, but ads are pretty easy to ignore. (...) (22 years ago, 2-Dec-02, to lugnet.general)
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