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Re: Brickshelf going away???
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lugnet.general
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Date:
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Tue, 31 May 2005 21:03:21 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Leonard Hoffman wrote:
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In lugnet.general, Samarth Moray wrote:
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True, but I don’t want to have to go through a hundred other sites to find
one cool MOC a day. A centralised place is much better.
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This has already happened. More and more, when people get serious about the
online community, they get their own website(1). In order to keep up-to-date
on MOCs, etc, I usually check four or five websites a day.
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That’s very unfortunate, though. As Jason pointed out, it’s easy enough to host
your own pictures -- but there are great advantages to having them all in one
place. When I want to find a good idea for making a sofa, for example, I go to
BrickShelf and type in “sofa” (along with “couch” and maybe “furniture” if I get
desperate). That doesn’t work when people host their pics elsewhere.
Just brainstorming here, maybe what we need is a service that doesn’t actually
host pictures, but indexes them. It would provide search capability as well as
features like recent additions. Then people could host their pics on
BrickShelf, or maj.com, or one of the dozens of other photo sites, or on their
own personal site, and others could find their pics regardless.
Such a server wouldn’t have gross resource needs, either. I would advocate an
open-source model, with the server code hosted someplace like SourceForge, so
that if whoever’s running it loses interest, somebody else can pick it up.
Best,
- Joe
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| (...) I swore not to get into this discussion, but... I am one of the persons who fall into the catagory of someone who owns their own LEGO-related website ((URL)). I made this site when I wanted something easier to customize than MOCpages or (...) (19 years ago, 31-May-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) This has already happened. More and more, when people get serious about the online community, they get their own website(1). In order to keep up-to-date on MOCs, etc, I usually check four or five websites a day. -Lenny (1)= For example, (URL) (...) (19 years ago, 31-May-05, to lugnet.general)
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