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Re: Musings on an open-source Brickshelf replacement
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lugnet.general
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Wed, 8 Jun 2005 02:14:48 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Joe Strout wrote:
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Anyway, on to option 2...
2. A web server, perhaps hosted someplace like SourceForge where
administration tasks are easily shared and transferred as needed. Users
would browse and update via the Web, as they do with Brickshelf. Except
that, I don’t think we can make this work as an open-source effort unless the
actual images are not stored on the server -- that’s just too much bandwidth
to pay for, in a model where nobody gets paid. So, the images would have to
be stored elsewhere, hither and yon, and this server would just act as a
central indexer.
This is probably easier than option 1, at least in some ways. The main
problem is that it’s more work to upload or update your stuff; first you have
to find your own host for your images, and upload them there, and then update
the central index with the appropriate URL, description, and keywords.
This approach is also subject to server overload -- such as what is
apparently causing mocpages.com to be unreachable right now. :) The
peer-to-peer network of option 1 is much less susceptible to that.
Just some thoughts... any comments?
Best,
- Joe
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Simply put,
LEGOFan has actually been thinking about a tagging resource that very much
resembles what you have described in #2 and would be happy to host a central
index.
Joe Meno
Media Contact
LEGOFan.org
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Message has 1 Reply:
 | | Re: Musings on an open-source Brickshelf replacement
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| (...) OK, that's interesting. But does it really alleviate the concern, or just shift it to somebody new? I.e., who's running LEGOFan, and how do we know they won't lose interest/fall into a well/join the dark side/etc. years from now, or even next (...) (19 years ago, 8-Jun-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Musings on an open-source Brickshelf replacement
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| Suppose, just for the sake of argument, that Brickshelf goes away or stops accepting new uploads. Further suppose that, as a community, we deem it wise to develop something that is decentralized open-source, so that our valued LEGO images and other (...) (19 years ago, 7-Jun-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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