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Re: One last BrickShelf suggestion...
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lugnet.general, lugnet.publish
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Tue, 17 Dec 2002 03:02:26 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Tim Courtney writes:
> If BrickShelf started making you pay for the service of off-site deep
> linking, would you abandon it as well?
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> There are (much faster, more reliable) image hosting services out there,
> they just cost money.
Personally, I think if BrickShelf became yet another pay-for-webhosting
site, it wouldn't be what it is. People put their images on BrickShelf
BECAUSE it's free, and because it's nicely unlimited (save moderation).
If Kevin made it a pay site, put in space limitations, prevented
deep-linking, etc., you'd end up with a site that not many Lego fans would
use. If I didn't have my own domain/website, I'd probably have started
making use of it already. And sure, I personally would probably pay Kevin to
use the site if I needed to. But I'm not your typical Lego fan. There are
plenty of lurkers, college students, kids, and others who don't want to
shell out for webspace.
Anyway, the more restrictions go up, the more usage goes down. It's Kevin's
decision, ultimately, but I think (speaking for Kevin-- not that I know)
that his preference is obviously for a slow, limitless site than a fast,
limited site. It's perhaps an idealistic vision-- and an admirable one at
that; but I fear it's becoming less realistic.
To Kevin (assuming that's his opinion) I will say something needs to be
done. If I didn't have my own site (given the existing bandwidth
circumstances) I probably would think twice about starting to use BrickShelf
given its current response time. I have to agree with Jon Palmer that I
dread BrickShelf-hosted links and MOC's now. I stopped reading the Brick
Testament because it was just too darn slow to load images. A new MOC comes
up? If it's BrickShelf hosted, I won't visit it (unless it's sufficiently
spotlighted or something). The slowness is beyond the point where I as a
user would start to prefer the fast, limited site.
DaveE
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| (...) And nothing stops it from being a free AND paid site. Different levels of access, and the paid accounts help offset the costs of maintaining the server and connection. (...) Stuff can't be free forever. I'm not advocating BrickShelf going 100% (...) (22 years ago, 17-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish)
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