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| | | (...) The reason the "real name" info was removed was to comply with COPPA. (...) Much improved? Here's what I see: Pros: selectable number of images per row selectable number of rows per page large image resize function Cons: slower reponse (by (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | Re: Brickshelf Viewer —Steve Runnels
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| | | | | (...) I responded before I saw your post here. (URL) I've removed the BSV code from my site LiveTheNow.com You can unblock me now. :P --SteveR (21 years ago, 10-Mar-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | Re: Brickshelf Viewer —Kevin Loch
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| | | | | | (...) I'm sure you were joking but to be clear I haven't blocked anything (yet). KL (21 years ago, 10-Mar-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | Re: Brickshelf Viewer —Tim Courtney
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| | | | | (...) I understand your desire for compliance, but perhaps a better move would have been to allow people to opt-in and allow their real names to be posted. The (unintended, I'm sure) consequence of dumping realname data is now its much, much more (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | Re: Brickshelf Viewer —Bruce Hietbrink
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| | | | | | (...) I'd just like to add my name to the list of those suggesting an option to opt in to allow their real name to be poated. I always try to give proper credit when citing a MOC either in a discussion or if I want to borrow a design idea, but have (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Brickshelf Viewer —Leonard Hoffman
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| | | | | | (...) Seems the links issue is the big one - perhaps if there was a link on the Brickshelf mainpage to this page: (URL) even, if there were a statement on the site about how to opt yourself in - for example, urging Users to explicitly use their full (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | Re: Brickshelf Viewer —Bram Lambrecht
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| | | | | (...) Could we have an option to leave it in? I find it very difficult to find anyone's directory with the real name removed. (...) selectable thumbnail size with autosizing directory names customizable recent menu (using customview.cgi)...it would (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | Re: Brickshelf Viewer —Kevin Loch
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| | | | | | (...) Sure, if we could verify that the user was over 18 (or 13 with parental consent). Unfortunately the only acceptable ways to do that are to take credit cards or use written letters. (...) Customview has always had an "exclude" feature. The (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Brickshelf Viewer —Bram Lambrecht
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| | | | | | (...) OK....I wonder why it never seemed to work for me. Maybe it was and I just didn't realize it. (...) Good to know...I didn't know there was a limit. That means that BSV is slightly broken, I guess. (...) And red on gray is impossible to see, (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | Re: Brickshelf Viewer —Bram Lambrecht
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| | | | | (...) Ideally, Brickshelf would actually resample the images when they are uploaded (with the option not to resample for wallpapers and such) This would save bandwidth, especially if BMPs were automatically resaved as JPG as well. --Bram (21 years ago, 10-Mar-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | Re: Brickshelf Viewer —Kevin Loch
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| | | | | | (...) It would be nice to be able to do that on the fly when requested. Converting files when uploaded would break some deep-linking applications. Converting bmp's to jpeg would be harmful to certain types of images, like Sprite Sheets or even LDraw (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Brickshelf Viewer —Steve Demlow
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| | | | | | (...) Converting to PNG would avoid those problems. The compression ratio generally isn't as good as JPEG but it's a heckuvalot smaller than a BMP. Steve (21 years ago, 11-Mar-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Brickshelf Viewer —Jonathan Wilson
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| | | | | | (...) Let me add in my vote for autmaticly converting a *.bmp file that is uploaded to a *.png file. (21 years ago, 11-Mar-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Brickshelf Viewer —Mike Thorn
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| | | | | | (...) I'll second that - provided there is an option to turn it off at my discretion. Like Kevin said, there are some things that it would be very bad to do conversions on. But the overall idea is good. Could probably save a good deal of space on (...) (21 years ago, 11-Mar-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Brickshelf Viewer —Jonathan Wilson
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| | | | | | (...) Wrong, not for PNG. JPEG yes because thats a lossy format. But PNG is lossless and there is no data that is thrown away when its compressed. Perhaps have an option to convert *.bmp files to either *.jpg or *.png depending on which is more (...) (21 years ago, 11-Mar-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | Re: Brickshelf Viewer —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | (...) Understood but people who have supplied a back mapping at LUGNET are in essence waiving their COPPA protection, wouldn't you say? So somehow letting people opt out of real name hiding would be a good thing, if it can be finessed somehow. (21 years ago, 10-Mar-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | Re: Brickshelf Viewer —Constantine Hannaher
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| | | | (...) I think the comment "does not work in Netscape 4.x (and probably other legacy browsers)" is funny and sad at the same time. Frankly, that Brickshelf currently works in Netscape 4 (and be honest, it works in Netscape 3, 2, and 1, as well, where (...) (21 years ago, 11-Mar-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | Re: Brickshelf Viewer —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | (...) I had trouble parsing this sentence. Would you consider restating it, perhaps as several sentences with less convoluted sentence structure? Clearly, it's a point you'd like to make, but I am not yet getting what point it is. Thanks. (21 years ago, 11-Mar-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | Re: Brickshelf Viewer —Constantine Hannaher
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| | | | (...) Are humans visiting Brickshelf and displaying the site in Netscape 1-4? Does this level of usage of Netscape 1-4 in displaying Brickshelf make the support of Netscape 1-4 in designing the viewer experience of Brickshelf necessary? Does (...) (21 years ago, 11-Mar-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish)
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