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Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
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lugnet.general
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Thu, 12 Feb 2004 16:19:30 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Jindrich Kubec wrote:
> Huw Millington wrote:
> > > What's the difference between guide on Lugnet and BrickSet? Isn't that
> > > just a mere duplication? [snip]
> > Competition is always a good thing...
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> Yeah, but if we have _defined_ environment (I mean there is _finite_
> number of all LEGO sets out there), the final result _must_ be same. So
> I don't see the need for competition. Of course, there may be
> differences in 'value added', better pictures, more fields, different
> presentation, but the core data _is_ same by the definition.
My point exactly. No need for a third website copying the 2 already existing.
> > Of course, if LEGOFan.net provides high quality images and information on
> > every set produced since the year dot including promotional, regional and
> > other rare sets, and produces it in a timely manner on or before set
> > release, I'll be happy to throw in the towel, or maybe adapt Brickset to
> > take its data from a XML web service or whatever else is provided by
> > LEGOfan.net
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> The _cooperation_ is the thing LEGOFan.net (or WorldLUG) talks about,
> methinks. There would be no need for you to 'throw in the towel'. You'd
> just continue in your (BTW very good) work, but just share it with the
> others. This would bring problems, of course. It's the thing I see in
> LDraw community - it's full of standards, voting commitees etc.
> resulting in slow updates and 'unofficial' parts ;) The database
> wouldn't be 'yours' anymore and the write access to it by different
> parties would have to be solved somewhat, to avoid the quality drop.
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> But the shared database would be great - for example, I would like to
> give Czech users something like {very limited} guide.lugnet or Brickset.
> I don't have enough resources to do it. But it's not a problem for me to
> make czech ui, and create add-on xml databases with czech set names,
> czech MSRPs and czech release dates.
So why not work with Huw and Todd and make the already existing websites better?
I have yet to see a good thing come of this debate.
Terry
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