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Re: Has Babylon Fallen?
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lugnet.general
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Tue, 21 Nov 2006 22:46:11 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Bruce Hietbrink wrote:
> In lugnet.general, Chris Phillips wrote:
> > Once there was a place whose inhabitants all spoke a common language. As a
> > unified community, their combined strength gave them such confidence that they
> > challenged God Himself. They lost, and were scattered to the four corners of
> > the earth, no longer able to understand what each other were saying.
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> And they spread throughout the world. With new lands to fill their populations
> grew. Facing new challenges as they lived in new environments, they had to
> learn to innovate. Finding new resources, they enriched themselves. As the new
> societies grew up, they started to trade with eachother, sharing their new
> knowledge and riches to the betterment of all.
I hope you are right. But it still sounds like a long way to go to get right
back to where LUGNET once was - a place to facilitate sharing for the betterment
of all facets of the hobby.
> In addition to theme-specific forums, there have been other developments as
> well. Blogging is certainly a growing phenomenon in all areas of on-line life
> over the past few years, and the LEGO corner of the net is no exception, with an
> explosion of new LEGO-related blogs. Also, <http://www.flickr.com> is starting
> to replace Brickshelf for some people as their image-sharing-site of choice.
> One advantage of Flickr is the ability to post comments to images, create
> discussion groups, directly contact the builder, etc, so some discussion has
> spun over there. I think there are more festivals than there were in the past,
> so people are meeting up face-to-face more than they were before. Also there
> are things like podcasts, the BrickJournal
> <http://www.lugnet.com/~1495/brickjournal>, and the AFOL comic
> <http://www.legofan.org/DotNetNuke/Articles/TheAFOLComic/tabid/163/Default.aspx>
> to further publicise the hobby.
I see what you are saying, but in the past these were all reasons for people to
post here. Convention planning, announcements, follow-up. Posting links to
blogs or photo galleries so people could actually find them. Keeping in contact
with new friends that met at one event or another.
> > Is anyone still out there???
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> Yes. If anything, the hobby is much bigger than it was a few years ago.
> However, it's not all neatly packaged in one site for easy consumption - or, to
> put it with a different spin, it's not confined to one restricted space, but has
> rather grown and evolved.
What I always liked about LUGNET was that it encouraged cross-pollination
between groups that might not normally cross paths. I started out doing
robotics, but was pulled into trains, space, architecture, and mechanical
"engineering" disciplines of this hobby simply because I was constantly being
exposed to what other people were doing. You seem to be using the term "easy
consumption" in an almost derrogatory way, which puzzles me. The harder it is
to find a topic of interest, the less likely it will happen, and I don't see how
that can help the growth of this hobby.
I guess it did get a little tense in here not too long ago, and I suppose the
pressure cooker just exploded, spewing AFOLs in every direction. But if you
look at the site statistics here these days, it is truly sad. When I was last
acive on this board, any lunch hour would have put the current daily stats to
shame. Any one of: .castle, .space, .trains, or .robotics had more posts than
this entire board gets now. It looks like we've lost critical mass.
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