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Re: Feedback thoughts?
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lugnet.general
Date: 
Mon, 16 Dec 2002 21:15:21 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Jon Palmer writes:
I'm going to be honest.  I don't look at even a 4th of as MOCs these days
because of Brickshelf's speed.  When I say Brickshelf is slow, I don't mean
just a little sluggish.  It's unbearable.  It takes about a minute and a
half for the recent updates folder to load.  It can take about another 3
minutes for a folder with about 30 or 40 thumbnails in it to load.  Any
given image at about 640 by 480 resolution takes about a minute to load for
me.  *A minute.*

Well... and I thought I had it bad.

I read your great post on this and thought about it for a while.  I thought
about my feedback habits.  After thinking on it for a long time I really do
think that Brickshelf is the reason I don't post feedback about 80% of the
time these days.

Aside from this I have no excuses.  I think I have been lax in the feedback
area.  I've been trying to build as much as I can during my free time right
now, but that can't be the only reason I'm not replying.  Maybe I don't post
nearly as much feedback, or specifically critical feedback  (on less than
perfect MOCs) as I should.

I think those are more or less my reasons, so what are some other reasons we
aren't seeing feedback from others?

Well, even though I started this thread, I too have feedback disruptions.

For me it's a matter of time.  Being a young teen and having school and my
parents and my studies of the violin, sometimes spare time can be hard to
find.  Not to mention computor use wars.  :)

Sometimes I have plenty of time, but no new MOCs.  And sometimes I have
time, and the good MOCs, but I'm simply lazy.  I guess the only solution to
this would be to just go and do it!

I have never been one of the people that thinks, even for a minute, that
LUGNET is an unfriendly place.  I have always seen LUGNET as a very grown-up
place in a sea of other moronic online forums.  But-- I do think that it's
getting quieter and quieter here.  Why?

Well, as others have said, other online Lego forums and groups have popped
up, no doubt inspired by LUGNET.  And people now probably just adopt a
'well, if I don't do it, other people will' philosophy.

But in general, I think that LUGNET is pretty healthy.  Just glancing at the
flame-war Yahoo! news forums, I have to say that I should feel thankful for
LUGNET and all it does.

A lot of people have moved on. People change and other issues in their lives
come up.  I'll admit this makes me a bit sad, seeing some of my favorite
posters disappear, but thats the way it goes.  That's cool.  But where are
the new people to replace them?  Am I totally paranoid here?  I was looking
back through admin.statistics, and while I was by no means being scientific
about it, I noticed that as a whole, LUGNET's posts have dropped over the
past 2 years.

In fact, I think that many more new people have joined than those who left.
In .space, Gil Shaw, Andrew Martin, and a few others in this thread have
joined, and I've seen pretty cool creations.

But I think another factor would be that many more people are lurking and
less posting.

Lets just say for a second that I'm not nuts and that things are slowing
down here.  Why?  What can we do about it?

I think the 'why' is pretty well aswered, in this thread.

But for the 'what can we do'... oh, wait is that my mom calling me?  Gotta
run...  More later.

But very interesting ideas, people!

-JHK



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I'm going to be honest. I don't look at even a 4th of as MOCs these days because of Brickshelf's speed. When I say Brickshelf is slow, I don't mean just a little sluggish. It's unbearable. It takes about a minute and a half for the recent updates (...) (22 years ago, 16-Dec-02, to lugnet.general)

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