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Re: Brickshelf going away???
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lugnet.general
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Date:
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Fri, 27 May 2005 20:42:52 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Steven Asbury wrote:
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The instruction and catalog scans have been removed. Kevin posted the
following message ...
“Due to the loss of our major sponsor, Instruction and Catalog scans are no
longer available at Brickshelf.com. We are working to find them a new home.
When we do, we will post a link here. We apologize for any inconvenience.”
I also see there is a message asking users to transfer their files to maj.com.
Kevin (or anyone), can you give us some more information? Is Brickshelf going
away immediately? If so, what timetable do we have before our galleries
disappear?
-Steven
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I’m trying to not go into a total panic on this. Even if we can shift
everything over to Maj.com, it would be a huge hit to the community. For one,
not everyone will shift everything over, either because they don’t reallize that
the site is dying (I personally never go to the front page of Brickshelf--my
bookmark goes directly to “/cgi-bin/recent.cgi”), because they’ve either left
the hobby altogether or taken a break (e.g., someone who goes away to school),
or, tragically, those AFOLs like Travis Kunce or others that we’ve lost. So a
large number of MOCs would be lost to the community. Even if Kevin saved the
whole database, or switched it all over to Maj.com, all links would be broken!
Therefore any links page, any archived post on Lugnet or some other forum, would
become immediately useless.
I don’t think I’m overstating things to say that Lugnet, Peeron, Brickset,
1000Steine.de, Classic-Castle, or just about any major AFOL site could die and
the community would recover. Brickshelf, OTOH, is another matter altogether.
If we lost that we’d be reeling for a long time.
Is there any foundation to these fears? Is Brickshelf going away, is there
anything we can do? I know that I’m always intending to send in a donation but
never seem to get to it. I’m sure there are tons of other AFOLs who would
similarly be willing to donate. Could we do a fund drive? Has Jake been
notified? Is there anything LEGO can do? Or are they the “major sponsor” that
has been lost?
Kevin? What is the story? What can we do?
Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi, you’re my only hope.
Bruce
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Message has 2 Replies:
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| (...) Raised some good points. I had similar thoughts/feelings on reading the news. This is big, and it's bad. Don't forget we've already lost MOCPages (at least for the moment; I've crossed my fingers) So losing BS would be like losing a fat chunk (...) (19 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Brickshelf going away???
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| (...) That is not necessarily true; brickshelf.com could run a simple CGI that redirects any queries to the corresponding location on maj.com. Since they seem to be running the same software and have the same URL structure, it would be pretty (...) (19 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| The instruction and catalog scans have been removed. Kevin posted the following message ... "Due to the loss of our major sponsor, Instruction and Catalog scans are no longer available at Brickshelf.com. We are working to find them a new home. When (...) (19 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.general) !!
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